Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Fibonacci scarf

My 14 year old boy, Mouse, is kinda obsessed with patterns. He's also almost a maths geek - I'm working on making him more so. And since he's always cold in winter (yes, I may be in Australia, but this town gets bloody freezing) I figured I'd make him a mathematics based scarf.
I present to you, The Fibonacci Scarf.





You probably can't see a Fibonacci sequence in it, so I'll tell you how I've done it.
Chain 25.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end of row.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end of row.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch3 treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.

And now it gets tricky. I could either have done 21 rows, then 34, or I could reverse it. So, I reversed it - like so...

Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end, turn, ch3 treb into 1st, treb to end.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end of row.
Change colour, ch 3, treb into 1st, treb to end of row.

Then I finished off by single stitching into each stitch.

For this one, I used 3 different yarns, each 8ply. I used two together (red, yellow and blue yarns, combined into red and yellow, blue and yellow and blue and red), alternating the three. My hook is a lovely electric blue aluminium hook in size 6.0mm.


A note on my crochet, by the way. I'm in Australia, and as much as I can read and use both US and UK patterns, I write mine in UK terminology.

Also, I'll be updating on a new "recipe" I tried today. It will on this blog instead of The Balloon Whisk because it isn't food. I'm trialling it at the moment, so will let you know how it went after I'm done.

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