The Ultra-Ugly, Loud and Obnoxious Granny Shawl!
I am "sort of" pleased with the shawl. I like that I made it up entirely, all by myself. Yes, I know granny squares have been done before, but I really "winged it" on the construction.
I also really liked how all the colors looked together. I was really trying to put squares together from my stash with colors that I thought would look hideous next to one another, but was often surprised by how interesting some of them came out.
Having said all that, I think I'm going to rip the thing out. Not the squares themselves, just the sewing them together part. When I tried it on, the look I got was less Retro Hippy Girl and more Actual Granny. When Todd tried to figure out how to use it for a Halloween costume, I decided it needed some alterations.
I'm thinking that I will replace the white seaming and border with black, use a softer yarn for that to give it better drape, and do a slightly more traditional shaping -- more triangle, but not exactly triangle. Hopefully I'll accomplish that this weekend and can post an update next week.
In literary news, (and continuing with the "finishing" theme of this post) I absolutely had to force myself to finish the book I've been reading, A Thread of Grace. For those of you who have listened to my endless lectures on how The Sparrow is The World's Best Book Ever and I Do Mean Ever, this was by the same author, and boy, did she let me down.
This one was not about interplanetary Jesuit travel, but about how Italians worked to hide Jews from the Nazis during World War II. It took me about 300 pages to get the characters straight and actually care about any of them, and by page 310, most of them were dead, dying, or being tortured. Uplifting stuff, that.
And nary an alien or spaceship in sight. Bummer.
2 comments:
I've actually been wanting to read that book and, despite your post, I think I still do. Can I borrow it??
I really like the shawl! The colors look really cool together! I agree with you, though, that if it actually makes you look like a granny, you should reconsider. Although Todd in that shawl would be hysterical...
I definitely love the squares, and I agree that bordering it in black will help tone it down; maybe make it look more like stained glass, if that makes sense. That was just mean of Todd to try to use it as a Halloween costume though!
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