Chunky Crochet

Hello Lovelies,

A couple of weeks ago I showed you some yarn I bought at my local yarn shop for a quick and easy project. I loved the teal colour and the 30 percent wool content. It was reasonably priced at £2.95 a 100g ball............

It's chunky yarn and you can see on the band it recommends 6mm needles, no mention of hook size but that's generally the same anyway...........

So I dug out my 6mm hook and started chaining........

I was using chunky yarn for two reasons. Firstly for warmth , I was pretty sure we were going to get some proper winter weather soon .
The other benefit of using chunky yarn was the speed at which it grows.......this was about half an hour after I started...........

I was just doing U.K. double ( U.S. single ) crochet stitches back and forth but the thickness of the yarn meant the big stitches really showed up the wonderful texture they  created..........

It was great fun whizzing backwards and forwards , with no colour changes to worry about.......the next day I had two ( rather curly ) squares of crochet...........

You could  leave them plain, but for me some embellishment was needed. So I played around creating a sort of flat flower. One of my kind  commenters called it a "Granny Flower" I liked that name.....here's my Granny Flower :0)...........

then it was simply a case of making two and sewing one onto each of my rectangles, before sewing them into a tube.

Here they are .....ta-dah..........

A cosy pair of wrist warmers :0)

 I left a thumb hole, but wrist warmers with no thumb hole seem to be popular at the moment too .

This is where I'm supposed to say how pleased I am with them, but actually they are too big....oh bother........or other words to that effect.

and they don't go with this coat!

So off I went, back  to my  LYS to purchase another ball of yarn as I didn't think I had enough left to make a second pair.

That second pair is finished now and I'm pleased to say they fit. I made them in a different colour with a different embellishment...... just in time for the bad weather. I'm really happy with how they turned out this time....phew.

I'm planning to share the pattern details for both the wrist warmers and the two types of embellishments  ......hopefully  sometime next week.
It's been too long since I shared a pattern with you lovelies and this is a super quick and easy ( suitable for beginners ) project which I hope will enjoy.
Jacquie x