Bollywood – bamboo and cotton knit scarf with sequin yarn (includes pattern)
Bollywood - magenta cotton and bamboo scarf with sequins
This knit scarf is made from three strands of yarn: two are bamboo/cotton (60%/40%), and one is a sassy polyester, sequined number!
The colour is a deep magenta and the effect is razzle dazzle. I’ve crocheted some rosettes for each ent to finish it off. Originally it had crochet ‘arm’ tassles with baubles at the end, but they looked a bit odd. The rosettes work much better.
There are more pictures on my esty site.
How to make it:
You’ll need: Three balls of yarn, each allowing at least 100 metres. (Use two threads of the same yarn, then add a bit of bling yarn as the third. ) Note: I used three balls on this. 100 m of sequin yarn; 260 metres of cotton/bamboo, with a tiny bit left over.
How it’s done – scarf :
- Cast 14 stitches onto approx. 13 mm needles.
- Knit plain rows until you run out of wool! (Though leave a ball aside for the rosettes.)
The rosettes:
Bollywood scarf rosettes up close
- Using your doubled-up yarn and a hook that feels about right for the ply (perhaps 5 mm), chain 23 stitches.
- Turn, skip a stitch, then double crochet (Australian/UK DC) into each stitch to the end (22 DC).
- Cut the yarn and sew ends in.
- Sew the strands of crochet into rosettes by twisting them around themselves from one end, and securing with a couple of stitches.
- Sew rosettes to scarf. Note both sets need to be on the same side of the scarf.
Of course my Siamese, Peabody Wiggle, is way too interested in this number due to the high natural fibre content.
Bollywood scarf with keen Siamese cat, Peabody Wiggle
Blue mohair crochet scarf with felted coloured circles
Take a look at my new scarf! Like it?
I took three days’ annual leave this week, because my niece turned 8 and I took her to lunch, and the weather in Melbourne has turned from searing to pleasantly mild. Having said that, there was a wind storm on day two that was strong enough to knock out the power for a few hours.
That didn’t concern me, however. I gathered kitties three in and got out my non-electric crochet to finish the latest scarf, pictured.
I enjoyed crocheting, watching the trees do crazy dances in the wild wind and keeping Peabody Wiggle, my Siamese, away from the Merino wool. Later I found a lump of pink Merino and it was soggy, so his wool-watching vigil was a great success.
Now I’ve moved on to making a butter yellow crochet scarf, which has hand-felted coloured circles, making it look a little like a FrootieLoops surprise. I didn’t like it that much at first but yesterday after I added the felt it’s become my new favourite. It’ll be the next post.
Hope your day is filled with creative thoughts and actions!
Peabody & FrouFrou (aka Siamese & wool)
FrouFrou is made from pink & orange mohair. She’s soft as a bunny and has her stage gear trim on.
Peabody is her biggest admirer, for all the wrong reasons.
The inspiration for Frou came from my friend Helen’s, Laura Ashleigh cardie. It’s mohair with ribbon trim finish and looks smashing on.
While Frou (let’s call her W) was simple to knit, I did encounter problems keeping her from her special best friend: a Siamese called Peabody (let’s call him S).
You know the drill: It just is that S ♥ W.
If S gets really quiet, I can bet he’s opened the cupboard that houses the special felt toys, or he’s found my unfinished, dry-felted curtain and has taken it to his lair. It’s not uncommon for him to string my knitting in progress around the house in five seconds flat. Sometimes it seriously looks like CSI tape by the time he’s done.
Recently he took off with a brand new ball of plum-coloured mohair. He turned it into his own style of knitting by undertaking the following moves: crocodile roll, kick kick kick, bite bite.
I wrongly thought that by letting him have his own project, he would leave mine alone.
So Frou’s done extremely well to survive to photograph stage, though there were a couple of close calls. I chopped out more than one round of kittyknitting from the skeins, after having turned my back for oh so short a time!
Housework vs creativity
It’s Sunday, and a gorgeous 17 degrees here in Healesville. My Siamese, Peabody, just brought in a tail-less lizard that’s still alive.
Bring on the smoke & mirrors: cat food in front of cat, dustpan and broom in front of lizard, quick skip to the garden with lizard, which is, thankfully, unpunctured and now free.
Peabody is a Siamese bought from a pet shop. He has a Siamese head but the fluff of another breed – a squirrel perhaps – and the body of a vegetable: sweet potato comes to mind.
He has Siamese fetching characteristics and I’m teaching him to dance (well, maybe he thinks I’m teaching him to attack). He has the high mew of a kitten and not that lovely Gang Gang cockatoo croak (though on occasion he seems to find this sound).
How does this relate to ‘housework vs creativity?’. Well, housework doesn’t move me very much and it brings on a bad case of the procrastinations. But chores need to be done, so I’ll ring fence my wayfaring with a to do list:
- mop floors
- have lunch with ex boyfriend
- clean up work email
- knit (ooh, it’s trying to wriggle out of fourth position)
- make dinner
- take a walk
- write a blog before turning in.
I’d better go before my ex comes and he finds me typing and the floors are still covered in fluff bunnies and I’m in my dressing gown and there’s no lunch and no knitting….
Ah, there’s the motivation…
