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ETA 23.06.2010: Discovered this wasn’t in my Rav notebook (imagine that!) and just entered it, and created the pattern entry in the database as well. Hopefully the designer can fill in the blanks, as several of the links in this post are now dead.
Finished the spike bag last night. Yay! Did the handles on the French Knitter. The bag will need a lining, obviously, and I’m still pondering what sort of closure to put in…..
From a distance:
Close-up:
Handles:
To recap:
Yarn: Windmist Brushed acrylic (100%) in Ocean Blue (50 gm) and Hollyberry (50 gm) and some scrap yarn for the handles
Hook: Susan Bates Crystalites size G/6 4.00mm
Pattern: All in my head, derived from Crochet Me‘s Spike Stitch challenge
Time: About 4-5 hours
Size: 9″ by 10″ by 2.5″
Extra: Used knitting knobby for cords for handles
Update: Thanks everyone for your nice comments! Yes, Sheila, I will be keeping this one for myself. If I can just get off my butt and line it… And Sue, Sara and Jomo, it’s good to know you like my work :D! Darn, I wish Blogger would do smilies….
Here is a baby sweater I finished two nights ago. It was washed yesterday. The yarn is a local acrylic that I bought in unlabelled hanks in Hyderabad. The pattern I adapted from Auntie M’s site, the Abigail sweater Link changed to Web Archive (so, it’s a girl’s name and my friend’s baby is a boy…so what? Stop asking me that question!!!!)
I used a Pony brand 4.00mm hook in aluminium. I added a pattern repeat for the yoke since it was coming out way too small, and a couple of repeats for the body. Also, the sleeves as well.
Please tell me it isn’t too girly….
Haven’t blogged much recently, have I? Pressures of work…or whatever!
Anyway, I tested Cordelia‘s Ruffled Eyelet Scarf pattern a while ago, and here it is!
I used RH Super Saver in Amethyst, and a I/5.5 mm hook (Boye, I think).
This shows the colour more closely…For some reason my camera thinks it should be blue.
It was first-ever vertically (lengthwise) worked scarf, and also my first-ever intentionally ruffled anything!
Thanks for letting me test the pattern, Cordelia!
This was a rush job, as I was leaving that afternoon, so both I and my nephew were blurry-eyed and half-awake…
I used a girl’s pattern from Freepatterns.com for the boy’s vest (gender-bender, that’s me!) and used up almost all of the 7 oz Red Heart Super Saver skein in Soft Navy that Christal sent me for the September CAT PAC. This PAC arrived providentially while my sister was visiting, so I was able to take the yarn (she chose the colour) with me when I went with them to Hyderabad.
As usual (dunno why I bother writing this at all) I ran out of skein, so I made do with some local yarn in a very dark navy blue. I used a K 6.50mm hook. I started off with Red Heart Crystalites, but found it wasn’t sliding through smoothly, so I shifted to a Boye K 6.50mm instead. Much better!
The original pattern calls for chenille.
Several things are wrong in these photos:
1. Both of us were unwilling to wake up
2. The color didn’t come out properly, so I fiddled with the pics in an editor.
3. His pajamas are too dark to show off the vest/pattern properly
4….
You get the picture.
Well, I’ve finally gone and done it! Yup, I created a Yahoo group for crocheters from India. It’s exciting, and I hope it’ll help us help each other with supply-related woes or pattern doubts or anything else, for that matter.
If you are a crocheter and from India (wherever you might be living now), do come and join us!
Did I already blog this? I don’t remember. Anyway, the pattern is from Etaria’s Crochet Garden, and I’ve made it several times already. It’s super simple to do, and getting the cable effect in crochet is a great idea! Yarn is local, but I’m not too sure of which hook I used…
My nephew is modelling it for me here:
And here is a closeup of the pattern:
What do you do when you have a skein of Red Heart Baby Sport Pompadour freshly minted in Hushabye, chilly weather in Hyderabad and a smallish niece in need of a sweater? You crochet a sweater…..(dumb question, silly answer).
I turned the net upside down (you mean you didn’t notice?) looking for a nice cardigan pattern for a 7 year old girl which wasn’t too dense (thick, heavy) but didn’t find any. So I turned to a baby pattern instead, from Serendipity Crochet. (This site seems to be defunct now, but I’ve given the web archive link here).
ETA December 16 2007: The site seems to be up and running again, so here’s the link to the pattern there.
So here it is:
Isn’t the colourway (or whatever you call it) adorable? I’d love to see how it turns out knitted. Here is a closeup of the pattern stitches, which is a simple one using crossed dc (skip 1 st, dc in next st, dc in skipped st across).
As usual I was too lazy to go out and buy buttons, so I made flowers for closure instead. Here’s a closeup:
And here it is all buttoned up:
I used a size J hook 6.00mm (Boye). I bought some very soft white local yarn to do the edges in. Worked out ok, I think.
Thank you so much for the Red Heart yarn Cordelia!!!
Alack and alas, the cardigan looks just right, so it might be too small for next year…A good excuse to make another next year!
Cordelia sent me this lovely package of thingies….
Yarn, of course, Red Heart Baby Sport, which I plan to use for a sweater for my niece:
Bernat Handicrafter Cotton (I could get used to this….)
One skein of Yarn Bee Wild Child eyelash yarn in Fiesta: Funky, isn’t it? I see many fringes in my future….
This delicious cat notepad:
And one Burt’s Bees lipbalm which is pepperminty and I love the tingly sensation and the smell it leaves….it’s already nestling in my purse.
What a wonderful fairy she is! Not only does she keep me company the whole day almost every day, but also sends me stuff! Mwahh, mwahh!
I got an absolutely wonderful CAT PAC from Christal in Germany for my September CAT PAC. I was thrilled to actually get a real live box in the mail…She packed it full of so many goodies, I lost count!
I got my second set of G-K Crystalites, this time from Susan Bates (and yes, they were made in India as well). Christal also included a bright yellow plastic case so that I can find my hooks easily wherever they are
She sent a soft white yarn doily that she made herself:
And a heart bookmark in multicoloured thread: (she’s a booklover (and Bookcrosser) too!)
A scrubbie and a dishcloth in cotton in a colour combination I can’t resist!!!
Two skeins of Red Heart Super Saver (navy, purple) and one of Mainstays (cream)
But the piece de resistance were these absolutely scrumptious fridgies:
And Christal thoughtfully included a note to explain all the different things she had sent, which added that personal touch to the entire thing. Thank you so much, Christal!!!
There is an unCAT (unscheduled, unhosted) this weekend as well, which I’ll be logging on to as, I missed the last one.
I got the pattern from Craftown, but in googling for it today, I also ran across a similar pattern on the Lionbrand website. So which is it? The one I made is the Craftown one, because that is what I referenced in my post on it way back in June when I first started this one *blush*. The post has a closer view of the pattern.
Here is my cousin for whom I made it.
It is sort of a batwing pattern, in that the shawl shapes itself so that it drapes on the shoulders and you don’t have to clutch it all the time. Much better than my experience with the Serafina Shawl..*shudder*
I used a gray yarn with silver running through it that I got in Delhi last November, with a 5.00mm Pony hook. The pattern is so easy that I finished the shawl without having to refer to the printout once.
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