April 9th, 2009 
mio My second swap partner, MareMare, received the motifs I sent her. If you’re curious, here they are, along with the patterns I used for them:
Haley’s Comet – from Crochet Stitch Motifs – 250 Stitches To Crochet, page 61:
Mediterranean Circle – from Crochet Stitch Motifs – 250 Stitches To Crochet, page 209:
Flower Petal Dishcloth and Potholder:
Four round standard granny square (with Boa!) :
Star To Star – from Crochet Stitch Motifs – 250 Stitches To Crochet, page 214:
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?
February 25th, 2009 mio A couple of days ago I posed a question about a blanket layout. I didn’t just post it here, but also on Twitter and Craftster. The response was overwhelming, and who am I to ignore the masses?
So, tonight I started sewing together all of the finished green hexagons I had so far, using the winning layout (despite the winner being the opposite of the way I was leaning).
Here are the first two joined:
Looking good! Looking good!
What?
Oh! You went and looked at the various places I did the poll, eh? Well, aren’t you the thorough little blog reader!
Ok, I confess. I *meant* to join them the other way. I’m not sure what happened here. Don’t worry, though; I ripped out the stitching and did it right the second time:
I’m getting annoying little gaps in the corners, so I’m going to have to do something about that at some point. I’ll decide exactly what that something is once I get the whole blanket together.
Today at work I made some progress on the yellow star blanket:
I think one more work day and it’ll be done.
I’ll leave you for today with this final thought:
You know you’re a yarnaholic when you come home to find your stuffed bear reading one of your knitting books:
February 23rd, 2009 mio Or participate in a poll. One or the other.
I’ve made a bunch of swirly hexagons up and, after consuming copious amounts of caffeine to counter the hypnotic effects, I posed them in a couple of ways for your consideration.
Which do you prefer?
Option 1 (aka Klingon Layout)
Option 2 (aka Opposite Layout)
Vote in the comments! Or via e-mail if you’d prefer: fantastic dot mio at gmail dot com
In the meantime, I’ve joined a swap on Craftster! Specifically, the Amazing Crochet Motif Swap. It’s being run by my favourite crochet pusher on Craftster, craftADDchick (some of you may remember her from the 12″ square crochet-a-long). It should be fun!
In completely unrelated news, I’ve bought a new book! You see, Charles wanted to get out of the house this weekend, and really wanted to get some new reading material so we headed off to Chapters at Runnymede. He took lots of pictures, and I bought a book:
I’ve barely had a chance to look at it, really. What post-it notes? Oh, and just ignore Charles if he suggests that I’ve been keeping the book next to the bed so that it’s handy just before I go to sleep. (My most creative time is between 11pm and 1am. It’s a curse.)
And he didn’t even buy anything. *sigh*
Anyhow, more pictures from my trip to Alberta under the cut!
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Posted in Afghans 
Tags: 12" square, afghan, Bernat Satin, blanket, Christmas, crochet, Crochet-A-Long, hexagon, swirl, Tunisian 
4 Comments » February 22nd, 2009 mio So, usually I’d have posted by now. Where have I been?
It’s the swirly hexagon that got me! (swiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrly!) I wanted to see how many hexes I could make with one ball of Bernat Satin.
Apparently almost five. I was just one long row and one wedge away from making five, to be exact. (swiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrly!!)
I’ve decided to go with a mix of solids and two-colour hexes, so I’m well on my way to finishing the green one, which is great news!
I should probably find out how big a child’s blanket normally is, though. Anyone?
