PATTERN LINK POST

PATTERN 1: BLOCK STITCH AND 'V' ST, SCARF PATTERN August 10th 2018

Due to a site copying my complete blog I will no longer be publishing patterns on my blog only links. The title is the link click to find the listed pattern

PATTERN 2: 8' CRESCENT MOON WRAP  August 8th 2018

FAN SHAWL

Rummaging around in my sample boxes again found a half finished Fan Shawl...almost completed it and sharing a few pictures today.

Alize Cotton/acrylic yarn in a shade china blue colour, my favourite colours at the moment, all shades of blue...

sc, dc, front and back post stitch, 

4mm hook

Alize 55% cotton/45% acrylic yarn, this crescent moon shawl measures approx. 6' unblocked and is a symbol of new life, new beginnings....a crescent shawl always hugs your shoulder beautifully.

Quote from The Power of the Crescent Moon

 Crescent Moon should be viewed each month as a potent symbol of where you are giving “birth” to new areas of your life. This is when you welcome your new creation for your life and cradle it to maturity.

GEOMETRY: Moroccan Lantern design

After a couple of days of some crochet I need to change crafts so todays project is the Moroccan Lantern design.
I worked out how to draw this interlocking design in a size i wanted, with the compass and ruler and cut out a template in card

Now i'm cutting dozens out in wallpaper samples to make a patchwork wall of Moroccan Lanterns in lots of different pale grey, white and ochre colours 

 TORUS SQUARE

4 put together to see how they work hex will be next

blocking on the ironing board

Love to make a door fly curtain for the work room..need lots of squares though they aren't quite 6" square might be finished for 2019! lol

BOW STITCH SCARF OR YOU MIGHT KNOW IT AS BUTTERFLY STITCH...

I've been having another look through my samples again and came across this sample of Bow Stitch, using Alize Cotton Gold, click the link to see the colours

bought from my local wool shop 

RKM 

and i've used a 4mm hook...lovely yarn to crochet with it has a tight twist to it almost looking like a crepe yarn

I think the stitch was originally called Bow Stitch, but with all the variations to date, it might have several names.....Butterfly stitch being one of them

This versions to my stitch count has an incorporated side band so you don't need to do a finish band when its completed, 

and I've added a picture or two of the lengthened stitch but sticking to the same stitch count in width

A simple sc, chain stitch can achieve a lovely solid row of ovals, 

using a space dyed yarn it will change colour so easily. With my stitch count version, change the length of the stitches and it opens up and becomes something quite pretty and lacy

My Stitch count is 3ch [side band], 4ch [bow], 2ch [join], repeated with the 3ch [band] at the other end, i've made a sample scarf of 64base ch sts, to make a scarf that is 

approx. 13" [33cms] wide with 10  'Bows'

Solid use sc, ch sts, to make it lacey, lengthen the stitches.