more crochet

I had put my mind to a bit of Sophie Digard.

I do not intend to copy her

(couldn't, even if I wanted to)

but her art sure had triggered something in me !

All the squares I started with, were to go as in-betweens

for a bigger pattern with flowers.

It took me through a lot of Ravelry pages

before a Stitch'nBitch friend from Rotterdam

kindly send me the "Japanese flower" pattern

she uses for a shawl herself, thanks Elly !

But it just isn't me to go the easy way :

instead of the original 12 petals, I only made 8.

(better to connect with the squares)

So far, so good ...

(I thought) 

But when you look close up the first few finished rows,

it's clear that only the squares and flowers are connected ...

it was all too loose and sloppy !
(and making a connection between the squares didn't work either)

So :

I took a lot of my squares and frogged the outer (light coloured) round

of double crochet and made it into single crochet.

... NOT a very fun task ...

but it had to be done !

(ha, and most of the leftovers, were long enough to make new flower centers)

The also non-fun task was 

to start all over again with the whole shawl

(because : everything is connected as-you-go !!!)

... and here it is ... !

Now all the little parts are connected !

Oh but look :

there are more flowers in my summer garden !!!

Mmmmmm : Filipendula rubra 

("queen of the prairie" ... some queen, isn't she ?)