Showing posts with label Scarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scarf. Show all posts

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Cat in the Hat Themed Scarf

Another of the Cat in the Hat themed gifts for my son's teacher, a scarf....

(find my original post about these gifts here)




Scarf
(originally found here, but edited it to make more sense)
Use a size I hook and size 4 worsted yarn in Red & White

Chain 20
Row 1 (in White): SC in third chain from hook, (chain 1, skip 1, SC in next) repeat across row, chain 2 (counts as ch-space here and throughout), turn, (10 SC)
Row 2 (in White):  (SC in next ch-space, chain 1) repeat across row, SC in last ch-space (10 SC)
(Carry over you yarn when doing color changes, don't worry about cutting off and weaving in every time.)
Row 3 (in Red): Chain 2, turn, (SC in next ch-space, chain 1) repeat across row, SC in last ch-space (10 SC)
Row 4 (in Red): Chain 2, turn, (SC in next ch-space, chain 1) repeat across row, SC in last ch-space (10 SC)
Row 5-End: Repeat Rows 3-4, alternating colors every 2 rows until piece measures 60” long, end with 2 rows of White.
Finish off.




Fringe
Use size 4 worsted yarn in Blue (I used Simply Caron's Blue Mint because it looked the most Seuss-ish)

Cut four 8" lengths of yarn, line them up and fold over to find the middle. Grab your hook and insert it into the space between SC stitches on the bottom of the scarf, pull a loop through of the blue (at that middle point of your blue pieces). This will leave you with a loop of blue on one side and the 8 ends of blue on the other side. Now you'll need to use two fingers and put through the loop, grab the 8 ends & pull them all through the loop. Pull tight so that this does not unravel. You will do 8 of these on each end.








******Credit is given where due, I don't claim any patterns to be mine that are not*****

Teacher Appreciation: Dr Seuss Gift Basket

My son just started school last week for the first time! Well, while meeting his teacher, I realized that her room is HEAVILY decorated in a Dr Seuss theme. I decided to make her a few gifts in appreciation for what she does as a teacher (since their jobs are so thankless), and decided on a Cat in the Hat theme. So, these are what I came up with (the book is just for the photo, I didn't get that for her)....







I found a few patterns online and edited/merged them to make (from left to right, top to bottom in picture) a cup cozy, a bookmark, a coaster, and a scarf.


Here are my posts on the individual items:



Enjoy the patterns!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Beginning Something New

I haven't been on here for quite some time, but I wanted to start back up again. Especially since I found a new hobby....crocheting. It's become so popular lately (not only among older people, lol), it's definitely coming back. So, anyway, I'd been wanting to try it; and on a trip to Walmart I found a kit for super cheap, I Taught Myself to Crochet. And, I got started on it. It came so easy to me, and once I started I couldn't stop. So, the first thing I did that very next day, once I got the stitches down, was to make a simple rectangle of afghan stitches to make my son two bracelets...
 
 
And then, using the pattern in that book for the Ruffled Skinny Scarf (since I paid for the book I won't post the pattern for free on here, sorry), I made a scarf for my mother (which my son wanted to model)....
 
 
And, that was the beginning of my crocheting adventure!!!