By the way ... I can crochet.

May 05, 2009 09:30 Filed in: This and that
Anne lace scarf
I recently taught myself how to crochet JUST so I could make this scarf. Between my learn to crochet book and the charts on this pattern, I was able to struggle through several attempts at working the scarf, repeated ripping when my effort didn't match any of the examples on Ravelry, finally making a breakthrough on how to correctly execute a double crochet, and wow! I was hooked. (Yes, that is an intentional crochet pun, which I'm sure I inherited from thousands of crocheters before me.) I easily memorized the repeats and couldn't put the project down. Then I manically tried it in about six other yarns on various hook sizes. I went a little crazy, but I've settled down now and I'm back to the kilt hose as my main project. I am looking forward to making many more of these! Friends and family can count on getting one as a gift sometime in the future.

The yarn is Dalegarn Svale in ivory. I bought this single skein from a LYS because it was recommended for a counterpane afghan I wanted to knit for my mom. The total cost for said afghan would have been something absurd like $150 using this yarn! So although I loved my dear old mom, I opted instead for about a ton of white Cotton-Ease at less than $5 per ball. White CE is much more fitting for a counterpane anyway, so the Svale became this pretty, too-short Anne Lace scarf. It's more of a collar or choker when wrapped around twice. Secured with a ceramic rose pin of my mom's, I think it looks quite romantic! Okay, not with the pink tee shirt and gardening sunburn.

I'm so confident in my new crocheting skills that I've already started the "French Country" hat (with the crocheted mum) from JooJooBees. And the next project in my cue is Corsage in Bloom, a pretty posie of roses and lily of the valley made with a skinny little size 7 steel crochet hook. Yikes! It's like crochet in miniature. I'm going for it, though--I picked up the wee li'l hook at Tom Thumb Hobby in Evanston (you should see this thing, it's super skinny!), and ordered the recommended Coats Opera Crochet Thread. Thread. I'm going from big fat yarn to little old thread? No matter, I can't wait to get started!
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