Snowflakes

I made an attempt at crocheted snowflakes. The looked good, but blocking them makes them look less than perfect. Then again, no two snowflakes will look exactly alike, eh? :) As a gift I took one of each for my friend. The previous pics show some of these being blocked (and has the pattern for two of them). I chained a small loop in green thread so they could be hung on a branch easily. the three are shown here on my tree (and I hope I remember to take them off my tree and wrap them up :-) The stiffener/glue left them awful stiff. I'll have to water it down a little more when I do the next batch.

The five sided start was the most difficult - it's one of those patterns that wasn't very good, and left a lot to the imagination. Actually, now that I see them far away on the tree, they all look a lot better. Guess when you look at things too closely you'll see all the flaws.

Happy Holidays to everyone!!!!

Scarf

I put together a scarf for my cousin's son. (First cousin once removed) My cousin suggested some colors. I like this stitch. It's a simple back-loop double crochet. but when you change colors every row, you get a two-sided type of look. I hope he likes it!!

The truth is out

Stephen Colbert exposes the 'radicals' among us. What did you stitch today???

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Nailed 'Em - Radical Knitting

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Just about there

Amazing how you can get backed up on projects.... Finally gotten to my blocking. The petals came back into shape nicely.

Since the holidays are approaching - the pattern, as promised. It's an old December Beauty from our friend the Panda Man.

I got a stiffie

What better to do while watching history being made than to give my first shot at stiffening doilies. I have two snowflakes I made that I want to try to stiffen to see if that will work well enough to turn these into ornaments.

Stiffener is basically glue. You soak the doily in it, squeeze it out, and block as usual. When they dry they should be 'stiff'. To what degree that is remains to be seen. if it doesn't work well, we'll have to make up a plan B. :)

The both look less-than-hexagonal while pinned, but hopefully that won't be an issue once they are hanging.

The upper left one is Pretty Snowflake from jpfun and can be found here. The lower right is Fans Snowflake and can be found here.

Almost there

Finished! Just needs to be blocked...

Progressing

Filled in the Red round. there's our Poinsettia look forming. Another white round and then some green (leave) fringe afterwards. hmmm - if I finish this one, maybe more before Christmas???

Xmas begins

Started a doily for someone as a Christmas gift. Got the center done. Looks pretty good even without blocking. The center is white and about 4" across. Some red pineapples come net. I'll post the pattern link when the doily is finally finished. Think I'll make August??? :) After finishing all those blankets, it is nice to get back to doilies. And, they're a little cooler to have in your lap in the midst of summer...

Blue/Yellow/Grey Ripple

This latest afghan was my full size donation for our Project Linus effort at work. As you can tell, the wave/ripple pattern has become one of my favorites. it's easy and I can do it pretty much without looking while watching TV.

This one started with the dark yellow, which was some 'factory' remnants, the blue and grey. I threw in the lighter yellow because I didn't think I'd have enough of the dark to complete the project. Turns out I did, but, well... But as it ended up, the two yellows together made it look a bit nicer.

Of course, I started late and was rushing to finish. I dreaded this, as the first of June Boston had a bad heat wave, so there I am with an afghan on my lap trying not to sweat on it. Plus, crocheting and a number of other things was giving me some shoulder pain, so I had to watch how much I stitched each night.

Luckily, after the heat wave broke, and it got really cool, so having a growing afghan was nice. So nice in fact that the day I finally washed it the weather was chilly enough I put the afghan on me (still warm from the drier) while watching TV. Wow, fluffy warm and snuggly. Probably the only afghan I've though of keeping for myself. ;-)

This ended up being the 4th afghan I made for this Linus effort, but the only large sized one.. I'll blog more on the donation when those photos become available.

Time marches on

Wow. I didn't realize I did so little in 2007. Was a busy year. Well, this is busy now. I'm in the middle of three different projects. One is a 'standard' baby blanket, you've seen those pics before. I'll get pics of the new works up soon then!