Renaissance Snood...forty-seventh attempt...

Well, maybe not forty-seventh, but it sure feels like it sometimes.  I have scoured the web for directions on making my own fancy snood, and have never turned up anything with merit.  For those who are not as big a geek as I am, a snood is a sort of medieval or renaissance hair net thingy, but without the negative lunch lady qualities.

The first time I tried, I didn't know how to crochet in the round, so I made a great big triangle, and sewed it up the side.  It came out as a far-too0tight cone.  Hideous.

The next few tries ended up in the trash as I used either difficult yarn or a bad technique and got them hopelessly tangled.

Finally, I gave up on the full-head look, and just made a fancy bun cover.  It came out nice and all, but wasn't really what I wanted.

So, after seeing the size of the gaps and such when I crocheted the Yarn Bag of Yarn (found here) I thought I might be on to something, and decided to give it ONE more try.

And it came out decent.  Still not amazing, but better then I thought.

I don't actually know what kind of yarn I used for this, as it was just plucked from the scrap bin.  I believe it was some form of Holiday sparkle something or other.  It has a thick strand of white, and a thin strand of a silver metallic thread.  The bulk of the snood was done on a US size Q hook.  It ended up being a fairly simple pattern.

I started with a chain of three, single crocheted two in each of those, so I had six, then started the double crochets that made up the body.  I did a simple circular expansion (I know, I keep using this and never explaining it!  I will do a simple tutorial for it tomorrow!)  The expansion went on for 7 rounds, adding 6 onto each round, so at the end, there were 42 double crochets.  I did a round of single crochet, then switched to a US size K hook and single crocheted two more rounds.

Confession time:  I have been crocheting for about ten years now, and it has only just occurred to me to try switching between hook sizes in a single project.

The finished project is a bit flimsy, but I think that is more from my rushing through it and not bothering to tighten everything up then anything.  Now, to make it really fancy, I want to try to make one following the same idea, but with only single crochet, and add beads onto it.

I'll post it when I actually get around to that one!!