Flower Scarf: a new WIP
Christmas WIP: I’m making three crocheted Christmas projects this year and am well into two of them. I still don’t feel like I have quite enough to post on my crochet along, but maybe by the end of the weekend I will have managed to make a significant amount of progress. Enough, anyway.
The Flower Scarf
Inspiration & Pattern: As is my wont, I have researched this whole flower idea thoroughly. I LOVE flowers, so I’ve been interested in making them for some time. Then I ran across the 100 Flower Scarf pattern and associated flower designs at Applehead and decided I needed to make one. In this case it’s actually not for me but for my teenagerish cousin Chelsea. I’m crossing my fingers that she likes it. I really have no idea what a 14-year-old might like. I really want her to like it, so I’m actually a little nervous about giving this to her.
I also liked Charlene’s white flower, the flower motifs at ChezCrochet.com, and also found some inspiration in Bernat’s flower power rug, although really what I needed were some motifs.
My Additions: I decided, after practicing them a bit, that the flowers I’ve seen and tried are just too small for what I have in mind. I wanted more like 4-5 inches across.
Then I went to the yarn shop and found some yarn I liked - Chelsea’s allergic to a lot of things, so I wanted to go for cotton. I found Cascade Luna in four colors - butterscotch, green, chocolate and white. Those decided the rest of the pattern direction.
The colors I chose were selected so I can make sunflowers and white daisies (some of my absolute favorites) and add leaves into the mix. I’m keeping to a sort of ladder/trellis manner of putting it all together. I hope it will look really garden-like and fun when I am done.
I took me most of last weekend to work out proper flower patterns I like, and really, I keep experimenting with each new one I do. Most of the flowers will be just a wee bit different in this scarf. Slightly different sizes, slightly different looks to them. Makes it more interesting, IMHO. I’ve had a lot of fun with it. I’ve made about half the flowers now and a few more centers, but have run out of yarn.
Sidebar: I am posting a couple of pictures of my new WIP, but these pictures are crap. My camera continues to deteriorate, meaning the quality of my photos continues to do so as well. I am not pleased. Cameras are expensive, and to have one go south just a year after purchase makes me quite unhappy. It’s a Nikon Coolpix L5, so it’s not a super expensive camera, but it’s not crap either. Or at least, that’s what I believed.
