Crochet - Shell Lace Stole

    

SPECIAL STITCH

shell: (dtr, ch 2] 4 times, dtr) in indicated stitch.

Materials
300 grams of double knitting yarn.
1 4mm crochet hook

Make 72 chain.

 

Row 1 (RS): Dc in 2nd ch from hook, *skip next 4 ch, ([dtr, ch 2] 4 times, dtr) in next ch (shell made), skip next 4 ch, dc in next ch; repeat from * across, turn—7 pattern repeats.

 

Row 2: Ch 8 (counts as dtr, ch 4), dc in 3rd dtr (middle) of first shell, *ch 4, (dtr, ch 1, dtr) in next dc (between shells), ch 4, dc in 3rd dtr of next shell; repeat from * across, ch 4, dtr in last dc, turn.

 

Row 3: Ch 6 (counts as dtr, ch 2), (dtr, ch 2, dtr) in first dtr, dc in next dc, *shell in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc; repeat from * across, ([dtr, ch 2] twice, dtr) in 4th ch of turning ch, turn.

 

Row 4: Ch 1, dc in first tr, ch 4, (dtr, ch 1, dtr) in next dc, *ch 4, dc in 3rd dtr of next shell, ch 4, (dtr, ch 1, dtr) in next dc; repeat from * across, ch 4, dc in 4th ch of turning ch, turn.

 

Row 5: Ch 1, dc in first dc, *shell in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc; repeat from * across, turn.

 

Rows 6–65: Repeat Rows 2–5. Note: The last row you work will be a Row 5.

 

Fasten off.

 

Beginning Edge Trim

Note: Trim worked across opposite side of foundation ch makes both edges of shawl look the same, with shells along both edges.

With RS facing and working across opposite side of foundation ch, join yarn with dc in first ch, *skip next 4 ch, shell in next ch (at base of next shell on Row 1), skip next 4 ch, dc in next ch (at base of next dc on Row 1); repeat from * across. Fasten off.

 

Can only Say this once in my life

Today I am going to Suncity to meet up with an Elderly couple to buy a Sea Urchin necklace.


*Picture pending*

Camp Friend's Photo goes Viral

(Kendall Harlan)

An image of three seemingly terrified women being "photobombed" by a man with a giant stingray went viral last week after it was posted online, catching the women in it by surprise.

"Our phones just started going off," Kendall Harlan, one of the women, told Yahoo News. "Friends were texting us [things] like, 'Did you know you were just on "Good Morning America"?'"

The photo—showing a tour guide in the water behind the women lift the stingray onto their backs just as the photo was taken—was snapped during a 2008 spring break trip to Stingray City, a popular tourist destination in the Cayman Islands, when the trio (Harlan, Sarah Bourland and Natalie Zaysoff) were sophomores at Texas Christian University. They uploaded the photo to Facebook, where it was shared by friends. But it did not achieve viral status until last week, when a former classmate posted it on Reddit.com.

[Related: Stingray photobomb goes viral]

Harlan, now a 24-year-old advertising executive in Austin, Texas, says a picture taken right before the now-famous photobomb shows the co-eds smiling while posing in the water with a stingray. The tour guide threw another stingray up behind them, and the rest is Internet history.

Bourland, Zaysoff and Harlan pose with a stingray shortly before the "photobomb." (Kendall Harlan)

Harlan added that she did not know the two older women in the photo who appear to be laughing as the three recoil in terror.