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I was thinking about something simple and colourful to do, not time consuming but effective! Something good to gift as party favours, too!!!!! This is the main reasoning behind my mini clown faces, that are not very detailed in embellishments, but you can easily understand what they are….. or not????? ;oD You will need : some white (clown face) and colourful (clown hair) yarn a hook a pair of scissors a yarn needle some pom poms craft glue brooch backs thread and needle to sew pins some cord and baker's twine As usual, I'll use US crochet terms to explain my work! To start, you have to collect your hook and the white yarn : we are going to crochet the face of the clown! Make a slip knot, chain 4 and insert the hook in the first chain done, to form a ring. ( You can find a detailed photo tutorial  HERE , if you need one!) Now, chain 3 and crochet 11 double crochets into the ring.   Just before the "fasten off", you'll have somet...

The  original pattern  was calling for fringes…. …. So I started with the first one at the bottom … …. and from the base to the top, I went on adding fringes….. …each time I knotted one, I just combed it and then trimmed the ends!!! The fringes are almost 20cm long and when all done, this was the result …. …. but….. for me was not yet done !!!!! So I started to add some tiny pompoms, just to give to the shawl a more ethnic feeling, you know… …. and I continued to add them …. …. After having 15 pompoms, I was finally happy with my work… YAY! ….. Yesterday morning, I took the shawl out in our garden ( no rain!!!!!!) …. …. and my husband generously accepted to model it, with the promise that I had no intention to take pictures of his head/face… …. and this is the pin that I'm going to use with my shawl : the face pictured on is mine, from ages ago ….. !!!!! …. …. still my model in action… and to simply savour the 3D...

…. that is the JOINING…. …. Sometimes boring, but not difficult at all….. completing row 4 …. I just joined the triangles row by row, using slip stitches and changing the colour of the thread at the beginning of each row…. row 5 row 5, upside down! …. and with the progress of the work, it was much more fun to look at the triangles joined together… …. It didn't take a long time to finish even row 6 … I had only to fight to have a good light in my photos, but in these days we have rain after rain and the sky is sooooooo greyish and dark …. SOB! ….. The work went on, mindless of the weather condition, so even the last row (7th) reached the end… …. In this way, I was able to put the shawl on my dummy's shoulders…. back back from top view front right side left side …. I took even a couple of pics with myself wearing my new shawl…. ….So it's really wearable !!!!! Not sure untill all the triangles ...

….. to you all and to me, too!!!!! Right this morning, I received a parcel from Holland (Thank you Tinie!!)…. …. because I was one of the two lucky winners of this  GIVEAWAY  !!!! I tried to open the envelope with calm, so that I could see the content of it… … there was a little fight with my curious cat, but at the end I was able to take a decent pic of my new cowl and happy card ( I love Elmer the elephant : how did you know that Tinie????)…. Then, I had to try it on ….. !!!!! …… ….but I have to keep it for next winter time! For some days this cowl will stay here, where I can see it when using my laptop (so very often!) THANK YOU  TINIE , with all my heart !!!!! xxxx Alessandra ….. Tobia and my husband gave me these at breakfast time…. …. a real good day for me !!!! So spoilt !!!!! Love you boys!!!!!