It’s not only in her latest pattern Blue Song that EclatDuSoleil/Hélène Marcy plays with crochet stripes!
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In the pattern A Striped Life, Hélène plays with narrow stripes on three versions of a shawl with different borders.
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To create one-row stripes without cutting the yarn each time, Hélène explains her method in the pattern. I provide you with an alternative in my crochet tutorial from June 2014.
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The shawls were crocheted by Hélène in fingering weight yarn from her stash, comparable to my fingering weight merino, the Zauberball 100 or Balayage.
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The pattern for A Striped Life, including three different versions, is available in the shop.