Captain Hook
April 30th, 2005, 11:07 AM
CANDYSTRIPE HAT & SHORT SCARF SET
This is something, in a fit of selfishness, I put together for myself a while back. It was (obviously) simple - I think I spent almost as much time editing the photo (actually, I just laid them on my scanner) in PSP to erase some of my errors and correct the color as I did on making the hat. Ah, the hazards of being better with your mouse than your hook...
Anyway! I really had fun with this and I'm told they're very cute, mistakes and all, so I thought I'd share. I know it's not the work of a creative genius but I thought someone might like some of my ideas and put them to good use. :)
http://home.earthlink.net/~ladraco/crochet/candystripe.gif
All the Specs You Never Wanted to Know:
The scarf is 9" across and 58" long. Which somehow sounds bigger than it is; it's actually pretty short once you get it on. The hat is 7.5" high with the brim folded up, not including the flower, which really goes directly on top, and 10.75" wide at the brim. The brim is 3.5".
The yarn is just your standard issue Red Heart Super Saver in Burgundy (376) and Soft White (316). There was lots of both 8oz skeins left over. At first I was going to use bright red and pure white, but I decided on slightly more elegant colors. The hook was size I.
Obviously, the hat was worked in the round. I worked only in the back loop, and switched colors for the stripes, which are three dc wide, by stranding. The ribbing on the bottom is alternating dc and FPdc.
The flowers and scarf are pretty straight-forward, I think, and of course consist almost entirely of dcs. The edge on the scarf is one row of sc in soft white and one row of dc in burgundy, worked in rounds.
The Special Detail:
The thing that really makes the scarf fun is how you wear it. I had this idea on my own, though I seriously doubt I'm the first. Still, I've never seen a pattern calling for it, so I thought I'd bring it up.
On one of the stripes, right in the middle, I replaced 3 dc with 3 chs, like with filet, leaving a sizable square hole. I sewed the red flower onto the RS of the corresponding stripe on the other end of the scarf. You fold the scarf in half length-wise and put it around your neck, then open up the ends, and button it under your chin (a few inches down in my case, as I wanted it to be loose) with the flower. I didn't, but one could also stitch or crochet around the hole to reinforce it.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ladraco/crochet/candygram.gif
Okay, I'm done going on and on. I bet you never thought that one person could go on so much about a ridiculously simple hat and scarf set, but the Captain is up to any challenge! :devil
This is something, in a fit of selfishness, I put together for myself a while back. It was (obviously) simple - I think I spent almost as much time editing the photo (actually, I just laid them on my scanner) in PSP to erase some of my errors and correct the color as I did on making the hat. Ah, the hazards of being better with your mouse than your hook...
Anyway! I really had fun with this and I'm told they're very cute, mistakes and all, so I thought I'd share. I know it's not the work of a creative genius but I thought someone might like some of my ideas and put them to good use. :)
http://home.earthlink.net/~ladraco/crochet/candystripe.gif
All the Specs You Never Wanted to Know:
The scarf is 9" across and 58" long. Which somehow sounds bigger than it is; it's actually pretty short once you get it on. The hat is 7.5" high with the brim folded up, not including the flower, which really goes directly on top, and 10.75" wide at the brim. The brim is 3.5".
The yarn is just your standard issue Red Heart Super Saver in Burgundy (376) and Soft White (316). There was lots of both 8oz skeins left over. At first I was going to use bright red and pure white, but I decided on slightly more elegant colors. The hook was size I.
Obviously, the hat was worked in the round. I worked only in the back loop, and switched colors for the stripes, which are three dc wide, by stranding. The ribbing on the bottom is alternating dc and FPdc.
The flowers and scarf are pretty straight-forward, I think, and of course consist almost entirely of dcs. The edge on the scarf is one row of sc in soft white and one row of dc in burgundy, worked in rounds.
The Special Detail:
The thing that really makes the scarf fun is how you wear it. I had this idea on my own, though I seriously doubt I'm the first. Still, I've never seen a pattern calling for it, so I thought I'd bring it up.
On one of the stripes, right in the middle, I replaced 3 dc with 3 chs, like with filet, leaving a sizable square hole. I sewed the red flower onto the RS of the corresponding stripe on the other end of the scarf. You fold the scarf in half length-wise and put it around your neck, then open up the ends, and button it under your chin (a few inches down in my case, as I wanted it to be loose) with the flower. I didn't, but one could also stitch or crochet around the hole to reinforce it.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ladraco/crochet/candygram.gif
Okay, I'm done going on and on. I bet you never thought that one person could go on so much about a ridiculously simple hat and scarf set, but the Captain is up to any challenge! :devil