Where has all the crochet gone?

I have been a little bit in love with the speediness of sewing recently and with our allotment and evening commitments I can't always get so much crochet done as I would like. I feel a bit guilty crocheting when it is so nice outside. Anyway...

My third Elise shawl is finished. I have really enjoyed the pace of this shawl this time round as it has been my portable project. My dressmakers form, Clara, is on loan at RAF Cosford this week wearing a first world war nurse outfit so you will have to do with me this time.

I have been taking it to ballet on Saturday mornings, to hospital while I wait for my dad to have his treatment, lounging at the cabin, with my friends at knit and natter in the pub, on the train to Minerva and in car parks to relax me when I get to job interviews and I get there 10 minutes too soon. I have been doing it in the evening when I sit in the bedroom chair watching the girls drift off to sleep - you name the place; it has been scrunched up in my handbag.

The yarn? It is really weird isn't it? I've no idea what it is. It is pretty old I would say, no smell but gifted to me in an odds and ends bag. It is actually rolled onto toilet rolls. The yarn is at least lace weight but between every slub it goes to nearly the thickness of sewing thread.

If you have never come across a beading needle: get some. I used to use all sorts of swear words trying to get beads onto my crochet thread but these flexible eye needles are the best.

Other crochet news. My beginner group made these fingerless gloves last week. They managed one in the lesson so the challenge was to make another one, the same, at home! This week we are going to embellish them. I have added a double crochet finger edge and a wrist ruffle. (I did make two obviously but it is hard to photograph your own hands!)

My summer throw over is moving along but could turn into an Autumn cover up. I have ran out of yarn...again. The yardage on the balls is pretty scant. The photograph shows it all snuggled up in my basket with my long awaited purchase, a 'bex' knitting needle box which I have been after for so long. What a treat!