I love to sit near the beach and find stones and coral to cover with thread. No patterns. Just fun.
Thread crochet at the beach
Chunky purple bean stitch scarf
I used a chunky cascade yarn for this scarf in a mini bean stitch. This is the first time I have tried the stitch and it worked up very quickly and was easy to learn. You can watch the tutorial here on YouTube.
Super chunky purple scarf
For this scarf I used two skeins of cascade Covington wool and acrylic blend yarn. I used a size 10 mm crochet hook and the stitch is a linen stitch.
Monarch scarf
I found this yarn at one of the Greenville South Carolina local yarn shops called Yarn and Y'all at the recent Southeast men's knitting retreat. I used one skein to make this scarf in a crocheted linen stitch and also used a size H 5 mm crochet hook.
Technicolor scarf
This is a hand crocheted V stitch scarf made out of knitting fever's chromatic self striping yarn. It is a number two fine yarn made out of acrylic and wool. I used a size e-crochet hook.
Green and brown alpaca scarf
I'm pretty sure this is alpaca yarn but I've been working on this scarf for so long I forget exactly what kind of yarn it is. It's a lace weight yarn and I used a 4 mm bamboo hook to crochet a basic shell stitch. It's incredibly soft and I think it turned out really... Continue Reading →
Southeast men’s knitting retreat
Well I am back home after a wonderful weekend at the southeast men's knitting retreat at Asbury Hills Methodist campground in Greenville County South Carolina. We had a great turnout with 20 attendees and I got lots of projects worked on and some new project started. We visited two wonderful yarn shops in Greenville. Yarn... Continue Reading →
Gray mohair wrap with button
I made this small wrap for a retirement gift. I used Italian mohair and wool yarns crocheting them two strands at a time in a half granny square motif. Then for the border I used two strands of gray wool in a single crochet.
Green dish cloth with crocheted edging
This is the second dish cloth that I have made on the knitting machine. I used Maysville carpet warp and the color is myrtle green. I knitted 60 rows on 40 hooks. I decided to set the tension at three and like it a lot better than the previous dish cloth tension setting which was... Continue Reading →
Light blue baby blanket
finished this in a couple of weeks 🙂 I used two strands of acrylic yarn in light blue and very light blue in a linen stitch and a size K hook. The border is one row in single crochet then a row of double crochet then a single row of single crochet. ... Continue Reading →
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