Taaaa-Daaaahh! Granny shawl.

So, I can now show you the "secret project". 
Another of my friends was due a birthday at the end of June, and so I decided to hook her a shawl too.  I ummed and arred at what pattern to use, style etc.  And in the end I decided on a granny triangle shawl and planned to make it rather big and warm, because she has a large garden with a lovely big errection..hehehehe, (sorry injoke between friends), Gazebo and sits out there a lot, so I thought a nice warm shawl for cooler evenings would just be the ticket.

I used a Drops Design for the pattern and then just adapated it for what I wanted.  The colours worked really well too, forest green, sage, buttermilk, pretzel and cinnamon - lol I also loved the names.  The yarn is Rowan Pure Wool Aran, and I'm a little bit in love with this stuff, in part because it's from Holmfirth, which was a town I spent a lot of my childhood in :-)  And yes, famous for Last of the Summer Wine.

But anyway, enough of the twitter eh, lets get to the photos:

 I love how the creamy golden yellow really sets off the other colours.

 Oooh yes, so lovely and snuggly, I will have to make myself one of these!

 Granny cluster heaven.  I am quite a fan of the basic granny cluster, so many pretty things can be made with it and it tends to work up pretty fast.

The edging is double crochet.  I had spent a long time looking through my edging book, but nothing seemed to quite fit in with the rather rustic look of this shawl - which I think is down to the colours more than anything, and the striping is so pretty I didn't really want to distract the eye from it.

This used approx:
3x100g of pretzel
1 3/4 x 100g forest green
1 3/4 x 100g sage
2 1/2 x cinnamon
1 1/2 x buttermilk