Hey everyone,
As a serious procrastinator, I am in disbelief that I finished these two patterns after I started writing them a year ago. You might not know this, but I started designing crochet patterns with the Rachel granny square Wrap, which is a summery sleeveless granny square wrap top with a sash belt. The thing is, when I started crocheting, I made two crochet blankets for my children, one of which was a 10 square x 10 square rainbow hued blanket. It was fun sewing the squares together, but when it was time to weave in the ends... If you crochet, you know the state of despair I fell into. That long week of weaving in yarn ends put me off crochet squares for a solid decade.
I still feel quite ambivalent about the granny square, to be honest. They are fun to make, but wearing them makes me feel a little retro? Also, the yarn ends! So this, the Bibi Wrap, is my effort at a compromise between my hatred for yarn ends and my inexplicable affinity for that 3dc granny cluster. The Bibi Wrap consists of two granny hexagons that are folded and sewn together to form shoulders and a back. The pattern contains options for personalisation: the width of the collar, the length and width of the belt, and the sleeves.
But really, its real trump card is that you can make it with any yarn you want. I have made it with mercerised cotton yarn and a 4mm hook; I have also made it with a 8mm hook and three strands of scrap yarn. I would make a third version with crazier summery colours and yarn scraps, but I am now working on a new pattern for really fun purses.
The other new pattern that I launched this week is the Ori Wrap. I guess it is unusual because this is one of my rare patterns that isn't based on yarn scraps or that haven't been tested with yarn scraps. Unless you want to test it for me? It is similar to the Bibi Wrap in the sense that it uses two hexagons as the foundation of the garment, but the RIBBING. Sorry for swooning over my own design like a ridiculous shameless person, but I am really happy with how the ribbing turned out, and how the axes of the hexagon form these sharp geometric edges that give the Ori Wrap an origami-esque twist. I personally dig the kimono variation more, but the long Berlin winter gives me no choice but to make a long-sleeved version as well.
I was told that it is very cringey to refer to crocheters as hookers, but is it still acceptable to wish you Happy Hooking?