Crochet Update

Its tricky to blog a crochet update with lots of photos to explain about which means it sends my i pad doolally so I have to do a post on the PC.

The above is a thin and possibly too long blanket that would work with a wheelchair or that was the idea when I crochet them together. Its made with all my left over scraps. 

I made this patchwork jacket with the Willow pattern from Jan Eaton because I didn't like the one with the pattern that I was trying to use but in the end I went my own way. Things to work on picking up stitches to make a border. I unpicked it several times and this was the best I could do. There's basically no neck shaping will that need further investigation.

 

I decided I needed a draught excluder so I made one again with leftovers wool

Next I made a star blanket which is earmarked for a baby. Its a pattern from Hooked on Sunshine.

I made this a while ago but I think its Natures Walk Blanket from Cherry Heart, I had all the wool in my stash.

Its been so long since I did an updater and I'm now got three projects on the go. Another leftover squares blanket, Splanna from Crystals and Crochet and Crochet Now have another cal which I've also  started. I want to have a go at a Mandala Madness from Crystals and Crochet got the wool just need to finish the Splanna since I'm near finishing but that won't happen now we actually got the warm weather.

Patches

 So my cardmaking as been taking a back seat I have in my rest time still crocheting. Here's Patches a pattern I got off Etsy from Kornflake Stew. I didn't realise I was so rusty with amigurumi or I'm just twisty crocheter. 

He is long tall chap but I've somehow have twisty legs and especially the arms there's obviously something I'm doing wrong but Hubby says he looks OK.

Crochet Update

Haven't done a crochet update for a while so here's my Beltane Blessing from Helen Shrimpton (Crystals and Crochet) all finished in perhaps my favourite Christmas Colours. Wool is Stylecraft Special DK.

 The last few rounds were made during the smaller rounds of Helen's Octagonical.

Used the same wool but in my Christmas colours for some reason over the years my Christmas Decorations are tradional colours.

Recently I heard my nephew- in law's girlfriend is expecting so out come the Rainbow Ripple pattern in my favourite colours for when you don't know which colours you can use are buttermilk, silver and cream. I also think this pattern is modern for the young mums of today. Of course there's going to be a matching comforter.

Crochet Update

Here I am in my Eclectic Sweater from Cassie Ward, I did fiddle with the pattern. I worked in a Wool Shop before I had my son and I couldn't bring myself to using 5mm for DK so I used 4mm but in the largest size. Yes I did do a tension square so I could roughly work out the difference. I also lengthen it, I compared the size and length to a favourite brought jumper. As long as you finish on the right row for the neck it worked out fine.

 

Here is my latest project while I wait for Helen Shrimpton Octagonical, its Beltane Blessing again from Helen Shrimpton.

I've also been reading loads of Fiction, I found it gives my brain a rest from overthinking although I can't read thriller or crime books I'm almost having panic attacks when bad things happen. I've read so much Women's Fiction this year that I've past my Reading Challenge of 35books on Goodreads and didn't realise till now. 

Crafty Update

I haven't done one of these lately and now my Climbing Rose Wrap by Janie Crow is done, time to record it. I'm pleased with the colours and how it all worked out.

The colours of the Stylecraft Special Dk I used are Duck Egg for the main colour, Buttermilk, Cypress, Pistaschio, Pale Rose, Powder Pink and a bit of Cloud Blue. Janie Crow used double the colours but I decided to keep it as simple as I could.

If I ever did it again the puffy petals hexagon I would go down a size hook for the whole hexagon because the flower does puff up a bit when laying flat.

So my next project is the Eclectic Sweater from Cassie Ward, this will be the second time of making a garment the first one was frogged and at the time I vowed never again.

It will be interesting how it turns out, there was no way I was using 5mm on DK so I'm making the largest size. There was another problem the sweater is made to be quite short and with all my aches and pains I like a sweater to keep the whole of my back warm so I'm making it longer which is the easy part as long as I finish on the right rows.

 

Its been so hot lately I got my cross-stitch out I finished the outline on the above. What you can see is the marks that I'm going to need to get out.

And I started another but blow me I've got chocolate on it, where the hell did it find that so more stain removing to be done before I can finish. I just need to get a nice round and oval hoop to put them in and work out to finish off the back of the hoop.

A Little All Things Crafty Update

A bit of an update this Saturday Morning, first of my lastest crochet project The Climbing Rose Wrap from Crochet Inside Magazine by Janie Crow. I didn't get the kit and chosen my own colours using Stylecraft Special DK.

The Main colour is Duck Egg with Cream Cloud Blue, Pale Rose, Powder Pink, Pistaschio and Cypress. I have used less colours than Janie Crow but I think it working out quite well.

I'm on the last set of hexagons although these ones seem to come our a bit larger so hoping that when they are stitched together it will all work out.

Below is my finished Arcadia from Helen Shrimpton aka Crystals and Crochet. Made with Stylecraft Special DK. I used the right hook size but it doesn't have the same warm huggable feel to it and I will have to go back down a size for my next one.

July is a busy month for Birthdays so I've coloured up a few images and I still have a few to do. This is how I colour my images, I have to work out which part to colour so I can layer them.

I also brought another Lazer Cut Stampin Up InkPad shelf, I know the other inkpads are a bit small for the slots but it works out OK and they both match each other.

Catch Up X Stitch

No crochet update I've only just picked it up again since its been too hot to crochet under it. Have got on with the X stitch though just working on the floor then its the worse bit the outline but thats what brings it all alive.

I've brought another couple of Little Stitchery UK patterns so I can have a series of three ballet dancers and I'm going to leave them in a hoop just need to work out how you tidy up the back once its finished and stretched.

This time though I've brought the stranded cotton threads for them and I had to give my bobbin box a good tidy to make room for them.

My bobbin box is from B&Q years ago, it fits loads of the paper bobbins and it's a twin box so you have two sides. And with a carry handle, it hides behind the sofa and wall in my living room.

Snowflakes and a Craft Update

Made this card a few weeks back but was disappointed with the white snowflakes and it would have looked better all in silver. The snowflakes are Simon says Stamp and so is the sentiment from their Inside Christmas Greetings.

 Had a bit of a re-jig in my craft room, I've had this tower for my Stampin Up inkpads for many years but now feel it takes up a lot of room in my small space so I brought on Amazon Marketplace this MDF(below). Hubby was less impressed when he realised he would be putting it together. It's suppose to fit inside an Ikea Kallax shelf unit but that to me would take even more space so I'm happy as it is. And yes it does take less room but someone can't count!

Yes I am crocheting another blanket again from Helen Shrimpton called Arcadia using Ineke colours that Ineke lists on Ravelry. Athough I have fiddle with some of the colours as I didn't want blocks of cream but use the green instead.

It's far too hot at the moment here in the UK under a blanket so I brought a cross-stitch pattern. When did they get to be so expensive but it could be just that I haven't brought one online for many years.

I also had a problem there were numbers of the threads I never heard of before, DMC as brought out over twenty new colours since I cross-stitch so I had to work out replacements we shall see if I chose the right ones.

Actually found the last thing I cross-stitch was for my Gt Nephew when he was born in 2013

Crochet Update

I have made a couple of cards but they are for are for family birthdays. I do have this small blanket I've finished. It's called The Sunshine Mandala Blanket and I've made the smaller size, mainly because of was running out of the colours.

I made it look like its a stash blanket, it was really but not in the true sense. I found some colours I had a few balls of and repeating the same colours till I ran out.

I now having a go and a couple of Amigurumi toys before I start another blanket which will be Helen Shrimpton Arcadia but in Ineke' colours.
With the warmer weather I need something not complicated to sit in the garden with and I may make a scarf for a Christmas present probably another Lost in Time.

Cornish Comfort

My Cornish Comfort is now finished and its one I plan to keep for me. The pattern is from Helen Shrimpton.

I have lots of odd balls of wool so I've decided to make a blanket using them for my next blanket but just in case I've recently order some more in hope we will still have deliveries.

I've finished my Thursday night project just need to get it photographed.

I have managed to get some card making done, I've brought the audio book to the book I'm reading and I put that on and my brain as to listen otherwise when I read it normally it won't make sense. It seems to be working for now.

Life Inspired

Finally my Inspired Life blanket is made, I have to confess that one of the squares beaten me and the one I did make found its way in the bin.Luckily when I started I couldn't find how many to squares to each pattern I had to make so I had made four. The magazine did publish how many in fact it was staring at me the whole time.

I did changed one of the colours to yellow because I didn't like the orange and the twisted colour I change to Storm Blue. I not keen on the twisted colour so I gave them to a friend who knits for charity and she was over the moon with them.

Crochet Update

This is how far I've got with my Cornish Comfort designed by Helen Shrimpton (Crystals and Crochet). I was struggling to see the Navy and I was struggling with the next row so I thought a break was in order. Especially as I was behind with the Life Inspired CAL again from Helen Shrimpton in the Crochet Now magazine.

Now these two are finished I'm on the last square and the border as now been published I will finish before I pick up the Cornish Comfort.

My Thursday night project is nearer the end too but I haven't photo it yet but I might have to get another ball of Scheepjes Whirl to make a finishing border.

Crochet Update

Haven't done a Crochet update either for a while but I need to make more of an EFFORT to post or schedule.
I made Sammy the Seals and Weebee Snowmans for the Christmas Fair at my Mum's old Nursing Home.

Here they are ready to go to their new homes. When thing I did learn was to trust the designer on placing eyes etch because they really do know where they belong and I really don't. I had to make another set with purple for my DD.

I'm still plodding along with my Life Inspired Cal from Crochet Now, there's one square I've given up on but I now have 3 magazines squares to finish square making.

I've made a start of Cornish Comfort but I used colours to work in my living room because this baby is mine.