day 6 of the tardis blanket number 2
Posted By Liz on June 17, 2012
End of day 6. The second tardis tunisian blanket has grown. Not as much as yesterday mind. About 8 rows till the too of the panel.
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Day 5 of tardis blanket 2
Posted By Liz on June 16, 2012
There. Much better. This is the end of day 5. Go go tardis blanket number 2
day 4 of tardis blanket number 2
Posted By Liz on June 14, 2012
Day 4 of the second tardis blanket. I don’t feel like I got very far this evening. I know I spent sometime counting stitches. But even so. Sigh. I guess this one is just slower
So, no new picture of crochet today, why?
Posted By Liz on June 13, 2012
Cos it looks just like it did yesterday, except the black line up the middle. So annoyed, a good days worth of crochetting lost.. Im a FOOL!
I am a MORON!
Posted By Liz on June 13, 2012
Heres me, crochetting away hard as can be… yeah, forgot the join in the door in the middle. What a fool. So, I just had to unpick 15 rows, thats most of a work evenings crochetting as I had done some yesterday all that had to go…
PANTS!
What they think, you think, I think and the truth?
Posted By Liz on June 10, 2012
Costs of crochet
Posted By Liz on June 9, 2012
So, those of you who saw http://blog.crochet-crazy.com/2012/06/07/tardis-blanket-a-flatter-picture/ will know, and it turned out about right, that it was 180 hours of crochet, now, while I know I made few mistakes once my cough started, but, the reality is, people wont pay a lot for even something hand made, and individually made for them.
Now, if I did that as minimum wage in the UK (as per http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/TheNationalMinimumWage/DG_10027201 and Im over 21) thats £6.08 an hour thats £1094.40 .. no one would pay that for the blanket would they??
No, in all honesty, if I had made mistakes and was going to get over 1000 pounds, Id have gone back and fixed the mistakes..
So, question is. How much would YOU pay? Knowing its 180 hours of work, about 23 pounds worth of materials..
Be honest.
Well thats incredibly disapointing.
Posted By Liz on June 8, 2012
I bought some sock wool, bloody expensive stuff, 8 quid a ball
I followed the pattern religiously even though it seems daft as crap, you know, I was right, it was daft as crap.. Was the author drunk when they came up with this as a basic sock???
Ok you chain 34, and then do 34 rows of 32 stitches in a US SC.. in a hook thats way big for the wool, so if you stretch it it turns into a kinda mesh thing but doesnt stretch back.. you then turn your work so your rows become columns and sc your way round for 2″, do a heel, in a very bizarre way then go round and round some more till you get to the toes. Crochet doesnt stretch, so as a result, none of this sock would stretch..
As a result this thing looked like a monstrosity, thankfully I had done it without cutting the yarn and undid the whole thing..
So, as I had hoped to make a load of socks and have currently 3 balls and have another 10 (thankfully cheaper but still…) on the way
What do you do with sock yarn if socks and crochet just turn out bad? and I dont want t knit them
