Week one of blanket making is over - let's see how far we got...
7 x 6" sqaures! On track! Below I've put each square, and the pattern I used if you'd like it too!
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Sunday, 7 June 2015
Little Lighthouse
I've been tidying my room, and found all my old embroidery
stuff! I also found some aida, so I decided to have a go at a cross stitch
technique I saw a while ago but never tried out.
The idea you pin the aida to your fabric, cross stitch like
normal, then carefully pick all the strands of aida out. It was a lot easier to
remove than I was expecting, and I think I might do some more! Very tempted to
do some fried eggs I think, and use my own design this time.
For this sweet little lighthouse I used a pattern found on
this website. I've been living near the seaside the past 9 months, and wanted some kind of seaside-y motif on my plain shorts. I always like seeing lighthouses, so when I saw this pattern it made perfect sense!
What sort of things do you like at the seaside?
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
It's a Start
Hello!
I'm aiming to fill my summer with crafty projects and sewing, and I wanted somewhere to document my creations!
So here's the first thing, the most recent big project I finished, and the first 'proper' crochet clothing I've made!
I made this using this pattern, and completely the wrong yarn weight. Since the pattern used measurements instead of numbers of stitches and rows, it turned out alright!
I liked the look of the lacey parts, and once I understood the new stitch I was off.
I used Marriner 'mermaid' acrylic for this, and a bit of some pink when I ran out of the variegated. I was given a ball of the mermaid yarn for my birthday, and by the time I needed more of it to finished up the batches they had for sale were far more grey than the ball I had - and noticably so! I think it's okay for the lacy sectins, but looked very odd on the left of the bodice.
I'm glad this went okay, and I like the slightly clownish look is ended with, with the contrasting bodice half and sleeve and ruffly collar!
On a final note, I've started work on a blanket! I'm scared! But I'm going to put up a weekly post, on Mondays, of the new squares I've completed. I'm aiming for at least 6 inches squared a day, whether that's a whole square or a section of a larger one, so I'll be done by the start of term.
Let's see what the summer brings!
I'm aiming to fill my summer with crafty projects and sewing, and I wanted somewhere to document my creations!
So here's the first thing, the most recent big project I finished, and the first 'proper' crochet clothing I've made!
I made this using this pattern, and completely the wrong yarn weight. Since the pattern used measurements instead of numbers of stitches and rows, it turned out alright!
I liked the look of the lacey parts, and once I understood the new stitch I was off.
I used Marriner 'mermaid' acrylic for this, and a bit of some pink when I ran out of the variegated. I was given a ball of the mermaid yarn for my birthday, and by the time I needed more of it to finished up the batches they had for sale were far more grey than the ball I had - and noticably so! I think it's okay for the lacy sectins, but looked very odd on the left of the bodice.
I'm glad this went okay, and I like the slightly clownish look is ended with, with the contrasting bodice half and sleeve and ruffly collar!
On a final note, I've started work on a blanket! I'm scared! But I'm going to put up a weekly post, on Mondays, of the new squares I've completed. I'm aiming for at least 6 inches squared a day, whether that's a whole square or a section of a larger one, so I'll be done by the start of term.
Let's see what the summer brings!
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