Step 1: Take one hat pattern.
Step 2: Change the stitches to sc-blo.
Step 3: Add a bend.
And this is the important one…
Step 4: keep crocheting even though the thing you’re making never once looks like a hat.
Step 5: seam it up
Step 6: be amazed!
Posts Tagged ‘swirl’
Hope’s Hat
October 24th, 2010 
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May The Fourth Be With You
May 4th, 2010 mio I’m making good progress on the yellow hexagon blanket:
(I’m pretty sure I’m going to need to block those at some point…)
Not bad for only working on them on the subway and on my lunch breaks at work!
I’m still debating how I want to join them together. Whip-stitch will probably look best, but sc might give it a bit more stability… I’ll have to experiment!
I’ve Got Mail
April 30th, 2010 mio Look what arrived!
It was full of happiness:
See that yellow-ish yarn peeking through on the left side of the box? I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with that yarn… it was cheap, and I like self-striping yarn, and I got 10 balls of it, just in case. (I also got 10 balls of a pink-and-white striping yarn of the same type).
Then it hit me, when I was almost finished that green-and-cream dishcloth from the last post: this yarn would look fantastic in the swirly-hexagon motif!
So, I started the dishcloth pattern again, but with 30ch to begin (instead of 15 for the dishcloths). I did try 15 sts originally, but I found that each wedge was *almost* a single colour, and that wouldn’t really look nice, in my opinion, so I decided to go big.
Here is the result, pinned out (colours a bit off) :
Here’s a close-up, it’s a bit fuzzy, but the colour is more accurate:
And it’s quite drapey!
(Yarn is Bella DK Tapestry, using a 6mm hook)
This might end up being a Christmas present, too… we’ll see!
11 Blankets in 2011
