You know how sometimes you see a pattern and think, "That's pretty cute and I have that yarn in my stash. Sure, I'll cast on."
and then sometimes you see a pattern and your little knitter's heart starts to race and you HAVE to make it? That's what happened to me when I stumbled across this shawl pattern from Karabella in an old Patternworks catalog. After picking myself up off the floor I read on to find that it's actually a crochet pattern and I haven't crocheted, with the exception of some decorative edging, for over a decade.
No problem. It's like riding a bike, right?
Then I saw the suggested yarn was Karabella LW Supercashmere which costs roughly an arm and a leg.
No problem. I have some heathered lace weight super soft alpaca from Knit Picks that would probably work.
Then I tried to order the pattern from the Patternworks site only to find they no longer carry it.
No problem. A quick Google search and I tracked it down at Knit Pixie.
Now I will sit by my window everyday and wait for the mail man with my crochet hook in one hand and a ball of lace weight alpaca in the other, because although the odds are clearly against us, with God as my witness, I will do whatever I need to do to make this work and we will live happily ever after.
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