After much consideration and trawling of Ravelry, I decided to keep things simple and turn some of the Millefoglie yarn into a scarf and hat.  This yarn is made up of five different yarns knotted together in turn, so it really didn’t lend itself to anything fancy.  Also, some of the yarns are fluffy or metallic or chenille or extremely acrylic – I really didn’t want to put time into making a garment out of it when chances were extremely high that it would look pretty rotten when I finished.

The scarf pattern is the Shimmer Lace Scarf.  It’s designed for fairly thick yarn, so worked well with this hybrid.  I used an 8mm hook.  The lacyness of the pattern made it fairly simple to crochet the fluffy yarns and gives interest to the plainer ones.  I recommend it if you’re looking for an easy but interesting scarf pattern.

The hat pattern is the Scattered Mama Hat (Ravelry link).  It uses a similar stitch pattern to the scarf.  I used the 8mm hook again and made the child size – I figured with this yarn and hook it would fit me fine, and it does. I used a simple sc edging rather than the shell edging in the pattern. Thanks go to Little Dorrit for keeping me hooking well into the evening and getting this finished! The scarf and hat used two balls of the yarn.

Happening around Melbourne this week:

The opening of Tinniegirl’s first exhibition this Thursday night

An interview with the very clever and talented Kirsty Macafee

First look at the cover of Pip Lincolne’s new sewing book

Fun with poetry and a beret from Gypsy

Melbourne Craft and Quilt Fair from Thursday to Sunday this week – I’m going on Saturday

25% off all patchwork fabrics including battings and craft accessories at GJ’s Discount Fabrics in Brunswick for one week starting on Thursday 22nd July