You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘FOs – Crochet’ tag.
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!
I do have FOs, I do! 
Scrubbie with GUM, made using the magic square pattern. The hook is to show the size.
I finished testing the pattern for the doily that I bragged blogged about a few posts ago. But no pictures yet. I’ve sent off my report to the designer and when she finally approves, I shall duly put up images.
The other doily is what I’m hoping to send my partner in the Crochetville Doily Swap. So for obvious reasons, I don’t want to post it here…
On an exciting note (for me) I’ve made contact with a lady in Bangalore who crochets and also uses the net for crochet-related activity. She says she has actually sold stuff, so I’m eager to find out more, including how she prices things, what materials she uses and so on. She does it in a personal circle, I think, not on the net. I found her thanks to a friend on Crochetlist CAT which I wrote about at the weekend. Thanks so much, Glenna!
After much peer pressure, I succumbed and made something(s) from the booklets Cordelia sent me. But, they are for my Elfin duties on Crochetville, and as such, they will be invisible on this space until at least the end of the month, I should think.
I’m just offering up this information as proof that I can finish things! So there!
Peggy’s Sunshine Garden doily (link is now defunct. Crochet Paradise is sorely missed) for my doily_of_the_month Yahoo group. Only mine looks more like Peggy’s Been Splashing In The Mud doily! Whatever you may have to say, I LIKE BROWNS!!! So there!
Breakfast set partly completed. I’m thinking of having these laminated.
Has anyone got any of their crochet laminated? What are your experiences? Do tell me.
swakrta.com 