Mood Blanket 2014

I am having a love affair with hexagons!  In fact I have 3 projects that involve them!

I have decided to do a Mood Blanket,  it involves doing one square, row or whatever a day for a year. Originally I was going to do the hexagons in one colour according to my mood of that day.  But when I saw Attic's 24 flower garden, I just had to do that, after all our mood changes during the course of a day.

Lucy's tutorial also showed how to join as you go, I gave it a go but in the end decided to sew them together in my usual manner as I wanted to do the complete hexagon in one go.

As I have changed the project for the mood blanket I am playing catch up! So far I have 35 hexagons, but then I have about 30 of the origional which I am using to make a throw for one of my sofas.

If you want to take part in the project there is a facebook group. 

African Flower Potholders

I find myself when reading blogs about crochet wanting to try various patterns or stitches.  I have a number of squares, hexagons and flowers, all waiting for a use.  Last week I discovered the African flower hexagon and discovered the flicker site for African flowers, some gave me ideas and so I started on my first project.

I decided to try the pot holders and after a few trials and errors I managed them!  I found it quite difficult to transform the hexagon into a circle evenly.  I did a simple backing in one colour for the backing.

This one I did first and I think my transition was a bit off!

This one I am much happier with.  Anyway, they will be good enough to adorn my kitchen wall when they are finished!  Too pretty to use!

Have a great weekend!

 

Happy Accidents

This was the sight that greeted me yesterday morning, naughty cat, Ambrose decided that the balls of wool made a lovely bed.  I had gone to bed without ptting away my crochet.  He had pawed the wools into a fine tangle! 

I have a ritual every morning of having a mug of tea out under the plum tree after I have done the housework.  Usually I take a ball or two of wool with me to kept my fingers buzy while completating the day ahead. I have several projects underway and the one that I usually choose to do outside is the plain hexagon throw for my two seater sofa in the lounge.

Yesterday, I was a bit distracted and snipped the wool after the second round.  Drat!  Looking at it I wondered whether to start afresh or make a join.  Something made me pick up one of the other colours and do a round.  I liked it a lot.  Coaster I thought!
  

So I did a round of double crochet and voila, later I had 6 coasters and this morning I did a large hexagon.

 

I am really pleased with them, they wsill make a wonderful gift for a friend who is crazy about aqua coours.  If I hadnt cut that yarn absent mindedly I nnever would have thought about doing hexagon coasters.  I really like the effect of the stripe and am seriously thinking of adding some randomly to the hexagon throw.

Might make a set for myself!

Hooked on Crochet!

Last September I took early retirement because of a disability from a car accident several years ago.  Yay, now I have time to do all the projects I have wanted to do over the years!  I am afraid to say I drifted for a couple of months, adjusting I suppose to not having a tight time schedule.  One blog that I follow is Down to Earth and there was a lot of talk about homemade dishcloths, I thought how hard is that.   I ventured into a wool shop to buy some cotton.  Well to a colour junkie like me it was heaven!

Needless to say I made a dishcloth using crochet as I thought it would be quicker.  I search out some U-Tube videos and I was away.

Well, I started to research crochet sites and discovered heaven!  I used to have a tapestry business in a past life (making up my own designs and painting them on canvas and selling them as kits at craft fairs).  I had a trunk of hanks of wool.  I promised myself that if I could use some of that stash, then I was allowed to go and buy some new wool.

My first project was a small lap rug in grannie squares and matching cushion.

 I am afraid to say that two of my fur babies commandeered them!

 So I had to make another for myself, this was a throw size cover and adorns my sofa in the lounge.

Well you can guess I was fully hooked so to speak.  I am now a well-known customer of the two wool shops in town!

I think I have blankie fever as I have few more on the go and will blog about them at a later date.  I am also managing to get a few little items done as well, such as tea cozies.  Well a girl who has tea in her veins can’t have too many cozies. Here is my first tea cozy.  I made it up as I went along, I haven’t got the shaping technique right yet, so I used some flower patterns from attic 24 to hide the faults!

So proud of those flowers!  Well, as you can see this crochet lark is no flash in the pan.  I don’t think there is a day without a crochet hook in my hand!

        Bye for now.