copycat shawl
so i thought it would be a good idea to write down the pattern for the copycat shawl (so named, because i made mine by studying and copying one my gramma made years ago). i suppose it is still a good IDEA, even though it’s frustrating as all hell to try to actually do. it’s not that the actual shawl design is all that hard… it’s really pretty simple once you’re doing it. it’s just that i kind of have no idea how to write it out so it would be simple for other people. either i just have a basic guideline and you have to fill in all the details yourself, or it ends up looking like a freakin book because every single stitch ends up being accounted for. i’m guessing that my gramma used a pattern for the first one, but i wouldn’t have the first clue where to begin looking for it. which is what spurred me to attempt to write it down this time. maybe a chart would help… perhaps a reason to buy (more) graph paper (because i don’t use it often enough to ever know where it is, but i do use it sometimes, so i keep buying it).
so that’s why this post isn’t the pattern for the copycat shawl… not that anyone was expecting that it would be.
