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Mome Rath Shawl
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The final product. Colors are richer and darker in person. Beautiful!
The final product. Colors are richer and darker in person. Beautiful!
blocking
blocking
Before I added the trim along the top (and before blocking)
Before I added the trim along the top (and before blocking)
I won Yarn Chicken!
I won Yarn Chicken!
All five colors now, and I'm not sure I'll have enough yarn to finish another set of foundation and fan rows. It's at 25 tiers/sets now.
All five colors now, and I'm not sure I'll have enough yarn to finish another set of foundation and fan rows. It's at 25 tiers/sets now.
Reached second color in gradient.
Reached second color in gradient.
In progress. Just shy of 1/4 finished, about to run out of darkest shade of gradient (258 yards) and move onto 2nd darkest. Current size=24"x12"
In progress. Just shy of 1/4 finished, about to run out of darkest shade of gradient (258 yards) and move onto 2nd darkest. Current size=24"x12"
Starting the hybrid pattern with my intended yarn. (Mome Rath colorway, Mad Hatter line, Frabjous Fibers & Wonderland Yarns.)
Starting the hybrid pattern with my intended yarn. (Mome Rath colorway, Mad Hatter line, Frabjous Fibers & Wonderland Yarns.)
A test swatch of Lapping Waves, using Anzula's Lucero yarn in the Navy colorway. (Two-tone teal ball in background is part of the intended color gradient for project.)
A test swatch of Lapping Waves, using Anzula's Lucero yarn in the Navy colorway. (Two-tone teal ball in background is part of the intended color gradient for project.)
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Finished
July 21, 2020
August 25, 2020

Mome Rath Shawl

Project info
Go-To Shawl by Yarnspirations Design Studio
Lapping Waves Shawl, by Fiber Spider (YouTube, see notes)
Crochet
Neck / Torso → Shawl / Wrap
Myself, but gave to my mom for her birthday (making it a mom rath shawl, nyuk nyuk)
77" x 32" unblocked / 80" x 39" on blocking mats
Hooks & yarn
4.0 mm (G)
Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Mad Hatter
50 yards in stash
3.6 skeins = 1240.0 yards (1133.9 meters)
Mome Rath
35
Blue-green
Frabjous Fibers & Wonderland Yarns
July 13, 2020
Notes

My first real crochet project (that wasn’t a scarf consisting of single crochet and a fringe).

This started as the Lapping Waves Shawl, by Fiber Spider (YouTube: https://youtu.be/f6LwO6XzGzY), but I wound up incorporating elements of Yarnspirations Go-To Crochet shawl after watching a video tutorial for that (YouTube: https://youtu.be/1XoBpKcv-HU).

While the Lapping Waves Shawl uses double crochet throughout, I switched to a treble crochet for the even/fan rows, as per the Go-To Shawl. I also borrowed the GT YouTuber’s tips for anchoring end posts to a chain, and I used his spacing on odd rows (chain-3 instead of chain-4, and chain-5 at the top). UNLIKE the Go-To shawl, I stuck to Lapping Waves’ back-post double crochets, instead of GT’s front-post doubles. Front-posts are a little faster and easier, but I liked the softer, overlapping feather look for this project. (Go-To Shawl makes scalloped shelves of fans that incorporate the entire V; Lapping Waves makes seemingly individual feather/scale fans.)
I plan to do a proper Go-To shawl in the future.

08-15-2020

This is an easy pattern, but it’s an exercise in determination and a test of my work ethic now that I’m in the outer rows. I can crochet for an hour and barely see any difference with over 45 fans in a single “V” (which is two rows, foundation and fan).

08-15-2020

Size-wise, I could almost call this finished, except it’s heavy, so I want more length to balance the weight when I wrap the ends around.

08-18-2020

It’s up to five colors now and about 55” wide, unstretched/unblocked. Wondering if this is the kind of project that benefits from blocking.

08-24-2020

Won my first game of Yarn Chicken on the next-to-last row. Left the ball a tiny skeleton still half in the form it used to hold. Muhaha! (See photo)

It was a return to the fourth color because I was running out of the fifth color and wanted to be sure I had enough to complete a final fan row.

08-24-2020

With the last of the sun, I believe I’ve finished this thing! I don’t have enough yarn for another set of foundation & fan rows, maybe just enough for an edging. I’ll reevaluate in the morning. Wow!

08-25-2020

Finished! 702 fans! It’s had its bath and is stretching out on the blocking mats as I type. (Hope I didn’t mess it up--it’s my first time blocking anything but a swatch.) I wound up giving it a SC edging along the top because seeing everything (seemingly) suspended on a single chain not only made me nervous, it also looked unfinished.

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Finished
July 21, 2020
August 25, 2020
About this pattern
Go-To Shawl
by Yarnspirations Design Studio
from Yarnspirations
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About this yarn
Mad Hatter
by Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers
Sport
100% Merino
344 yards / 113 grams

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  • Project created: July 11, 2020
  • Finished: August 26, 2020
  • Updated: September 10, 2020
  • Progress updates: 8 updates