Originally uploaded by inbal_w.
Ok, it’s only a photo, but I couldn’t resist this one. (S)he looks good enough to eat 😀
I’ve joined the Dishcloth KAL (can be CAL, too) and can’t wait to start my first one. Acrylics have been certified as acceptable, so Off I’ll Go!Wheeee.
Here’s the button:
This is again for the CAT PAC I’m donating. Skip said she likes green, so hopefully she’ll like this.
Don’t you like it when you can make something which is of practical use and not merely beautiful? I love it. (Perhaps that’s why most of my FOs are plain ugly-I’m looking to make something functional fast and don’t care what colours I throw together, or about the finishing so much :()
Here are the specs:
Yarn: Acrylic from Hyderabad. Not very nice.
Hook: Boye G/6/4.25 mm metal
Pattern: Natalie’s Econoshopper Mesh bag
Time: 3-4 hours (should take less but you try to surf blogs and edit stories and crochet all at once)
Size: Hmm, didn’t actually measure it. It isn’t crucial I think.
Extra: #1 For this pattern, it would be helpful if you marked your corners before embarking on the bag-shaping bit. Otherwise, it’s a nice toddle.
#2 I made another of these almost a year ago (and gushed about its practicality) and bought this green yarn at the same time! How’s that for coincidence? :-O
WordPress now has a “HTML” tab to its editor for the geeks, I presume.
It is so quick and offers immediate gratification. Also I can create 3-D objects so nicely. Here are two of my latest FOs.
First up, this crochet hook caddy:
I finished it a couple of nights ago. It holds about 40 of my hooks now (I have a few more, scattered here and there in WIPs). Here are the details:
Yarn: Longtime readers will recognise the GUM (Sending you to my old blog site because I’m being lazy)
Hook: Boye G/6/4.25 mm metal
Pattern: From Priscilla Hewitt
Time: Overnight
Size: 3″ x 4″
Extra: Nice and fast and a great way to use up the horrible yarn I don’t know why I bought. My hook stash now looks very organised. The hooks are now all colour-coordinated and arranged by size. I like being organised on a small scale.
This month I am donating a CAT PAC for Crochetlist CAT, and my donee is Skip. I made this hotpad for her, after she assured me she doesn’t mind acrylic hotpads and is very careful when using them. Never tried this pattern before. Mind the colours.
It gets thickness from having those petal thingies folded over. Details follow.
Yarn: Sundry bits of Rs 6 skeins from stash
Hook: Clover Soft Touch F/4.00 mm metal/resin
Pattern: From one of my favourite sources for instant gratification, the Dishcloth Boutique. This is the Ten Point Hotpad
Time: One day
Size: 11″ across from point to point
Extra: The pattern could have been better written and/or illustrated. As it is, I think I might have done one of the final rows on the wrong side (Wrong Side when I should have had the Right Side facing me). The picture wasn’t big enough to see clearly how the folding worked.
Tell me honestly, do you think it looks ugly? Don’t hold back.
I shall leave you with a closeup of my caddy. The red thing is one of a pair of stitchmarkers given me by Cordelia almost a year ago (or is it two?).
Badly foiled. I thought I had two alternatives to make the Sarcelle in my stash. One is a hank of bluey-green silk and the other some cashmere in a pale blue colourway from hipknits.co.uk
But the silk is now lying in a depressing tangle despite my best efforts and the cashmere is breaking when I try to wind it. Is that common with cashmere? Am I supposed to coddle it? But then what will happen when I try to knit with it? Or even if I manage to knit with it, what happens to the finished object? Why is it so delicate?
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Silk has it in for me. Some silk I bought here on a cone is also standing there mocking me for not being able to use it because of tangling. I shall go hide my head under the pillow until it’s safe to come out. Don’t mind me.
Was: Lusting after this
Originally uploaded by kristigeraci.
Isn’t this just amazing? Wonderful lace and great colour.
One day I shall figure out how to pay in dollars and just before becoming bankrupt I shall buy this pattern. Oh, and the yarn, too, I suppose. Or a compatible one.
Edited to add: An enabler in Europe swished her wand almost as soon as I posted this and made it possible for me to own a legitimate (paid for) copy of this pattern. Thank you so much!
Now I have to turn over my stash to see what I have that will be suitable to make this with. Oh, the pressure!
I am quite spineless, but I liked the washcloth patterns, the slipstitch bag pattern and the tweedy bag pattern. Not attracted by the wearables, because I wouldn’t find the yarn or any reason to use them…
Going for a second look…
umm, variegated top, no.
red drapey pullover is fine.
is that sweater blue or green? it looks as though it might be soft to the touch.
another red sweater. Nice lace pattern, but I suppose Fall means lots of red.
the man’s cardigan looks like a machine-knit. I can’t imagine ever reaching that level.
nor expert enough for the kids pullover.
nor ever knit something as large as a skirt (wouldn’t sitting down in that be tricky?)
I’ll never knit an afghan either no matter how pretty.
can’t knit socks yet.
hmm, socks on two straight needles? maybe…
nice pink children’s backpack, if it were unfelted?
a two-in-one hat-cum-neckwarmer. Nice idea.
interesting blue wrap. Modular, eh? And all garter stitch, my favourite stitch pattern.
Ok, that sums it up. Now you go and figure out which pattern I was talking about 😀
She was fine until she found the internet. And then worse, the b l o g s and the f o r u m s (f o r a). Now she’s going to drown (she’s quite short and you can drown in two inches, don’t you know) in furrin yarns and she HASN’T A CLUE what to ask for!!!
She is scared.
She won a contest or two, got to pick from a stash giveaway, found some nice people to swap with (which adds another million reasons to be scared: package not arriving, package not intact, package contents do not please and so on). She was the very lucky recipient of the random kindness of a total stranger who took time out from moving house to send her not just the metal needles she unashamedly begged for but also enough alpaca for a baby blanket, her first-ever sock yarn, and two books that she’s heard about.
She is humbled.
She thought heaven was when you had your own yarn winder and interchangeables…
When someone asks her, what would you like for me to get for you, she wonders if it would be polite to say “Your LYS, please”.
She is bemused.
She is knitting this because she had the yarn (acrylic, too little for most things and most of the babies she knows are boys anyway) and the needles and likes the monotony of garter stitch and the magic of short rows. But she will most probably unknit it again because what’s the fun in a single-coloured multidirectional scarf anyway?
She is directionless.
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