Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Crochet: Big Purple Scarf


Here' that big beautiful yarn from JoAnn's Fabrics, that I made the purple beret from. It was so soft to the touch.
I think I chained 100. I wanted it to be about 5 inches long.

Here's the end of the scarf.

So I just started single crochet's here. And I am using a size P crochet hook. I think on the package it said to use a size N, but I didn't have one, so I used this.

Then the rest of it is, double crochet's. I am going to do four rows of double crochet's and then end it, with single crochet's again.

I'm almost finished. Then I am going to add some fringe at the end. I bought 3 skeins (I think that's the right word) of this yarn.

Crochet: Big Purple Beret Finished

So, I bought this big beautiful yarn from JoAnn's Fabrics. I will do a post about it after this one and show the yarn.
I was looking at my favorite website, some time ago. I think I was looking up a video for crocheting a scarf, and I found this really nice simple one.
Then I was thinking how I wanted to make a scarf and hat set.

So here's the hat.

A close up.
I wanted to make this beret above.

But the pattern seemed to complicated. But then I was thinking, I should have at least tried it. So, when I buy this yarn again, I will try and follow the "Chunky Beret" Pattern.
This is the book that the pattern came out of. This pattern said it was for "beginners". I think the part where it said "2sctog" got me kind of cautious. Not scared, just kind of wary. Like I said, earlier, next time I get this nice big yarn, I am going to do this beret pattern, and give it the old college try.

Crochet: Little Yellow Bag

I needed a little bag to put the items that I use in the morning. Like dental floss, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.
I didn't have a pattern for it, I just kind of tried to do something off the top of my head. I think this is one of the neatest things about knitting and crocheting. If I need something, I can grap some yarn from my yarn bag and try and knit something up.

I can't remember how many I chained, just the width of how big my electric toothbrush is, and then the rest of it was just double crochets. The yarn was this beautiful 100% cotton yarn.

It was so soft to knit up. I don't even know if "soft" is the right word to use, but it just worked up so nicely. So smoothly. This yarn was actually supposed to be used for making a dishcloth. At least that's what I'm assuming, because they give a pattern for a dishcloth on the bag of the label of another blue yarn that is similar to this one.

Anyway, here's the bag. I just used a really big needle, that somebody had given me and sewed up the sides. The top I would like to get a zipper for. I figure, I would just sew the zipper just like you would sew it on to any garment.