I’ve been in a bit of a lull, craft-wise, for the last few weeks – I became strangely addicted to making crochet throws and couldn’t summon up the energy to do anything more challenging than go round and round the outside of a square. But my second one is now finished, and I’m not starting [...]
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On the needles and off the hook
Posted in Crochet, Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged cardigan, Coraline, crochet, Habu, Knitting, ysolda on May 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Spring Garden Crochet Throw
Posted in Cats, Crochet, Finished Objects, tagged cats, crochet, throw on April 14, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Remember the crochet throw I picked up again a couple of weeks ago? The one where it had taken me nearly two years to do 30 squares? Well, going round and round the edge of 25 of those squares proved much easier, not to mention more addictive, and it’s finished in just a fortnight! I [...]
Pretty knits
Posted in Crochet, Finished Objects, Knitting, Sewing, tagged cardigan, crochet, Peasy, Sewing, skirt, socks on March 31, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Two knitted FOs to share tonight, the first is the socks I spun the yarn for a couple of weeks ago – The fibre is BFL, hand-dyed by the lovely Fiona at Grace and Jacob in York. I spun it as a fine single then chain plied it to get about 220m of fingering weight [...]
Hooked
Posted in Crochet on June 16, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’m not a huge crochet fan, partly because I’m not very good at it (I can do doubles and trebles, but I’ve never been very good at following a pattern), and partly because crochet garments never quite cut it with me, but I’ve seen a few pretty granny square WIPs in blogland lately, and when [...]
