{"id":1317,"date":"2021-03-31T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2021-03-31T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:21:32","slug":"mix-and-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/31\/mix-and-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix and match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1320 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bluemarlcoord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A year of hats and scarves &#8211; won\u2019t that get boring? Not to me. Many people might find making the same thing over and over again repetitive. To keep the projects interesting, I have been using different yarns and patterns or trying the same pattern with different yarn. Lately I have been making coordinates instead of matching the hats and scarves with the same stitch pattern in both, I have been using the same yarn and changing the stitch pattern. The sets are made for warmth and may be the only warm item a person has, so I try to make the hats that don\u2019t have a lot of eyelets or lacy features. There are many different patterns to use for scarves but to have the pattern also match a skull cap\/beanie can be limiting unless the design or pattern focuses on color. A few yarns don\u2019t need a lot to make something unique, especially if they are color changing or novelty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1319 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Baskethatlacescarf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Instead of matching the hat and scarf in a set, I figured why not try to use a different stitch, with the same yarn: A coordinate, instead of an exact match. The yarn is the same and gives a bit more creative freedom to the process. If there are stripes in the hat, there can be stripes in the scarf, but why not mix the stitches and match the yarn. The results have been pleasing. Especially when there are patterns that don\u2019t necessarily lend themselves to a hat or a scarf. Long rows of ribbing can make a scarf curl on the edges and it won\u2019t necessarily work to make a border when using a color changing yarn. A scarf can have a design with a little openwork and still be warm, a hat, not so much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1318 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/30ofsixty2021-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I\u2019m at the halfway point of the 60 set goal for 2021! Just completed 30 hat and scarf sets and it\u2019s not even April, and I\u2019m still excited about the project. It\u2019s really not so much about being excited about the project as much as making the sets look unique, especially if I\u2019m using similar yarn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Happy crocheting! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year of hats and scarves &#8211; won\u2019t that get boring? Not to me. Many people might find making the same thing over and over again repetitive. To keep the projects interesting, I have been using different yarns and patterns or trying the same pattern with different yarn. Lately I have been making coordinates instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}