Crochet shawl – Granny
How I crocheted the same pattern multiple times
How I crocheted the same pattern multiple times
I follow the rule 'wild-coloured yarn rather than wild crochet schema' while crocheting. That means one of my favourite crochet patterns is probably one of the simplest out there. Usually, it is known as 'Granny'.
I crocheted my first Granny out of my very first yarns; it was Kokonki Classic A392 (a Polish brand) yarn. Kokonki has a vast selection for low prices, but its tight yarn, and their yarn isn't very fluffy.
The Granny pattern is crocheted so quickly that it's easy to watch movies while making it. However, that causes you to make a completely unnecessary mistake here and there.
The final scarf has dimensions of an opposite of 102 centimetres and a hypotenuse of 151 centimetres.
The beauty of this pattern is that it can easily hide a lot of mistakes, and they're not visible at all :)
I liked the scarf, so a few months later, I made another one with the same pattern and from a yarn of the same brand, only in different colours. The ball was 1000 meters long and weighed 200 grams, and was a three-thread. By the way, the previous ball had the same parameters.
This scarf has become my favourite.
The size of the scarf is the same as that of the previous one. Same ball, same hook (size 3 millimetres).
What I like best about this scarf is the narrow yellow end. I followed the manual on the Czech webpage Bandurka, which produced such a nice cloud-like edge.
I drew a diagram for the cloud pattern. When the chains from the previous row weren't equal, I just made the cloud shorter or longer. However, I made sure that such changes were in the middle rather than at the edges; it could be more visible there.
I'm still not done. I also bought a more luxurious German yarn LoLa: Rainbow in the Sand. However, I had just a little of it, only 935 meters and 250 grams. Because it was a four-thread ball, there definitely wasn't much, and I decided on the Granny pattern again.
Because it's a four-thread, I chose a larger hook size (4.5 millimetres), and the scarf was crocheted even faster.
The scarf measures 215 centimetres on the hypotenuse and 131 centimetres on the opposite.
I didn't finish this scarf in any particular way; I just finished the row. It seemed more appropriate to the colours and lines with the fluffy scarf.
So far, my last Granny scarf is made out of exceptional yarn. I came across this yarn in Germany. It’s from Fresco Lana Gross and it's 70% cotton and 30% acrylic. The yarn was sold in 100 grams and 280 meters long, so it’s quite heavy.
The scarf measures 240 centimetres on the hypotenuse and 150 centimetres on the opposite. I crocheted with a size five hook.
About five yarns were needed on the scarf. This yarn had made colour transitions completely atypically. Sometimes there was a small piece of a different colour, quite randomly selected. I enjoyed the crocheting even more, as I didn't know what awaited me in a few tens of centimetres.
I finished this scarf differently. Almost half of the ball fell on this ending, giving it an ‘Indian’ look. I crocheted most of the scarf in Tunisia, where I just happened to fly at the last minute :)
One pattern and so many different scarves, right?