Pimp

Hi everyone

Ready for a long story short??

For a long while now, years in fact, I have been admiring and day-dreaming over the beautiful shawls that you see in blogland and Ravelry.

I really do not like working with yarn below 8ply/DK, so I have been trawling and drooling over patterns.  Lined up so many in my queue it's ridiculous.

Some of them are crocheted but the majority are knitted.

Now it's not the lace that bothers me.

I know I can read a pattern (don't like charts) and understand what is needed.

My problem lies with ME!!!!!

I am not too sure that I can keep my attention span going over the length of some of those very, very, very long rows - most end up with well over 350-500 stitches.  Just not too trusting with my focus.  And I DISLIKE intensely frogging knitting.  No probs with crochet, so much easier to frog and pick up again.

But I am majorly drawn to the knitted patterns.

And then I found this pattern - Pimpelliese

• I loved it - the 'v' is not too deep.
• I could work it to what yarn I had (you work half the weight increasing, then the second half decreasing)
• A simple 11 row pattern.  Which when I concentrated, instead of working multiple projects, I had 'down-pat' in no time at all.
• And because its worked side-ways, there was not too many stitches to deal with
• Can be worn as a shawl, scarf or wrap - wonderful

All extremely important points to me

Will definitely be re-working this pattern, and I can't wait to try it in a lighter weight yarn.
Yes, I know I said I prefer working with DK, but this is a slightly thicker than I would like to wear.
It just does not get that cold here.
And I think it would sit a even more better on me

So would you like to see it ????
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v

v

All nicely folded so you can see the edge

Yes, you might be sick of this yarn.  I bought 10 balls of it very cheap for various charity projects.  Down to the last one now

Fully extended - well as far as my little arms can reach :-)

Just need a beautiful timber shawl pin!!!!  Or a FANTASTIC brooch

And yes I am being fussy - I will not buy this item over the Internet, as I really MUST see it and touch it - No luck so far

Luckily these are not my colours - so it will be gifted some time, probably a nursing home
Or even more likely now, it may be sent to Queensland.  Hopefully to cheer some one up.

Bye for now