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Book Review – Wedding Showers

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Wedding Showers
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From rustic to romantic or colorful, the theme parties in Wedding Showers are exciting ways to celebrate a couple’s plans for the future. Each collection offers invitations and easy backdrops as well as ideas for serving refreshments and creating keepsakes. Down-to-earth couples can celebrate with rustic decorations featuring burlap and chalkboard crafts; projects include a box lunch, a potato chip bar, and a date night advice jar. Soft and sweet decorations in tissue paper and tulle set a romantic mood with a touch of nostalgia; projects include a cookie tower and a bride’s advice book. Accordion-folded paper flowers make a colorful setting for showering the happy couple; projects include a best wishes box and cupcake wrappers and toppers.

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I’m honestly not totally sure what to say about the Sun King shawl pattern from Ursa Major Knits other than isn’t this cool? You should probably make one. 

This modular design is worked in two parts, the “waxing” and “waning” sections. Both pieces are asymmetrical and use the same yarns in different ways to mix up the colors and make it even more interesting. 

You can choose to use two contrasting solid yarns, a solid and a gradient or two complimentary gradients for your yarns. And you can use any weight of yarn and whatever gauge you like to make shawls of different sizes. There are also a bunch of different size options (seven, in fact) that take the project from a little collar like design to something more like a scarf to a large shawl that wraps around the neck to keep you warm. 

The sample projects use fingering/lace weight yarn, but you can use whatever you have on hand to make your own beautiful version of this shawl. Using lace weight, you’ll need twice as much of one color as the other.

There are lots of yarn suggestions on the pattern page on Ravelry, and I love the color choices the designer made so much I’d definitely be tempted to use the same colors they did (there are a couple of different versions on the pattern page if you want to see how it looks in different sizes and different colors). 

I love the little diamond shapes a the edges of the pieces, which add a little more drama to the project, as if it needed more. 

I’m still not sure this boils down to anything beyond this project looks really cool and you should probably knit it, but that’s pretty much how I pick all the projects I share, so I guess that’s fine. You can check it out for yourself and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Ursa Major Knits]

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