The Curly Creation....

I finished my second crochet project right before the Christmas holiday. I really enjoyed doing it and was very satisfied with the outcome. My girlfriend went out of town for a couple of days after her graduation and I decided to start her a scarf and have it done by the time she got back. So I really only had 3 days to do it. I NO idea it would actually take the whole 3 days. I was crocheting on lunch breaks, at night until the wee hours of the morning and I even crocheted a bit at the dentist office in the chair! Anyway, I got it done before her plane landed. She loved it.

Over the holidays we went home to visit family and I got so many requests to make these scarves my hand was numb thinking about it. But it was really refreshing and made me feel good to know that people like and enjoyed my work so much that they wanted to wear it. So needless to say, I have about 10 scarves to make! I figure it takes me about 3 ½ days to make one and at least a month in a half to get all of them done. Anyway, I like making people smile. And a couple of those are paying orders. WOW! I’m smiling from ear to ear.

My girlfriend is modeling her new scarf below.

Behold.....A Scarf! My very first project

After a couple of weeks of trying, I have finally finished my very first crochet project. I started off making a purple scarf for myself. When I tell you it was a complete MESS, please believe me! And to think I thought I was doing it right. As I went along with the crooked edges, I was thinking that a trim was supposed to go around the outside of it to straighten them out. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I guess that’s what happens when you teach yourself a craft. It’s all about trial and error. So after working on this scarf for about a week, I decided that it was too hideous for me to look at any longer and no amount of trim would be able to fix it. I unraveled the entire scarf. I even threw away the unraveled yarn. I think I was tired of looking at purple.


So anyway, I started a new scarf, this time for my daughter in green (her favorite color and mine). I watched a couple of YouTube videos before started and realized that I was starting in the wrong stitch as I was turning the chain. The scarf came out pretty even. It took me about 4 days total to make it (I’m a bit slow, but hey I’m a newbie). The extra time also includes the time I spent learning to make a flower. I wanted it to really look like a child’s scarf. Boy oh, oh boy, now that was a task. The lady on the video tutorial made it look so easy. NOT. Well, not yet anyway. Hopefully with time I’ll be able to do it in a jiffy. My first few flowers end up looking like a purple 4 leaf clover. But in the end I prevailed with a nice 5 petal flower. I also added two-color fringe. That was pretty easy.

All in all, I’m proud of myself and my first crocheted item. Now, I must decide what to make next. Decisions, decisions….