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!
Finished! The Anne scarf
Hey, look, a finished project! It’s the Anne scarf from MK Carroll that I mentioned liking. I made it to be a spring/summer scarf, light and decorative. It’s made of unbleached cotton, and is very lacy, so it said summer to me. I have yet to block it, it’s pretty helix-ey at the moment. Then again, I kind of like that, maybe I’ll leave it.
Why a scarf says “summer” I don’t know. I suspect I’m in denial. We never actually got a winter, and now here we are with eighty-degree temps already!!
