A Polar Hug

It's a lovely thing, and quite unusual for me, to buy yarn and get stuck into it right away.

I often see yarn I like and buy it, knowing it'll be good for something, eventually.  Or I buy yarn because I have a plan to use it for some future project, which may or may not materialise.  What I don't often do, is buy yarn, take it home, makes plans for it and then just do it.  It makes a very pleasant change I can tell you.

 I've had my eye on this shawl for a while and with my recently acquired sale bargins just begging to be used, it's moment had decidedly arrived.

It wasn't really that cold when I started making this very pure, plain and polar white shawl, but I knew that the mild weather couldn't possibly last.  How right I was.  When the snow started coming down I dashed out to snap some shots.  You can see the snowflakes falling in the one above.  It seemed like the perfect background for an absolutely simple almost white shawl.

 I enjoyed working on that shawl very much.  The yarn is a delight to work with, soft as soft, glides over the hook with the greatest of ease and not a single knot or other disturbance in any of the balls I used.  Maybe making it worth it's original high price?  Definitely worth every penny of the half-price I paid though.

I enjoyed working on it so much, that 7 balls later, at the end of the shawl, I hadn't had enough.  I decided a matching pair of wrist warmers was in order.  (Yes, I know, another pair!)

 The inspiration for these warmers came not from me but directly from another.  The darling Coco Rose in fact.  She posted this picture on Instagram and I was in love.  What a perfect companion they would make I thought.  Strangely,  despite apparently being for DK yarn, this worked up in my aran weight beautifully and I didn't need any size modifications at all.

I fear though, you'll all probably be champing at the bit for more details?
'Yes, this is fine but what yarn?  Which patterns do you speak of?'
You require the full in's and out's and of course, you shall have them...

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Polar Shawl
Yarn: Amy Butler Belle Organic Aran
Pattern: Crescent Shawl (a)
Unfortunately the pattern book is now out of print,
but I have just discovered this written version of the pattern: Mezzaluna
More Information:  On my Ravelry Project Page



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Polar Warmers
Yarn: Amy Butler Belle Organic Aran
Pattern: Crochet Shell Wrist Warmers
Modifications inspired by: Coco Rose's 'Snow Queen' Wrist Warmers
More information:  On my Ravelry Project Page

I'm very very happy with my clean and pure set of snuggly garments to keep me toasty in these chill days.  They are like a big hug from a friendly polar bear!

S x

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