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Month: June 2017
Crafting is My Therapy – A Creative Community
(A glimpse from April – Nicola’s collage with some of April’s contributors.)
About a year ago I stumbled upon a crafty link up called Crafting is My Therapy. It’s run by two crafters: Nicola of Me, You & Magoo and Jennifer of Jennifer’s World whose ethos is pretty self explanatory: it’s about craft as therapy! The link up has now moved to Instagram. More and more people are connecting through their varied crafting and we’re all in agreement that making and creating is definitely an oasis of calm in continually hectic lives.
Last month it was my blogging friend Maura of The Messy Brunette who co-hosted the Instagram hashtag. Read Maura’s thoughts here. This month it’s my turn. I’ll be checking out the hashtags as often as I can and choosing my favourites to post here and over on IG.
If you’re an Instagram user then make sure…
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May temperature blanket summary
Temperature blankets are a great way to destash your yarn.
The months just seem to fly by, we are now half way through the year and half way through my temperature blanket! It’s been a fun project to make, seeing the variations of temperatures and how that works up a unique colour scheme. It’s also super fun to see other peoples take on the year long CAL.
You can see all my previous posts HERE
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This and That
I love the sweater! Motifs are not my cup of tea but I would totally try this.❤️
I’ve lost track of my weeks for my 52week project 😦 and rather than try and figure out if we’re at week 20something, I’m just going to post a few random things.
I finished a sweater for summer. It’s Serge by Berroco, a free crochet pattern. I didn’t use the yarn specified and instead used Cascade Roslyn, a light dk that is a blend of wool and silk, in Grape.
Crocheting is a bit more challenging for me and there are some imperfect areas, but overall I’m happy with it and the size. I wanted it cropped, but lengthened it a couple of inches since I’m tall and long waisted. I was afraid the sleeves were going to be too tight in the underarm area, but actually it’s just right. Since it’s a summery garment, I’ll be wearing it with sleeveless shells most likely, so there isn’t any added fabric…
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Crafting Times
These are gorgeous!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been quietly crafting away. Husband and I are in the process of trying to move. It has been something of a tortuous process which started last October. Suffice to say, we have been living with half built wardrobes and a fair percentage of my crafting paraphernalia has already been packed. What then to make?
The International Diploma in Crochet has been a godsend, as many of the compulsory submissions are generally quite small. I have had feedback on my initial submissions and I passed them all – I just need to work on my diagrams a little more. So in preparation for my return to Bristol I have completed a circle, a diamond, a piece of half treble with the look of knitting and started grading a pattern for a child. I have turned into a bit of a hoarder of completed pieces –…
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Boho headband pattern
Boho headband pattern!❤️
Sun is coming back again this weekend! Make yourself a nice Boho headband and you are ready for those sunny days!
I love leaves as you allready know and that is why I made a headband to wear in spring/summer to protect my hair against the sun and it looks quit boho don’t you think?
The model is my daughter and on the photos you can see you can wear the headband folded as well to make it smaller if you like. You can also wear it as a small summer scarf.
I used lana grossa elastico and hooksize 3,5 to make it and the pattern I used is based on a pattern I found on ravelry. You can find the pattern here:
The designer approved for others to design their own stuff with this stitch.
Pattern: Chain 20 Row 1: Tr in 5th chain from hook…
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Student Corner
This is proof that crochet is not for old ladies. These are fourth graders.
It’s been awhile since I’ve written about the wonderful crochet projects my students were working on and I thought it was about that time. I meant to get this out before the school year ended but better late than never, right? The kids had really been inspired and their work deserves to be seen.
Student Work
4th Graders
One 4th grade girl made a cute book cover. She asked me to teach her fancier stitches. I taught her how to do alternating single and double crochets and then alternating them in the next row. The book cover came out very cute.
After that, she felt ready to make a doll. She’d already tackled working in the round by making emojis so she was definitely ready. She finished the head and body and started work on the hair. She had definite ideas of how she wanted her doll to look.
I let her know that…
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SAL & Jacobean crewel work
Embroidery. The equivalent to painting with thread.
Review: 150 Knit and Crochet Motifs by Heather Lodinsky
WANT THIS!!!!
Yarn Shop Visit: The Altered Stitch
I wish there were more shops like this around. I like going to big box stores but I would rather go to a shop like this. It is the equivalent to going to Starbucks instead of a coffee shop.
Well friends, this weekend, we had a knitting emergency!
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