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May 13th, 2010

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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:

Problem solved!
(yarn: Bernat Solf Boucle, hook: 6mm, pattern: winging it!)

Posted in Experimenting

Tags: craftster, crochet, Keeping Warm, random, Ravelry, scrap, slippers

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Busy and bleary-brained

March 19th, 2009

mio

I couldn’t just let that one circle sit by itself, so:
interlocked crochet rings

This one is really taxing my brain! Usually I’m pretty good at seeing how things fit together, but something about this is just twisting my brain into knots. I’ve already had to cut one ring off because it was going in the wrong direction.

I’m really, really hoping that after doing a few more rings that it’ll start making sense. Fingers crossed! (Hmm… a bit hard to crochet this way…)

Posted in Experimenting

Tags: Bernat Satin, crochet, scrap

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Lesson of the Day

March 1st, 2009

mio

I tried out my double-ended circular hooks last night. Well, they didn’t really work for what I wanted to do, though.

What I wanted to do was this:
red wedge

What IS “this”?

Well, it’s my attempt at the short row tunisian dishcloth pattern in a blanket size. There’s six wedges, and I love rainbows, so it seemed natural to do six colours in rainbow order.

So I started the orange wedge:
red and orange wedges

Now, I started with a full ball of the red and had lots left over. I started with a full ball of the orange and ran out about three and a half rows short. No big deal! Just another excuse to go stash diving.

No more orange? $@#&!

I could probably get away with one less row, but three? And a half?
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