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Plane Projects

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Last year I was working on some pretty big projects, and I also travelled a bunch, which meant I couldn’t take my projects on trips with me. So I had a couple of plane projects to bring along. These are small projects that I can put in a project bag that will sit on my lap during a flight. For me this meant I worked on two cowl patterns that I got at the Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festivals in 2022 and 2023.

The first project was the Juniper Cowl by Toni Lipsey. She came to the festival in 2022 and I got to take 2 courses with her. I bought a yarn kit from Created 4 U at the festival. This little project went on a few plane rides with me. I finally finished it off in Jamaica last fall and gifted it to my sister-in-law for the holidays.

My next plane project is another cowl pattern I picked up at the Crochet festival this year. I took a couple of classes from Valerie aka the Knitting Fairy Godmother. She had her own booth and was selling a yarn kit for the Valley Vista Cowl. The pattern is currently free on her website. It uses a mosaic crochet technique. That was not the class I took, but I still thought the pattern was pretty easy to follow after I looked up how to do a Mosaic Double Crochet (mdc) stitch. This one I finished by December and shipped off to one of my employees as a holiday gift.

So the next time you get little yarn kits for cowls, hats, scarves, whatever. Remember that they are nice small projects to take on a plane, train, passenger seat of a car, etc. I always like to have a project on me and I allow these to break my “Not to many WIPS in progress” rule.

Klaziena Shawl

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I’m not even sure when I got this pattern, but I saw it in my Ravelry library. And it’s a FREE pattern! In multiple languages.

I was looking for a shawl pattern to use one of my Scheepjes Whirl balls on. And the klaziena shawl by Kirsten Bishop looked beautiful. I’ve been wanting to make a shawl with that yarn for years now and I had been looking for a shawl pattern that would look nice with it. I also wanted to make a pretty shawl for my mom’s birthday.

The pattern was very easy to follow with charts and written instructions. The pattern also came with instructions for a triangle shawl or a rectangular shawl. However, the pattern repeated about every 14 rows, so by the time I got to a row again I didn’t remember the pattern fully, but thought I did, and would mess something up. So I ripped out just about every row at least once. I joked to my mom that I actually made her 3 shawls by the time I ripped out every row out and re-did them.

I really enjoyed this pattern and the yarn. The shawl came out beautiful. I only wish I got other pictures before I wrapped it up and sent it to mom. Unfortunately, I only have pictures from the blocking, and one of our new kittens, the size of my yarn ball.

Spooky Spider Web Shawl

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About a month ago, Shaina E on  The Crochet Addiction Facebook group posted a photo of a spider web shawl/poncho that she designed and free-handed.  I thought it was so clever, and I thought I could probably recreate it.

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This would be the first time I ever tried to recreate something by a picture.  I did recreate her design, and I think mine came out pretty close to hers.  She said she just used all treble crochet (tr) and chains, but I had my stitches grow from double crochet (dc) to quadruple treble crochet (qtc).  I may have made that last stitch up.  I haven’t seen anything written about that one, but I imagine it’s out there somewhere.

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My First Legwarmer Pattern

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I finally finished.  I made my very own leg warmer pattern.  Granted, it is not very original, but I designed it myself.  This is also the first pattern that I’ve ever written up, so feel free to provide feedback on the pattern.  Note, while this pattern is pretty easy, it’s probably more for people with experience reading and interpreting patterns, since I’m not experienced at writing patterns.

My legwarmers 4

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Russian Crochet

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One thing my time on Pinterest has taught me, Russian crochet is beautiful.  There are so many patterns that I pin, and the URLs are Russian.  In fact, I’ve pinned enough Russian crochet, that I’ve created a separate board for it.  Now it’s not always easy to find the patterns for what I’ve found.  But, many times I can find charts for the patterns.  So one of my goals for the year is to learn how to read charts.

Russian Crochet

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Mini Plaits Winter Hat #2 and Cowl

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I went back to Kid Ewe Knot last weekend and picked up my second skein of Galway Worsted yarn so I could finish my original hat.  This time I bought different buttons on Amazon and a different pom pom.  I think the second hat came out as well (although I still like mine more).

Mini Plaits Winter Hat 2 and Cowl

The original hat that I started, but the second hat that I finished.

One of my employees kept remarking about how much she loved my hat, so I ended up giving her the second hat.  Most of what I crochet, I crochet for myself, or gifts.  So since I already had a hat, the second hat was bound to be a gift anyway and she really liked my hat.

Mini Plaits Winter Hat 2 and Cowl 2

Both hats in progress. I made mine a size bigger than the original hat.

I ended up having some extra yarn left over from my hat, so I decided to try to make a cowl with the left overs.  I followed the same motif as the hat and just winged it.  Since both the hat and the cowl are 100% wool, I’m thinking of lining them both with a soft fleece or soft faux fur.  But, I have not gone fabric shopping yet.  Perhaps if I line them I’ll show off the end results.

Mini Plaits Winter Hat 2 and Cowl 3

My improvised cowl using the same motif.  It’s a little small, just wanted to use up the excess yarn.