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NORDIC SHAWL AND DOG CLAWS

I have deliberated over whether to crochet this shawl for some time.  I just love Annette's colour pallete and her creations, but after crocheting my first shawl, twice, one for me, one for my sister, I felt a bit done with it.  Then I found this page on Annette's site and was totally sold...apart from the fact that I now couldn't make up my mind which colours to choose.  I looked through my stash and found I had rather a lot of this.


I bought this Stylecraft Special DK in Mocha to make a crochet bag for my Step Mum. who had a few small projects on the go, but no bag to put them in when on the move.






It was the very first thing I made and gifted and was I a happy bunny when my Step Mum said she was over the moon with it.

I decided to make my Nordic Shaw with this yarn as the main colour, but then kept changing my mind.... curse that Nordic Shawl parade, too many choices!

I really love this grey version, the mustard colour is a lovely punch of colour, don't you think?

Image from My Rose Valley Nordic Shawl Parade

Mr. likes both, but thinks the mocha would probably wear better, especially with our Elsie and her penchant for stealing anything of mine that's cuddly.


Just can't help thinking the colour is a bit meh!  I'll carry on, as the colourful band will hopefully make all the difference and I can make this my autumn shawl and do the grey for the summer months.  A girl can't have too many shawls, now can she?

Other things, I popped down to  Bridport to help Aunty A take her two elderly greyhounds to the beauty parlour for a bath, brush up and pedicure.  

We picked them up two hours later, all spruced and smelling sweet, but they did'nt seem too impressed. It's the first time they've been to the parlour, as A usually does it herself.  However, she's damaged the cartilage in her knee, so that's out of the question until she's had her op next week.  

The lady who took care of them did a wonderful job, but couldn't quite finish of their claws on her own, so I stepped in to hold them while she got to work.  Oh, poor things, they really, really don't like their paws being touched, but we got there in the end, with this poor woman lying on her stomach, on the floor, to complete the task.  She only charged £20.00 per dog, which I thought was amazing value, especially as she also had to wrestle two large, uncooperative dogs into the bath. The poor woman was  exhausted by the time we left, but said she looked forward to seeing them again...obviously a sucker for punishment!

Oh, and I visited Bridport's wonderful hardware shop.  I just love hardware shops, I know, I'm strange, but they are such treasure troves,  I could spend hours in them.  I found these lovely lids which were such a bargain, I wish I'd bought more. Aren't they cute (see I even get excited by lids!).


I also bought some ingredients to make my own liquid laundry/general purpose house cleaner, but more on that another time, I have to root through my collection of jars, those lids need a home!

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