Sun 22 Aug 2010
Diving in to string
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Some ClayMates have been wondering where I’ve been and truth be known I fell into a basket of string and have just come up for air.
This is a backwards chronicle of the crochet and knit work I’ve been doing. The brown hat on Amy below is the lastest finished crochet item and that flower on the side of the hat are just crochet shells over lapping and a circle made of triple crochet in the center.

I had to beg and plead with her to sit for this picture. "I don't have any make up on." I told her "You're so much more beautiful than I am and the hat goes with your hair cut." One shot photo. Whew.
This next item is a pair of fingerless gloves. Here is my post to Strange-CITY about how the fingerless gloves were made.
hand and back to my thumb. That was the anchor row. I did double crochets going
around that anchor row. Then I did shells, 6 triple crochets all connected to
one place fanning out into a shell and you attach the top of the last triple
crochet three spaces down from where you have it anchored.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4583315_stitch-crochet-shell.html
and then more rows of shells and rows of double crochet until you get to the
fingers.
You can do fingerless gloves without finger holes for dolls and get away with
it.
For full size gloves the finger holes are simply single crochet from back to
front of the glove and then go around with single crochets until you build up a
finger hole. I had to fudge getting from one finger to the other by doing single
crochet over rows of stuff on an angle to get to the base of the next finger. I
could have cut the thread and started out with a new bit of string, but I was
trying to avoid that as an experiment.
After I get the base of the thumb up to the fingers done, then I went back under
the base of the thumb and did double rows of shells and double crochet rows
until I got to the wrist.
The cuff was done with four knitting needles. Three to hold the stitches and one
to work the stitches off. I did three perl and three knit alternating to get the
cuff band. It was a PITA until I got used to it. Once I got used to wresting
with four knitting needles I was able to finish off the cuffs while watching two
movies on my computer.
Ok, there will be spaces where you’ll have to fill in gaps. I just use 3-4-5
strand fans to fill in any gap. But there was no pattern as such, just
eyeballing it. I did have to unravel parts that were bulging out or too tight. I
can’t wear the left glove on my right hand because each glove was made for a
specific hand.
If you do a google for “Fingerless gloves crochet” and look at the images you’ll
see that most people make fingerless gloves without the finger holes. It is
easier that way. I wanted to see if I could make the finger holes and they were
a pill to do, but I’m sure that with more practice I could find easier ways of
doing it.
I do love this cotton ecru string though. It feels strong and I think it will
wear well.

Ecru Cotton string fingerless gloves. Single, double, treble crochet with shells on shells. The cuff was knitted 3 perl and 2 knit alternating to get the stretchy cuff edge.

Black cotton and gold metallic thread went into this collar and cuff set. Single, double, treble crochet with shells on shells to make the ruffles.



Gerhard Richter






