It’s A Square Thing

Crochet
Jan 312012

Well hello dear readers. Is it cold enough for you out there, today? Two words spring to mind today. Brass Monkeys!! Yes, it’s that cold. I’m sitting here trying to get warm after being out for a couple of hours in the cold. I think maybe this may help.

Hazelnut Hot Choc

Hazelnut Hot Choc

Hazelnut flavoured hot chocolate with lots of mini marshmallow. Mmmmmmm.

OK, enough with the drooling over my hot choc. Let’s get back to crafty suff. As I mentioned previously, I’ve been busy with my hooks making loads of squares.

I made my squares for my SIBOL Swap partner, as well as her little gift.

Jan/Feb 2012 SIBOL Swap

Jan/Feb 2012 SIBOL Swap

And I’ve been making squares for my Art of Crochet Throw. You can see my first lot in this post. Here are the next half dozen

I’m also in the process of making a lap blanket to send to SIBOL. I have a fair bit of old acrylic yarn dating back to the 80s. Different colours including black, which is perfect for this type of project. I know there are lots of yarn snobs out there but let me tell you that the acrylic available now, compared to the 1980s version in my stash, is like chalk and cheese. Quite literally, the old stuff would “squeak” whilst knitting or crocheting and was quite scratchy. Not so today with the likes of Stylecraft Special or King Cole Pricewise. Very soft and smooth to work with. I have some newer acrylic but not much. Something that I will have to remedy this year :D

Till next time. Keep warm. Wear something knitted!

 

 

Posted by moleymakes on 31 January, 2012 2 Responses » Tagged with: , ,

Monthly Makes – Jan 2012

Crochet
Jan 302012

Brrrrrr. Apparently we’re in for a bit of a cold snap, with the possibility of some white fluffy stuff. All I know is when that wind comes in from Russia, it just howls up the Thames estuary making things very nippy indeed.

As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been quite busy this month. I’ve been mainly doing crochet squares for my throw and various swaps. They’re not quite proper “makes” in the sense of completed projects, so I’m not too sure whether they would count for “A Monthly Makes”. However, I did make a little gift for my swap partner.

Crochet Hearts

Lacy Crochet Hearts

It’s this that I’ve entered in January’s Monthly Makes. It’s a free pattern I found on Ravelry called Lacy Hearts by Daniela Herbertz.  They’re very easy to make. You could make them all one size and make a pretty garland with them. Just the thing for Valentine’s Day, or as I did, as hanging decorations.

 

 

 

Posted by moleymakes on 30 January, 2012 2 Responses » Tagged with: ,

Lurgyfied

Crochet, Knitting
Jan 052012

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″winking square, but as I’m using some of Jan Eaton squares which are 15cm (6″winking, 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

 

Posted by moleymakes on 5 January, 2012 6 Responses » Tagged with: ,
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