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Poncho for my friend’s daughter who is about 6 years old, and I’m afraid it might be too small for her…but it looks beautiful anyway, even if I do say so myself! Local (Santi) brand yarn and a size 4.00 mm (that Chrissie from England sent me in memory of her CAT friend Sue Renfrow). The pattern is here.
This is my first FO with the Solomon’s knot, Lover’s knot…instructions can be found here, here and here, amongst other places.
While here, I’ve also managed to finally find a proper use for the cone of cord(?) I had which is a bit rough to work with. I have used it for other things before, but this project finished it off nicely. I made the small Econo shopper bag from Natalie’s pattern. So here it is:
Econoshopper Mesh Bag
Nice and easy AND practical!
I also made a skinny scarf for my friend and a sweater for her kid (which I sincerely hope will fit him). But no pictures, sorry!
If you are thinking I’ve reduced my stash, think again! I enhanced it with several hanks of yarn in white, deep green, purple and pale green. Nothing very special, but something is better than nothing. No pics of that either till I finish unravelling it (which seems to be a regular thing whenever I buy yarn south of the Vindhyas).
ETA October 19 2011: While going through my Ravelry friend activity, I remembered this project and realised I hadn’t added it to my Rav notebook. So I looked up the pattern on the Ravelry database, where it is now a free download, downloaded the photograph from my Blogger/Blogspot blog, uploaded it here and to Rav and dusted off this post. I still don’t have pictures of the scarf and sweater, though.
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!
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.
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.
Ta-da! Here is my Carpenter Hat, which I made online! Meaning, I was chatting on the monthly Crochet-A-Thon from Crochetlist and having great fun, all at the same time as making this. And they said I couldn’t multi-task! I was testing this pattern for Jackie over at the Crochetville forums. She very kindly gave me permission to put up this photo here.
Hey! Who shrank my head when I wasn’t looking?!
But seriously, the CAT was great fun, and I didn’t feel like a firsttimer at all!!! It’s a good thing it only happens once a month, though, because it’s far too distracting and I had to tear myself away from the comp to go cook/clean/breathe/whatever.
This is my progress so far on the Evening shawl from Craftown.
Maybe a couple more rows and then I will fringe it.
Update: The shawl does have a nice scalloped edge naturally, but I might still fringe it, if only because I’m really, really scared of deviating from pattern!!! **nervously looking around**
Here is the thick warm winter hat from Etaria’s Haven and below is how it looks on Sridhar’s head:
The pattern calls for worsted weight yarn but I used sport weight and a 5 mm hook.
The model was busy having his post-dinner mango when I dressed him up. 🙂
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