Voting has opened on the Design-a-Scarf 2022 Challenge!

Voting has opened, for the Design-a-Scarf 2022 Challenge!

There is a blog post from the organisers CLICK HERE where the background to the Crochet A Long is outlined and all the scarf designs are featured. Each design has got a number, make a note of your favourites!

There are two ways to vote for which designs you want to see published first.

In the CAL - Crochet A Long album CLICK HERE, you can click "Like" against each of the scarves, there's no upper to limit to the ones you can click Like against, you can vote for them all if you want to! 

In the CAL - Crochet A Long Poll CLICK HERE, you vote for only one - your top favourite.

I'm not allowed to tell you which one is mine. Shortly after voting ends (on Sunday 23rd October), a schedule for the release of the patterns - and the names of the designers - will be issued. Most votes gets released first. My understanding is a few will be released each week. The designs will be free to download for the duration of the Crochet A Long so make a note of the ones you like, not all of them will be free when the CAL ends. 

It's a design challenge, not a competition - everyone is a winner, they are all lovely - so do please go take a look and join in on the voting. 

I feel honoured to be amongst such a great selection of scarves. 

Scarves galore!

 

This week, I have been perfecting this scarf, the stitch is a kind of hybrid between crocheting with two strands of yarn on your hook and 2-cord chaining. I've been working hard on a tutorial on how to do it along with a few variations. 

The pattern and tutorial will be coming (free!) to a blog near here very soon. Print-ready versions will be available in my Etsy shop for my usual modest fee.  

Last week, (and for the three weeks before that actually!) I was working very, very hard on a Facebook Design a Scarf 2022 challenge.  Along with several other designers, we were challenged to come up with a new design in a very short period of time! Mine has been accepted and tested and is now ready for the exciting unveiling. 

When the challenge goes live, I will need your help ... there will be a vote, if you like my design and want to see it sooner than everyone else's, you can help the unveiling along by voting for it. To get a head start, you need to first join the Facebook Group CAL - Crochet A Long (CLICK THESE WORDS TO VISIT IT). The scarves will be unveiled there and voting will begin.

I can't show you my design or say any more about it at the moment but I will be back in a few days with more details!

Have a Cool Yule pattern - time to crochet Christmas blankets - Oh Yes It Is!

 

I know it's not Christmas yet but bear with me, us crocheters take weeks to make a blanket and so I'm getting in a bit early.

The pattern for my "Have a Cool Yule" Christmas blanket is available in my Etsy shop now. It uses the mosaic overlay technique. I've used Stylecraft Special DK to make the one photographed. If you want to make one exactly the same you will need:

• 3 x 100g 1123 Claret
• 3 x 100g 1001 White
• 2 x 100g 1725 Sage
• 2 x 100g 1009 Bottle
• 1 x 100g 1807 Hint of Silver

Happy crocheting!