This shawl is completed. Finally! Completed and given away, all done on the same day.
I cannot remember when I started on this crochet project. It could have been Year 2023. Or was it Year 2024? It is easy to lose track of time these days. What I do remember was that I started this project with the intention of gifting it to a Shanghai colleague-friend. At less than halfway through, I somehow hit a road block - at the colour between purple and green - and found myself struggling with each stitch. I put a stop to my miserable by placing the project on hold, and tell myself that I will pick it up and continue with it again when I am ready.
Late August this year, I suddenly decided on a whim that I want to visit Shanghai. I bought air tickets and hotel accommodation for two weeks later. That done, I suddenly found myself very motivated to continue with crocheting this shawl. I put all my energy and poured whatever little pockets of time available here and there into this project. My biggest worry was I couldn't complete it in time for my meet-up with this Shanghai colleague-friend. In the end, all's well that ends well. I made the last stitch in this rainbow shawl and fastened off in the early hours of 15 Sep 2025, just in time for my 11am meeting with my Shanghai colleague-friend on the very same day.
Crocheting a shawl is both fulfilling and rewarding. Not only do I get to enjoy the peace and meditative effect of the process, I get to hold in my hands a beautiful pieace of practical end product which I can choose to keep for myself or make for a memorable gift to a choice recipient.
This Classical Attitude Shawl is a work of art - simple yet elegant. It is brilliantly created by Hobbii and available for free download at their website Classical Attitude shawl. The pattern is designed to provide both familiarity and variety to keep the person working on it relaxed and entertained at the same time. If you are looking to crochet a shawl with a meditative stitch pattern but one that is not so repetitive as to be boring, this is the one for you.
Materials:
1. Gradient yarn cake: 100% mercerized cotton | 300g | 1200m | 4-ply | Purple, Violet, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
2. Crochet hook, size 2.5mm (Tulip)
3. Stitch markers (Tulip)
4. Tapestry needle
5. Scissors
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