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This snood is based off the Perky Snood pattern which was published in 1942. I made slight modifications as I obviously wasn't going to win yarn chicken using a partial skein of Coats & Clark O.N.T. Speed-Cro-Sheen. I ended up subtracting an increase row, a body row, and a decrease row, and it still was not enough to win yarn chicken! Thankfully I had another Speed-Cro-Sheen skein in white to use for the single crochet edging that encased my elastic chain.
- 3.5mm hook (E)
- 89 yards Coats & Clark O.N.T. Speed-Cro-Sheen in Navy
- 11 yards Coats & Clark O.N.T. Speed-Cro-Sheen in White
- 3 days off and on work (June 14-16)
- subtracted increase row, body row, and decrease row
- used crochet hook to chain elastic before crocheting over it for the edging.
June 16, 2019
Lost yarn chicken with the navy even though I removed 3 rows from the snood (1 of the increases, 1 of the body, and 1 of the decreases). I was 8 yards short. To compensate I found what I presume to be the same brand of yarn but in white in my stash.
Great project for thread leftovers!
And the navy I feel like will go with plenty of my outfits and colors: red, orange, yellow, navy, pink, violet, black, brown, etc.
I’m not sure how I feel about the white contrasting band but perhaps it will grow on me!
And I hope to crochet/knit some detachable accessories for the snood as well.
My wonderful mother took a couple (cough-200 cough) photos with me wearing the snood, a 1943 blouse/dress WIP (pay no attention to the missing buttons and threads), one of my mother’s pencil skirts (really need to find myself one or make one), my brown Clarks (likely from the 90’s), red lipstick, my sad victory rolls, and of course had to include the seamed hosiery (good ol’ eyeliner!). Hey it's period accurate!
Pattern: Perky Snood by Alice Carroll (1942). Published in Complete Guide to Modern Knitting & Crocheting. Pattern can be found here.
