I love using my hands, the last big 'new' thing I did with fabric or yarn was the cushion I made for a friend. I have also been busy making a scrapbook for my daughter who turned 10 years old a couple of weeks ago. I will get round to doing a blog on that I hope, I am very pleased with it.
Knitting is something I have always had a project on the go with. However after an unsuccessful attempt at making a cardigan I have got rather disgruntled with my knitting skills. This has prompted me to again look at crochet - I have never been able to learn to crochet using books or written instructions. This became very apparent after a thoughtless purchase some time ago when I decided I would learn no matter what I brought these:
Several attempts and a lot of frustration later it all went back in my knitting bag. What I hadn't ever thought of was using new fangled technology that sits on my lap very regularly to find a video to teach me. Good old Youtube - there are so many people who have kindly made films to show folks like me how to do stuff in nice easy visual ways. I won't advertise any one particular person that I have used as there are so many that I have looked at and picked up tips from. I think it is one of those things where you should look yourself and decide which voice/film does it for you :o).
The first thing I learnt to do was to make a crochet beret hats for me and my girls. These were great fun and very quick to make. I then had a go at making an object and decided on a cup cake as my youngest has a bit of a 'thing' for all things cupcakey. That went well. Then I decided it was time to tackle changing colours in a project and started on granny squares. I am so pleased with the results, here is a picture of my youngest with her bunny 'Poppy' holding the cupcake and snuggled up in her blanket
I now have a long term project on the go - all the wool that I unravelled from the unsuccessful cardigan is now taking the shape of plain granny squares, which I will eventually use another colour to crochet them all together to make a blanket for the sofa downstairs, so that when I am a little chilly but it doesn't warrant any heating going on myself, my husband and kids can all snuggle down together.
I have also discovered that I can use a very small crochet needle and embroidery thread to make some really pretty card toppers, these are some of the most recent ones I have done
I haven't put the whole of the last photo on as I know the god-daughter for whom it is for looks at this blog and I do not want to totally ruin any surprise :o).
I am also now going to take a break from my plain squares to make a present for the same god-daughter, I can't believe she is going to be 8 soon!
Whenever I have a spare moment now I love looking through crochet images on google - it is tremendous what some people have thought to do, this is by far my favourite, I wonder if I will ever get round to having a go at something so vast
Knitting is something I have always had a project on the go with. However after an unsuccessful attempt at making a cardigan I have got rather disgruntled with my knitting skills. This has prompted me to again look at crochet - I have never been able to learn to crochet using books or written instructions. This became very apparent after a thoughtless purchase some time ago when I decided I would learn no matter what I brought these:
Several attempts and a lot of frustration later it all went back in my knitting bag. What I hadn't ever thought of was using new fangled technology that sits on my lap very regularly to find a video to teach me. Good old Youtube - there are so many people who have kindly made films to show folks like me how to do stuff in nice easy visual ways. I won't advertise any one particular person that I have used as there are so many that I have looked at and picked up tips from. I think it is one of those things where you should look yourself and decide which voice/film does it for you :o).
The first thing I learnt to do was to make a crochet beret hats for me and my girls. These were great fun and very quick to make. I then had a go at making an object and decided on a cup cake as my youngest has a bit of a 'thing' for all things cupcakey. That went well. Then I decided it was time to tackle changing colours in a project and started on granny squares. I am so pleased with the results, here is a picture of my youngest with her bunny 'Poppy' holding the cupcake and snuggled up in her blanket
I have also discovered that I can use a very small crochet needle and embroidery thread to make some really pretty card toppers, these are some of the most recent ones I have done
I am also now going to take a break from my plain squares to make a present for the same god-daughter, I can't believe she is going to be 8 soon!
Whenever I have a spare moment now I love looking through crochet images on google - it is tremendous what some people have thought to do, this is by far my favourite, I wonder if I will ever get round to having a go at something so vast
Well done. You seem to have 'cracked it'
ReplyDeleteKnitting is fraught with perils for the unwary. I once knitted a cardigan for my late husband. Luckily, he was not in dire need of it; it took two years!
More power to you elbow.
Thank you Ray - I had been doing that cardigan for an awful long time - never mind, It kept my hands busy for a while. Did your late husband still fit into his when you finished it - I have done that with things for the children before now, forgetting how much they grow!
ReplyDeleteJane Yes, amazingly it did and he wore it till it was beyond repair, after which one of the cats annexed it for a blanket.
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