March 19th, 2009 
mio I couldn’t just let that one circle sit by itself, so:
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…)
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:
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:
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?
Luckily I found some in the scrap stash, but is it enough?
It was! And I’d love to show you a picture of it. But the batteries in my camera died after taking this shot:
I think it’s the finished Lollipop blanket. Do you think it needs a border?
January 21st, 2009 mio Next on my list of ongoing projects is baby blankets for Neighbour To Neighbour in Hamilton. They are putting together layette sets to give to poor new mothers. This is another charity project that my Mom’s sorority is involved with. Again, Mom doesn’t knit or crochet, so she buys me the yarn and I whip up the blankets.
We’ve been using Bernat Baby Co-ordinates, and two strands, using a J/10 – 6mm hook. I like using two strands because it expands the number of colours from which I can choose.
This is my favourite of the bunch:
I like this one because it shows off the colour mixing (and it’s pretty!).
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January 4th, 2009 mio In an effort to distract you myself from the Crochet-A-Long, I’ve started making a scrap-ghan. I’ve been using Bernat Satin for most of my projects lately, and I’ve been wanting to make a yo-yo scrap-ghan since seeing this one on Craftster.
Here’s where I am so far:
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Tags: 12" square, afghan, Bernat Satin, blanket, Crochet-A-Long, scrap, yo-yo 
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