I can see the potential to use either technique to create insertions of unusual yarn in the middle of garments made from otherwise fairly ordinary yarn. Rita's book Crochet for Knitters: A Marriage of Hook and Needles explores this. Because of the long loops, this is another technique with the potential to show off ribbon or art yarns.īecause both broomstick lace and hairpin lace involve making rows of live loops, they lend themselves to collaboration with knitting. You can even make a strip and gather all the loops on one side together for form a circle. If you want the strip to be wavy, you can join single loops and then join a cluster together to cause the strip to twist to the side. You can use different-sized hairpin forks to make the strips narrower or wider. You can change how loops are laced together or join them alternative ways. You can offset the spine so both sets of loops are not the same size. Two stripes of hairpin lace joined at center and crocheted around edges Crowns of single crochet were worked on the sides to form eyes from the remaining loops. In the swatch below, two strips of hairpin lace have been joined by lacing clusters of four loops up the center of the swatch. Typical hairpin lace projects involve making strips and then joining the strips together, either by crocheting or lacing (what knitters would call Russian grafting). Something about hairpin lace reminds me of a centipede. Stitching Tools, Accessories for Knitting, Sewing, Quilting, DIY Arts and Crafts. There are two rows of opposing loops secured in their shared center by a crocheted spine. I purchased these knitting needles to do crochet broomstick lace. In hairpin lace the loops are created on a hairpin fork.
Hairpin lace can resemble broomstick lace in that both make big loops grouped together. I can definitely see this done with a ribbon yarn and I am wondering how it would work for an art yarn? I am also wondering if you could work the big loops with a ribbon yarn but crochet them off with something plain? And then there is the question of adding long bugle beads? Or what if you made the loops and then wove them together? What if you woven a strip of fabric through the loops? What about different stitch patterns between the rows? What about working the eyes in a half-drop formation instead of lined up? What about using stitches other than single crochet for the crown? What about beads across the crown? As you can tell, there is a lot of opportunity for experimentation. In either case, this is a technique that would lends itself to showing off a pretty yarn.
In the photograph below, loops have been crocheted individually to make a mesh reminiscent of condo knitting.īroomstick mesh alternating rows over two different-sized dowels You can see how a group of loops forms and "eye," with a "crown" of single-crochet stitches at the top. These loops are crocheted together in groups, as in the example above. As in knitting but unlike ordinary crochet, there are many loops. In all the pictures below, the swatches are oriented in the direction they were worked, from bottom to top.īroomstick lace is a technique where large loops are created over a broomstick or other oversized dowel, such as a size 35 or 50 knitting needle.
#Broomstick lace tool free
So the free tool should be ok to be used with any broomstick crochet pattern that requires a 3cm-diameter broomstick.On the first day of Rita de Maintenon's workshop we learned two related techniques - broomstick lace and hairpin lace. När det finns automatiska resultat använder du uppåt- och nedåtpilarna för att granska och Retur för att välja. For example, a loop of yarn sitting around the free tool will measure approx 94mm in circumference – divided by pi (31.14), that’s approx 30mm. The Groove Broomstick Lace Tool is the perfect product to use Post includs a free broomstick lace triangle shawl crochet pattern Pinterest. Most patterns quote the diameter of the ‘broomstick’ but if you use a flat broomstick like your free tool, you’ll need to measure the circumference of the tool and divide by pi (3.14) to get the diameter equivalent. You’ll also need a broomstick tool – we’ve used the free tool from Simply Crochet magazine here but you could also use another large ‘broomstick’ such as a crafting dowel, large knitting needle, ruler, marker pen, cardboard tube or an actual broomstick. Grab a standard hook to go with it, in a suitable size for the yarn (check the yarn’s ball band). First things first, you need some yarn – you can use any yarn for broomstick crochet, but when you’re first learning, it’s best to use a smooth DK yarn that won’t split when you work with it.
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