Posts Tagged ‘Keeping Warm’

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1. I’ve started up the Crochet Board challenges again on Craftster (click here). This time around the theme is “fantasy”. You have to have a Craftster account to enter, but accounts are free (and rewarding, imo!)

2. I’ve also started compiling Craftster-hosted “How To Crochet” tutorials here. There are only a few there at the moment, but that will change soon! Read the post and help out if you can!

3. I’m officially a “designer” on Ravelry (here I am – you need a Ravelry account to see this. Again, it’s free and rewarding!)

4. One of the main reasons I love crocheting is this: one day my feet were cold. The next:
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Problem solved!
(yarn: Bernat Solf Boucle, hook: 6mm, pattern: winging it!)

You were saying?

Well, it took three tries, but I think I finally got it right!

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For an idea of why I was going through so much trouble to make a mitten, well, here’s the one I made next to the one I try to cram my hand into every day in the winter:

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Of course, the warmer weather will be here any day now (right? Right???), so this might be of limited use this year. But I’m happy with it all the same.

What do you mean, I’m supposed to make two of them?

Dainty it ain’t

Today’s motif is from the same book, motif #29 found on p68, in the hexagon section.

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I was really hoping for a lighter motif, but this one is quite dense in the middle, and it’s very heavy. It also curls inward, but I think it would do ok if joined to other motifs. I’d hesitate to tile this motif, as the resulting fabric would be really heavy… though, I suppose that depends a lot on the yarn.

And, hey look! Another hat!

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And the other side:
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Pictures don’t do the colours justice. I took a lot of pictures of this hat. In full sun, in difused sun, with flash, without flash, with indoor lights of various types… you’ll just have to take my word for it: it’s pretty. ^_^

It’s Bernat Satin again, about 3/4 of a ball of teal, and almost an entire ball of “Luxury Ombre”, which is the variegated yarn.

It’s the same pattern as my last hat, but I did 45 stitches to start instead of 50. It turned out a little bit too small for my liking… the brim doesn’t cover the whole of my ears. Ah well, I’m sure I’ll find a use for it.

This is how much of the variegated yarn I had left after making this:
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Good thing I bought more than one. ^_-