Crocheting for big girls...

Kimajo wrote

on Dec 5, 2008 8:32 PM

Hey everybody! I'm a novice crocheter and want to make my aunt a shawl/wrap for Christmas. She's a voluptuous woman. How can I know that the shawl is big enough for her. Are "one size fits all" patterns true? Should I just make a scarf?

PaulineL wrote

on Dec 5, 2008 8:45 PM

I've always found that one size fits some, never all.

Dot Matthews is voluptuous and gave us a LOT of free patterns including many shawls. Her site is http://patternsbydot.blogspot.com/

Kimajo wrote

on Dec 5, 2008 8:50 PM

Thank you so much!

KentuckyM wrote

on Dec 23, 2008 8:56 PM

I am a shawl-maker with the prayer-shawl ministry at my church and have made about 20 shawls. I like BIG shawls, so I always use things I have on hand to help me measure. For example, I want it wide enough to go from my elbow to my shoulder and I always make it as long as I am tall. When my son and his wife got married last year, I made them a wedding shawl that was long enough to go around the two of them. When my daughter was pregnant this summer, I made her a "nursing shawl" that was big enough for her to use with her BIG pregnant belly and then to wrap around both her and the baby when she was nursing her. Those two I made 72" (6 feet) long. Normally, my shawls are AT LEAST 60 inches long and 20-24 inches wide.

Kim

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