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Inspired by a walk through the woods on a chilly fall day, the Woodland Mitts will keep your hands warm while evoking the crunch of leaves underfoot, the organic texture of tree bark, and the wooly warmth of the animals ready for a long-winter nap.
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Reminiscent of cornfields ready for harvest, parallel ridges run the length of this cowl, narrowing as they flow across the back neck for effortless styling – no primping needed!
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Thrumming is a technique, more common in knitting, in which bits of un-spun fleece are incorporated into your project every couple of stitches as you are crocheting. This creates a fluffy, incredibly warm lining on the inside of your project, as well as cute little hearts that decorate the outside. This method of thrumming is developed specifically for use with single crochet stitches, and although it takes a bit of extra time to add the thrums, it is so worth it!
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How do you deal with yarn that is splitty. I bought some where I love the colour, but It splits and I find it very off putting. (Motherwell, Scotland.)
Hello Michelle!
I have two suggestions for dealing with a splitty yarn. The first is to try a different hook. Depending on the way you crochet and why the yarn is splitting, you may find it easier to deal with if you use a hook with a differently shaped tip. For me personally, I prefer using a clover amour hook because the tip glides through between the strands of yarn usually without splitting the strands. If you normally use a tapered hook (like a Boye hook) you might try an in-line hook like a Bates hook. The Clover Amour hooks that I use are kind of in-between these two styles, and for some reason they work really well for my style of crocheting. Everyone crochets a bit differently though, so you might need to experiment.
The other suggestion that I have is this: if your yarn came in a hank form and you wound it into a cake, you could try re-winding the yarn (from the center of the cake) into a new cake of yarn. Sometimes when we wind our yarn it un-twists, causing the plys to come apart. This can be counteracted by winding again in the opposite direction.
I hope this helps!
Brenda
Creative Crochet Corner
He from NC
With multicolored yarns with vera gated colors how do you coordinate your project so that you have the same color on one line
With multicolored yarns with vera gated colors how do you coordinate your project so that you have the same color on one line Do you cut the different colors and ball them
Hello Jeanettea! This is a great question! You can color-control the rows of you have long enough sections of color, but to me it is easier to buy solid colored yarn in several coordinating colors instead of using a self-striping yarn. For this shawl, I just decided to not care where the color changes occurred- and just let it stripe naturally. This is why the stitch pattern is so important for a self striping yarn- it has to be dominant enough that your eye is still drawn to the stitches themselves and not just the colors! Usually I do not like to design with self striping yarns when working in lace, or cables or anything with texture because I feel as though I need to control the color changes. This is just personal preference though!
Brenda
Creative Crochet Corner
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