Jubilee Crafting

Jubilee Crafting, a photo by RooKnits on Flickr.

Getting into the spirit of things. A felt necklace, corsage and a button bracelet.

Ripples

Ripples, a photo by RooKnits on Flickr.

WIP Wednesday.

A wedding shrug for Lauren

My best friend got married this weekend and I had the honour of making something for her big day.
Back in February we started to look at patterns and shortlisted a few things. We looked at shrugs and shawls, knitted, crocheted and sewn. In the end we took this beautiful crochet shrug as our inspiration.

I started with lots of swatches,


and ended up going down to a 2mm crochet hook to get the right size squares with my Zephyr Laceweight (in ivory, the same yarn I used for my wedding shawl).

By Easter I had this


and knew I needed to crack on.

4th May and nearly there -


I made a u shape with 10 squares in total. I joined the squares on the last round of each square and blocked the shape flat before joining the side seams.

I added edging and finally blocked the entire piece on the Thursday before the wedding!




Luckily it fit perfectly and was worn with pride on Saturday.

I am sure there will be better photos, but here are a few to give you an idea of the fit (and the beautiful bride).

Thanks Lauren, for letting me be such a big part of your special day.