Hello and Happy New Year! First day back at work today and Christmas feels a very long time ago now. Just wanted to share with you my wonderful and wonky crochet scarf, which I finally completed on Sunday.
I have been working on this since August/September when I started my 4 Simple Goals challenge - I wanted to learn to crochet and started with Double Crochet, and it just sort of (eventually) became a six-foot scarf.
It's so wobbly it sort of looks like you're viewing from above an anaconda that's just eaten a goat. I had trouble in the beginning somehow dropping and picking up stitches with practically every row but once I got into my groove and remembered to do a chain at the end of each row I was OK.
I even managed to work out a way of holding the hook and crocheting (rather fast!) without having to pick at the wool with my fingers, which I'm very pleased about. My stitches became a lot neater and more even towards the end ... but they were also a lot less tight, meaning that one end of the scarf is about double the width of the other. Sigh.
The ladies at my knitting group (oh yes, I joined one!) suggested going round and doing a border to even our the edge a bit, but with my friend's baby due on 3rd February and not one square of its blanket completed started, I have more pressing issues! Plus, you can't really notice the wonk when it's tied around my neck!
Onwards and upwards with the Granny Squares!!!
Hurray for wonky scarfs!! And hurray for finsihing your first ever piece of crocheted magic. The Beast would love to meet Purple Beast I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteYou definitely need to get making that blanket! GO GO GO!
Oh! Just wrote you a lovely long comment and now it is gone! Alas! Okay...again...
ReplyDeleteFirstly - what do you think is better/easier - crochet or knitting? I'm keen to have a go but I tried knitting and I wasn't all that thrilled with it. I guess I need to keep at it but...if you say Crochet is easier I'll be whizzing off in that direction me thinks...I also tried your finger knitting - now that was easy and fun! Not sure what to do with the scarf now...might suit my cat but!!! Thanks!
Happy New Year to you too! Hope you go crochet crazy and well done on this success! If you never begin somewhere you won't get anywhere! (There was a more eloquent quote to say this but I forget it!) Anyway congrats and hope to catch up with you again soon! xxx
Golly gosh and well done you:) I'm very impressed and it's such a lovely colour - crocus purple, ready for spring maybe? Actually, it's reminding me of several blogs I saw recently, peeps were involved an a tree-wrapping project with big trees and even bigger bits of brightly coloured fabric lol ;)
ReplyDeleteHope the return to work went painlessly
Have a great year
xxx
"It's so wobbly it sort of looks like you're viewing from above an anaconda that's just eaten a goat!"
ReplyDeleteThis part made me laugh. Out loud. At my desk. :)
I reeeeally am going to make "learn to knit" one of my resolutions, it's been on my "meaning to" list for too long! !:)
You have done brilliantly! Like you say it's a scarf and it does not have to be perfect it will never again be laid out like that. It's a great learning curve though isn't it just getting stuck in and making something.
ReplyDeleteKandi x
Wow, love your wonky scarf. WEll done you!
ReplyDeleteI think the fact that the scarf gets so much less wobbly at the end is awesome---an amazing visual about the process of getting better at something as you go along. :)
ReplyDelete(And besides, you're completely right that once it's wrapped around your neck, the wonkiness is invisible.)
Finishing a project is an amazing way to start the new year, too.
You are clever! It's a gorgeous colour and so neat, too! I need to get my needles back out. xxx
ReplyDeleteWell done Lucy on getting it finished. The slight uneveness (is that a word?) just adds to it's charms. I'm sure now you've conquered that it'll be on to lots of other fab projects. x
ReplyDeleteThat is such a beautiful scarf. I can knit a little but I can not crochet, I just do not get it. I think I need someone to show me rather than self teaching myself.
ReplyDeleteI see you are reading 'Hitchhikers' one of my all time favourite books, hope you are enjoying it
Wonky scarves are the best kind and that's an absolute beauty! I think a border would ruin the effect slightly, plus like you say, no-one will be looking at the edges when it's all wrapped up round your neck.
ReplyDeleteYay love this photo. Probably love your scarf more too cos it isn't perfect! I am aiming to knit a scarf this year lol... wait till you see my attempt!! Happy New Yr btw :) xx
ReplyDeleteWho cares if it's wonky, like you said, it's only going to be wrapped up around your neck!! Love the colour x
ReplyDeleteRight enough, you'll never notice the wonkiness when its on! Plus looks nice and cosy for fighting the rotten weather :)
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