Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Linda's Crochet Hat and Scarf

This is a quick set to make, and was all done in single crochet.

Materials

1 skein Plymouth Encore worsted-weight varigated yarn
Size I crochet hook

Time: 4-5 hrs total
Size: Large


Thursday, April 17, 2008

Linda's Knit Ripple Hat - Infant

This fair isle hat is just the right size to keep a baby's head snuggly warm. The hat was knit with a variety of colors of Plymouth Encore DK weight yarn scraps.

Materials

Plymouth Encore DK black and various colors
2 Size 6 circular needles

Size: Infant
Time: 5 hrs

Linda's Knit Beanie and Crocheted Scarf


Another fast and easy duo to use up the rest of this beautiful yarn. The beanis knit in a 2x2 rib and the scarf is crocheted in sc, ch-1 pattern that looks really good in this varigated yarn.

Materials

1 1/2 skeins Plymouth Encore Colorspun 7128
Size 8 circular needle (for hat)
Size I crochet hook (scarf)



Size: Large
Time: 8 hrs / set




See close-up of scarf

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Linda's Cuffed Earflap Knit Hat and Crocheted Scarf


This set is pretty simple and took about a day to complete, start to finish, probably because I cheated and crocheted the scarf.

The hat is a simple 2x2 rib, long enough for a cuff, and I stopped with a lot of stitches to give more fullness in the top and did not require dpns. I knit the two earflaps in moss stitch first, then when once I got to the row where I wanted to add the earflaps, I just knit/purled the earflap stitches together with the hat stitches. I finished the hat with two braided ties and a large pom.

The scarf is long and was done with a sc, ch-1 repeat across, with the next row of sc going in the ch-1 spaces. Very simple and fast and looks great in this awesome varigated yarn.








Materials

1 1/2 skeins Plymouth Encore Colorspun 7128

Size 8 circular needle (for hat)
Size I crochet hook (scarf)

Size: Large
Time: 8 hrs / set

See close-up of scarf

Linda's Vari-striped Baby bBlanket

This blanket was crocheted using the green-blue varicolored Bernat baby yarn. I made each row long enough so that the color change naturally caused vertical striping.

Materials

3 skeins Bernat Baby Coordinates green - blue varigated

Size I crochet hook

Linda's Diagonal Striped Baby Blanket

As baby blankets go, this was pretty fast and very easy. It starts with a ch-3 circle, and increases one stitch on each end every row, with a ch-3 loop to the next row. Once the blanket is half the desired size, decrease one stitch on each end every row with a ch-2 loop to the next row. I finished it with a single-crochet border.

Some of this yarn was graciously donated to the cause via the Yarn Shop in Overland Park, and I got a bit more of the same yarn at Micheals.

Materials

Bernat Baby Coordinates yarn
- 1 skein white
- 1 skein pink
- 1 skein blue
- 1 skein pale yellow

Size I crochet hook