I don’t crochet very often these days, knitting having filled my fiber craft needs fairly well for that last few years :)  However, with the completion of the afghan, I have realized that, for the time being, crochet is easier on my hands.  So I went through my wools and wool blends.  I have lots of ones and twosies of - big surprise - pinks and purples.  I also have several hanks of a medium, heathery blue-green that would compliment them.  I had in mind making another blanket.

However, after testing out a couple of patterns, I couldn’t settle on anything that especially tripped my trigger.  Maybe I didn’t want to make another blanket?

And then, this morning at about 5:00, I woke up with the word scrumble running round and round in my head.  And so, since I couldn’t go back to sleep, I turned on the lap top and went in search :)

This site, Crochet by Sylvia Cosh and James Walters offers a series of tutorials as starting points for scrumbling which is a sort of free-form fabric or item creation often using crochet but sometimes including knitting and other fiber arts.  There are separate sets of instructions for US and British crocheters.  Prudence Mapstone (Knot just Knitting) is also a seminal figure in the field.

There is also an extensive gallery of the work of various talented people ranging from whimsical to fine art.  Kay Adolphson’s Ancient Future and Jeanne Taylor’s From Little Acorns are amazing pieces of art and not what most people think of when they consider crochet.

I confess, given that this is a free-form style, the idea of tutorials and instructions make me a bit nervous.  I mean, how can anything free-form have rules?  But I suppose there are basics for everything, so I will read and learn what I can and I will look at the magnificent work that others have done and be inspired.

And I will play :)

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Chatters is on for Saturday evening!  Bring your knitting (or crocheting!) and join the fun :)

Happy Spring - and have a great weekend!
Chatters is on for Saturday evening!