Hiya
everyone! SciFi Chris posting again.
First up is
a reminder that the Steel City Yarn Crawl is quickly approaching. The yarn crawl will be from July 31 to August
9. Its expanded this year to include
eleven yarn stores, up from the 7 shops that participated last year. Most are in Allegheny county, but a few are
as far out as Beaver, Harmony, Grove City, and Ligonier. This year’s passport includes all the
addresses, store hours, and a handy map showing the locations of the shops in
relation to each other.
The cost of
the Steel City Yarn Crawl is $10. That
gets you the passport, 11 raffle tickets, and a tote bag. You can get additional raffle tickets at participating
stores by buying things there. If you
manage to complete the entire crawl, you turn in your passport for an
additional prize drawing. Register at
any of the participating shops, which are listed in the picture below.
The passport
isn’t the only thing that has improved.
The tote bag is heavy canvas and has very spiffy orange accents. Much nicer than last year’s basic canvas bag.
Here’s a
link about the Yarn Crawl on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/steelvalleyyarncrawl and on Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/events/steel-city-yarn-crawl
Here’s a
link to my post about last year’s Yarn Crawl
http://threeriverscrochet.blogspot.com/search?q=steel+city+yarn+crawl
Three Rivers
Crochet is doing a summer crochet along!
Our last crochet along was in October, making skull shawls. Since it’s a summer crochet along making sun
hats seemed like a good idea. After some
discussion at the Knit and Crochet in Public day, we settled on the pattern
Star Sun Hat by Jessie Rayot. Its
available for free on Ravelry, although the link I’m giving is direct to her
site. She also has a variation on her
pattern for kid’s sizes.
Notes on the
pattern:
First, it
calls for nylon wire called brimlock. I
couldn’t find any, so I went with 20 gauge jewelry wire from Joann’s. It comes in a wide range of colors and seems
to work in getting the brim to hold its shape.
Also, the pattern just says 3 skeins.
The pattern is for three colors.
Making the yellow hat, I discovered that one 4 oz skein of Sugar n Cream super size is enough
for the main color, if you are doing the accent colors. The accent colors
use much less than one skein each. For the purple hat, which has almost no accent colors, it takes more. I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly how much because I got one of the 'one pounders' of cotton yarn for it. My guess would be about 6 oz, but no guarantee on that, its just an estimate.
The only row
of the pattern that I had trouble with was round 27. It took a few rereading and examining the
photo to figure out that it wants you to basically make a “W” in the same stitch
(tc, ch 1, tc, ch 1, tc) then make four “V” (tc, ch 1, tc) in the same stitch,
repeating that pattern for the entire round.
The hat took
me about five hours total to complete.
Your time will of course vary depending on how fast or slow you
crochet.
Finally,
here’s a photo from this year’s Knit and Crochet in Public day. Although 3RC knits and crochets in public
every week at our Saturday meetings at Panera Bread near Magee Hospital (from
2pm to 5pm), we change it up on KCIP day and head to Schenley Park in
Oakland.
