The Hyperbolic Scrumble

Scrumble-Along  

Free Form Crochet

Join me in an online Scrumble making frenzy of crocheting freedom and enjoyment.

Rules -

• You start and finish whenever you please.
• You can do just one, or a couple, or all, of the scrumbles
• You can do them in any order you like
• You can alter and change the stitches whenever you want to
• You use whatever wool. yarn, or thread you have to hand
• Feel free to do your own thing

My most important Rule for Free Form Crochet Scrumbling is this:-

• Adapt, change, disregard, add, adjust, customize, harmonize, modify, turn, change colour, reject, change hook size, use weird or unusual thread combinations......... (do you get the idea yet?)

I'd love to see photos of scrumbles you create from this "Scrumble-Along" event. Let me know where I can find your photos.

Scrumbles do not usually have instructions or a pattern to follow as they are meant to be totally innovative, unique and have a "free-form" style.

I have included the stitches I used to make my scrumbles only as a guideline for you to follow as much or as little as you wish.

 You do not have to follow my instructions exactly as written. Feel free to alter, change and modify to suit yourself.

  The Hyperbolic Scrumble
 

  

These instructions are using English crochet terminology. I have included the American crochet terms at the end of the article for your convenience if you should need it. 

Abbreviations key is at the end too.

This scrumble uses one colour and adds a highly textured 3-D scrumble to your collection and is one of my favourites. Very "organic" looking.

Don't worry if you loose count of what st to do. The exact number of stitches does not matter. The idea is just to increase the number of stitches on each subsequent round.

Ch5, sl st to 1st ch to make a ring.

Round 1: 16 dc into ring. Close round with a sl st to 1st dc made. (Do not turn)

Round 2: Ch3 (counts as 1st tr, throughout). 1 tr in same st, *1 tr in each of next 2 sts. 2 tr in next st*. Repeat from asterisk * to the end of the round and close this round (and all following rounds) with a sl st to top of the ch3 starting stitch.

Round 3: Ch3, 1 tr in same st, *2 tr in next st, 1 tr in next st* repeat till end of round and close round as before.

Round 4: Ch3, 1 tr in same st. 2 tr in each st to end of round. Close round as before, cut yarn and finish off.

You can, if you want to, make a "fuller" ball by carrying on with more rounds (repeat increase rounds 3 and/or 4 as many times as required).

Have fun.

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If you want to use American terminology you will have to change my stitch names for the following:-

 UK........................................USA

dc (double crochet) .............. sc (single crochet)

tr  (treble)............................. dc (double crochet)

Universal

sl st (slip stitch)

ch (chain)

st (stitch)

sts (stitches)

Scrumble-Along Intro

Scrumble-Along  

Free Form Crochet

Join me in an online Scrumble making frenzy of crocheting freedom and enjoyment.

Rules -

• You start and finish whenever you please.
• You can do just one, or a couple, or all, of the scrumbles
• You can do them in any order you like
• You can alter and change the stitches whenever you want to
• You use whatever wool. yarn, or thread you have to hand
• You can follow my "Scrumble-Along" designs or use your own designs
• Feel free to do your own thing

My most important Rule for Free Form Crochet Scrumbling is this:-

• Adapt, change, disregard, add, adjust, customize, harmonize, modify, turn, change colour, reject, change hook size, use weird or unusual thread combinations......... (do you get the idea yet?)

I'd love to see photos of scrumbles you create from this "Scrumble-Along" event. Let me know where I can find your photos.

Intro

 All my instructions or guidelines are using UK terminology but I will translate some of the stitches in the Scrumble-Along for our American crochet friends.

This is a quick introduction to what is needed for the making of Crochet Scrumbles.

You do not need everything that I have listed here, this is just a guideline to give you an indication of what you could use.

Crochet Hooks 

A variety of sizes. 

Hook Brands are a matter of personal preference so use whatever hooks you are happy with.

The largest one in this photo is a 7 and the smallest is a 2, but you can quite easily do your scrumbles with only one or two sizes.

 Wool - Yarn - Thread

 Raid your yarn stash (or beg and borrow from friends) and pull out all those small balls and left-over pieces.

Throw them all on the floor and sort through them discarding all those that don't 'go' with the colour scheme, or those that just really don't look good in the bundle.

 When you have finished sorting through them you should be left with a fairly harmonized collection to choose from.

The more variety you get in your thread and yarn collection the better.

All thicknesses can be included and I encourage you to try to use up all those fancy-wool yarn ends too.

Your yarn collection can include fluffy, eye-lash, mercerized cotton thread, suede effect, bobbled, mohair, slubbed, feather wool, as well as the more traditional yarns such as 4-ply, 8-ply, worsted, fingering, etc.

The more variety you get in your yarn, the more texture you can create in your scrumbles.