Feeling like alonging

Wrapped in Jamie

https://blacksheepcrochet.com/wrapped-in-jamie-seasons/

Leafcoasters

https://www.sewcanshe.com/blog/friday-spotlight-beautiful-quilted-coasters-by-sedef-imer

Foundation single crochet

Love this technique

http://1000lives.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/12-foundation-single-crochet.jpg

14 Filling Dinners

400 calories or less

Yarn Pegs

I do like a bandwagon on occasion and after my recent Stylecraft stash enhancement i thought i would have a go at my own yarn pegs.
It also gave me a chance to use the impulse buy pyrography tool at long last!

Ann

Part two of the Spincushions CAL

Ann is  affable, nonchalant and neat.

All nine blocks made using a total of 147g of yarn compared to 160g used for PAM. 

Nice pattern to follow, i am getting more used to joining the round with a dc as opposed to a slip stitch :)

Sock Knitting with a difference

Around 8 years ago i bought a circular sock knitting machine from a knitting group friend who was downsizing her collection and today i finally managed to knit something on it!

Obviously i haven't been trying non stop for 8 years. In fact yesterday was the second day i had set it up and had a go in all that time. Yesterday i was very unsuccessful but today it finally worked!

I am over the moon to have it working.

Unfortunately it is an 84 needle cylinder so i won't be making socks that fit me on it :(

CrochetingAlong

So i decided to join the CAL designed and run by Shelley at Spincushions. I mean, it's called FRAN so how could i not!

The first block is called PAM, and here are my nine. Isn't she pretty!

There are some really lovely versions being made in multiple colours but i have decided to use my cream aran stash and do the whole thing in just one colour.

This time ;)

Moogly 2014 update

They have been simmering in a box under a chair for quite some time due to a complete lack of Crojo but i have been powering through for a couple of weeks and made a further five blocks which brings my total to 19 including the duplicates that were meant to be for a second blanket but that idea has flown out of the window!
So, now i am resizing them to all have 43 stitches on each side and to all be approximately 12" to make it easier to join them. I should end up with a 4x5 block blanket which will be at least 48"x60" but i expect i will be putting borders on it ;)

The re-imagining of Lady E

Back in 2008 i knit a lovely stole. Unfortunately i found it too impractical to wear it and for the last six years i have just looked longingly at it. Well, yesterday i began the task of making it into something i know i will love!

I am going to make a snuggly hooded wrap with it for those cooler evenings when i don't quite need a whole blanket but i want something to wrap round me.

The Christmas before last Becky gave me two balls of Marble Chunky in red and reddy-purple shades so i am going to take the plunge and attempt the braided effect that i have always wanted to try. I think the three colour ways will go well together, there is a lovely contrast between the turquoise and red and purple and dark blue colours, we shall see! I am using the Venus Tips Up pattern as a starting point and will add the hood onto the corner after the main body is knit.

Theoretically!!

Crochet balls

http://thepatchworkheartuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/christmas-baubles.html

Fossil Fern stockists

Because i keep losing my list i am putting them here so i can find them when i need them :)

NSA Quilting

Cotton Patch

The Remnant House

JB Quilting

An American stockist, but look at all the colour swatches ::drooling:: Web Fabrics

Hannah's Room only two colours available at time of writing

Cherry Tree Fabrics in Bournemouth!

Sew Hot 100 square charm pack for £25

Gillmot Crafts only 3 colours at time of writing

Easy 9 patch tutorial

http://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.com/2014/06/nine-patch-paradise.html

Mini Kiwi

I would love this in the garden, it would be perfect against the garage wall, i wonder if it can be grown ina pot?

Moogly Block 8.1

I'm a little behind still but I am gradually getting there. My latest finish for the CAL is block #8.1 "Princess" by Melinda Miller

every little helps

Last week at The Craft Club's crochet workshop we made hedgehogs. I'm quite impressed that i followed the pattern and he came out looking like he should!

I had a slight issue with his facial features, hence the name, but i managed to sort his tache nose out eventually ;)




The Craft Club posted an update to Facebook on their total so far...

They are getting there slowly but surely! I should have another little collection of goodies to take with me next time i go to Rayleigh too :)

Craft Club's Enchanted Garden Yarnbomb | Love Southend

Craft Club's Enchanted Garden Yarnbomb | Love Southend

The Craft Club

Post by The Craft Club.

How to turn squares into a triangle

So i made the dishcloths and thought that would satisfy my Corner2Corner itch.

I was wrong!

It's fantastic camping crochet as like a granny square it's mindless, repetitive and soothing and i can still sit and chat while i'm crocheting too which means it's sociable (unlike the sock knitting but that's another story lol)

I had two granny squares of Elle Mexican Wave already made because i was going to make a bag with them but didn't like how the colours worked in a granny and i had a "ten stitch blanket" square made in some lime green James C Brett Marble DK that didn't get used in my blanket and they looked perfect together so i took them all off camping with us at the weekend and this is what happened!

The colours look so much better in the denser fabric, i am really happy with how it's coming out, i've done more to it since this photo was taken and i am nearly ready to start decreasing! I am going to reserve most of the green for the border and just put in one or two stripes on the decrease side. Probably.

:D

This evening i are mostly been...

...making a mushroooooom!

I saw a post on Facebook about The Craft Club's project to create a scene from The Magic Faraway Tree in the garden at Little Haven's Hospice and although i don't know anyone who has been cared for there my Uncle was cared for in their sister hospice at Fair Havens and The Magic Faraway Tree is one of my favourite children's books. Besides, i saw that they were running a crochet group alongside the project and who doesn't love an evening of crochet? :D

So, i booked into the first class which was "Toadstools" and managed to recruit my friend Gee to join me which was great cos it meant we got to have a catch-up and i got to meet her 17 month old toddler properly.

We headed off to the group which meets in a room in the depths of Asda at Rayleigh, Essex and honestly, they couldn't have been more welcoming, such a friendly group of ladies :)

We were supplied with patterns and yarn and i started "Tommy the Toadstool" only it didn't come out quite as expected, so i decided to go FREEFORM! EEEEK!

There were quite a few of us crammed round the table frantically hooking, you could tell when everyone was concentrating cos it would go really quiet and then there would be bursts of chat and laughter. I really enjoyed it, have i said that already? :D

Photo courtesy of The Craft Club

I'm actually really pleased with how my 'shrooooom came out, even though it was meant to look like this...

Photo courtesy of Gee :D

:D