Find Your Crochet Fade
Do you know the Find your Fade? It is a knitted shawl with glorious colour play, a spectrum of tones and speckled variegated yarns. I absolutely love the Fade, but I’m just not a knitter.
Therefore, I was so excited when I discovered that a very clever crochet designer had come up with a crochet version. The best thing of all is that the Blurre shawl is a completely original design. It isn’t a copy of the Fade, it is its very own thing, and it’s totally fab!
The Blurre Shawl By Addydae Designs
I stumbled upon the Blurre shawl whilst watching a fellow crochet podcaster. Claudia of Crochet Luna was talking about it, and I told her how beautiful I thought it was. A few days later, I found a copy of the pattern in my Ravelry inbox! Claudia had bought the crochet pattern for me, for my birthday!! How lovely is that?!
I got stuck in straight away! I knew that I wanted to use the hand-dyed yarns I’d found at Stephen & Penelope’s in Amsterdam. That was my starting point. At the time, I was making a different shawl with some neon yellow I’d bought at the Edinburgh Yarn Festival. That was definitely also going into the shawl, too.
I needed two more colours, so I looked for yarn shades that would blend the neon with the dusky blues from Amsterdam. The Wool Kitchen’s Nebula sprang to mind pretty quickly. Then, a spot of time trawling Etsy gave me Made By Jude’s “When Dye Pots Attack”.
Check out my crochet podcast episode where I talk about the shawl, too!
The pattern is awesome. It’s super easy but represents really sophisticated and modern crochet. I didn’t know Deanne of Addydae Designs before. Well, I’d seen her work before, but not properly registered in my head that one person was linked to all the pretties.
Take a look at the Three Springs shawl. I lurrrvve it!! Deanne also has a podcast, check that out, too.
I’m in love with my crochet Blurre shawl!! It’s awesome! However, it has been a bugger to photograph. The neon blows out no matter what I try. It makes the other colours look lacklustre. In real life, it is all superb, I promise.
If I were to be picky, I’d say that I’d like a few more rows of the first colour (the turquoisy one) and more rows of the Nebula (the dark one with rainbow flecks). I think that would have helped to balance out that crazy neon punch to the face. For the most part, I’m well chuffed. If I didn’t have so many other things to make, I’d definitely make another crochet blurre shawl straight away. I know others have said the same, too.
Photographing the Blurre Shawl
I got the camera out the other day and took some snaps that didn’t work too well. I asked my four year old to take some pictures of me, too. Initially, I just handed him the camera and asked him to click away. It didn’t go down well. I ended up with about twenty blurry Blurres.
I got the tripod out, but still couldn’t see exactly what was going on (not until I remembered to flip the viewing screen). Anyway, here are a few reasonably acceptable photos so you get more of an idea about how the Blurre looks.
It was fun to play around, and the boy enjoyed some “responsibility” as my photographer. His favourites were when the cat got in on the action. She didn’t like being a model much.
What do you reckon? Fancy having a go at your own Blurre shawl? I’d love to see other versions!
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