Moebius Lace Scarf
I'm making a moebius shawl/scarf for a friend and am coming to the realisation that it's just taking me w-a-y too long! I'm using a merino lace, very fine, and I'm only working rounds of single crochet. It's about 6" wide now, but I'd like it to be around 15" once finished. I'd like to switch to an other stitch, but I can't decide what. I've tried doing HDC or DC for a few stitches, but it just doen't look good. It would need to be some simple pattern, something that works up fast...
Can anyone help me?
I'll try to post a picture of where I'm at tomorrow...
Triple crochet, US style, X-stitches? Above and below a row of hdc puff sts? Some of the flower-like sts from Chanson en Crochet?
Pauline
You've helped me all day!!! Thanks. I'm looking at X-stitches, but I'll probably do Triple crochet, with the HDC Puff sts too...
Thank you thank you
Sanity, Sanity, Sanity
Remembered from a book of crochet patterns for the home. The most inspired was a round tablecloth worked in size 5? thread with a fat F or G hook. I recall she/they used lots of X-stitches and HDCs, simple but effective.
X-stitch may be the wrong name. There is the stitch where you reach out 2 or 3 stitches beyond where the head of the stitch is to make a slanting double or treble or larger, then chain 2 or 3 and make another long stitch reaching back to under where the slanted stitch started. You get two crossing stitches that are not connected to each other.
Then there is the stitch that starts as a double treble or more, lots of yo's before inserting the hook into the fabric and drawing up a loop, work off half the loops on the hook, make a few more yo's, reach forward and draw up a loop, work those yo's and the initial yo's off until you have a lambda or an X with two legs but only one arm, chain a few, yo's again and reach back to the middle of the unfinished X, insert hook, and work off the yo's. This completes the missing arm. Follow all that? I think this more complex X is what the book used.
THanks again Pauline
I started a row of Treble crochet last night, and fell asleep on it, litterally! I'm very busy with work and people coming over for a couple days, I'll have to put my crochet aside... Can't wait to pick it back up. I'll try the X stitch, but I'm feeling a bit comfused right now... I'll have to try it with your instructions and I'll let you know how it's going!
Ok, here's a few pictures of where I'm at now. Didn't even go all the
way around with the first row of TC yet... Once that row is finished,
I'm still not sure what I'll do. As one of the pictures shows, the
first row (running down the middle) is full of holes... It was the
first time I started a project with a foundationless DC strip, I didn't
really know what I was doing and the tension was very uneven, so, doing
some rows or TC and something else will, I hope, help to make this
first row LOOK like that's what I actually wanted in the first place...
Unless I find a way to run something over it later on. I don't know
yet.
Anyone has an idea as to what I should do for the next row? I'm tempted
to try the X-stitch that Pauline mentionned.
AAARRRGGGNNNN... the stupid pictures don't seem to want to upload. Here are the URL:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2307/2075383387_4bb6fe31a8.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2380/2075382975_62345b867b.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/2076168658_daca5185b5.jpg?v=0
it's totally gorgeous!! I love it.
sorry i'm no help but plenty of admoration. It'll look ghreat when completed.
Kath