Day 13- Crocheting On The Go

3/8/14

Please excuse the next two posts for being a little late; I was visiting Boston this weekend and had little time to type. I did bring my crocheting with me though, and did a lot of freestyle stitching.

Last night I began making small crocheted circles with an uncarded, undyed, and handspun yarn that I bought this summer for a few dollars from a woman spinning yarn on her porch in Lincoln, NM (Population 52. Actually.) That pretty much means that the yarn went directly from sheep to yarn without much treatment at all, and that you have to pick out the sticks and thorns from the yarn as you go. But it has its charm, of course.

I made a pile of circles only about 3 stitches deep, and stitched around them with a hand dyed yarn varied in color but that was mostly purple for the section I used. I crocheted all the pieces together to experiment with the shape, but even before I trimmed all the strings and finished it I didn't much like the shape.

I wanted the piece to be rounder and have the circles overlap more. I ended up adding a few more and stitching them together from the back. I made some smaller circles out of a finer yarn (the same one I used for Day 11's Chain Bib Necklace) and added them to the top of the center circles. 

I decided to use a few crystals for the center of the necklace to give it a little bit more bulk and some dimension. I used light amber and light grey crystals to blend. I added a twill tape tie to the back that can be tied at any length.

Necklace, untreated wool yarn, hand dyed wool/silk yarn, hand dyed wool yarn, Swarovski crystal, cotton twill tape

This piece is clearly very similar to Necklace with Concentric Circles  from Day 9, but I think would be less dressy. Something about unwashed wool just makes things casual, I guess.

Going to get today's piece up tomorrow and then I'll be back on track. 

xo,

Arielle