Lurgyfied

Hello my dears how are you all. I do hope you’re not suffering with winter ailments. If you are, you have my sympathies, as I have nursed some awful winter virus, since before Christmas. I won’t bore you with details, but I’ve felt pretty rotten. Just when I think I’ve seen the last of it, it comes back. I just can’t seem to shake the blasted thing off!! It’s like a boomerang!!

I must admit, it’s the perfect excuse for just sitting down with some yarn and hooks n sticks. I’ve been working on a pair of socks for my daughter.

Tiger Socks

As you can see, I prefer to knit 2 socks at a time, that way there’s no dreaded ‘second sock syndrome’. I’ve turned the heel and I’m working on the foot part, so it won’t take me long to finish.

I’ve also been crocheting some squares for the ‘Vintage Square Throw’. As some of you may know, this is the throw that is included in the Art of Crochet partwork. I’ve not been keeping up to date with the throw and as the first dozen or so squares were my first attempts at crochet, well, they weren’t too brilliant. As expected, my tension has changed, I also know what I’m doing stitchwise. So whilst I’ve been lurgyfied, I unpicked them all and started again. This time, however, I am substituting some of the squares. Over on Facebook, there is an Art of Crochet group which I’ve joined. A lot of the members have done a similar thing, whereby they’ve altered the squares with cross stitching/embroidery . Quite frankly, it is very awkward to cross stitch over trebles (US double crochet). The finished patterns don’t sit properly as trebles are tall stitches. They would’ve looked better worked over double crochet as this is more of a square stitch.

Here are my first 6 revised squares

The original squares were 13cm (5″ square, but as I’m using some of Jan Eaton squares which are 15cm (6″, I’m having to bump them all up to the larger size. I just hope that the free yarn will stretch to cover the extra dimensions.

Till next time when hopefully I’ll have rid myself of this bug once and for all.

Keep on crafting xx