Windowpane scarf in Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable Dragonfly

This was the last of my Christmas crochet blitz.

My sister loves the colour of Dragonfly, and since we are having a 'you get what I make' gift exchange, I think this is perfect. She wears hats and scarves, so it's win win. Yay!

I wasn't 100% sure about doing the Windowpane pattern. Not that I didn't like it, but I wanted something my sister knew I put some time in to. Although the pattern is simple, it comes out beautiful with the Unforgettable colourway. It really works on this scarf. It's not too short or too long.  So in this case. I think it's ok that it's easy, because it looks elegant in its simplicity.

I used just over 2 skeins for the hat and scarf together. I could of used 2 exactly, but I wanted the scarf a bit longer.  With 1-1/2 skeins it came out (the hat is about 1/2 a skein) to about 54" so I used another skein to kick it up to 60" long. 

After wet blocking, it came out to 7" wide and 68", not too shabby. The recommendation is to kill it for blocking, but dang, that's scary. If I had more time to remake the scarf if needed, I would give it a shot, but alas, I didn't want to risk it.  I did however tell my sister how to do it if she wanted to :) 

Wrapping things up for Christmas

I wanted simple wrapping for the hat and scarf sets I made for my mom's nurses. I also wanted them 'open' so that they could choose which color they wanted. 

I was shopping the other day and came across Hefty EZ Ovenware that has the plastic open lids and cardboard type bottom that was also big enough to hold the hat and scarf. Perfect! Even better they were inexpensive!

I printed out simple round 2.5" labels (Avery 22808) and stuck them on the center of the lid and used some shiny Christmas ribbon...is that stuff called ribbon? Hrmmm, it's not fabric, but plastic like. Oh well, moving on.

I named each scarf set after the Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable Color that it was made from.  I also gave a simple desciption, since each set has a different scarf.

Tidal Waves: Hat and Scarf set

Echo Mist: Hat and Fringed Scarf Set

Cranberry Fields: Hat and Cowl Set

It might seem odd, but I like the look, a lot actually. It's clean and simple..and best of all they can use the wrapping afterwords! How splendid is that??

Divine Hats are simply divine!

Love this pattern. This is my new go-to hat pattern. It's called the Divine Hat by Sarah Arnold - you can find the free pattern on Ravelry! Don't you just love free that is so full of AWESOMENESS!

The hat works up quickly and works well as a solid, mix, or variegated yarn combination.

I'm not nuts...the hats are for my mom's nurses for Christmas!

I started out by testing the pattern with inexpensive RH Comfort yarn. I tested the pattern, color combinations, and sizing using it first before switching over to the more expensive Red Heart Unforgettable.

I tried different combinations and like the look of the last dc and bpdc being a different colour. Especially like how the cherrycola colour worked out. (hard to see in the picture, but middle row of hats above).

I modified last few rows of pattern as per another poster on Ravelry
row: hdc, row:Bpsc, row:dc, row: bpsc, row:dc, row: fpdc, bpdc, row: hdc

Red Heart Comfort sizing:
Large: 5.5 mm hook (up to and including row 15) + border
 22” circumference / 9.5” length

Small to Medium: 5.0 mm hook X up to and including row 13) + border rows
 20” circumference / 8” length

Red Heart Unforgettable sizing:

Dragonfly:
Small to Medium: 6.0 mm hook X up to and including row 15) + border rows
19” circumference / 8” length

This fits ok on my 22" noggin since it has a LOT of stretch, but fits better on my sisters 21" head.

Tidal:
Medium: 6.5 mm hook X up to and including row 15) + border rows
 21” circumference / 8” length

Echo:
Medium: 6.5 mm hook X up to and including row 15) + border rows
21” circumference / 8” length

Winery:
Medium: 6.5 mm hook X up to and including row 15) + border rows
 21” circumference / 8” length

Cappuccino:
Medium: 6.5 mm hook X up to and including row 15) + border rows
 21” circumference / 8” length

Medium: 6.0 mm hook X up to and including row 15) + border rows
 20” circumference / 8” length

Autumn Flowers Motif

I saw an amazing scarf that I am IN LOVE WITH on Pinterest (which linked to Ravelry). As most of you know, you don't always know what's free on Pinterest until you get to Ravelry or wherever you are pointed to...well, wait for it!  Nitala nicely posted her pattern as well as the pictures of her scarf!   The colours she uses are beautiful *sigh* I haven't seen Scheepjes Invicta Colour yarn before so I'll give the scarf a shot with RH Unforgettable in POLO, which has orange, greens, and burgundy's.

So, as soon as I saw she had a pattern for the motif, I had to test it out. I used a bit of leftover RH Unforgettable in Echo for that. I think it's very pretty also, but there isn't as much colour change as there is in Polo.

I simply cannot wait to make myself a scarf with this pattern - but I have to get through the Christmas presents first! hahah.

My picture doesn't look like much with a single motif, but if the whole scarf turns out half as nice as Nitalas' I'll be very well pleased.

Might I add, if you are not on Pinterest or Ravelry, you should be! So addicting and inspirational!

Isar Scarf in Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable

I love the colour changes in Echo. It's funny though, when you look at the skein, it doesn't seem to have a lot of range. Scarves work really well with this color.  I want to keep it and hug it and wrap it around my neck...but alas, no, it's a gift...but I can and will make myself one too!

The pattern I used is the Isar Scarf by Julia Vaconsin which is a FREE download on Ravelry. Yay!

The pattern works up quickly and after you get past the first row, it's really easy to crochet along while watching Netflix. I checked the stitches during the gaggy bits of Hannibal (the series). Love the show, but some bits make me cringe a bit!

You can tell from the next two pictures that there is a difference in color. I've found in the last 2 projects I've done, one in Tidal and this one in Echo, that the skeins don't match - even though they are the same dye lot.



Thankfully when wearing it, it does not look all funky and bargain bin. it looks like it slowly goes from light to dark. yah..I made it like that...hahaha!



The scarf worked out to be 6oz, and 8" X 60" (with Fringe)

Bricks & Lattice Scarf

I wanted to make something for my mom's nurses for Christmas, so I decided on hat and scarf sets.

  

I love the colours of Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable yarn, so each set is done is a different colour. For this set, I chose Tidal.  The hat and scarf together used up 2 skeins of yarn. I didn't notice until after I finished that although the skeins were the same dye lot, they were still a tiny bit different. The one skein had no pink in it, so there is just a tiny strip of pink colour on one end of the scarf. It's ok, and it doesn't look 'off' since the rest of the colours are pretty much the same.  The picture below really makes it look different, but it really isn't!

The hats are all the same pattern, but each of the scarves are different.  This scarf is the Bricks & Lattice pattern by Elizabeth Ham. 

The pattern is an easy repeat but it took longer to work up than I thought it would, longer than the other scarves, that's for sure. I think the slowness was because of the end/beginning of the rows. 

Colour gradients. I love the look of the colours and blue actually suits me as a colour to wear, but sadly, blue is my least favourite colour.  Even with the greens, gold, and purples, the blue is the most dominant colour.

Stitch pattern before wet blocking.



This image is a lot darker, it's just to show the stitch pattern while it was being blocked. The other images are a lot closer to true.



Yarn: Cost

Skein: 3.5 oz / $7.00 (approx) X 2 skiens = 7 oz / $14.00 = $2.00 an ounce
Scarf =  4.4 oz X $2.00 = $8.80 + tax, so...lets say $10.00 in materials for the scarf.

Size:
8" X 46" before blocking
9" X 58" after blocking

That's not to shabby.