I was a very busy little person last weekend. I was watching an episode of Knitting Daily and they mentioned something called the extended single crochet. I thought it looked kind of interesting but didn't try it then. While I was at K&CC (short for Knitters and Crocheters Care) I finished one more section of my secret project I found that I could not work on more. The pattern I was using as a starting point for another part was not in my bag.
I then grabbed a random skein of yarn and decided to see how I liked that extended single crochet.
I was going to make a hat at first, but I didn't feel like counting to see how many stitches and what that was devisable by, so I just made a headband at first.
The working from the top down I started on one hat. I like how I can just increase until it is the size I pretty much want and work straight down from there. This was fun, but I knew it would be boring to make more than one of the same size.
So I made a very small preemie hat. It is so tiny that it is hard to think that babies could have heads that small, but we all do start out as a tiny clump of cells and go from there.
A medium hat was something I felt was needed to round out my baby hat making for the day. I knew I didn't have enough yarn to make another hat, but I wanted to use it all.
So I made a little headband with a flat "bow" on it. The bow was pretty easy and I just kind of made it up as I went along. Here it is.
Simple Flat Bow
Chain 7
- Sc 6 along chain starting from second loop from hook.
- Sc 6
- Sc 6
- Sc 6
- Sc2tog, sc 2, sc2tog
- Sc 4
- Sc2tog x2
- Sc 2
- Sc 2 in one sc from row before x2
- Sc 4
- Sc 2 in one sc from row before, sc 2, sc 2 in one sc from row before
- Sc 6
- Sc 6
- Sc 6
- Sc 6 fasten off at end and weave in tails.