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What\u2019s been finished since my last post<\/i><\/p>\n Finished Items – May 2019<\/p><\/div>\n Obviously I have finished more than these since my last post, but I am going to go with just this year or it will get way<\/em> too depressing. \u00a0Hopefully doing this will also mean I start updating Ravelry properly to keep track of yarns, needles\/hooks, yardage and pattern sources as I am really<\/em> bad at that!<\/p>\n Works actively being worked on – (not hibernating or we\u2019d be here forever) including my PP (Purse Project or the project that is living in my handbag)<\/i><\/p>\n What I\u2019m learning from my crafting this month..<\/i><\/p>\n Stash reduction or enhancement<\/i><\/p>\n I am very definitely SABLE (Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy) and have been on a self imposed yarn diet for the best part of 4 years now. \u00a0The stash however isn\u2019t reducing, so i think they might be breading. Of course if I go to a yarn show it would be rude not to support independent traders or pass-up on the large retailer discount sales, and I am very good at starting projects that I just don\u2019t have the yarn for in my stash…!<\/p>\n Going \u201cCold Sheep\u201d refers to when a crafter (usually self nominated) decides not to buy more yarn\/fibre until a self determined dent has been made in the existing stash. \u00a0But obviously we *need* that pretty skein for those thingymajigs we might have to make at some point in the future<\/p>\n I did buy a bit of yarn in France, but given I was in La Droguerie (a wonderful fairytale of a yarn shop) I thought I was very restrained (1 small cone of lace-weight mohair sparkle – Voilette, 67% superfine mohair 33% stelina, 35gr, 300mtrs in colourway Cendrillon) and Phildar let me buy yarn to play with some ideas – two balls of Phil Mohair Soie (70% mohair, 30% silk, 25gr, 195mtrs in colours givre and minerai (similar to Rowan kid silk haze but a \u00bc of the price) and a ball of 100% cotton in the palest blue for the collar and I may have bought a packet of 8 different 10g mini balls for the cuteness factor. \u00a0Oops.<\/p>\n The source of my startitis – for example planned projects , inspirations or ideas that have caught my eye or subjects or topics that have snagged my attention..<\/i><\/p>\n Honestly I am playing with so many ideas at the moment I barely have time to think! \u00a0After a recent one week trip to Lille in the north of France I came back with so many photos of things that could be turned into knit or crochet (or, in one case, a hand painted silk scarf) patterns. \u00a0At the moment I am swatching (and frogging and swatching and frogging and swatching) a bias knit rectangular wrap which has single stitch vertical lines.<\/p>\n Who would have thought that there is more than one way to do a vertical line, but the single stitch of a different colour doesn\u2019t work. \u00a0I\u2019ve tried dropped stitches, beading, double knitting, duplicate stitching, travelling or raised stitches..\u2026 nothing is working right yet, but I will get there I promise.<\/p>\n I have also been distracted by a crochet pattern idea (also inspired by the trip to France – a 17th Century Persian sandstone window screen<\/a> in the Louvre in Lens being the source) which involves modular triangles. \u00a0I had done a pattern that wasn\u2019t modular in a couple of hours but it just doesn\u2019t have the crisp definition of line I want, even after blocking\u2026<\/p>\n So, before the post gets even more ridiculously long I’d better sign off and progress with some of those current projects.\u00a0 See you next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, hello there, good looking!\u00a0 First up an apology for being absent for so long – and thank you to everyone who took time to drop me a comment after using my ‘how to use crochet charts’ tutorials – it’s … Continue reading \n
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\nMy Ambient sweater has taught me that my tension might be different on circulars to dpns and that it might be worth swatching with both types if making a sweater or cardigan that you want to fit you particularly in the sleeves!<\/li>\n
\nStarted the skirt and ripped back twice before realising that the perfectly clear word \u2018turn\u2019 at the end of the pattern row was meant to be followed. \u00a0I think the pattern designer was trying to prevent a visible seam but I was getting a horrible noticeable diagonal ridge (sure that\u2019s my fault for not turning) and was having to count the over 100 stitches every round to try and get it to place right – it just wasn’t working for me. \u00a0Personally I think if you are not going to take advantage of working in the round to get the (really pretty) fabric that looks different to standard crochet for 30 something rows then work flat and seam with a flat stitch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBits of Sheep<\/h2>\n
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