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Crochet Pink Panta

April 11, 2006 by Katie Lee

First off, apologies for the pic – I seem to suffer from some sort of facial tic that causes me to stick my tongue out as soon as there’s a camera pointing at me. I did take a load of tongue-free snaps, but they all made me look like I was about to sneeze, so this one was the best of a bad lot.

Second off, I don’t actually know if this qualifies as a panta or not, but how could I resist the opportunity for that punnish post header? I decided to make this little headband thing the other night on a whim. I just chained till it was a little over-sized for my head (size 3mm crochet hook, I think), and did a row of double crochet (US sc) about 6 chains in (to make the fastening loop). Then I decided to do a row of half trebles (US hdc). For the bobble, I just made it up – slip stitched into the end of the headband and did a load of chains which I then kept knotting up until I had a nice big knot to act as a fastener.

I’m rather pleased with it – not least because it took about 5 seconds to create.

Filed Under: Shinykatie Makes... Tagged With: Craft, crochet, Crochet Panta, free pattern, Good Hooking

Crochet Panta

March 19, 2006 by Katie Lee

Two words I’d never even heard until recently: shrug and panta. The former because I’m not a fashionista type and it takes me a while to catch on; the latter because I don’t snowboard. But while they may be fairly new additions to my (already extensive) vocabulary, they seem to be all I’m crocheting right now.

(Well, that’s not strictly true, but let’s just continue the pretence for the sake of this post. It’s neater that way.)

After a string of recent failures (I really don’t want to talk about the fact that I’ve just had to entirely unpick the shrug I’ve spent the past week crocheting, the bitterness lingers still) I was ready to build a big bonfire and throw all my wool and crochet hooks into the conflagration (see what I mean about that vocab). So, to perk myself up again, I popped over to Crafster and got this nifty little panta pattern. A couple of hours later I had a panta of my very own. Some might say it’s a little on the small side, and so by rights is more of a “headband”, but I pay no heed to quibbles over semantics.

It’s the first time I’ve had a go at ribbed crochet, so I’m mighty pleased to have given that a whirl. An easy peasy panta that’s fun and quick to make. My faith in crochet has been restored…
for now.

Find out how to make a Panta here.

Filed Under: Shinykatie Makes... Tagged With: Crochet clothes, Crochet Panta, free pattern, Good Hooking

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