15 posts tagged “scarf”
Somehow, the yarn Sairy send me in her wonderful swap package, wants to be scarved up. I have not decided on what to do with the Noro yarn, but here's my first go at the Paton's.
The yarn is very nice to work with, though I guess it is not too good to use on projects were you are likely to frog a lot in-between. I very much like the colouring effects. Which tempts me a little to use the yarn for softies, because those self-colouring things turn out quite nice, mostly, but then, scarves are so nice to crochet, either. :)
I think it might be a little scratchy for a matching cap and too thick for mittens...
here it is:
I got it! I got it! I got it!
When I came home yesterday, two swap packages were waiting for me. One was just a small keychain swap (a Halloween pumpkin for me) and the other was - tadaaa - Sairy's wonderful yarn! :-)
There was a cake of Manos de Uruguay, four skeins of Paton's SWS, one skein Noro, and a grandiouse tape measure. I thought about taking pictures the next morning, when the light would be better. And I thought about dinner. But then I found myself, with hook in hand, crocheting away on the Manos de Uruguay. It was not enough for a full scarf, but I had this nice black yarn that was waiting for a good scarf pattern - four hours later I had watched three news shows, a couple of documentaries and the end of "Familienfest und andere Katastrophen" on tv - and the Manos was finished. I have to round the scarf off with a lining of black, but at least I could go to bed - no dinner and waaay later than I normally do. I strongly do suspect the yarn just jinxed me. I did not even think about alternative patterns before I started...
P.S.: I'm a designer on ravelry, now! :-)
update: A photo is two posts up.
First, here are the promised photos of my entrelac scarves. I did not get much finished last week; I'd taken too many large projects along. My heart count is at 124 currently. The big heart is still in the
My great feat of the last week was to teach a left-handed girl how to crochet. For me, it was a little exercise in topology and geometry, to rethink the stitches for the other hand. And she is a natural, so it was a very satisfying teaching experience. :-)
I was planning to upscale the little white test heart a couple of posts below. What was keeping me was the necessety to make a gauge swatch first. If I wanted to start the heart in the middle, I have to decide before I start how large it is going to be. And I have to count chains... Hey, wait, there's a conditional in that text! Why does anyone force me to start the heart in the middle? Now I start with a hexagon, make that as large as I want it to be (and it is a shawl, so who cares about a little give and take in the end?) and just add the rest of the heart afterwards. I'm at round seven right now. There will be between 10 an 15 needed for the starting hexagon. Adding on the rest will need a little more concentration on the pattern, but I made a sketch and it should work out nicely. Ah, right, the technique is called delta crochet.
So, this is what I'm going to take on my holidays: little red hearts, big red heart, up and down scarf, TRex without legs and the Hello Kitty cushion, which is done crocheting but needs tedious sewing. Some spare yarn for in-between monsters.
Yesterday I started a winter scarf. And I finished it. And then I began to play around with the entrelac-design and started two more scarves. I even dreamed about them... One has the pattern smaller, with more repeats, and the other wlll be a Möbiusscarf. :-)
This morming, I bought a package of cigarettes. Not so dramatic, it was just something I've never done before. Well, now I've done it so I'll collect stuff for one more week or so and then the swap package can go off...
This afternoon, the first warm and sunny day in weeks, I started crocheting a winter scarf. My favorite up and down pattern, with one large triangle inserted. Needs a little fiddling, but looks fine. I'm almost done, about half a skein to go. If I finish today, I'll have used up 210m of yarn.
While working on the scarf, I watched "We feed the world". Odd documentation. And that Nestle guy is scary.
I started this one on Wednesday evening. My original plan was to give it away that evening, but - alas - I just got through one and a half skeins in one and a half hours, so I finished it the next day. It is a rather short scarf, but there were just two balls of the colour left.
Here it is:
