Simple Crocheted Scarf

Ta-Da! Another Finished Object:

• Simple Crocheted Scarf in Lion Brand Moonlight Mohair, colorway: Safari
  

Here's the pattern (if you can call it that):

 

Simple Crocheted Scarf

Materials:

• 2 skeins Lion Brand Moonlight Mohair, colorway: Safari
  
• Susan Bates Size N/10.00mm crochet hook
  

Ch 11. SC in second ch from hook and each stitch across (10 sc). Ch 1 and turn. *SC in each stitch across, ch 1 and turn*. Keep repeating until you run out of yarn (approximately 60" in length) or scarf is as long as you desire it to be.

You could also add a third skein for additional length.

 

This scarf is really quick to do with an N hook. Just remember to count your stitches so you don't have to frog any rows that are less than 10 stitches. Frogging mohair can be a bit tedious as the little hairs tend to stick all together.

I’m still here

I've just been so very busy with finishing graduate school I haven't had much time for needlework, much less blogging. Plus, I seem to have misplaced my camera so I can't take/upload photos! GRRRR!

As a graduation present to myself, I purchased a swift, a ball winder, and a yarn meter from KnitPicks.com this month. I have had a lot of fun reclaiming wool from sweaters I bought at the local thrift shops, then winding the yarn into nice, neat little cakes on the ball winder. It's the sort of mindless therapy I crave after racking my brain for words to use in my graduate papers and projects for the last 2 years.

As I am beginning to clear out my crafting room/study I am finding I have lots of UFOs (unfinished objects) or WIPS (works-in-progress) as they are called on Ravelry. I'd like to get more of them to the finished stage but I really need to press on with cleaning.

I've noticed I'm collecting crocheting and knitting magazines at an alarming rate (well, alarming only to hubby!) and need to be careful of not duplicating any of them. Therefore, I have started a putting them in Excel spreadsheets with the idea of eventually linking them together in an Access database, complete with cover photos. Eventually is the key word here. In the midst of everything else going on, I seem to have forgotten how to program a new database in Access. Oh well. The Excel spreadsheets (one for each magazine title) will do for now. Of course, being able to access the patterns through a database would be helpful also. Unfortunately, it does take a fair amount of time to log in each pattern, the designer, the type of pattern, the yarn/thread used, stitches used, etc. from just one magazine, much less the hundreds of magazines I own. This doesn't even begin to take into account the patterns I've downloaded from the internet through the years.

So, the latest on the needlework:

Finished Objects:

• Fan Edged Arm Warmers, crocheted in Red Heart Super Saver acrylic yarn, colorway: Ocean
  
• Simple Knitted Scarf in Lion Brand Moonlight Mohair, colorway: Rainbow Falls.
  

UFOs/WIPS:

• Christmas Granny Square Baby Doll Blankie, crocheted in Red Heart Super Saver acrylic yarn, coloway: Spring Green and Sayelle acrylic yarn: White, and Red
  
• Simple Crocheted Scarf in Lion Brand Moonlight Mohair, colorway: Safari
  
• Block Scarf in red velour yarn, reclaimed from a sweater
  
• Romántico Tablecloth from Ganchillo Artistico #164, in #10 white cotton (on Row 31 of 47 rows)
  
• Excellence Doily from Decorative Crochet – April 1989 – Issue #8, in #10 white cotton thread (on Row 24 of 26 rows
  

Currently in the Pond:

• Knitted Cowl by Patons in I Love This Yarn!, colorway: Autumn Stripes (I've frogged this knitting 9 times so it may end up being crocheted. GRRRR!)