This past month I’ve been doing a lot of writing and a lot of geocaching and not much knitting or crocheting. I do have supplies and plans for making a couple of fabric belts though. I just need to locate my freakin’ straight pins! I seems to have misplaced them.
Geocaching has been [...]
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Posted in General, tagged crochet, patterns on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baby Mitten Pattern
Materials:
size G hook
small amount of worsted weight yarn
This pattern is worked in rounds. Do not turn or join. Use a stitch marker to mark the start of each round.
Directions
Ch 2
Round 1: 6 sc in second chain from the hook
Round 2: 2sc in each sc around (12 sc)
Round 3: 2sc in first sc, sc [...]
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Posted in General, tagged crochet on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve finished all the squares I need for my first afghan! 56 squares in total. And it turns out that I’ve made them one row too large. If I’d read my directions a bit more carefully I should have done round 4 in the black that I’m using to put it all together. Thankfully this [...]
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Posted in General, tagged crochet, yarn on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning I came to work late because I was helping Katie get things set up for her work day. At her company this last week has been charitable giving week and there have been donations and contests and all kinds of fun things. Today they’re going to the Dover Children’s home and helping spruce [...]
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Posted in General, tagged crochet on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I stayed home from work because I was sick. I didn’t get up from the couch all day. I did watch three movies and crocheted 20 afghan squares, though!
By the end of the day that stack of squares had gotten as tall as my laptop monitor! And in many colors. They’re made with acrylic [...]
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Posted in General, tagged crochet, yarn on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, before Stitch n Bitch night, we started off at our local yarn store, Spinning Yarns. They’re having a sale to clear out some older inventory. I got some beautiful yarns! The first one below is an all cotton rainbow dyed bundle from Italy :) and the second one is an Alapaca/Peruvian wool [...]
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Posted in General, tagged amigurumi, crochet on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started making the amigurumi Cthulhu during lunch today. My yarn is deliciously soft and snuggly and I love it.
Except! It SPLITS like crazy! So this is kind of driving me nuts. I did 6 rows or so and fought with it the whole way! Blargh. Future thulhus will probably not be in the wonderful [...]
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Posted in General, tagged amigurumi, crochet on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got amigurumi on the brain!
I bought a new container to keep my yarn in this weekend. And I have a ton more yarn than I have any business having :}
I’m working on a cute little bunny today. I’ve got half his head done and I just realized that I don’t have any fiber fill [...]
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