Free Pattern: Rainbow Fingerless Gloves
Having recently completed a pair of gloves, I began to wonder if I could create a pair of fingerless gloves/gauntlets using the colours of the LGBT flag. After a number of attempts using different hooks, I came up with this pattern which is suitable for advanced beginners or those who just want a quick, simple project. Whilst I was aiming for rainbow gloves, there’s no reason why these couldn’t be worked in any selection of colours as they only need about 25 yards of each of the 6 colours. Don’t know about you but I’m always looking for quick stashbuster…
Hmm… What to make?
I recently managed to score over 600 yards of Ice Yarn’s Angora Design — a sports weight mixture of wool, acrylic and angora — in shades of cream, greens and reds. Now I just have to figure out what to make with it. Any suggestions?
Flower Clips
I recently bought some hair clips to try and keep my rather unruly curls out of my face with the idea of adding crochet flowers to each of them. There are lots of patterns for sweet little crocheted flowers out there but not much on actually attaching the flower to the clip. Glue seemed messy (and knowing my luck, unlikely to be a permanent solution). I did find a pattern for creating a crocheted “clip hat” but was both fiddly and a little too bulky for my taste.
The Dreaded Lurgy
It’s been a pretty rough 8 or 9 days here. First K developed a tickly cough followed — 48 hours later — by a temperature and nausea. By this time, I had a thundering headache which simply refused to go away. That’s when it dawned on me that we both might have flu!
Plaid Scarf
This is actually a pseudo-plaid that is incredibly easy to create. You just crochet horizontal stripes until you have the length you want. Then you weave triple strands of yarn vertically between the double crochet stitches — leaving enough at either end to form a fringe. I adapted the stripe pattern from a Scottish plaid for this but you might want to chose a different stripe pattern.
Crocheted iPad Cover
After mulling it over for a month or so, I decided that the business needed an iPad. Hey, it’s a big part of the web design/development market now, OK? Bought an iPad 3 from Apple about 2 weeks ago (it was the free engraving from Apple that swung it in terms of a supplier). Needless to say, within a few days I was looking through my stash looking for some suitable yarn to make a cover. I decided that a crocheted cover would be better than a knitted one as it would be slightly thicker and, therefore, more protective. Materials…
Ravelry WordPress Widget
I stumbled across the Ravelry API page & the Progress Bar code last week and immediately thought “That would make a great widget”
. Someone did create a WordPress Progress Bar plugin about 4 years ago but it has never been updated. Also it still required site admins to add some JavaScript to their sidebar or pages manually.
So I decided to create a plugin widget that you just needed to drag & drop into (say) a sidebar. Of course, then I decided to see what else I could build into the widget as well as the Progress Bars and decided that a list of FO would also be nice.
Buttonhole Belt
I had 50gms of worsted, hand-painted, cotton in my stash that was a lovely colour but was really too coarse to incorporate into a garment. It seemed best suited to a belt but I don’t like belts that tie. And I didn’t have a nice buckle lying Round either. What I did have was quite a few large, odd, buttons. So I began to play with the idea of a belt that buttoned rather than buckled.
Rag Rugs
OK – so in the end I gave up and made a circular denim rag rug for K.And whilst I was photographing that one, I grabbed some shots of a couple of others I made previously.
Apple Blossom Shrug
Having crocheted an Apple Blossom wrap and an Apple Blossom scarf, it occurred to me that this pattern might make a rather nice shrug — with the trellis forming the back & upper arms and the lace for the sleeves.
