Lilac and Purple Tweed Lacy Crochet Scarf

Carrying on using my 7 year old King Cole Big Value Baby 4ply in shade lilac and again working it with two strands held together, I have made another scarf and I am loving at how relatively quickly this pattern works up. 

Baby 4ply is 100% Acrylic and 100g/400m

The yarn that will I have worked with the lilac is from my recent shopping trip to my local craft shop and is some new King Cole Big Value Tweed DK in shade 3654 - Regal.

This tweed yarn is 98% Acrylic, 2% Viscose and 100g/290m

I also worked this yarn with two strands, which made it a bit thicker than the lilac, but it's fine, it's not overly thick.  I used up all of the lilac and 80g of the tweed.  The overall fibre content for the scarf is now 99% Acrylic, 1% Viscose.

Lilac and Purple Lacy Crochet Scarf

This one is made with some King Cole Big Value Baby 4ply in Lilac that I thought I bought about 2 years ago but it turns out that I actually bought it just over 7 years ago. Oh how Covid has made the years meld into each other.  As this is only 4ply and thin I have had to work it held double.

100g/400m and 100% Acrylic

The other yarn that I used is some new Stylecraft Special Chunky in shade 1840 - Purple and I have used this just as it comes.

100g/144m and 100% Acrylic

On this scarf, I have used all of one ball of the lilac and 73g/105m of the purple. I did take just one photo of this scarf in the making and I posted it to Instagram with the caption of "Work in progress on this Saturday night.... and working on this scarf....".  Then began the onslaught of silly messages asking if this was still available blah blah blah and people asking for my bank details as they have been scammed in the past.  So have I and I don't fall for rubbish like that.  I even had one person offer me £150 for it but as I told them, it won't be that expensive and it will be sent tracked signed and apparently every link to my shop doesn't work so can I provide personal details so they can send money. Erm, no I can't!  No actual money has ever been forthcoming for this item, which they didn't ask a single thing about - size, measurements, fibre content, nothing!  All scammers and spammers. They joys of social media!

How to tie a scarf

I've been making some lacy design scarves lately so I thought it might be a good idea to offer some inspiration on different ways to wear scarves with a step-by-step guide on how to go about achieving each style.

Due to the near constant wet weather in the UK right now, these photos have been taken indoors with artificial light and against a printed fabric backdrop, not my usual outdoors in natural light photos, but they are my own and feature a much used scarf that I made for my husband years ago, so apologies if the scarf looks a bit tatty, it's old and well used but was perfect for the job of demonstration.

Classic Ascot style 

1. Drape the scarf around your neck, leave the scarf dangling down over your left shoulder and take the right side over your right shoulder, across your throat and over your left shoulder towards your back and then across the back of your neck again and over your right shoulder. The two ends of the scarf need to hang at about equal lengths.
   
   
2. Tie a loose simple knot.
   
   
3. Tighten the knot and arrange so that one end of the scarf lays flat on top of the other end. Obviously you can adjust the tightness of it around your neck for comfort.

La Loop

1. Fold the scarf in half and lay it across your shoulders with the loop one side and the scarf ends at the other.
   
   
2. Tuck the ends of the scarf through the loop.
   
   
3. Adjust for comfort and style.

Twist and Shout 

1. A twisted version of La Loop. Fold the scarf in half and twist it before laying it across your shoulders.
   
   
2. Tuck the ends of the scarf through the loop.
   
   
3. Adjust for comfort and style.

Wonder Weave

1. Drape the scarf around your neck with the left side hanging much lower than the right.
   
   
2. Take the long left side of the scarf and loosely wrap it around your neck and back over your left shoulder to hang down the front.
   
   
3. This next step sounds complicated but it isn't really. Looking at the middle photo above, you see the part of the scarf that is lay flat hanging down from your right shoulder, you need to take the left hand part of the scarf that you've just wrapped around your neck underneath that and then over the top of the loop created when you wrapped the scarf around your neck. The right hand part of the scarf will now be laying more to the left and the left hand part will be laying more to the right. See the third photo.
   
   
4. Adjust and tighten for style and comfort. I've added extra photos below to help with clarity of final look.

There are, undoubtedly, many more ways in which to style and wear a scarf and a quick search of the internet will bring you more ideas. Happy hunting.

Sparkly Purple Lacy Crochet Scarf

Now that I have gotten that brown slippery yarn out of the way and made up into a scarf I can get on and enjoy making another one.  Unusually for me, I have some brand new mass produced yarns, only a few balls recently purchased in order to make a hat for my mother-in-law and I gave her a choice of all the yarns and now I can use the other yarns.  

First up is some King Cole Glitz DK in Orion's Amethyst, a dark purple with a multi-coloured pastel metallic thread that is so pretty.  

Orion's Amethyst is 97% Premium Acrylic, 3% Polyester

Because this is quite a thin yarn I have had to work this with two strands held together and the accompanying yarn is some new Stylecraft Special Chunky in shade Proper Purple, which I have worked just as it comes.

Proper Purple is 100% Premium Acrylic

Sirdar Duet Lacy Crochet Scarf

Continuing on with making these lacy crochet scarves I have been summoning up the muster to have yet another go with trying to make something using some Sirdar Duet in Mahogany brown.   I've tried a few different patterns now and it just looks limp and lifeless and I've had to undo everything and try again.  It doesn't look like it but it is actually a worsted weight yarn.

56% Cotton, 44% Nylon

It is really horrible stuff to work with, especially the shiny slippery part of the yarn and it needs to be used in a design that is more structured and sturdy.  I didn't use all of the yarn that I had and I just binned the left overs as they really are not worth worrying about.  I actually have this yarn in three more colours, blue, white and black and the plan is to make more shawls the same as I did years ago, which is actually a pattern specifically for this yarn. 

I had my doubts about this scarf but I persevered and its come out OK despite the fact that it is technically all in one colour.

Aqua and White Lacy Crochet Scarf

I am sticking with this gorgeous scarf pattern but going back to the Vintage aqua blue Luxury Mohair by Chevy that I used to make a broomstick lace scarf and pairing it with some off white Vintage Lister Lee Tahiti.  The overall fibre content shifts slightly to be 79% Mohair, 13% Wool, 8% Nylon.

78% Mohair, 13% Wool, 9% Nylon

81% Mohair (including 9% Kid Mohair), 14% Wool, 5% Nylon

This Lister Lee Tahiti is very nice and I would say that it is the softest Mohair yarn that I have ever worked with so far.  I do have some very well world-wide known Rowan Kidsilk Haze, which is a laceweight Mohair yarn, but I cannot compare it to that as I have never gotten around to using the Rowan yet.  I do have a good amount of vintage Lister Lee Tamarisk, which is kind of a finer version of the Tahiti, so that will interesting when I get around to working that up in the future, and I had to pinch a bit of it for the off-white fringing as I ran out of the Tahiti so had to combine the two for the fringing.  I digress.

So, straight in with the finished product photos.

Summer Berries Lacy Crochet Scarf

I love this crochet scarf pattern so much that I am going to stick with it for a while and make a few of these in different colours.  So, I've picked up the left overs of the Colinette Mohair Summer Berries from the broomstick lace scarf I made and paired it with some vintage Lister Lee Tahiti in a lilac colour, which looks like it will work with the Summer Berries.

78% Mohair, 13% Wool, 9% Nylon

81% Mohair (including 9% Kid Mohair), 14% Wool, 5% Nylon

I've not used the vintage Tahiti before, I have some of this in other colours, and it is very soft, much softer than the Colinette Mohair, probably the Kid Mohair element has something to do with it.  The overall fibre content shifts slightly to be 79% Mohair, 13% Wool, 8% Nylon. With the differences in colour of the Colinette Mohair skeins, due to it being "hand-dyed", I used up some of the darker left overs for the middle section and then switched to the lightest skein for outer edge sections.  This does show up on the scarf and gives and interesting effect.

Once again, no work-in-progress photos, so straight to the finished product.

Storm and White Lacy Crochet Scarf

Carrying on with scarf making but switching to a different pattern.  I already had some old, but not yet vintage, Jarol Rambler Aran in white in my stash and I had recently gone to my local craft shop to find something use with it and purchased some Stylecraft Special Aran in shade Storm Blue.  Both yarns are 100% Acrylic.

This one is worked sideways from the centre working outwards then re-join on the other side of the centre chain and work the other side.  Interesting construction which is a little fiddly to begin with but once you have one row worked on either side of the chain it is easy.

No work-in-progress photos so straight to the finished item.

Cosmic Broomstick Lace Scarf

This time I am using some yarn that I bought recently from a visit to my local craft shop and I saw this and could not resist the colours.  King Cole Riot Chunky in shade "Cosmic" and I used both skeins but I did have to colour match the join from 1st to 2nd skein as it didn't flow but then I used the length removed at the start to add to the end.  

Because this yarn is thicker I only used 6 pattern repeats across the row instead of the usual 8 and then I done 142 rows instead of 118 to use up the yarn and also so that both ends of the scarf were the same colours.   The yarn is 70% Premium Acrylic, 30% Wool. 

Summer Berries Broomstick Lace Scarf

I have a couple of skeins/part used hand-wound balls of Colinette Mohair in shade Summer Berries.  I wound them into cakes, when it then became obvious that there was a lot of difference between the skeins.  This is normal and expected with Colinette yarns and there are even instructions on the band that states this fact and to alternate between two or more skeins when working with them.  One is very very light, one is dark and then the part skein is even darker than the second one!    

The pattern that I am working has a standard length of 118 rows, which is what I worked.  I worked only with the two darkest skeins and alternated between them every two pattern repeats. The yarn is 78% Mohair, 13% Wool, 9% Nylon

I didn't take any work-in-progress photos but I did hold it up against the light for an interesting stained glass effect.