A knitted Princess Shawl and Swirl Hat for my youngest granddaughter, Hailey, for Christmas.

What do you make a 9 year old for Christmas?  It’s such a tough age.  And given that I had made the Zuzu’s Cowl and Seaforth Beanies for the two older girls (Rebecca and Jordyn), I didn’t want Hailey to feel left out.

I certainly increased my knitting skills and am now a much more confident lace knitter.  Both patterns are very well written – no charts, so that really helped and they both are great beginner projects.

Pinterest and Ravelry are great resources of inspiration as we all know and I found these great patterns.

And here’s my little “princess” Hailey all decked out in her plum colored princess shawl with a silver grey trim.

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Additional Information:

You can find the free pattern for the knitted Swirl Hat on Ravelry.

You can find the free pattern for the Princess Shawl on Ravelry.

Nancy Smyth

Hi, I'm Nancy I'm a yarn addict, number cruncher/bookkeeper, and software developer. Strange combination right? I get the same feeling of joy when working with high quality yarns that I do when a column of numbers are all neatly aligned and add up properly.

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