Homemade gift series: crocheted hat and scarf
My wife, Sarah, loves to make homemade functional items, particularly ones that give her hands busywork when she鈥檚 doing something like watching a movie or rocking a baby. Thus, it鈥檚 not surprising that crocheting is a natural match for her.
This year, she elected to make a crocheted hat and scarf set for one particular relative (and is considering making a second set). Below, you can see modeling the output of this work, which took Sarah about eight hours to complete.
Obviously, you don鈥檛 need too much in terms of material to crochet 鈥� just a needle and a big pile of yarn. According to Sarah, it鈥檚 not too difficult to learn how to do it, either; you just need to know five or six simple techniques, then you just repeat them over and over again.
She recommends 鈥檚 website for those who are interested in learning how to get started.
Another element that鈥檚 necessary when crocheting is to have a pattern to work from. As you can see in the picture above, Sarah made the hat based on a free pattern printed from a website ( she used).
One particularly great source for crochet patterns is , which offers a small mountain of patterns. Of particular note in relation to this post is the and the .
Sarah did not use a scarf pattern and instead did it solely from memory, as she鈥檚 made scarves in the past for gifts (like the one I often wear in the winter).
The will make a nice gift for someone this Christmas.
Sarah is considering making at least one more hat-and-scarf set for the Christmas season. She estimates that each item took about four hours of nonstop work, but it鈥檚 work that can easily be done while watching a movie and can be set aside at almost any point so you can engage in other activities.
This is a gift that turns something very inexpensive and ordinary (yarn) into something beautiful (crocheted garments), with just a little time and care added by the gift giver.
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