Crochet-a-Day Challenge: Day 23

Day 23: Make something using Tunisian crochet

Tunisian crochet (also known as afghan crochet) is where you pick up loops and leave them on the hook and then come back and work the hoops off your hook. It requires a longer crochet hook or any hook without a finger rest. You can also create something very similar to knitting with the Tunisian knit stitch or Tunisian purl stitch.  It will look like knitting on the front, but the back will look different and, as usual for crochet, the work will be thicker.

I found a Ravelry pattern for Tunisian fingerless gloves. I ended up not having enough yarn for two and I made it too small…so if anyone knows of a kid who wants just one glove, yeah, I can hook them up.

I also played around with the leftover yarn and made a rather unappealing headband, but it looks good when worn! I intend to someday embroider on the headband as Tunisian leaves a nice counted cross-stitch type surface, but as you saw with the amigurumi post, I stink at embroidery.

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Crochet-a-Day Challenge: Day 20

Day 20: Try Finger Crochet

AND, here’s another “yep, I tried it.” They invented hooks for a reason, haha. For tutorials on how to do it, check out YouTube

2 homespuns (supposedly same dye lot, HAH!) & a boucle

 

Working it

Benjamin helped me with a few stitches

Getting longer, kids scarf maybe?

 I was also able to finish up the fingerless mitts for my booth neighbor Cheryl. My mother-in-law found her website!

Gloves for my booth neighbor Cheryl

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Crochet-a-Day Challenge: Day 18

Day 18: Create a set of fingerless mitts or gloves

 

 

 

I LOVE these fingerless mitts! This cabled pattern is from a Crochet Today magazine. I made many of these last Christmas for my sisters-in-law (2 + 2 futures!). This yarn is handspun wool, probably goat or alpaca. It came from Jackls’ Whataview Farm in Wisconsin. The farm is owned by some of my uncle’s family.

 

I had some extra so I made a headwarmer/scarf. But I ran out! So I filled in with some Stitch Nation Alpaca Love.

 

 

 

The goods are modeled on my mom’s excellent idea for displaying my stuff at craft shows! I will pain the peg board and my husband will make it stand up on its own somehow. It’s brilliant!

 

 

I’ll be making another set of these gloves very soon. I met a sweet woman named Cheryl at the craft show over the weekend. She occupied the booth next to me and sold soaps, lip balms, lotions, etc. She sent me some yarn, which is also handspun, to make her some fingerless mitts.

 

 

 

 

 

I had admired her kudzu baskets. (Ingenious!!) She was kind enough to give me one. She was a very sweet lady!

 

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Crochet-a-Day Challenge: Day 9

Day 9: Dishcloth Design – Cables

I can see what you are thinking. This is NOT a dishcloth! (And I also did not make this yesterday. I think I made it about a year ago.) So I’m cheating a bit again.  I did attempt a cabled dishcloth, but really it is not suitable to do it for a dishcloth because the result is way too bulky. I thought I would show you that it is indeed possible to create cables with crochet using post stitches–skipping over stitches and then going back to work the skipped stitches. To make the image really pop, the stitches of the cable are front post stitches and the stitches in between are back post stitches.

These fingerless mitts also use a cable technique. Here, I have crocheted the skipped stitches with a different color. I did not end off the yarn but carried it through on the back side.

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