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Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch to end (124 sc). The multiple can be varied to make smaller or larger stitch patterns.
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Step 2: Remove 4 lps from stick, YO and pull through, ch 1, 4 sc in loops.įoundation Row: Ch 125 (or any multiple of 4 plus 1 to obtain desired width). Step 1: At beg of row, remove hook from lp and draw it up and onto the broomstick end, insert hook in next st and draw up lp, remove it from hook and loop it over broomstick. Continue until all sts have lps drawn over broomstick. Yarn: Lion Brand Homespun Yarn: 54 to 60 ounces.
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1" diameter broomstick, dowel or giant knitting needle.Crochet Hook size K () or size needed to obtain gauge.
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The giant needle means this broomstick afghan works up quickly and easily. Today, I prepare myself.Tomorrow, I go up against the Broomstick Lace.Broomstick crochet is a unique crochet technique worked with a crochet hook and a broomstick or giant knitting needle. Today, I read my book, examine my artillery (the hook, and GIANT pin), and strategize. I wonder how badly my weapons will turn on me, as I encounter the beastly Broomstick Lace. I fear that the Broomstick Lace may have me not just throwing my hook, but hammering the hell out of it.
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And, numerous other stitches have come close to making me want to throw it more. God.the single stitch had me throwing my hook. It gives me time to think about the ass-kicking that these next two stitches may deliver to me. It gives me time to respectfully fear the next two stitches, before going to face them. At this point, I am happy that I have been so quick with accomplising the other stitches. I think that my intimidation of it is so strong, that I may need a day to just examine how best to approach this stitch. I am not exactly sure that I will start working on this stitch today. I am sure, as I approach the Broomstick Lace, that I am going into the biggest battle yet! But, something tells me that I will have the HIGHEST of respect for it when I have successfully worked it. But now, that changes.įor the Broomstick Lace, I am using my trusty size I hook (the regular hook, thank GOD!) I will also be working with a Broomstick Lace Pin (a large knit pin, size 50). With two tools, and only two hands to work with, I have to wonder.how the HECK am I going to hold the yarn? Something tells me that, after the struggle that will, no doubt, ensue, I will love this stitch even more, after I am done with it. Sure, the last two hooks have been a bit freakish.but I was still only using one tool on the yarn. I am scared to high HELL! This is the first stitch where I will be working with not just one tool, but two (not including the yarn.) Before now, it has onlly been the yarn, and a single hook. God knows I am not just intimidated by the Broomstick Lace. I think this stitch, and the Hairpin Lace (after the Broomstick), are going to be brutal on me. (Mine will probably be nowhere near as PERFECT.) But, it is going to be harder to work than any stitch I have worked before. The sample in the book makes it looks so NICE. It is, I have to say, the stitch that I like the most. So, next on the agenda.the BROOMSTICK LACE. And, production of the cro-hook crochet continued. But, with a little work (and possibly a hint of a miracle.I'm not ruling it out.) the one mass of tangled yarn became two again. At one point, the two yarns were twisted and tangled together so badly, I thought that I would have to have a miracle to get them separated. YIKES! As if I don't get tangled up in yarn, when working with just one skein. Once I showed the cro-hook stitch who was boss, it willingly bowed down to me. Once I got about 4 rows in, it became simple. I didn't just slowly approach this stitch. Keep in a happy, no-throwing-of-the-hook, mood. I grabbed my cro-hook (which still FEELS odd), and my two yarn choices.both shades of green. Ok, Michael, I thought, when attempting to work the cro-hook crochet, without use of my book. YOU CONQUER THE YARN! Show it no mercy, as you twist it, and bend it, to your will. You use your trusted weapon (the cro-hook), and you work that yarn. You take the yarn captive, before it takes you. God knows giving up would have been better for my tendonitis. Sure, it would have been easy to hide under my bed, hoping that the ball of yarn didn't, somehow, roll under to meet me. It would have been easy to give up on the cro-hook crochet.