Saturday, November 1, 2008

Move over and make room for Christmas

I made a quick trip into Spotlight which is a major craft chain here in Australia. I was looking to purchase some sock yarn. To my dissapointment, they have reduced their yarn aisle's to make lots of room for christmas decorations! So my sock yarn choice was very limited, I was very annoyed after walking up and down the 2 aisle's they now have to cater for the yarn enthusiast. I eventually chose the yarn below, which is a very soft acrylic and absolutely no stretch, so these may have to be my practice balls. Although I did come across a clearance on some crochet hooks, the 3 in the middle are the hooks with the light in the end of them and a .99c aluminium large hook. I did need these particular sizes and they all have the fat handle which I prefer to use.
Onto something else. I bit the bullet and purchased this Tunisian cable hook set from Crochet Australia.
I'm involved in a christmas swap and I have my swap items made and ready to go, which now gives me the time to spend on Tunisian crochet and sock making practice. Yippee!
I can't blog about the christmas items I have made yet. I do not want to spoil the surprise for my swap partner, just in case they read my blog. But I will take pictures before I send them off on the due date and blog about them later on, I will say that I have made something that I have not delved into before.

Linda's Woodland Shawl Finished

Well the pattern has a flowered border and she could not get the pattern right, she thought it was because she was a lefty and she thought I may have better luck with it, so she sent me the yarn for the flowers and the pattern too.
Well I had no luck with the pattern either!
So I improvised, the pattern calls for the flowers to be crocheted onto the border, so I just made a long chain of the flowers seperately, then sewed them onto the edge where they belong.



And here she is. What a beauty!

Once again, thank you Linda, no more cold shoulders. Oh one more thing, I ran out of yarn on the last stitch of the last flower! How was that!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Wearing my skirt and top out fit today.

The pictures did not come out so good, but it gives you an idea of how it looks. I am wearing it today as it is warm.

Meet Linda the Crazy Crocheting Fool

I thought I would share something about some one else here.
This is Linda and some of her yarn stash. Linda is a very talented crocheter, I just love the assortment of afghans she pumps out.
If you would like to see more of Linda's photo's, this is her flickr page.
If you would like to see Linda's blog this is her blog page.
Star Afgahn

Afghan Ruffle
Afghan 102
Lace and Bobbles
Log Cabin
Linda has a new craze lately of making socks.