Day 3.. end of ball 2
Posted By Liz on May 1, 2008
So, today sees the end of the second ball of wool. The blankets now a smidge over 13″ long. If it werent midnight Id do a pic, so I shall do that tomorrow.
(edited – added picture)
Crochet-Crazy (the blog)...
Here are the crochet ravings of me, the projects I do, and items related to the site. I apologise Im not a great blogger, I have good intentions but get easily side tracked, especially by my crochet hook.
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Day 2!
Posted By Liz on April 30, 2008
Well its now 9″ long, and Im on the second ball of wool.. A little disapointing, but we did have to go out tonight. I would do a picture, but its late. You’ll just have to believe me.
End of day 1
Posted By Liz on April 29, 2008
So..
Im annoyed with myself for I have merged a stitch already 🙁 but, Im sure I’ll be forgiven.
Im actually a bit concerned I may not have ordered enough wool! 40 balls sounds loads, but, to be honest.. Ive nearly finished one, and its what 5″? lets be kind and say I get 6″ from a ball of wool.. to get to 2 meters? Hey who knows.. but then I always worry about wether I have enough wool.. heck I bought 15 balls of every colour (like 5 colours) to do a 1m by 1.5m blanket once.. so.. hey.. Im the queen of over purchase..
Anyway I have a picture of the end of day 1
The blog begins!!
Posted By Liz on April 29, 2008
Wool arrived today for my next project, Ive been eagerly awaiting it, I ordered it on the 19th.. (its the blue wool in the pack)… Im dead exceited, its felt like a long wait, with no real purpose since I worked out what I wanted and put the order in, its like anything you wait for.. It took AGES..
Revenge of the jumper!
Posted By Liz on January 27, 2007
So, if you’ve seen the photos you may recall around a year ago, my husband decided he wanted me to knit him a jumper.. and I suck at knitting..
Well, he wants another one.. To the original spec of the first, but well would rather this one came out more as the pattern makers intended shape..
So. Revenge of the jumper has begun.. personally I think I should just let what will happen happen and make him wear it!
Happy new year!
Posted By Liz on January 1, 2007
Work continues on my rainbow throw for my bed which I have been working on a while, its a large one so this isnt surprising. Its a very simple pattern which produces a wave form, which looks like this. This was the first wave, the colours rotate in a logical but repetitive manner. Going green, yellow, white, pink, purple, blue, green.. why? green – blue = yellow -yellow = white + pink = pink + blue = purple – pink = blue + yellow = green etc.. it kinda flows anyway
Its 110″ wide, and hopefully its going to be at least that in length, its made of baby wool, partly as I have a huge supply of it, and secondly I wanted it to be warm but soft.
Happy Christmas!!
Posted By Liz on December 25, 2006
Happy celebrations to one and all
Dispelling the first two myths about crochetting.
Posted By Liz on December 2, 2006
The first myth to dispel is that you can make stuff other than doilies
The second is that there is something out there than granny squares (Dont know what they are? they are those squares you see on 70s stuff..)
Crochet does not have to look like something your gran did before your mother was born, crochet does not have to be tablewear nor does it have to look like you’re back in the 70s.. Well, unless you want it to.
Colour is a firm part of this, if you do orange centered brown squares.. you’re gonna look like you’re in the 70s, almost no matter what you do. However, this shows something that looks like it was bought in a store this year. Although I made it to fit me so I’d guess you could probably use it as a curtain really 🙂
Ive made 2 baby blankets recently, crochet is commonly used for this as for some reason, for those who have knitted, crochet seems easier to do faster, although I would hasten to say knitting is easier to do with your eyes shut! Swings and roundabouts there, however..
The first was made using granny squares, so each coloured square was made individually and then sewen together at the end, the second was worked in rows, it doesnt look like I know. However, each of the diamond shapes colours is a row, it worked up very fast, and was very pretty when finished, it was a shame to part with. However, Alexis is its proud new owner and what counts is him and his parents love it. The stitch used there appears to have many names, but its just a combination of 2 stitches, yet it comes out very well I think. Theres a similar stitch to it which is worked in diagonals which is slightly fussier to make but the end result is something very similar, so it depends what you’re making as to which you’d do.
In the beginning
Posted By Liz on December 2, 2006
Everyone starts crochet, and next to nobody does anything other than make a huge mess and wonder how its done. The sad truth is very quickly you realise its not necessarily hard its just concentration that divides success from disaster.
Anything complicated in crochet is made of one of the simple stitches. Its a little like learning maths, when you learn maths you learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Then you realise actually in a way, you only need add. Why? Well if you add a negative number, you subtract, if you multiply you add something a repeated number of times, and to divde, well in argument you add a negative number until you end up unable to remove any more.. in essense, its all add.
Crochets a lot like that. You poke your hook in somewhere, you wind your yarn round it, those are the only 2 things you need to know, however, when, how much and so on, is what makes the difference.
So. What can you hope to see coming here? Well I’ll try and run through the basic stitches, to explain how to read some patterns, give you some ideas of some simple things to make and some ideas on mistakes I made and how you stop doing them.
