Blanket vs. shawl, opinions please O wise ones!

Nortsat- Thank you!

I've just been in touch with the local City of Sanctuary drop off point to ask if they really would like more - I was thinking of trying to get a group of willing crafters together to make a fair few - and yours was my exact thought - that of course being safe, and being given the basics will be the most important but how comforting would it be to also get something pretty.

the shawl and the crochet squares are both lovely!! xx

Witzend- No, not the Isles but I am (Very) originally from Perth, and my Mum will have taught me the Scottish way.

Witzend, it’s absolutely lovely.
Seeing those poor souls arriving from Afghanistan or on dinghies across the channel, with nothing, I think they would be delighted to receive such a warm, beautiful shawl. ?

Ailidh, lovely crochet work in such beautiful colours. ?

I did struggle a bit at first, Ailidh - not helped by the fact that I was using a very old one, inherited from my mother. The knitting didn’t slide at all easily over the joins from straight to bendy.
New ones are lovely and smooth. ?

Are you in the Highlands/Islands? Your lovely name would suggest it, and I’ve read that knitting with one needle under your arm is traditional in those areas. Sounds pretty impossible to me, but then so would any method I’m not used to.

Thanks Witzend

I'm experimenting and using up oddments by crocheting squares, Ailidh, trying out a few different flower patterns but generally sticking to the easiest as I do it with one eye on the TV in the evenings.

Next lesson from YouTube will have to be how to crochet them together.

FannyCornforth, what a great idea about the label!

Witzend, I envy you being able to knit on circular needles!!
I knit with the right hand one under my arm, and can't Not do it that way. It's fine but I find circulars or 4-needle socks etc impossible!

That’s really lovely, Ailidh!

Callistemon, it was 280 sts on a 4 mm circular needle, same as the scarf pattern, but that’s only 7 inches long. It wasn’t a very long needle, so quite bunched up, but it didn’t matter. Nice mindless knitting in front of the telly. I always had the next 10 or so colours lined up on the back of the sofa, so no having to go upstairs to delve into the stash each time.

It was v good for using up a lot of very small oddments that wouldn’t be much use for anything else.

What lovely shawls you have knitted or crocheted, think it’s a lovely idea sewing a message into them. The amount, of wool I have just sitting around I no excuse not to start one.

Ailidh that is so lovely. Whoever receives that will be very touched.
I’d write a little message on a little sewn on label if I was clever enough to make anything like that.
Well done you

That looks lovely.

Beautiful!

And I'd say that refugee charities would welcome it as is.

I was down delivering coats to our local City of Sanctuary drop-off point on Friday, and when I asked what else might be needed, they said that in their experience shawls/blankets of the pram size kind are always very welcome. I'm guessing something a woman could wrap round baby or baby and self.

There seems to be provision of accommodation and therefore beds and therefore bedding in place but I think the comfort of a shawl that is both useful and beautiful must be immense.

Here's my current effort, so far.

I love it ? its absolutely gorgeous. You clever sausage!

As it is. It's beautiful ? Definitely nice enough to wear Out.

Great either way.

Hetty58

Lovely - and a really useful item for somebody feeling chilly.

This. I think that a wearable shawl would be more useful than a blanket, as the wearer can move about in it, and also keep it about their person so it doesn't get stolen.

It looks great - well done?

Lovely just as it is, Witzend

How many stitches did you cast on (you may have said already on another thread)?

Lovely - and a really useful item for somebody feeling chilly.

You’re talking a foreign language Witzend ??

Thanks, all - a shawl it is, then.
BTW it’s the easiest possible knitting - just one garter stitch row in each colour.

Lovely. Personally I’d give it as it stands.

Looks brilliant, so clever ?

It's lovely. You really are a terrific knitter.

Looks great as it is! Well done!