To begin, I will start with some projects made a few months ago, and once I catch up with them all, I will then start to post my projects as they are made. Between the months of February and June of 2019, I have been doing a lot of crocheting. Since I had not done a whole lot of it for quite a few years, a perfect opportunity presented itself while I was in Calgary, between February and June of this year. A group of women were knitting or crocheting scarves for the homeless and needy of the city. Unfortunately, I did not get photos of a couple of the scarves I made before handing them in to the project manager of our group.
My daughter and I decided to participate, and I had such fun doing it and getting back into the crochet groove! Dana, who I share the paper crafting blog with, also wanted to get into crocheting, so I was able to refresh her memory as she had self-taught herself. She is doing great!
Since my Mom had passed away 3 years ago, I inherited all of the yarn she had, and some of it was ends of skeins and leftovers form her projects. Some of her yarn were for projects she had never gotten around to. One of my sisters loves to knit, and she gave me about a 1/4 of her yarn collection too! So thus far I have not had to spend much on yarn for the projects I have been doing.
I started off using the remnants of passed projects from Mom's yarn collection in making these scarves, and some of the colours combinations may not be ideal, but the scarves are made with care and will serve their purpose in keeping people warm.
Here you can see an unusual colour combination for a scarf...a burnt orange, gold, and a shade of pink or rose. You can also see all the little skein ends left over and rolled into balls.
I was thinking of using just the two fall colours instead of including the pink/rose, but I did not know if I would have enough to make a scarf with, therefore the need for a third colour, and the best one to go with the two.
I used the 'Check' stitch for the one you see in the carry-all.
Here are some more photos. (the colour did not come out too well for the photo below)
The next scarf I crocheted, uses the 'Basket Weave' stitch. I really had fun with this one, and I could see my old crochet skills coming back with this next scarf. Not so many mistakes, a more even tension throughout, and straighter edges.
I chose three colours again for this scarf, and am glad that they matched better. The yarn was in three larger leftover balls and I decided not to do anything special in mixing the colours, but rather just use up each one in turn.
Here you see the two scarves together.
While they may not be as long as people like their scarves today, they do wrap around the neck, or over the head, and fit into a coat or jacket enough to keep warm.
I had made three more scarves besides these two, but never got photos taken of them before I handed them in as we left Calgary in June.
What I would like to do is to encourage you to participate in knitting or crocheting scarves for the homeless and needy in your area. It is such a joyful thing to do, and you can practice some of these stitches you have wanted to try out. I just know that I had so much fun doing this, and am looking into doing it here in Lethbridge now.
After talking about my Mom today, I am thinking I will create a post one day sharing with you an incredibly beautiful afghan that she made for me.
FYI
Worsted, medium #4 yarn used for these scarves. I used a 5mm hook for the left scarf, and a 5.5mm hook for the right scarf.
Happy crocheting!
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