Years ago my Grandma Merriman taught me how to crochet one summer when we went back to Illinois to visit. I made a snow white scarf using the double crochet stitch (I think) & to this day I still have & wear this scarf on a regular basis. I have such great memories of sitting on my grandparents couch under the huge picture window with my grandma sitting next to me saying “I can hear the yarn squeak, you’re holding it too tight!” I have tried multiple times since then to pick it back up and failed… Every time becoming more & more frustrated. And again this year, I had been seeing these cute floral necklaces being sold by the street vendors in the city, so I thought I would try to make them as Christmas gifts for friends, but the flowers proved to be trickier than I thought, and I got discouraged with them.
Since both my mom and I knit, she thought it would be fun for us to learn to crochet too, I kept trying to tell her of my past disappointments, but finally she broke me down. :) As a Christmas present, my in-laws sent me some new yarn, hooks, and a couple how-to books, so armed with all of my utensils, one night I set off. I started just crocheting some squares with a thick black yarn that I had laying around that would be easy to see what I was stitching. Success!! I think my favorite stitch right now is the half double crochet, that’s how I made this scarf.
I bought some Ruffles yarn while at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio here in the city and had been waiting to experiment with it. In the store they had a display of a rose necklace using this product & I was dying to try to make it! Here is one of the flowers I made. I made 4 big ones and 2 little ones. I just LOVE them! I have so many ideas for what to do with them.
1. String them together and make a necklace.
2. Put them on a pin or clip to embellish a shirt, purse, headband, scarf, hat, etc…
3. Use a bow on a present.
OH, the possibilities are endless…
They only make this yarn in black, white, and black / white mixture, so you don’t have too many color options, but you can brighten the flowers up by adding a pop of color to the center (maybe a rhinestone, button, or a crocheted sphere) in an accent color. Can’t wait to play around with these!
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