So the enablers at Ravelry have me signing up for emails from the various yarn stores and I really should not read them.  Today from Elann...

Louisa Harding Mulberry at 59% Savings! New Stock!
Fibre Content:	100% Silk
Made In:	Italy
Care:	Hand Wash/ Dry Flat
Knit:	22 st/4 inches 4 mm (US 6)
Yardage:	124 m (136 yards)
Size:	50g (1.75 oz) ball
Featured Design: A delicate ruffle and picot edging trim the Osprey Scarf, from Louisa Harding Belle, which also features a series of textural lace panels. With approximate finished measurements of 35" in length by 8" in width, it uses just 4 balls of Louisa Harding Mulberry! See more designs using Louisa Harding Mulberry when you view the contents of Louisa Harding Belle and Louisa Harding Queen of Hearts. Standard price for this yarn is US$17.95 - elann discounted price saves you as much as 59%!
$7.25 USD / 7.54 CAD*

And then they have the nerve to put the most lucious pictures of this beautiful silk yarn in with the email!  I cannot believe it.  I am on a stash REDUCING spree.  I have banned myself from purchasing anything and then I see this...*sigh* there should be a law against it.  LOL

 I put a box in the mail today to my mother with two more shawls for the prayer shawl ministry at her church.

Doris Chan's All Shawl Done is Caron's Simply Soft Paints Oceana

Diagonal Stitch Shawl done is Red Heart Soft Icy Pond

A Hat for Emily

a cowl for Rachel

Vickie Mikulak's Flying Diamonds in Paton's Lace Sachet

And then there is my Christmas Helper!

She is getting so BIG!!!!!!!!!!

That's it for now.  I am off to snoop around Elann and see what else I want!

I haven't been on here but I have been busy... Lots of Blankets for Project Linus and now prayer shawls for my home church.

First the shawls...  I have re learned to do tunisian crochet. 

This one is based on a pattern from the Crochet Geek called Andrew's Keepsake.  I just enlarged on the scarf that she had made.  hard telling from this picture but the shawl is actually a light thyme green.  You can find the pattern here Andrew's Keepsake It was crocheted with TLC Essentials.

This one is a little on the the large side for a shawl but it sure is warm.  Crocheted with Red Heart Collage in Rust and I Love This Yarn  in burnt pumpkin is it done in entrelac tunisian stitch.  I had the idea of doing the pumpkin stitches in the honeycomb stitch but after I got started I wished I hadn't.  Plain tunisian would have been just fine.  Entrelac crochet video made by Beth in Texas.  SUPER easy and fast to work off.  I actually have extra of the Rust yarn enough that I bought Vanna's Choice yarn in tangerine mist and I am going to make another of these (a little smaller and sans honeycomb stitch.)





This shawl is going to my husband's place of work as a donation to the fundraiser they are doing for the Susan G Komen foundation.   It was crocheted with Sensations Little Treat in turquoise/white.  It is so soft and pretty I almost hated to donate it!  I also sent in 2 baby blankets for them to sell as well. Fan Shawl Pattern.  Just a word to the wise with this pattern should you try and print it, there are ads all over this site and I could not get a readable print so I ended up copying it and pasting it into a Word document to get a working copy I could read.  (Sensations yarn is sold at Joann's Fabrics)




Four more blankets for Project Linus! As a said above, I donated 2 blankets for the Susan G Komen fundraiser.  I also donated a large blanket and a baby blanket for a fundraiser to help with the medical expenses of a young woman recently diagnosed with cancer so I guess they are getting around now.  I should probably invest in some labels to put in them.


 I already have another shawl underway.  They are very addicting.  After this one though I need to get back to the blankets.  I think a have another dozen of them already trimmed and punched, ready to stitch!