Monthly Archives: February 2013

My dear crocheters. You have been so kind and so patient, lo these many years, waiting for crochet patterns. And today, your patience will be rewarded for the first time. Today we are releasing our first crochet pattern, created just for you by an amazing crochet designer named Ryan Hollist. (Ryan designs under the name Joe d’Arc Crochet; you can see more of his designs here.)

I met Ryan at a trunk show in Salt Lake City at a really cool yarn shop called Blazing Needles. (Seriously. I was the uncoolest person in this shop by a mile.) Herriot hadn’t even been released yet, but when I saw Ryan’s work, I knew we needed him to design something just for our crocheters using all the colors of Herriot.

Here’s what Ryan has to say about Berzelius:

I started exploring Tunisian crochet over the past year.  I really enjoy it.  The textures and colorwork possibilities very intriguing.  However, I found there seemed to be something of a block to many in the yarn craft community to giving Tunisian crochet a try.  Mainly, people seemed hesitant to make the investment in the long Tunisian/afghan hooks usually necessary for doing Tunisian crochet.  I wanted to provide something to the community that would help people experience Tunisian crochet without making them commit to the investment of another set of tools–that investment could come later, if they wanted.  What came out of my experimentation was the ribbon technique used in the Berzelius scarf.

If anyone is interested in the origin of the name, it’s partly a bit of Google randomness and my recent gravitation to naming designs after famous scientists.  Berzelius is in reference to Jons Jacob Berzelius, one of the fathers of modern chemistry.

I present to you the Tunisian Bias Ribbon Scarf!

Although this is a Tunisian crochet pattern, it is designed to use a standard crochet hook. Between the clear directions in the pattern, and the tutorials provided, you should have no problems if this this your first Tunisian crochet project.

Berzelius can be downloaded as a pdf here, or anytime from the free patterns page. If you’d like to add the pattern to your Ravelry projects or queue, you’ll find it right here.  (You can also leave a comment for Ryan there about how awesome this scarf is!)

For excellent tutorials, check out Kim Guzman’s youtube videos here. Kim is the go-to resource for all things Tunisian Crochet and she tech edited this pattern for us.

Lauria is thinking about having a Crochet-Along hosted on the JMF Ravelry group. Anyone want to join her?

EDITED TO ADD: Here’s the link to the crochet along! We’ll start March 1st!