Crochet for Pay

These were made for people who offered to pay for my work. They're my first commissioned pieces of work! Colors and patterns were chosen by the customers.


Puff stitch slouch cap with a simple edging at the rim


This should be very familiar-- it is a copy of one of the first broomstick lace scarves I ever made. This look is pretty popular and I'm glad because I've been getting faster at making them!

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Love for my Roommates

Here are the scarves I crocheted for my roommates over this past Winter Break. I had done so much work related to art and sculpture the past quarter that I just wanted to get back to doing more practical projects. Oh, and of course, I wanted to give my roommates some gifts to celebrate the holidays!


This particular scarf uses the same pattern I had in the scarves I previously posted, but adds some fringe and a few inches of length. I love using this stitch because it's quick and easy and at the same time has such beautiful results! I'm glad Jane chose a beautiful shade of dark brown. Unfortunately, the pictures don't do justice to the richness of the color.


Next, Lindsey's scarf uses the puff stitch, which creates thickness, warmth, and texture in a scarf that otherwise would have been too thin to provide any protection from the cold (I know, I know, where's the need for a scarf in sunny San Diego? Well, it gets windy sometimes...). I used three colors which I alternated and varied so that each block of color would be shorter in length as they got closer to the ends of the scarf. I tried to take into account the different autumn and summer colors that Lindsey tends to wear in her everyday wardrobe, complimenting it with a little bit of brightness in the Salmon-like color.


Finally, for Karishma's incredibly long scarf, I utilized her favorite color and made up a pattern inspired by one of Natalie's scarves. Natalie's had 2 rows of simple flowers set on a background of crocheted mesh and outlined with 2 more rows of double crochet (in other words, a thick solid band). I simplified Karishma's scarf by using one row of similarly made flowers, keeping the mesh background, and outlining it with a thin band instead. I think the result is a scarf that looks pretty different, but at the same time retains the qualities of something that looks delicately made.

Writing this blog post felt as if I were writing descriptions for products for a catalog, but I really didn't know any other way to do it, so thanks for being interested if you were! It's been a while and I'm slow with posting, so I might make another post on some other projects I worked on during the break. Stay tuned, 9 followers! Hahaha

Happy New Year,
Dada

Broomstick Lace all over the place

Hah I feel so clever about the title of this post. I'm actually just exhausted from an amazing weekend playing at (and winning!) an ultimate frisbee tournament. Love my teammates.

Anyway, I made these scarves using the "broomstick lace" stitch I learned off good ol' youtube (another one of my loves). I started with the white one as a project for my a project for myself, but ended up making the purple-ish one for my mama and the other 2 for my best friends from high school. I miss them both dearly and they now go to school in Chicago and Washington, D.C., so I wanted to give them something that would keep them warm and thinking of home.