WIP; Short'n'Sweet Shrug

Long time no update.. Mainly because the only crafty activities I've been indulging in have been for christmas presents, which I can't post about yet! Firstly, excuse the poor quality photos.. bad lighting, tiredness + lack of photoshop = badbadbad.

Found a sweet little craft shop the other day with a sale on wool! I've been getting low on everything but acrylic recently *shudders*
I managed to get - soft tweed in grey (I'm not sure what to crochet with this, I only ended up getting 200g, maybe I'll get some more next week) with £2 off each ball (£2.75 for 50g), some courtelle (whatever that is? It's probably just fancy acrylic..) for £2 for 100g and some crochet thread for 75p!
Also managed to get a 350g of black mohair mix cheapish on ebay, for another christmas present.

I crocheted my first granny squares. I didn't realise how easy they were. I had intended on making a blanket, but alas that shall have to wait until after christmas.

I started on the Short 'n' Sweet shrug from Stitch'n'Bitch. I've managed to do just over half in under 3 nights. I have to say the pattern is a bit confusing, I ended up relying on the diagram for most of the back as they kept missing 'ch 2' here and there. When I got to the front part of the pattern though, which had no diagram, it went a bit wrong. The pattern was mostly "work in established pattern" but at places it didn't seem to work atall. I tried to follow it but it just wasn't happening, so I turned to google. And there was the answer! (here if you need it - it's in pdf format) I'm not sure about the cotton yarn I used for it. I managed to find it cheap on ebay, I like red & black but it looks a bit crazy & messy I think.. See how it looks when it's finished I guess.