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Here it is, the RH SS baby blanket I was making for my friend’s baby girl:
The 8oz skein finished midway through Row 28, so I frogged that row, ran out for some matching local yarn and segued into the border.
The pattern can be found at Angelcrafts*. I chained only 123, and made 27 rows (plus border 3 rows) to end up with a 32″ x 34″ blanket. Hook size was Boye K/6.5 mm. Yarn is worsted weight, 4-ply.
The border was my own inspiration (thanks everyone for your suggestions!). For the border I did (using American terminology):
Rnd 1. Without ending off at the end of Row 27 (or wherever you stop), ch2, working on side of blanket, * make 4 hdc in each ch4 and 1 hdc in each sc, 2 hdc in corner*. Working on the other side of foundation ch, ch 4, (dc in next st, hdc in next st, sc in next st, sl st in next st, [sc, hdc, dc in next ch4], tr in next st) across to next corner. Work 2 hdc in corner, then repeat from * to * once. Ch 4, +in next ch 4 (dc, hdc, sc), sl st in sc+, repeat across from + to +, join!
No, that was not written in gobbledygook, it’s just my confused mind.
Rnd 2. Hdc in each st till end, join
Rnd 3. Ch 3, sc in next st around. Join, fasten off!
Basically what I wanted to do was to produce a level set of stitches around to work a solid looking border, since the pattern itself is wavy enough.
Yay!!!! My first-ever object approaching a afghan/blanket/whatever.
Question: Won’t it be a bit thick and heavy? Although it is lacy…
Weird observation No.1: Both the RH SS and my local yarn are 4-ply, but the local yarn is much thinner, so I used 2 strands together.
* You have to register at the Angelcrafts site to see the pattern, but it is free and has lots more other patterns.
I realised I don’t usually show any UFOs here and wonder what it says about me (no, I don’t want to know, can’t you spot a rhetorical question?!)
So here is a UFO, a baby blanket I’m making for a friend’s new baby girl, born this September. I’m using the 8 oz skein of Red Heart Super Saver in Light Coral that I got for my August CAT PAC from Kat over at Crochetlist.
The pattern is from Angelcrafts, and you can find it here. The yarn is obviously Worsted Weight, and I’m using a K/6.5mm Boye hook. Instead of the 180 chain the pattern originally calls for, I chained 123 (don’t ask!) and that makes it about 30″ wide, which I reckon should be enough. I think I’ll work it to 30″ square, and then do an edging. Maybe not the one in the pattern, it’s too holey, which the blanket already is, anyway.
So if you have any ideas on nice 2-3 row edgings, please tell me.
And here are a pair of cute FOs! Booties for another friend’s baby, a boy this time:
The pattern is from Darcy Richardson, and very easy and quick. I finished this pair in just about 2 hours, with about WW yarn and a 3.50mm hook.
Yes, even if it sounds unbelievable…Got back from a hectic road trip to the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, and since then I’ve been busy with a course for radio announcers at All India Radio. Will put up pictures of the trip in my travel blog shortly, but here is one of the two FO’s from that trip:
The pattern is from Pineapple Crochet Designs ed. by Rita Weiss:
I used size 20 Red Heart thread in gray, and and and….a .95mm hook, if I remember rightly…A lot of ends to weave in on this one!
I also made a hat for a nephew, but forgot to take pictures…
ETA: I thought the pattern was from that book, but I can’t find it in that book now. So if anyone knows the actual source, please let me know? Thanks!
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.
And yes, I’m still alive!
Reporting from Hyderabad, where I’ve been for the past couple of weeks at my parents’ place. Struggled with the old computer a few days, and yesterday finally I upgraded it, so now it’s faster.
While I’ve been here, I’ve made my first cotton dishcloth, with the Sugar n’ Cream in Summer Splash that Grace sent me for my June CAT PAC. This was my first-ever cotton yarn, so I was really fighting against using it for something so mundane as a dishcloth, but I’ve given it to my mother, so maybe that makes it special enough. I used the pattern given on the wrapper, except using the same colour for the edging instead of a contrast. Here it is:
I love how soft it feels!
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:
swakrta.com 