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 Rovings Teaches at Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza, Hot Spgs Ark Sept 18-21

Free Form Crochet is a fantastic way to stash bust. You can use small amounts of yarns with different weights, textures and colors to make anything you want. I have made hats,afghans and jackets all using small scrumbles and putting them together. A scrumble is what we free formers call the small pieces created by just starting out with some yarn and letting the piece grow as it will. I usually start with a small circle, and then build out. I like rainbows, so starting out with a red center, then adding a row or two of orange, then yellow, then green, blue and purple makes a very striking scrumble. You can also start with a few rows of single or double or treble crochet and build from there. Putting colors together takes a little thought.  If you have two colors that don't match or go together very well, try putting a buffer color like sky blue, or earth brown or lawn green between them. Colors in nature always work, so go look at a flower garden that has many colors. Why don't they clash?  The green leaves and brown dirt buffer them and it works.  You can also use two yarns to tone them down. A turquoise that is very bright can be toned down and made more natural looking by adding a strand of orange.

Handpainted Wool Roving Combed Top Free form Knitting by dudleyspinner

Kurt Vonnegut
One of those writers that make you think for yourself.
The world seems a little less bright for a moment, with Vonnegut gone.
So it Goes.

Free form knit 365
the title says it all. A whole year committed to anything is beyond my capacity these days. It did make me pull out my UFO afghan tonight. That and the fact that a snow snorm is coming. I may need it to keep warm.
This afghan is freeform pieces that are built around unfinished objects.
You know a childs sweater in some blue mohair that got started when I was doing I don't know what. It is in here along with a few hats that I cast on the knitting needles and know I will never finish. I like to take the knitted pieces and crochet around the edge, then it is secured and can go any direction I desire.



Deb