Pattern : Visage lace beret
Designer : Kristin Omdahl
Published in : Crochet so fine
Yarn : something ‘confetti’, reds (thicker than pattern calls for)
Hooks : f (much bigger than pattern calls for)
Link to Ravelry project page
Comment : While making this hat I kept coming to see finished projects of the pattern & reading about how small it was. I never managed to get gauge, but I went all the way up to an f hook and the hat is PERFECT.
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Pattern : Nina’s beaded scarf
Designer : Lana Holden
Published in : Interweave crochet, accessories 2010
Yarn : Bernat cool crochet, blue
Hooks : G
Link to Ravelry project page
Comment : Didn’t a)feel like b)have beads for this, but I think it’s almost as pretty as the magazine version. This particular colour of the cool crochet yarns is very awesome.
The sc rows are long and tedious, but that’s just a product of that stitch repeated 400 times… otherwise the scarf kept me interested enough to care, but not so difficult that I couldn’t crochet in the car.
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ETA, 2 more bracelets (the dark turquoise one being for my friend Tori).
Pattern:dew drop bracelet
Designer: Brenda K. B. Anderson
Yarn: bernat baby softee
Hooks: 2.50
Link to Ravelry project page
Notes :
First completed project using beads. Super simple & quick. Love love love. Munchkin quickly took this one from me, but I’m already working on a second one. I’m using scrap yarn and beads, but I’m seeing other – better – combinations in my head. Very quick gift idea for those unselfish crocheters out there.
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Pattern:silvana wrap
Designer: Gabriela Ordenes
Yarn: bernat cool crochet
Hooks: H
Link to Ravelry project page
Notes :
This one time, when I’d just started crocheting, there was a sale on bernat cool crochet at one or another of the craft stores I buy yarn at resulting in a LOT of this brown that I don’t like as much as I may have thought I would. The wrap looks better live than in pics – which is so ofter the case. This is another pattern I volunteered to test for the designer.
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Pattern:cascading stylish shawl
Designer: michelle b.
Yarn: bernat softee baby
Hooks: g
Link to Ravelry project page
Notes :
In my quest to get rid of the random yarn stash, I volunteered to test this pattern for michelle b. the pattern is really quite pretty and works up quickly. the 8 row repeat is easily remembered but doesn’t become boring.
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