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Thursday 26 March 2015

Crochet cords.....

Oooh.



Lots of crochet cords in yummy colours, Stylecraft Spice, Pomegranate, Turquoise, plus some ends of pale turquoise and bright lime green.  

Crochet cords, crochet i-cords, triangular i-cords, and twisted cords.

Now what am I going to do with them?

I know.....


I think a necklace is calling......

Friday 6 March 2015

Here's one I made earlier....

I love this blanket.

It's purple-heavy.........and I just love purple.

I love colour in general, but purple just gets me so excited.

Lots of lovely granny squares all joined together with a flat purple chain.

Yum.

Why is a soft, comfy, granny square blanket so utterly appealing?

Why does it just invite me to snuggle up inside it?



Lots of utterly lovely purple goodness.....


I never cease to be amazed at how different the same square can be just by changing the colours.  

Colour dynamics..........

Sheer bliss......


Purple heaven......

Finished v-stitch crochet blanket

Well I finished it eventually.

Decided I didn't like the green after all, so I did another round in the orange and finished it with a nice deep row in turquoise.

I love it as it is, but then again I might just carry on and add more rows.

But that's the thing with crochet borders, there is no limit....



Thursday 5 March 2015

Mmmmmmm....mandala.....

Dontcha just luuurve mandalas.

That yummy lusciousness of circles.

Lots of stitches, lots of colour.


This is a big one.  About 30" across.

I had such fun creating it.


As we would say in Wales.....rownd a rownd a rownd.....


Lots of lovely luscious pretty colours....


Mmmmmmmm.....mandala.......

Sunday 1 March 2015

Yoyo yumyums.....

Oooh.  Yoyos.


Lots of scrummy colour.

Lovely 'join as you go' daisies.


So simple.

4 chain, join as a ring, 2 chain, 11 treble* crochet into the ring, slip stitch into space between 1st 2 chain length & 2nd treble, fasten off. 




Join new colour to previous thread next to the ring, hook into adjoining chain space, chain 5, slip stitch into next chain space.  


Repeat to make 4 loops (catching yarn ends in behind).

For first daisy, loop all the way around, for subsequent ones just make 4 loops.

To join a daisy to another, on the next loop chain 2, put hook through 1st of two loops of adjoining daisy from front to back, ensuring yarn can go behind the loop.  


Hook it through the daisy loop and the loop on the hook, 


chain 2, slip stitch into next chain space.


Repeat into as many adjoining loops as necessary.  Join into 1st chain space.

I like to put my hook into the centre of the very first chain and pull a loop through the work and the chain on the hook, then loosen the chain a bit, remove my hook, insert it through the space below that chain, from the back, and pull it through to the back.  I then fasten the work off neatly at the back so nothing shows on the front.




* treble crochet - yarn over hook, put hook through work where required, pull up a loop, yarn over hook, pull it through 2 stitches, yarn over hook, pull it through remaining 2 stitches.  One stitch left on hook.