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Sorry for the long blogging silence, but I came down to my parents in Hyderabad last week, and the computer here is slow and old….
Anyway, here is my last big FO, Kathy‘s mesh shopping bag in size 20 thread and with seed beads.
I absolutely loved the pattern, as well as my first experience with the big eye needle that Kathy sent me to use for beading.
for more than a month, is this:
I tested the pattern for Kathy, who once again created an amazingly intricate and beautiful creation. I am so proud of being a tester for her!
I used Size 40 Anchor thread in cream, about 3 full 50g balls and a litle more. Also bugle beads (strung on with an ordinary sewing needle *horror*, even breaking one!) and ended up entangling a good bit (which remains that way, I’ll undo it if I need the beads).
Now of course, Kathy has sent me 3 beading needles along with the beds for her next pattern (which is progressing very smoothly, let me say).
What a change the proper equipment makes! The beads are seed beads in turquoise, and the beading needle (big eye) made stringing a dream!
For the first time, I managed to create something by just looking at something someone else made, and without a written pattern! Yay! So even though it isn’t anything complex, I’m still proud of it! It’s with Red Heart thread (100g ball) in grey, size 20.
I love FOs *grin*.
Jacqui (Petunia) had sent me this in my July CAT PAC:
Here she is, soft as a cat….purrrrrrrr….
Took me a couple of hours to work up all in dc – 10 dc across and 4 feet long without the fringe. Used my new Boye N hook and much of yesterday’s skein from the Crochetville elf.
Update: My Crochetville fairy who sent me the yarn tells me it is Lionbrand Polarspun, and it looks like Polar Pink. Good to know the information.
I finally mailed my replacement doily for the Crochetville Doily Swap today. Just to make sure my swap partner receives this one, I made it in a colour she hates…Sorry!!! Bit superstitious….And I’ve put it up on my blog as well, because there’s no point in surprise now…It’s actually brownish, not red like it looks.
The pattern is from the English version of this East German book:
First, the good news:
Yes, my doily has arrived from my swap partner, Susana aka Kevspepper at Crochetville.
Isn’t it a lovely colour? And the work is so neat, too! Susana also added a cute needle holder, about the size of a coin purse.
Open, it looks like this. The needles will be stuck into the foam thingy lining. So nice!
Now for the bad news.
My swapee partner wrote to me that she has received the envelope and the letter I wrote her, but not the doily! Arghhhh! Waaah! As you can see, I don’t know whether to scream 
or cry
. Scream in anger or cry in disappointment. Apparently the envelope had been slit open (presumably by the customs, I knew putting in that steel hook was a mistake 
, those people probably thought it was a weapon of mass destruction or something…) and there was no doily in it. Bah!
Since it is now lost anyway, I thought I’d reveal what it looked like:
My first-ever Irish crochet piece and it’s now lost. What a shame!
My first-ever completed towel topper! I’d made one the other night, but was too lazy to hunt for a matching button, so when Pam aka Navymom at Crochetville posted the no-button towel toppers she made and the links to the pattern, I didn’t have an excuse! Presenting my towel topper, made shoddily with refrogged yarn and photographed in poor light:
Some quick FOs. I really needed to do these. Made with size 40 Anchor thread and a 0.85 mm hook.
The pattern is from the latest edition of the Talking Crochet with Carol Alexander newsletter and is called Easy Shell bookmark (oh, really?!)
From now on till I hear from my Doily Swap partner that she has received my doily for her, all my posts will be suffixed with 
I can finally show my first FOs from the booklets that Cordelia sent me. These are two bookmarks I made for my elfin duties for Christmas in July at Crochetville. At least one has found a new home now. The blue one is actually smaller than the white one. I changed the pattern slightly to accommodate my different-gauged thread.
Nice and quick pattern, but then I expect most bookmark patterns are.
So this was one of the mystery doilies I was working on the last week. I was testing the pattern for Kathy aka Katchkan at Crochetville. It was a great pattern to work with, every round was interesting. I’ve never done this sort of stitch before, I think it’s the “Lacet” stitch. It makes for a very nice look.
I specially loved how Kathy designed the last row, which is basically composed of ch, scs, tr clusters and trs and picots. Instead of having you do four different monotonic rows, she composed a single composite row worked in manageable sections. Ingenious!
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