I have been busily working on my lovely crochet scarf. I definitely made some changes to the pattern. I was planning on more of a stole but realized even with 400+ yards that I wouldn’t have enough yarn. I actually worked through about half the ball before and realized how much yarn I was using ……Damn!!!! Back to the drawing board. I decided to use the pattern and go for more a scarf instead of a wrap/stole. So I halved the amount of starting chain stitches (44) and went with it. I noticed that my sides were shrinking……..rippp it ….start again……. count stitches carefully…… repeat 10 more times. By the time I had restarted this project around 11 times. I decided I needed another stitch pattern.
Old Pattern
close-up of wrap pattern
New pattern close-up
I started the new stitch pattern as it was a mutiple of 3, I thought I would just reduce my stitches about to the correct which would be 43 stitches. Using the new stitch pattern caused the size of the scarf to expand lengthwise it huge and I was using more yarn again. So I set to shrinking the size again. After restarting again (and again) at 36,30,24, and finally, 21 where the width was just right for a pretty summer scarf.
As I mentioned before I’m working from the middle to the end to make sure the ends of my scarf match. I’ve finished the first half and added this gorgeous edging. I’m a bit nervous about grafting the two sides together as my skills are lacking in that area. <sigh> The more I do it the better I’ll get.
close-up of edging
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