As I have mentioned before I am a restless soul and I often have to find something to occupy me when I am watching television in the evenings. At the start of the year started to learn crewel work but this is new to me and I have been getting stressed with it not looking…
Category: Crochet
Appreciation
It’s good to know that someone appreciates my crocheting even if it is only Miss Maisie!
At last the Blanket is finished
In a bid to finish some projects in order to justify starting something new I have made myself finish the Sample Blanket. I started this in a bid to learn to crochet and it has been successful in achieving that goal. I am fairly confident on most of the basic stitches now so the next…
Progress on Sample Blanket
After a couple of weeks when I have been nothing more than a vegetable in the evenings after work and have spent my time staring at the television not really conscious of what I was watching I am now back to my old self and my itchy fingers means that I have picked my crochet…
Snowflakes
I haven’t been able to do any sewing or crocheting over the last couple of weeks as I have been just so tired due to the stress of work and long hours but this evening I had twitchy fingers and felt in need of something to occupy my hands. In my project bag was a…
The Cowl is Finished
The Cowl is finished and my manic expression doesn’t indicate that it was a hard pattern more that I was trying to take a photo of myself using an iPad and discovered it really was quite hard to do plus I hate having my photo taken so I shall stick to things I don’t have…
New Project – Cosy Cowl
I have been plodding along with my Throw for some weeks now but recently my enthusiasm has been tried and I decided I needed a diversion and a new project. I have been teaching myself to crochet from the Art of Crochet but so far I have only crocheted straight things – a couple of…
Starting to sew together the Throw
I have been subscribing to Art of Crochet in order to teach myself to crochet. However, I think it is a little expensive and there are just so many wonderful books, magazines and blogs out there that I think I am ready to cut the ‘apron strings’ and go solo. So I have cancelled by…
Starting a Wool Stash
I have noticed more and more that crochet and knitting bloggers have secret and not so secret wool stashes. I have also noticed that the sewers are the same with fabric stashes. This is an alien concept to me. I have always bought wool for a specific pattern as opposed to buying wool because I…
The First Throw – Quarter Way
I have reached a point of demotivation with the Throw. I think I really need to do some small projects to give myself a break but while I ponder on what these might be I decided to use my evening yesterday to darn in all those ends of threads. It has taken me hours and…
Granny Squares 38 and 39 – 81 to go
A couple more squares completed. I do need to block these and I am finding that some squares seem to be coming up larger than others although I am sure my tension is the same. It makes me wonder the advisability of making a rug out of such a diverse range of styles of granny…
Introducing Nellie Makes
I have been playing around over the last couple of weeks with a new blog and unsurprisingly the hardest bit has been coming up with a name for it. It started off as ‘Patiently Crocheting’ but that really didn’t trip off the tongue and I quickly realised that I wanted something that I could use…
