In the aftermath of the holidays I couldn't stand to think about another large project, or anything involving pastel or neutral colors.
So, I engaged a little therapy and made some stuff for *myself*. It took about a day and a half of pretty serious crocheting to finish it all, and it is really, really not neutral or pastel. 
Scarf, headband, fingerless gloves.
( close up of a glove )
Don't worry, once I realized those couple of ends were sticking out funny I fixed the issue. for some reason I had to see photos to notice them -- go figure.
It was all made out of Red Heart, used less than a full skein of each color, and so ended up costing me about 6 bucks. They're also warm, and mine, even if they don't match a thing I own.
Now, maybe I can get back on the pastel and neutral train.
Hi everyone!!
I'm still learning how to crochet. I know how to do maybe 2 basic stitches. I think I only have 1 roll of yarn and 1 hook that I bought just to practice. However, I am wandering if you could suggest the basic things that I would need to have as a beginner crocheter. I had planned to buy a crocheting book and some other yarn and hooks this weekend, but I have no idea is there's any other things I needed, like what size hooks, etc.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks so much!!
I've got some time to kill and some extra yarn lying around. Does anyone have a pattern for arm warmers? I'd be greatly appreciative :)
Is there any sort of knot I can make so that this seashell will lie flat on someone's chest if they wear it as a necklace? 
( A closer look )
I want to avoid jump rings if possible. I also want to avoid metal clasps. Any advice on how to close/tie the necklace without a metal clasp but still have it look nice? And, a pastel-colored silk cord would look best as the chain, I think. Do you have any other suggestions for a chain?
I made some Octopi
Part of these I made as gifts, or for charity, and some I made for my daughter. It seems like these got better as I progressed.
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The tin is just a 2 3/4 inches in diameter and one inch tall window tin, I bought it on Etsy a while ago and never had a use for it.
I covered the lid in a picture of fabric once made for Marie Antoinette. The paper was Modge Podged onto the plastic and embellished with gold zig-zag ribbon. (You can see the spot where the pattern is messed up ... the paper ripped while wet so I tried to cover it the best I could)
I mixed gold body glitter with the Modge Podge for the top layer, so, at different angels the picture is more gold.
I absolutely love it. No one I showed was really impressed, but I think it's pretty cool.
By the way, I'm Chelsea. Hi! I rarely ever post. You all make such beautiful things!
If this is not appropriate to post here, then please let me know and I'll remove it.
My husband wrote and recorded this music in the 1980s, but I think it still sounds fresh. I love this particular piece so much that I asked him if we could make a video of it with my trees and he agreed. We worked on this video over break, and had a lot of fun. Enjoy!
Does anyone know where to find a pattern to this? I love it!
http://www.trailingyarn.com/archives/30
I haven't posted here in a long time... but this is why:
6x6 (ish) free-form blanket all done in single crochet. I am incredibly pleased with the results but I'm not sure if it is actually done. It doesn't have a pattern, and I didn't have a plan, so it really could have gone on forever. What do you all think? I think that I am at the stage where I still love it, and therefore NEED TO BE DONE.
EDIT: Thank you for the wonderful comments!
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Two things I want to cover in this post:
1) I have abnormally dry skin. I always have. Crocheting/handling yarn frequently makes it even dryer. Do any of you have this problem, and how do you remedy it? I've tried wearing gloves but they get in the way a bit, so I tried wearing fingerless gloves but my fingers still got dried out from the yarn. I use lotion all. the. time. I have to apply it probably ten times an hour when I'm crocheting, no exaggeration. Because of this, I'm going to start making my own lotion to save money, but I'm wondering if any of you have this problem and how you remedy it?
2) My boss directed me to this awesome website. She offered to pay me to make her one of those scarves and I said I'd be happy to. She chose the longcat scarf. It's cute, but, it's not crocheted. Does anyone have any idea how I can make a scarf like that with yarn?
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Two things I want to cover in this post:
1) I have abnormally dry skin. I always have. Crocheting/handling yarn frequently makes it even dryer. Do any of you have this problem, and how do you remedy it? I've tried wearing gloves but they get in the way a bit, so I tried wearing fingerless gloves but my fingers still got dried out from the yarn. I use lotion all. the. time. I have to apply it probably ten times an hour when I'm crocheting, no exaggeration. Because of this, I'm going to start making my own lotion to save money, but I'm wondering if any of you have this problem and how you remedy it?
2) My boss directed me to this awesome website. She offered to pay me to make her one of those scarves and I said I'd be happy to. She chose the longcat scarf. It's cute, but, it's not crocheted. Does anyone have any idea how I can make a scarf like that with yarn?
X-Posted.
I found a bunch of old Pokemon and Sailor Moon trading cards in my grandparents' basement. I feel too nostalgic and guilty to throw them away, so what are some good uses? I was thinking of cutting out all of the pictures, laminating, and adding findings to make jewelry charms but I don't want a hundred pairs of Pokemon earrings :S
A couple of years ago when my grandpa died we threw together a couple "photo" boards - old photos on a piece of foam core.
I think we just used a regular glue stick, but the old photos are on more of a paper paper than a glossy photo paper.
Anyway, I want them off the foam core and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to remove/loosen the glue that won't ruin the photos - maybe warming or a slight steam or....?
Any ideas?
Weave in ends as you go...
I'm trying to finish up a scarf for my boyfriend by the time he gets off work today. It's 10 granny squares, most with 2 colors. that's a minimum of 4 ends to weave in for each of those squares, and then there's all the ends from when i cut too soon or had to cut out a knot. and THEN there's the ends from when i slip-stitched them all together.
I've gotten 2 squares done so far and they make me want to cry.
how i knit sox
-thanx to utube tutorials
the written patterns
in my mind
just melt together.
the pattern i follow
is fairly random
an improvisational
its a knit as you go
up from the toe
I knit loose so
I use size 1 needles & regular worsted yarn-bigger is faster
I like the double circular needle technique
because you can try them on in stages
and the cats can't pull them out as easily as regular double points
these are the 3rd pair I made
with james c brett "marble" acrylic yarn.
most sox take 100 grams of sport weight yarn per pair
I start my sox starting from the toe up
doing a double cast on- on 2 circular needles
one metal one bamboo- i match the needle by feel
casting a stitch one on one needle
then one on the other
_ i didn't find a video showing long end cast on
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you might want to do a rightclick and open in new tab or window on link
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL4cVW5
do enough stitches to cover across 3-4 toes, 8-10 stitches each
knit the round then
increase by knitting back/front in the same stitch
at the ends of the rows till they make a cup
that makes a toe by then you have 15-17 stitches on each needle
I followed cat bordhi has knitting on 2 double needle
I knit about 6 sets of 5 between one single row stripe rows
-the picture is alternate stripes or 3 rows /green 4-5rows purple
i do it till about 3 inches from the heel
start increasing on one needle on both ends (making heel gusset)
the longer circular needle of you're following kristi style in the first video
knitting straight on the other(shorter) needle in between
adding 5- 6 stitches
then start turning the heel(on the one needle only back and forth)
i'm having troubles with embedding
you might want to do a rightclick and open in new tab or window on link
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yVikAv
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFrVqx-i
doing a knit a stitch slip slip a stitch- i like to alternate the lips on rows
between the turnings
go up the heel and start decreasing(k2 tog) till
till you've used up the stitches you added in the gusset
absorbed I'll decrease a couple extra to make a tighter cuff
starting back on the round of both needles going k1p1
till I run out of yarn or pateince approx 2-3 inches
do the 2nd sox before you forget how the first one went
luckily I can see the increase points and the stripes help with counting
I've done 8 pairs- I'd put off knitting sox till I was 50
I'd tried knitting on and off since i was 5, bells, afgahn age 12, a sweaters@18
didn't really get it till my saturn return(age 29)-2 more sweaters et stuff
and now I can do sox! mind you mom's been doing them for y-e-a-rs
next thing is to watch the video about doing both at the same time.
I want to make a baby blanket out of a bunch of granny squares, but I also want to know what's the best way to stitch all the squares together? I thought about whip-stitching all the squares together but I want to know if there's a better way to stitch all the squares together and it still look really nice.
EDIT:
Thank you everyone for your input! I don't mind hearing more suggestions but as mentioned, I think I'll just slip stitch them all together. :3
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I am attempting to make a shell stitch scarf. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but rather than a flat piece of 'fabric' it is a spiral. It's very pretty, but I don't know how I got there and it's *not* what I was going for. Help?
And now, the Baby Clothes! YAY!
Right. So I said I had some yarn left. Well just look at all the stuff I got out of those two balls of yarn I had left. (don't count the blanket of course hahah I already had that) What you see here are two baby dresses (one which the pattern also said it was for a newborn but which was actually way way bigger, a pair of socks, two pairs of slippers, two diaper covers to match the little dresses and a little hat. The little round things in the plastic bag are actually the spare yarn. Usually when I give a gift is there is just a little ball left, I wind it up nice and neat and give it as well for repairs and things like that. if there is a lot, I just wind up a little ball of it though and the rest goes in my scraps. These pictures seem a little bigger. I don't think I resized them the same as the blanky.
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so in may 2009 i traveled to new orleans, LA. it my the number one thing to do on my 'life list' and also the first time i'd been on a plane. amazzzzing and i cannot wait to go back. i have FINALLY finished my book - thanks in part to my new cricut. i feel like it took me forever but i know people that are a year or more behind with their scrapping so its not too horrible.
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( noLA scrapbook !! )
I may have shown this stuff already, but I don't remember, so you get to see it again maybe.
Right before I left my former job, my boss discovered that her grandson had (foolishly at age 16) made her into a great grandma. (well future as the baby wasn't born yet) So I decided to make them a baby blanket. My second ever baby blanket, and my first ever granny square blanket. I made it with Bernat Baby Jacquards in cherry berry and berries and cream. You can see from the sample how nice they work together. well I made my blanket and it didn't really take very long at all. I had to hurry too, because I was getting close to my last day of work, the start date for my new job was June 22, and I took these pictures of the last bits of things finished on June 17.
The actual pictures are bigger than this
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I just ran across this free pattern on Ravelry, and I thought I'd share it. It's for a water bottle cover, but I thought that it would make an excellent learner's project, because it's done in a sampler style so a beginner could learn a lot of stitches. The instructions have to be the most detailed I have ever seen, it's pretty impressive. And it's kind of nice looking water bottle cover, too.
The pattern is on Ravelry, or here if you're not a member.
I'm making a baby blanket for my cousin's baby and it's just a pretty simple granny square blanket, all one piece. I would like to monogram it, though, and add ruffles to the edges. Since you can't really monogram granny squares, the way I figure I'll do this is once the blanket is just about the size I like, I'll add a couple inches of sc rows, thick enough to stitch initials into, and then 4 or 5 dc in each st around. This is pure improvising and I don't see a real reason it won't work but I wanted to know if any of you thought this seemed like a good idea, or if it's not, what's a better way to add both an area to monogram, and ruffles?
Thanks in advance! I'm new to this community and feel like I've been posting requesting help a lot and people have been REALLY nice and helpful about everything. Thank you!
Does anyone have a good pattern for throw pillows or something similar? I keep finding patterns for pillow covers, but I don't want a cover, I have stuffing and yarn, I just want to stuff the crochet piece and sew it up.
I'm back home for vacation and it appears the local recycling center doesn't take glass anymore! So I'm looking for craft projects involving virtually every kind of glass container. Jars of all sizes, wine bottles, beer bottles, etc.
Thanks!
Hello, everyone! I'm pretty beginner at crochet, but I thought I'd share this scarf I just finished today. It was made for a real math lover!
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