I’ve wanted to make a lace scarf for a while now. Whilst in the US I brought some lovely sock yarn by Lorna’s Laces. I did intend to use it for socks but it seemed a shame to use such a nice yarn to make something people won’t see very often. Instead I went online to Ravelry in search of an alternative project and came across this pretty pattern called Fern Lace Scarf.

I have only completed one repeat of the pattern so far so it’s difficult to see the detail from this picture but when I stretch it out by hand it looks like it is going to be really nice. I am really pleased with how well the colours are knitting up too.

I have also started making a crochet bag from a japanese crochet book I brought in New York. More pictures and details soon.

Sorry the pictures aren’t very good. I took them too late at night really and there wasn’t any natural light left. I will take some better pictures of my progress soon.

As a trial run I made the smallest size out of some cotton stash, it’s so cute.

I managed to complete it pretty much error free, thanks mainly to the clear pattern instructions.

I’m really pleased with how the seam turned out. Futuregirl has also written a seamless crochet tutorial which she updated recently and it’s the best I have found so far.

Once I get back to the UK I will buy some nicer cotton and made myself a bigger one. I’d also like to embellish it will stitching somehow…..

I was having some problems working out the pattern for the base, so I took it home with me to the UK on my last next visit. Mum saved the day and helped me to work it out, thanks Mum!

The next task was to seam the two sides together. This is not my favourite part of any project but as luck would have it Mum had her linking machine out so we thought we’d have a go and see if it could do the seaming for us instead.

We weren’t 100% percent sure it would work as the yarn is quite chunky, but with a little bit of juggling we managed to seam it up without too many problems.

I just need to work out what straps I want to put on it now. In the book they use pre-made fabric straps. I have some yarn left over so i’m thinking about making some out of that instead.

I came across the tunisian crochet technique a while ago and love the weave effect it produces.

It’s a three colour scarf, one colour on each row. Two of the colours are plain double knit and the third is a fashion yarn with gold thread and coloured fluffy bits. I like the added texture it gives to the pattern.