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The Pixie Pouch Belt, Part 1
Oct. 13th, 2021 07:44 amAfter perusing the tutorial on Morale Fiber, I decided to make my own Pixie Pocket Belt. Among other things, it will get me Mildly Disapproving Looks from the more historical sticklers at Camelot Days, which is my area's less-strictly-historical Rennaissance-Festival-type-thing. Meanwhile, the hippies will all immediately want one (which means I need to get creative about making more if there turns out to be local demand).
For the base, I used Urth Yarns' Uneek Chunky 3-Ply (now called Koozoo) in color 7006. (Because of the name change, the Uneek Chunky was on clearance at my local yarn store. Yay?) Urth Yarns plants a tree in Africa for every skein of yarn sold, which helps improve soil quality and prevent erosion, and I'm totally down with that. I went extra-bulky for 2 reasons.
1: to make the base up quicker, and
2: to finally use the N-13 (9mm) crochet hook that a friend destashed on me a couple years ago.
After working my foundation chain, I did 2 rows of straight-up dc in each stitch. Simple, quick, and super-funky with the way this yarn is dyed. (It's self-striping, and each bit is hand-dyed, so there are still bits of undyed white peeking out all over the yarn. Yay!)
The downside of using wool for crochet is that it's very stretchy, and sure enough, I now had something a whole foot longer than my waist! On the plus side, this meant I could use the dc's as buttonholes for small buttons.
I used a gray acrylic to make my chains for adding fabric later; it means it's not all natural fibers, but acrylic doesn't stretch nearly as much. Hopefully that will limit the stretch in the finished piece so it doesn't go flopping off while I'm wearing it.
Next up: pouches!
For the base, I used Urth Yarns' Uneek Chunky 3-Ply (now called Koozoo) in color 7006. (Because of the name change, the Uneek Chunky was on clearance at my local yarn store. Yay?) Urth Yarns plants a tree in Africa for every skein of yarn sold, which helps improve soil quality and prevent erosion, and I'm totally down with that. I went extra-bulky for 2 reasons.
1: to make the base up quicker, and
2: to finally use the N-13 (9mm) crochet hook that a friend destashed on me a couple years ago.
After working my foundation chain, I did 2 rows of straight-up dc in each stitch. Simple, quick, and super-funky with the way this yarn is dyed. (It's self-striping, and each bit is hand-dyed, so there are still bits of undyed white peeking out all over the yarn. Yay!)
The downside of using wool for crochet is that it's very stretchy, and sure enough, I now had something a whole foot longer than my waist! On the plus side, this meant I could use the dc's as buttonholes for small buttons.
I used a gray acrylic to make my chains for adding fabric later; it means it's not all natural fibers, but acrylic doesn't stretch nearly as much. Hopefully that will limit the stretch in the finished piece so it doesn't go flopping off while I'm wearing it.
Next up: pouches!
