Blog entries tagged Crochet

Scrappy Square

Shelley — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:56:33 +0100

I started crocheting a blanket last night.

Actually, since I'm still learning to crochet, I started it a few times.

Once I got going it was really fun. Crochet has a nice rhythm to it. I've had this blanket in my head for a while now. I wanted to use up all my scraps of worsted weight yarn somehow so I thought I would start crocheting them together. I was going ...

Stones

Shelley — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:20:58 +0100

Last night our power was out ... twice ... for about half an hour each time. I was going to blog but that wasn't going to work so I looked around for something crafty to do instead. I ended up at my spinning wheel and got a nice chunk of spinning done. I hope to finish off that project and share it soon. While I was spinning I was thinking about crochet. In particular I was thinking about ...

Linen Produce Bag

Shelley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:32:21 +0100

Pattern: Linen Grocery Tote (er ... sort of) via The Purl Bee
Yarn: Louet Euroflax in Melon Mix (I think - it's been "in stash" for a while)
Size: 48 cm / 15" long
Yardage: aprox. half a skein
Hook: 3.75 mm
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In the last year or so I've been seeing a lot of fabric produce bags being made up in blog world. I've been a long time co...

Anne

Shelley — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:33:51 +0100

Pattern: Anne by Mk Carroll
Yarn: Araucunia Ranco Multy
Size: Until it was long enough
Yardage: About half the skein (~170 m)
Hook: 3.75 mm wood
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This is my very first ever finished crochet project! So exciting ... and pretty. I love the way the pattern works with the short colour repeats in the yarn. This is birthday yarn from last year (thanks Joyce) a...

A New Little Project

Shelley — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:11:37 +0100

I've started a new portable project. This is the Anne scarf by MK Caroll. I saw the one made by Hello Yarn a while ago and thought it was very pretty. My other crochet project is stalled due to a lack of yarn and I wanted to keep in practice. I really like the curvy nubby look of this pattern. I was originally planning to use some handspun for this, to get those quick colour changes, but ...

Stalled

Shelley — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:25:58 +0100

This is the little blanket Jane got me started on to learn crochet. I've been working on it pretty steadily for the past while; it's been my portable project since I finished Rob's socks. But now, with nine squares done and eleven to go, I've run out of yarn and have to wait until I can get some more.

Odds and Ends

Shelley — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:19:36 +0100

Scrumbles

Shelley — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:38:21 +0100

No this isn’t a foreign landscape, though it does make me think of fields and hedges, these are my scrumbles from a workshop I took through the Guild last week. It was about freeform knitting. I really had no idea what it was going to be when I signed up but I’m very glad I did.

Freeform knitting and crochet is a way of creating totally unique f...

Learning

Shelley — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:35:29 +0100

After learning to make scrumbles last week I had a renewed interest in crochet. I’ve learned a little bit here and there in the past but I find I get a little bored and forgetful after a few rows and generally prefer knitted fabric. Recently, however, I’ve been seeing more crochet project that appeal to me, they tend to be things worked in the round: there is t...