My latest scrumble has been made from quite a variety of different yarns, nearly all of which were man-made!...but there is a little wool, mohair and a soy/wool mix in there as well, to add a bit of stability between the synthetic fibres.
This one has plenty sparkle and soft texture in purples, pinks and greens....worked mostly as crochet circles (or part circles), plus a few sections of knitting, some done in stripes.
I crocheted from the wrong side and around the posts of the stitches when working the outside rounds of the double circles. This was because I wanted the centre rounds to stand out on the surface.
A lot of the crocheting was intentionally done from the wrong side of the patch, so that the fluffy and textured yarns could 'bloom' naturally towards the front of the piece.
As usual, the entire scrumble was made without any sewing. Each area was either worked directly onto an edge, or (in the case of the full circles and the spiral), were slip-stitched into place once the motif was finished (using a crochet hook and working the slip stitches from the wrong side). A few areas that were looking a little plain or flat were further embellished with crochet slip stitches on the surface, to complete the piece.
I just noticed that the number of followers here had passed the 500 mark - hope you are all getting the chance to experiment too, and having fun with your crochet and knitting!! Let me know what you have been up to ;-)
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Beautiful!
ReplyDeletethanks Janet
DeleteAdorable !
ReplyDeletethank you Anneliese
DeleteNice! How do You use your scrumbles? I have so many unfinished scrumbles ( pictures in my blog Sipsan silmut, http://sipsansilmut.blogspot.com/ ,only in finnish, sorry) and wonder what to do with them.. I begin enthusiastic with some colours and think to do a vest, but then find them boring and begin another.. :)
ReplyDeleteBest wishes from this frozen land!
sirpa/sipsa
Hi Sipsa,
DeleteAll of the scrumbles shown here have been created just for the blog. They haven't been made with the intention of ultimately becoming part of a larger project.
But most of my other scrumbles are joined together to create vests, jackets, coats and shawls. For the garments, I create a lot of scrumbles in colours that will go together well, and with a drape that will suit the garment - so I make fairly solid and dense scrumbles for the jackets and coats (so that they won't stretch out of shape when worn), but much looser and more flowing scrumbles if I am making a shawl or wrap.
You can see many of my finished pieces in the 'garments' section at my website - http://www.knotjustknitting.com/gallery-prudence-mapstone.html
I took a look at your blog. I really love the brown, lichen-like scrumble. I am co-ordinating a 'coathanger' exhibition this year, here in Australia - you could sent it...it would fit in really well!!
The miraculous scrumbles!
ReplyDeletehehehe, thank you Tatiana :-)
DeleteYou are the queen of freeform!
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All that you make is so beautiful ! and every time you change the colours it makes something so different but always marvellous !
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You commented that, as usual, you did no sewing on this scrumble. Is that a "rule" that you follow? Is it a purity issue--to make sure it is all crochet? I like to stitch, so that doesn't work for me.
ReplyDeleteHi Carol, I set myself no rules, and I certainly don't want to set any for others; I just like to work in the way that is most manageable for me.
DeletePeople often ask me if I have stitches thousands of tiny pieces together, and I don't because I would find that very time consuming; but it would also be more difficult to create a very large piece by joining on all of the time.
So I usually strike a happy medium; joining for a while, but then eventually stitching the pieces together to create garments like those shown in the second gallery slide show at
http://knotjustknitting.com/gallery-prudence-mapstone.html.
But when I created each of the scrumbles for this blog, I made them in one piece, with no sewing, and as 'stand alone' pieces that weren't intended to be joined together for any specific purpose.