crochet “paintings”

February 21, 2012 by 13 Comments

The other day I saw these on Pinterest, pattern by Claire at Haken en Meer, and I had to make my own.  Now before you see the pictures, I must tell you that I am a complete novice at embroidery.  Just today I learned how to make french knots.  My technique is terrible, but for my first try I’m pretty pumped.  This is the leftover yarn from my afghan, posted previously.

a bird with a flower

Scottish thistle

owl

whale

kite

heart

umbrella in the rain

Now I just have to coat the back of them with something to make them keep their shape, attach a hanging device of some sort (perhaps just a loop of yarn), and hang them up!  I’m thinking in my bedroom, because there’s really nothing on the walls in there and it’s gloomy.

These are a little different than Claire’s — I used hdc for the circles instead of dc and tried to find embroidery patterns on the Internet.  A few of them came from here, and the others were just Google search results.

I hope you like them!  I have no idea what’s coming up soon — I’ll have to start something new!  See you soon!

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finished the flower sunburst granny blanket

February 19, 2012 by 8 Comments

My flower sunburst granny square afghan is complete!  Made from Berroco Vintage Chunky, it’s super heavy and thick, so I know it will be toasty (although I’ll never use this yarn for a blanket again — it’s perfect in every way except that it’s too expensive).  It covers a double bed, but the picture below is taken on a queen so you can see it all flat with the cute ruffly border I added.  This has been my most expensive afghan, but it might just be the one I’m most proud of, too.  Here are the finished pictures.

I hope you like it as much as I do!  Now off to make some tea…

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done joining squares!

February 16, 2012 by 8 Comments

I’m finished joining my afghan squares!  Turns out it is a little smaller than I thought it would be, probably due to my usage of a smaller hook to sc the squares together (which was done on the back of the piece).  I meant to have nice tight joins but I overdid it a bit and it shrunk the overall size of the thing.  I have a feeling it will stretch out with usage — it’s a very heavy blanket!  I still have to add the border, so I’m not finished yet, but I wanted to share my progress with you because I’m excited to be done with joining the squares (usually the most tedious part of afghans, in my opinion).  So here are the pictures!

You can see in that first one where I’ve been sitting on the edge, listening to The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey on iTunes (which is a very good book, by the way).

And there you can see the joins close up!  I think it looks pretty neat, if I do say so myself.  🙂  Now on to put on the border!

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FINISHED WITH SQUARES

February 11, 2012 by 5 Comments

I’m so excited that I’m done with my blanket squares!  Here they are all laid out on our queen size futon/bed so you can get a good perspective.  I’m so pumped to share with you!

Aren’t they great?  I’m so proud!  I’ll crochet the ends in when I slip stitch the squares together, and I’m also planning on adding a decent sized border.  The blanket was only supposed to cover a double bed, but I think it’ll cover the queen nicely, don’t you?

Hopefully I’ll get started on putting the squares together soon — I can’t wait to finish!

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blanket break

January 28, 2012 by 3 Comments

I decided to take a break from the blanket last night in favor of making a cowl/infinity scarf.  I have never made one before so I decided to follow a pattern, and I found a beautiful and easy free one here at people webs.  I finished it today, and boy did it take a lot of yarn!  It’s really soft and plush and pretty though, so definitely worth it.  I’m honestly not sure whether I’ll keep this or give it away — I feel like I look weird in cowls.  We’ll see.  And it’s not like it’s been cold enough to even wear warm things — it’s in the 60s today and that’s almost T-shirt and flip-flops weather.  I’m sighing and wondering when the real winter weather will come…

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