You’ve seen the pink Flower Cloth Scarf in Crochet Garden. You’ve seen the Roses Poncho.
“I want to do that, but I’m not sure how to get started!” you may be saying. Anyway, I hope you’re saying that, because I have been wanting to do a Crochet Charm Lace Along for a long time.
To make our Crochet Charm Lace projects, we will:
- Choose yarns and motifs.
- Crochet the motifs, weave in ends, and block.
- Arrange the motifs on a fabric template (it won’t be part of the final project). The template can be any shape. You choose how to arrange the motifs.
- Turn motifs face-down and safety-pin in to the template.
- Using yarn or thread, sew the motifs together wherever they touch.
- Remove safety-pins and turn your project right-side-up.
A reasonably-sized Crochet Charm Lace project, like a scarf or table mat, may take you around 3 weeks to a month, if you work steadily, a little each day. With the holiday season almost here, it seems that the end of January might be a good end date for us.
So let’s begin!
Choose yarns.
You can use any fiber, texture, or size of yarn. Why? Because you are making separate motifs and they don’t have to be any particular size. Okay, that’s a little too much choice for a lot of us. Here are a couple of suggestions for you:
- If you want to use lots of textures and sizes of yarn, then choose a limited color palette. See the Pink Scarf above.
- If you want to use lots of colors, then limit the textures and sizes of the yarn. The Trillium Scarf above is a good example. It is made with only one kind of yarn.
I am making a table mat for my Crochet Charm Lace Along project. My container of orange yarns is overflowing, so I pulled out lots of textures and weights of orange yarn.
It was a lot of orange. For a little relief, green seemed to be the answer. Here’s the orange, with and without the green.
This is a great project for using up yarn leftovers. Have a look through your stash and see what you can come up with!
On November 1, 2013, look for “Choosing Motifs.”