Carnival Granny Scarf
Finished
January 10, 2017
January 20, 2017

Carnival Granny Scarf

Project info
The Original Half Granny Square/Shawl by Ambar Enid Alcalá
Crochet
Tutorial
Hooks & yarn
3.5 mm (E)
874 yards = 2 skeins
Knit Picks Chroma Twist Fingering
1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6 meters), 100 grams
Knit Picks Chroma Twist Fingering
1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6 meters), 100 grams
Notes

This was pretty much designed by serendipity.
I started with the Carnival making a plain half=granny shawl because I just had eye surgery and everything is blurry. I can do grannies in my sleep. I got about halfway through the ball and realized that one skein wasn’t going to do it, but I was at the purple stripe and I had a skein of Hollyhock. So I started to wind that and it turned into yarn barf because the idiots who wind this do not tie off their’ hanks with yarn, they just tie the ends together. It’s the only thing I don’t like about this yarn. I had fits trying to get it into balls and ended up with two large balls and half a dozen small ones. So I matched one of the large balls to the purple I’d just cut and worked all of it, then reattached the Carnival ball and finihsed that almost up, switching to sc for the last row of yellow. I used some of the short balls for the row of purple sc. Then went back to the yellow for the row of hdc, then back to the purple, switching to the other large ball to do the rest of the border.

Mods:
• I started with C hook for the first three rows, but the fabric was too firm, switched to a D hook for the next twelve rows, still too firm, switched to an E hook for the rest. I’d just start with an E hook next time.
• I put a ch1 between each granny shell so it would drape better.
• I added an extra row of sc at the end of the border, putting in a bead picot at the top of each shell.

Done. Love it. Thinking about blocking it, but it’s always going to be a scarf at this size.

I had some of the Hollyhock left over, but not much.

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Fingering
70% Wool, 30% Nylon
437 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: January 14, 2017
  • Finished: January 20, 2017
  • Updated: January 26, 2017