All right!! Lets start this with a lovely, lovely, LOVELY, wonderful pattern.

The Sunday Shawl!

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 Lets get this started with the bees knees of patterns.  The Sunday Shawl by Alia Bland!   Now i've been stalking this pattern for weeks... No, months... Maybe even a year?  Probably.  I love it. I love everything about the design. I love the colour options, I love the way you can make a hundred different Sunday Shawls and they all look completely different from one another.   Infatuated.  Obsessed..  Either way, when I was given an Etsy gift card for Christmas from one of my best crafty friends, this was the first thing I purchased.   

Lets start with what I refer to as my "secret shame".   I ordered wool.   My wool stash is huge, I know, I mean, well its not big enough of course, but its big.  I went to one of my favourite shops to order wool from and bought out all the supplies.   This pattern requires DK weight yarn, and quite a bit of the main colour, the alternate colours of your choice can be good for stash busting.   

Personally, I used Patons Special DK (oh the shame of acrylics!) in Cream tweed,  Cherry, Canary and Petrol (which is kind of like a blurquoise. haha figure it out).  I bought a new 5.5mm Hook, because thats how I roll (aka, i couldn't find my regular.  Thank god i work at Michaels. Employee Discounts!!!)

I blasted through this pattern.  It was extremely easy to follow, and it houses a photographic step by step so that all crocheter levels can make this beauty.  I'm wearing my first one now as i write this, though to be fair I haven't sewn in the ends yet.  Bad me. Bad. No ordering more wool until I sew in all my ends.  

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 Being the person I am, as soon as I was done, I made another one.  This time with Caron's Simply Soft in Sunshine, Navy and Black.  You see, I have a five year old daughter and she is obsessed.  Completely and entirely obsessed, with Minions. 

chiquita banana

  
She got a minion Sunday Shawl.  I modified the size, since she was small enough to wear my shawl as a full on dress. Lucky girl eh? Bopoyyyyy!!!
 

smiles and pink eyes

 Lord, excuse my ends.