MIXING YOUR OWN TWEED YARNS....

Do you, like me, love all the tweedy and blended yarns?

But find the cost puts you off?

Most of us have an odd ball of random dyed sock yarn in the stash some where and l'm sure we all have just a few ball ends of plain acrylic or wool colours?

For this collar l mixed a fine sock yarn together with random stripes of Stylecraft acrylic in several colours and a 4.5mm hook 

I started with 70 chain as a base and decreased when l thought it needed it to make a collar shape

then added a shell stitch to the curved edge and added a couple of DC rows to give the wavy edge

added a soft crochet button and a loop 

But decided it looked better as a tight collar so l will add a button to fasten it when l find the right one

and think it give a very good but low cost version of the more expensive tweedy yarns available
update on Pattern notes: 4.5 mm hook, chain 70 to start

All made in SC and l use US terminology makes more sense to me than UK terms lol

Decrease one stitch at the beginning of every row until you have about 45 stitches left, changing your plain coloured yarns in a random combination

I did 4 orange red, 2 orange, 4 pink red, 2 red pink, 2 plum, 2 red pink, 2 plum, 2 pink red, 2 orange,3 pink red...25 rows

My new Freeform circle cowl

Using the same tweedy blend of sock yarn and a deep pinky red l made several different shaped circles in a variety of combinations
 Joining them together as l made a few but trying it on all the time
Adding the right size circle into the right space as l went,
Edging it with a blend of plum and sock yarn and a single row of SC

It is quite shaped and sits perfectly on my shoulders with a slight dip at the front all joined together with SC all made with a 4mm hook

Red is really hard to photograph l find so i hope you can see the detail ok?

SIMPLE CHUNKY MESS STITCH

Again using a beige random dyed sock yarn and plain Stylecraft Acrylic in cream, beige, tan and brown

ROW 1 chainless foundation 

ROW 2: 2DC 2 Chain 2DC 2 chain turn

ROW 3: SC in every stitch turn

ROW 4: repeat row 2 making sure the 2DC is exactly above making a square pattern

Tomorrow l hope to show you the next stage in THE PROMISE No.1

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs

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