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Pocket Scarf seems to be the in thing this season. So I jumped in with my take on the pocket scarf (aka pocket shawl) in this Floral Pocket Scarf. The technique I used was LC2C (Linked C2C) crochet but you can as easily make this using the standard C2C (Corner to Corner) crochet.
Floral Pocket Scarf in LC2C (CH0529)
This Wassily02 Jacket is a knee length jacket, styled in the comfy, free size, Japanese boxy jacket style. As with the first of this series, Wassily01 Jacket (normal length), this too is based on one of Wassily Kandinsky’s art pieces and created using LC2C (Linked C2C) crochet.
Wassily02 Knee Lt Boxy Japanese Jacket CH0527
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Wassily02 Knee Length Japanese Boxy Jacket (CHO527)
Wassily01 Jacket – the colours and illustration on this jacket are my abstractions from some of Wassily Kandinsky’s fabulous abstract art. Hence the name.
The shape was inspired by the easy, casual, and comfy Japanese-style boxy jackets. It is generally free sizing, which is very convenient.
I made this using LC2C (Linked C2C). LC2C is like C2C (Corner to Corner) crochet – except I like my LC2C so much better. Why? Because it produces a nice, dense, drapable, cushy fabric. The standard C2C crochet produces too many large holes in the fabric and worse, the holes keep getting larger with use!!
You can find out how to crochet LC2C in my photo tutorial.
Wassily01 Japanese Boxy Jacket (CHO526)
This tutorial is another way of doing Mosaic Crochet. I am calling this the OVERLAY Mosaic Crochet because this method employs the main characteristics found in Overlay Crochet: namely, working in the BLO (back loop only) and dropping down to pick up the front loop of stitches in lower rows.
FYI: In Overlay Crochet, we take advantage of the fact that by laying stitches over other previous rows, we can create lovely and intricate textural patterns.
And thanks to a comment by chipnanna (comments section), let me just state explicitly: this Overlay Mosaic Crochet method does not use the chain-spaces employed in my earlier mosaic crochet tutorial (which I have now named the Chain-Sp Mosaic Crochet {see Mosaic Crochet Overview – the Differences, for a fuller explanation}).
I didn’t “create” this method but I am assigning the name, “Overlay Mosaic Crochet (OMC)” as a clear and easy way to refer to this and differentiate from the first method I documented before.
I don’t have a name for this particular crochet join but I do like it.
And you can clearly see, it yields a dense & lovely line of raised chains. So for simplicity I just refer this to as the Raised Chains crochet join.
Raised Chains Crochet Join features:
