Drowning In A Sea Of Blue
May 22, 2008Yes, that is what I am doing. Fear not my fellow pirates! I will survive. For this is simply a sea of blue yarn.
I have begun two new projects! I present to you the Seaside and Shell’s Belt-
I understand why they call the pattern seaside - they use a very soft blue. But there are absolutely no shells in this pattern. I’m using the same thread/yarn that I used to make the potpourri sash, just in a different colorway.
And here is the Fancy Scarf I started the other day as well-
Unlike the belt, this one is nothing but shells! I like the soft blue hue and am thinking I may gift this to my MIL. I’m using Caron Simply Soft in Lt. Country Blue. It’s the first time I’ve used this yarn, and for an acrylic I am rather impressed by it.
Both of these patterns come out of The Crochet Bible by Sue Whiting. And it’s opening my eyes to how different pattern writing can be from one pattern to the next. Writing a pattern so that someone other than the author can understand it is tough work and when there are different ways of notation (names and abbr. of stitches) it can get pretty sticky. I’m learning that if I don’t understand the written instructions I rely on the graph - providing there is one. Which in the case of The Crochet Bible, there are graphs with every project. I don’t think I would understand half of what is written without them. Ah well. At least am learning how to read patterns through graphs and will be able to do so for any future projects.
