More of a Crochet update than a knitting update unfortunately. I learned to crochet about 2 months ago now through the wonders of Youtube. A month ago my new (shiny!) LYS started offering a learn to crochet course and I'm really glad I went because it confirmed that what the internet taught me was right. I am far more of a visual in person learner than I am an online one. I am, excuse the pun HOOKED! it's great fun and has such great uses and is so much faster a lot of the time than knitting.
A week ago I thought "I want to make my Gran a blanket for her 80th birthday!" This project took me just a week. It measures 30.5 inches square and is incredibly light due to the 3 or 4 ply yarn used to make it and a 4.25 mm Boye hook.. My parents and Uncle and Aunt have paid for her to go on a bus trip holiday to Yorkshire, and even though she's going in July this should be light enough for her to take with her if she needs it in her suitcase. All in all for a week it's been an incredibly quick blanket. I'd have loved to have done something bigger, but unfortunately ran out of time. I can always make her a bigger blanket for Christmas I suppose :)
Just some simple Granny Square dishcloths, practice mainly. A plethora of gauge issues on these, however they still do the job they were intended to do perfectly. Also Stashbusting, 2.5 balls of cotton is now out of my life forever! I must dig out the rest of my cotton and take it with me to my mums, she likes hand knitted and crocheted dishcloths.
3 hats made following the
Simple Earflap Hat (Rav Link) this pattern is so easy. The Top Right and bottom hat are made using left overs of Jager Extra Fine Merino Aran from a jumper. The top right is done using an 5.5mm hook, and increasing to 70, not 60 as the pattern suggests. The other two are made by again increasing to 70, but this time using a 5.0mm hook. It has made all of the difference. The other two hats are in the process of getting flowers as we speak; however I'm having a wee bit of a Goldilocks problem with them. This flower is too small, this flower is too big! I've struck on the "just right" for one of them, and now for the second.
A wee baby bit of knitting has snuck it's way in. It's the
Short Row Rib Scarf from what was MagKnits but is still archived on the web. I have a copy of this pattern saved on my hard drive, my external and a paper copy somewhere. I love this pattern. This one is for Dragonboy because he's been asking for a new scarf for several years now.
Cushion cover. All I need to do is weave in the ends and US SC the top shut. It's been sat like this for weeks. I really do not like weaving in ends. It was an attempt to see if I could do a Granny "Square" rectangle. And yes, turns out I can.
More Knitting! This is the back of Misha, a pattern in March's Lets Knit. I'm doing it with Araucania Ranco Solid. I have 4 skeins of this, though I think I will need some more to finish off this jumper. Luckily Get Knitted sells this yarn and can send it by post and as it is hand dyed there is no lots.
And finally, a scarf made of US DC with a SC border in Black. The Camo Yarn in Knitpicks WOTA that I got in a swap several years ago and the black is just plain black acrylic. This is sat in the gift giving bag for a future yet to be determined occasion lol.
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