We got invited to this hollywood style beach wedding in Mexico, and I thought immediately of two things – what am I going to wear and Zika virus. Most people never even realise they got infected by Zika and eventually experience just a slight fever, www claims. Ok, that´s that. So, what am I going to wear?
I did not have the slightest idea, but I remembered a lace shawl I started to crochet one year ago. A beach wedding was an inspiration strong enough to sharpen my needle!
I discovered this lovely shawl crochet pattern from ROWAN – and adjusted it to fit my eclectic mind better. I would die having to crochet 78 white flowers, so I just used the yarn I had and mixed all the colours together.
“Ahmm. You are not bad with form, but I have a feeling you lack the basics in color theory” – my design trained b-friend snitched lovingly. Enough for me to whistle off “F-off”. Stay true to your craziness. Even if it is just a visual one.
You will need to crochet (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + …. ) X flowers, where X marks the number of rows. This basically means that every row will increase for one flower. If you crochet 78 flowers – this will make 12 rows. I cheated for one whole row – it took me ages anyway – so I needed 66 flowers for 11 rows. Pheeew! That was a lot.
You need to count in a serious time lapse for this shawl – several weeks or something, depending on your motivation. Even if you throw yourself on relentless crocheting 8-hours a day, I believe you might need more than 10 days to finish it. Seriously. It took me a couple of months to finish this peace and I had some flowers done from the previous attempt!
- 1.5 mm crochet hook
- 6 hanks of ITO Gima 8.5 yarn
- 2 hanks of ITO Sensai yarn
- a threading needle and scissors to tuck in and cut off the rest yarn
You can let your mind go wild about the colours and materials: I mixed cotton with silk and mohair and got this spring look, but you can go for mohair based yarn only, or wherever your heart leads you.
Don´t forget to block! Otherwise it will look shrivelled. Just sprinkle with water and lay to rest on a flat surface over night, like in the photo. No big deal for some seriously done effect.
![rowan lace crochet pattern](http://serbies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/heklani-cvetici-1-300x234.jpg)
blocking
HAVE FUN! You deserved it.
p.s. this was not my wedding outfit, but the lace shawl was finished – awl.
p.p.s. I left the inner holes unfilled for a more punky look. I love leaving things “unfinished” if they look finished, if you know what I mean. Love it. It breaths life into things. And life is there to breath in. OOOOOM.