Tuesday, January 27, 2015

TUSAL 2015....late already!

So here we are with the very first TUSAL pic of 2015 and I'm already late with it! Oh dear! Not a good start at all.....hangs head in shame.

For anyone who doesn't know about the TUSAL please head over to Daffycat's blog here to find out all about it, and hopefully join in with the madness!

So here's my ort jar for January...




Sadly, not many orts there....but it could be worse...it could be empty! Hopefully there will be more orts in the jar in my next TUSAL picture next month.

So this month my son headed off overseas to do his masters degree. Of course, something like that deserved a good luck card....


The stitching was quite simple and my plan was to do layers of coloured paper on the card to make it a bit fancy. Unfortunately, we were forecast a major snowstorm and I really wanted to get the card in the mail before the storm hit so that it could be on it's way while we hunkered down to survive the blizzard conditions predicted. So, due to lack of time ( and lack of planning on my part!) it ended up a bit less fancy than I had intended. Anyhoo, it's the thought that counts!



So while the snow storm rages outside, I have been working on a some crocheting. One of my Xmas gifts was two balls of the most gorgeous yarn....so soft and wonderful colours. And in true Rhona fashion,  I decided to pick a rather complicated pattern...why walk when you can run?!!!

Here's my progress on a wonderful shawl pattern...


I'm not sure if there are some mistakes in the pattern (it was translated from German) or if I'm just a bit thick when it comes to reading crochet patterns, but the pattern doesn't seem to be  symmetrical ...so I'm just kind of winging it on the bits that don't seem to be right. Of course, that could be a recipe for disaster and lots of rattling down of hours and hours of work. Fingers crossed that it works out for me! Hopefully this won't take me months and months to finish...but who knows!


Until next time...happy stitching!

Rhona



8 comments:

Mii Stitch said...

Don't worry too much about the instructions, for what I can see your shawl looks fabulous!!

butterfly said...

Love your card so sweet and the beautiful crochet ,
What a beautiful colour yarn.
Hope the snow is not to bad hugs

Barbi said...

Love that card! And your crochet is great! I have been thinking seriously about starting that up again.

Caitlin @ Naughts Cross Stitches said...

Lovely stitching and absolutely gorgeous shawl

Emma/Itzy said...

changing the pattern makes your unique :)

Cute card too!

Preeti said...

Cute card!! Your shawl is looking pretty!! It doesn't matter if you feel it is a bit asymmetrical because it's a vareigated yarn and once you wear it, the changes would be hardly noticeable. So better not to frog it at all even at later stage if you find any deviation. So far, it's good and symmetrical:)
I did not do any stitching at all this month so no TUSAL for me.

gominam said...

The card is so pretty!

Bonnie Brown said...

At least some orts are better then none!