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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Spring Shrug



Sorry for the not so great photos but my husband has an old lady's hobby (like I don't) and was at an orchid society meeting and wasn't home to help.

This is just a rectangle with the ends sewn together to make sleeves. Hopefully, you can see the back a bit in the mirror to get the idea of it. It looks pretty cute over a singlet top as well, it's just too cold here to pose for those pictures tonight.

This is a very adaptable pattern. You can change the length of the sleeves to whatever amount of yarn you have. The reason my sleeves are their length is because I only had 2 skeins of this:




Chain in multiples of 4 to desired length. In this case I did a chain of 52. Basically, here you just have to chain until it is long enough to wrap around your upper arm.

Dc in 5th chain from hook

[Chain 3, skip 3, dc in next chain] repeat to end of chain

chain 4 turn [dc in chain of 3, chain 3] repeat to end, chain 4 turn...

easy peasy.

Now depending on how long you make your rectangle is how long you need to sew up the sleeves. This is all I had to sew up the ends on my short sleeves.



The other thing with this is, if you don't want to wear it as a shrug you can still just wrap it around for a scarf. 


5 comments:

  1. Pretty yarn. Is that thing comfy to wear??

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  2. Yes, it is very comfy and adds that little bit of warmth. You should try it. It really grows fast.

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  3. very beautiful...

    the pattern is quite simple...
    two thumbs up!!

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  4. I'm definitely going to try this, I have loads of yarn left to me by my mom. I have very little skill and even less time. Thank you so much.
    Carol

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  5. Hello, your patterns seems to be the easiest to follow, but what size crochet needle did you use? I'm using 4 ply acrylic yarn and already started out with a 62 stitch chain using a J hook. Thank you so very much. Debbie

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