Combine knitting and crochet with an embroidered vintage cloth to create a unique scarf for charity

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Combine some knitting, crochet and a vintage embroidered tray cloth to create a unique and playful scarf. Mix and match colours from your yarn stash to the tray cloth, and make a few scarves to donate to a charity.

project ELSBETH EKSTEEN

DIFFICULTY: easy ‒ basic knitting and crochet stitches are used; medium if you are not used to 'join as you go' technique TIME: a week

SIZE Scarf measures 145cm x 30cm

YOU WILL NEED ♥ vintage tray cloth of 30cm x 43cm ♥ yarns used: ‒ Be Inspired, Floofie, Lilac ‒ Our Tribe, Old Bewick ‒ Loopy #6 ‒ Eris: Vanilla with Neon

Speckles and Chloe: Mint Green and Adventure #3 ‒ Miss La Motte ‒ Twist Sock, Frosted Plum ‒ The Alpaca Yarn Co ‒ Mariquita Handdyed: Baby Alpaca & Tencel Yarn, Spring Peepers # 554 ‒ Loopy #6 ‒ Blended Delight: Merino, Silk, Mohair & Polyamide Sock Yarn, Experiment 101 ‒ Scheepjes, Organic Cotton, Sapling ‒ Assortment colours of mini yarn balls from Scheepjes and Durable ‒ Cowgirlblues, Aran, Lilac ‒ Scheepjes, Colour Cake, Wild Strawberry, held double ‒ Scheepjes, Murderous Mint, held double ‒ Nurturing Fibres, Sock, Lavender ‒ Catona, Blue, Green ‒ Malabrigo, Hollyhock ♥ 3,5mm or 4mm crochet hook ♥ 6mm knitting needles ♥ tapestry needle ♥ embroidery needle ♥ sewing thread ♥ scissors ♥ blocking mat ♥ T-pins ABBREVIATIONS ch ‒ chain dc ‒ double crochet rep ‒ repeat rnd ‒ round

sp ‒ space st(s) ‒ stitch(es) tr ‒ treble

NOTES • We coloured our tray cloth by giving it a bath in diluted Annie Sloan chalk paint, Scandinavian pink. Hang up the cloth in the sun. When dry, rinse it under cold water to get rid of the chalk. Hang it up to dry again. • The scarf is made in sections that you join as you work. Knit and crochet the sections to make the scarf and add the cloth. If your cloth is wider, you can fold it in the middle so that it is as wide as the scarf ‒ do this after you have wet blocked your work because it will stretch.

TO MAKE SECTION 1 Rnds 1‒7: Follow the granny square pattern and make 2 grannies of 7 rnds. Join the 2 squares. Rnds 8 and 9: Crochet 2 rnds of granny stitch around. Bind off. Join Loopy #6, Neon Speckles into a corner and pick up sts along the wide section using the knitting needles. Rows 10‒23: Knit all the sts. Cast off.

SECTION 2 Join yarn into a corner of section 1 with crochet hook and Scheepjes, Sapling. Row 1: ch2, 2tr into same st, 3tr in between granny sts of section 1. Over the length of the knitted part, crochet 6 granny clusters. Row 2: ch3, 3tr in between the sps of the previous row, 1tr into the last st, bind off. Rows 3‒11: rep rows 1 and 2 with these colour changes: 3 and 4: Nurturing Fibres, Lavender 5 and 6: Loopy #3, Adventure 7, 8 and 9: Catona, Blue 10: Wild Strawberry held double 11: Catona, Green

SECTION 3 With 6mm knitting needles and Cowgirlblues, Aran, Lilac, pick up sts along the last crochet border ‒ 2 sts per cluster. Rows 1‒14: Knit all sts and cast off. Join in Malabrigo, Hollyhock into corner and using crochet hook, make granny clusters. Rows 15‒20: Follow instructions for section 2, row 3 and bind off.

SECTION 4 Crochet a granny square of 15 rnds and various colour changes. Crochet 2 granny squares of 8 rnds each. You can join them as you go, or sew them together. Sew the big granny and the other panel together with the tapestry needle. Join all the sections together if you did not use the join as you go method.

CROCHET EDGING The edging is crocheted in between the granny clusters into the knitted edges. With Old Bewick and the crochet hook, join in yarn into a corner, skip granny stitch cluster and work 8tr in between the clusters, dc in between the next cluster; rep all around.

FINISHING Wet block and pin to a blocking mat. Sew your vintage cloth to the edge of the scarf with the embroidery needle and thread of your choice.