Sunday, May 10, 2009

20th week


This week's scrumble is all in crochet, and I'm again playing at bullion spirals. The pink one in the centre was done using 3 different pink yarns; the base was made by working a 2 colour spiral made up of tr (US dc) in a thin wool boucle and bullions in a thicker wool crepe, all stitches worked into the back loops only of the stitches in the previous round. The front loops were then embellished with sl sts in a shiny, variegated pink rayon ribbon yarn.

The purple double circle (which alternates bullions with tr in the outer round) was attached to the edge of the spiral using a few crochet slip stitches (this slightly distorted the spiral's shape). Then more random crochet was added around the central motifs - I used a bit of cotton, some wool, a soft looped mohair and some dark green manmade sparkle, but mostly it was with a handspun recycled rayon-mix yarn from Nepal.

The yellows in the variegated looped mohair actually blend in better 'in the flesh' than they appear to do in the photo.

3 comments:

  1. I've been getting stuck making scrumbles beyond the initial motif. Thanks for writing about you add things together -maybe this week I will be inspired to try some more!

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  2. I love all the scrumbles - would love to make some if my crochet ever gets beyond a chain! Connie.

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  3. Hello Prudence,

    This is beautiful! Just wanted to pop in and say hello. I've been busy moving and have not crocheted in a few months..yikes!!! NOT GOOD..LOL

    I love looking at your weekly scrumbles...hope you do this every year!

    Stephanie

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