Weldon's Sixth Series - Jar for Pence

I decided to make the Jar for Pence (not that Pence!) for this week's project. It looked pretty adorable in the illustration.

The pattern says I need one skein of pale blue and a small amount of white fingering weight wool and a No. 10 bone needle. I used some Teksrena Wool that a friend gave me in turquoise and light gray. The current equivalent to the No. 10 hook is a size E or 3.5mm.

I didn't rewrite the pattern because it seemed pretty straightforward when I read through it. I think that this was one of the quickest projects I've made so far from the Weldon's book.

Jar instructions in UK terms.

To start, I tried to follow their directions of working eight single crochets into a joined chain of three but it was hard to get eight of them into that tiny circle so I did a magic circle instead. The base is basically a circle and goes through round five before it switches to double crochet. In row six you start making popcorn stitches. They don't call them that and they have a slightly different way of making them. Instead of dropping the last stitch and putting the hook through the top of the first stitch in the group they have you somehow "catch the crochet hook in the top stitch of the first." That has the benefit of not dropping a stitch but I couldn't make it work so I did the popcorn stitches my way. After I adjusted for that the rest of it went pretty fast. I would have just made the handles separately and sewn them on but they crocheted them on as they went. I thought that was a clever way of attaching them.

​The jar is about 3 inches tall and 4.5 inches across. I used only 12 grams of yarn to make this so it would be a good scrap project. 

Time for scoring:
Is the pattern easy to understand? Yes. 1.0
Does it look like the illustration? Yes 1.0
Would someone wear or use this? Yes, we have coins in it right now. 1.0
Did I enjoy making this? Yes! 1.0

This project gets a 4 out of 4!