Dudleyspinner Tie Dye Roving Teaches at Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza Sept 18-20 Hot Spgs. Arkansas

This is the hat I am working on for the Free Form Crochet Class. I used the flower loom with Unspun Roving  the flowers are then crocheted around and attached to each other. I have a method of decreasing that works very well to take a flat shape like this and shape it into a hat.  This hat may become an earflap hat. It seems to be heading that direction.

Dudleyspinner Tie Dye Roving, Unspun Roving Flower Tutorial, Free Form Crochet Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza, Hot Springs, AR Sept 18-21,2014

Wrap the unspun roving around the pegs, I went around twice

Pull a loop through to the back, slip stitch around the center until it is secured.

I used a needle felting needle to secure all the ends, making a tidy little flower.

I will crochet through the loops to create the next scrumble.  Though each loop, chain 3 seems to make a nice smooth piece. 

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Dudleyspinner Tie Dye Roving Teaches at Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza, #ArFiber2014 Sept 18-21

 The progress on the scrumble that started with the UNSPUN ROVING  flower loomed and needle felted flower. I used a thin yarn and a large hook to crochet around the flower working through all the loops. The next rounds were some double crochet and bullion stitches.
The ball of yarn I was using evolved into art yarn towards the end. It got a lot thicker so I switched to a smaller needle. The color changes are all in the yarn. The scrumble is about the size of my hand. By making several of these I will have the basis for my hat. The yarn behind  for sale in my dudleyspinner.com  facebook page
This hand spun yarn  is a wool alpaca two ply.
You might want to snatch it up
 because it  looks like it is a perfect
coordinating yarn with my colorway for this hat.

Dudleyspinner Tie Dye Roving Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza, Hot Springs Arkansas

This little plastic flower loom can be used with unspun dudleyspinner roving.
I just followed the numbers and wrapped the unspun roving around each peg in a figure 8 pattern. Then I took a coordinating yarn and stitched over two loops, then under one loop until the loops are all secured. to fill in the center I took some of the yarn and used a felting needle to secure the center. To use this little flower in a free form piece I will just hook through the loops and build around it.  I love to visit thrift stores and have a collection of little tools like this. This is one of the scrumble starters I will have at my class at the Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza, Hot Springs Arkansas Sept 18-21. It is a very easy method of making a little flower shape. The possibilities are endless.