SCARF

Ahhhhhhh … nice little blogging break there.

SO!  This is not exactly a major crafting accomplishment, but I finished a scarf. In particular the One Skein Scarf from Stitch ‘n Bitch Crochet: the Happy Hooker that I mentioned. I think it’s a pretty scarf, but it’s almost as if I suddenly went back to crochet kindergarten. What manages to redeem me is that (a) it’s cold here right now and (b) I’m also making a matching hat and mittens.

I would wait to post until I had all of it done, except my crafting has been so minimal lately that I feel as if I must show what I actually have managed to get done.

So here it (and Wesley and I) am (are):

The yarn: Once upon a time I couldn’t crochet that well, so I knew I needed to practice a lot. In pursuit of that practice, I was going to make this one crappy project-that-will-not-be-named, and so I bought all this yarn on sale (Homespun Prairie). Predictably, I got much better and decided the project was BO-RING and so I frogged it. But then I had all this yarn.

So! Recently I found the yarn and decided to make my scarf, plus this Applejack Cap from Croshay Designs and Lion Brand’s relatively simple looking mittens with wrist ribbing. I hope the yarn’s striping comes through on the cap and mittens.

The yarn is quite pretty, but a bad choice for a beginner. Homespun can be a pain in the a** to crochet with, because the ply is loose, it sort of bunches up and then it fuzzes out a bit at times. But the end product is soft and shiny, and has a nice rainbow stripe on a copper-brown background. It isn’t the best yarn I’ve worked with, but it’s not the worst, either.

P.S. I made the necklace, too. Woo!