Wait, There's More!

[kerravonsen]

More craft, that is. Today I managed to do the finishing touches on the corkscrew-spiral crochet necklace I've been working on for a while. There was a point when it felt like it would never get finished, because there were a LOT of stitches to do, and the yarn was really thin and the crochet hook was really small (1.25mm), and I would sometimes get cramps in my hands because of that. But it is now DONE.

I also did some matching earrings, which naturally didn't take so long as the necklace.

Necklace and earrings, with coinage to show scale:

The spirals were done by doing a long chain, and then going back up the chain doing three triple-crochet stitches into each chain stitch. I had originally intended to make the stitches double-crochet, but I thoughtlessly started doing it in triple-crochet instead, and once I started that way, decided to continue that way. This meant that the spiral corkscrew was very corkscrewy. I expect that if it had been done in double-crochet, it would have looked more spirally. Oh well.

This time I experimented with making my own "hook" for the hook-and-eye fastening, and also experimented with my new steel block (my "bashing block" you might say) and hammered the S-hook flat. Could have been better, but it wasn't too bad.

Part of me is worried that the necklace isn't fancy enough, since it's just plain yarn with no embellishments. It is a nice satiny-shiny yarn, though.

I'm not sure whether I'll do another necklace like that again, at least, not one that long with that small a hook, anyway. Though I do at some point want to do something with a small hook that looks all lacy, but I have to learn that stuff first.

(edited to point to different offsite album)

Comments

[dreamflower]

It's probably what they call "bedspread cotton" here; that's the weight usually used with a 7 or 8 steel hook, and commonly used to make things like doilies-- so, lacey stuff, yes. (I don't know anyone these days who would attempt an entire bedspread, but the name persists). Although your description of the texture does not sound like the cotton we sell here-- which is not shiny at all, but a sort of matte texture.

[kerravonsen]

That's probably because it isn't made of cotton, but of rayon or polyester or something like that.
I have some other yarn of similar weight which is cotton, and it is definitely "matte" in lustre.