Pattern: Anne by Mk Carroll
Yarn: Araucunia Ranco Multy
Size: Until it was long enough
Yardage: About half the skein (~170 m)
Hook: 3.75 mm wood
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This is my very first ever finished crochet project! So exciting ... and pretty. I love the way the pattern works with the short colour repeats in the yarn. This is birthday yarn from last year (thanks Joyce) and is delicious to work with. So soft and so colourful but still kind of muted and quiet. This was one of those projects where I was constantly finding a new favourite colour: now it's the bright peacock blue, next the mauvy purple, then I find the most exquisite pale green ... and I've still got half the skin left for another project.


The pattern is very simple - I had it memorized by the second repeat - and it goes very quickly. I had trouble understanding the diagrams in the pattern - part of it just seemed backward to me - but the text was great. Since it was a scarf I didn't need to worry about gauge either, as long as I like what I was getting it was perfect. This was my carry-around project for the past while and I kind of miss it. Crochet has such nice rhythms to it.


Please ignore that mess behind me. My studio is a bit chaotic at the moment.

I've started a new portable project. This is the Anne scarf by MK Caroll. I saw the one made by Hello Yarn a while ago and thought it was very pretty. My other crochet project is stalled due to a lack of yarn and I wanted to keep in practice. I really like the curvy nubby look of this pattern. I was originally planning to use some handspun for this, to get those quick colour changes, but I didn't have anything that suited the project. This is birthday yarn from last year (thanks Joyce) and it is looking great. The colour blocks are really short so everything gets beautifully mixed together.

The pattern is really easy. By the time I was doing the third motif I wasn't having to check the instructions anymore and I can just pick it up and do a few stitches whenever I think of it. It's going pretty quickly too.

Why a new portable project? Didn't I already have one of those? Yeah ... Ummm ... I left my sock bag on the couch on Monday night (I was tired and in a rush to go out again). When I got home Rob was trying to find me replacement yarn ... Abby had pulled the whole of the remaining ball apart and eaten the needles (oddly enough most of the sock is still intact I just don't have any usable yarn or anything to knit it with). We figure she actually consumed about three inches of bamboo.

This is the little blanket Jane got me started on to learn crochet. I've been working on it pretty steadily for the past while; it's been my portable project since I finished Rob's socks. But now, with nine squares done and eleven to go, I've run out of yarn and have to wait until I can get some more.