{"id":9878,"date":"2013-04-16T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2013-04-16T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:32:51","slug":"crocheted-icord-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/crocheted-icord-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"crocheted icord scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember this finger-crocheted infinity scarf I made as part of my <a href=\"\/blog\/review-ruffle-yarn\/\">ruffle yarn review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/rufflescarf1.jpg\" alt=\"ruffle yarn scarf: finger crocheted\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Finger crocheted cowl (12 wraps of giant chain stitches)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although I made it just for fun, I quite liked the result, and <em>almost<\/em> wanted to wear it. Wrapping an ultra-skinny scarf 12 times around my neck felt a bit stupid though, so I unravelled it and came up with another fun use for the yarn: I used my own <a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-crochet-an-i-cord\/\">crocheted i-cord tutorial<\/a> (which, incidentally, was my first ever video tutorial!) to make a <strong>finger-crocheted i-cord scarf<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/icord_scarf.jpg\" alt=\"ruffle yarn scarf: finger crocheted i-cord\" \/><br \/>\n<em>I-cord infinity scarf (4 chunky wraps of i-cord)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The great thing about i-cord is it makes a round braid instead of a flat chain &#8211; it&#8217;s thicker and stronger than a chain. For knitters, you can just knit i-cord on dpns, but, if you don&#8217;t knit, you might like to try <a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-crochet-an-i-cord\/\">crocheting an i-cord<\/a> too. There are lots of things you can use i-cord for: in amigurumi-making, as a trim, to make drawstrings or tiebacks, as bag handles, to coil into a mat, etc, etc&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-crochet-an-i-cord\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/i-cord.jpg\" alt=\"crocheted i-cord\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was easy to make my i-cord scarf &#8211; I used my index finger as a giant crochet hook and otherwise followed my tutorial exactly. And the colour changes of the yarn worked out well: by coincidence, they matched up almost perfectly with the length of one row, so each row is a different colour: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/icord_scarf2.jpg\" alt=\"ruffle yarn scarf: finger crocheted i-cord\" \/><br \/>\n<em>My finger is the &#8216;hook&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m left-handed, remember!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My finger was a bit tired after finger-crocheting the entire skein of yarn into i-cord, but I&#8217;m happy with the resulting scarf. As each row of i-cord is essentially 3 chains arranged together into a circle, it reduced the length of my scarf from 12 skinny wraps around my neck to 4 chunky ones. It was fun to make, and who knows, I may even wear this version out of the house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember this finger-crocheted infinity scarf I made as part of my ruffle yarn review: Finger crocheted cowl (12 wraps of giant chain stitches) Although I made it just for fun, I quite liked the result, and almost wanted to wear it. Wrapping an ultra-skinny scarf 12 times around my neck felt a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}