I had this gorgeous skein of yarn from A Hundred Ravens. It's 874 yards of fingering weight yarn and it just screamed shawl to me. I was search for ideas and found this pattern and it felt perfect for this yarn.


The actual colorway that I used is Keujenhof, but you could use any color - or any yarn really. I think this pattern probably works best with a lighter weight yarn so that it doesn't get too wide too fast.




It's a really easy pattern to follow - just 2 repeating rows. I did most of this while vending at the Howard County Craft Spectacular last weekend.

Earlier this week I went to the Harford Artists Gallery for change out and found out that my Squiggle Vase had won third place! It is a people's choice award so visitors and other members were the ones who voted for it. If that was any of you - thank you! I continue to strive to get better at the things I do and this is a really nice way of seeing that others appreciate it.

If you are in the northern Maryland area, I do recommend stopping by the Harford Artists Gallery in Bel Air there are lots of amazing artists in this small gallery.

There is not a small part of me that wants to keep all these trees for myself. Just setup a little forrest in my office. I used a few different colors and I like all of them. The emerald and the snow are my favorites.

The reindeer plates looked different in my head. They are growing on me, but I'm still struggling that they aren't what was in my head.

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A little disaster in here. My snowman broke when it was greenware. I've had that happen before and I've always been able to glue it back together with glaze. This time - no such luck. I've never had both the head and the hat fall off. I think that was just a little too much for it to balance. Luckily it was just a little bit near the kiln elements. I was able to sand down the issue with my diamond core sanding pad and I got the 2 little pieces of glaze out of the element track with tweezers.

Snowman aside - I'm loving how the trees look. I really love the white trees! And the one with the hanging "ornaments."

I'm really excited on my beachy crabby clock. It came out awesome - no warping. I'll post once I put the clock parts together. Like I said in the sneak peek - a lot of birch and cardinals in here. There's still more to go through the next kiln load. I managed to sneak in one of the small trees and its so cute with it's little star on top.

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A lot of birch and cardinals on here. I spent quite a few hours painting trees and birds. They are so pretty though.

Today and tomorrow will be at the Howard County Craft Spectacular - if you're local come out!