Playing with Prisma.

Prisma is my new toy.

It's an app that can turn photos into works of art.  I love what it can do to crochet items.....

Had great fun playing with it, as you can see.....

Not gone.....just busy.....

I haven't posted for some time.  Have been busy making stuff though.

It's a bit hard when you first start a blog and there isn't much feedback, to keep the motivation going to keep posting.  Bit like playing a solo to an empty auditorium....😀

I do need to do more posting though.  Hopefully, the more I post, the more it will be seen.

The last few weeks have been busy.  I have a new baby grandson and have been crocheting bits for him.  

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This is a little cot-sized blanket.  Just the right size for the cot, his pram or car seat.

He's a dear little bubba, with a lovely head of copper hair (his Mum is auburn and his Dad is on the ginger spectrum...😀)

I made this little giraffe too.  Couldn't resist it.  Courtesy of

http://ilovebuttonsbyemma.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/crochet-giraffe-pattern.html

So it's been a busy time recently.  I have also been making jewellery, but I will leave that for another post.....

Changing shape......

Gone far enough with the straight rows.

Time to change tack and introduce a different aspect.

Out with the straight - in with the wavy......

Straight rows are good, but it's time to be a little more daring.....

Another few rows and it's taking shape nicely......

Can't wait to see where this takes me.......

The scrummiest pile......

Oh the joy.....!

Those gorgeous colours and patterns make me so happy.

Makes me realise just how industrious I've been......

What am I talking about?

Crochet blankies......

They zing.  And they pop.  And I love them all.....

Don't they just make you want to go and pick up your crochet hook....right this minute.....?

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....

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.......

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.

Scrumble.......

Scrumble.

What a scrummy word.  No, it's not short for strawberry crumble.

It's a made up word that describes unstructured 'do as the fancy takes you' crochet.  Otherwise known as 'Freeform'.

It's a way of incorporating lots of different stitches in one piece.

Because it is unstructured, it is almost impossible to create any kind of instruction for it.  You can just start and see where it goes.  It kind of takes on a life of its own.

I've been playing......

It's such fun.

Haven't a clue what I will do with it.... :0)

Quick n easy crochet slip stitch start

Every time I watch a crochet demo on the web it is started with a very fiddly twiddly slip stitch.

A winding around the fingers, pull it through kind of fiddly.

Makes me want to shout at the screen kind of fiddly.

There is a much quicker and easier way.

Thread the yarn through your fingers as you would for normal crocheting.

Leave about a two inch end dangling between your thumb and index finger.  Put the end of your hook under the taut yarn between the next two fingers and twist the hook around one full turn.  Hold the twist, then pull a loop through.  Pull it tight.  Slip stitch made and you are ready to go.

No fuss, no faff, no fiddle.  The more you do it, the faster you can get....

Want to see my demo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYOUm9JnyoA 

Hope that helps...

V-stitch fest.....

What is it about multicolour that gets me all fired up?

I just love a colour fest.

I might be dull and boring, but I don't DO dull and boring.

I just love the way different colours play together.

Why does a granny square send me into paroxysms of delight?

What is it about multicoloured rows of v-stitch that gets my inspiration juices going?

I'm just working on the border on this one.

Can't decide if I'm happy with the green or not.  

Any suggestions?

I want to make a nice wide border on this one.