Miss Anne Makes

My name is Anne and I have way too many crochet projects. I’ve renamed this blog to “Miss Anne Makes” so I can share other crafty projects as well without feeling weird. It’ll be mostly crochet, though.

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So somebody commented on one of my other posts and asked how I make the hexagon cardigan do that. The answer is it’s hexagon and if you fold it the right way it becomes half a sweater. I did not come up with this concept. I guarantee if you search crochet hexagon sweater on YouTube you will find 50,000 people who have made their own versions of it.

Basically what I do is go around until the half a sweater is wide enough at the arms and then I usually have to add a back panel and a bottom panel, and sometimes even more to the front to make it actually fit. (That’s because I am not a skinny person. Some skinny people can just make two hexagons, sew the back seam and the arm seams, and have a really cute cardigan all at once. Unfortunately, I have to do more work for that.)

This newest one is being made in scarfie light from lion brand, which is my birthday yarn this year. This color is called Seaglass. The yarn is quite quite soft and very fuzzy. It seems kind of thin when you feel it, but I’m glad I picked the size 8 H hook instead of a smaller one because the fuzz really does add some bulk to it. (The label recommends a J-10 hook, but H is my favorite.)

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Trying to decide if I should fix the mistake I just made.

I just crocheted the February row to the January row on the mood blanket. I did it backwards.

I don't know if I want to fix it or just have the blanket go that way from now on...

If I fix it, it will not be now.

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February Moods

This past week’s square.

February squares. Lots of good and great, some fine and sad. Mostly just feeling tired and unsatisfied. (Feels like I’m not being productive.)But lots of purple in there.

And I did change Fine from pink to blue just recently, so that’s a thing too.

Here’s to a good start to March!

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I finished my final corner square for the mood blanket. This one is October, November, December and I think you can really tell from the yarn I picked.

Here are all four together. I do think that the first two have colors that go better together within each square and look nicer together as a pair. I think that’s kind of fitting. The first half of the year for me is always kind of calm and the second half of the year once school starts is always kind of wacky. I feel like the squares reflect that.

Obviously, there will be mood squares in between. those I can’t make ahead. I do feel better having the corner squares all finished. Honestly, I think everything’s going to look really nice together.

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Disappointed

So, at some point last year I got really excited because I finally got my hands on new colors of Super Saver Ombre (my favorite yarn). I've used several of the multicolored yarns since then and I really enjoy them. I've been saving the real gradient one-shade yarns for something special.

Yesterday I finally decided on a vague plan for those yarns and I got started making circles. Tomato red was fine. Marigold orange was fine. They're both a little bright in places, but I liked what I was making with them.

Then I got to Gold Bar yellow.

I hate it.

There is so much brown in there, and it kind of gives baby poop in the wrong light. I kind of see what they were going for, but that's not gold!

This is gold. This is the shade called "gold" in their regular Super Saver line. They have other shades of yellow that you could easily, easily combine to make a yellow gradient that you could call Gold Bar.

They've done a yellow ombre called Sunny that ends with bright (almost neon) yellow. Can we not figure out how to make it go deeper and get toward gold without going to poopy brown?

These are the "Gold Bar" circles I made. I don't like them.

I have other issues with the other colors (why are they not all starting at the light or the dark of the color way, so you can match things?) but this is what pushed me over the edge. I've put all this yarn in the bad yarn box and I'm ignoring it for the time being.

If Yarnspirations wants to hire me, I'm looking for work and I can come consult on colors. Or you could go get a paint swatch card from the hardware store and use that as a reference. Here's one I found in a 10 second Google search.

Why is yellow hard??? It's meant to be a happy color but I am just very, very sad looking at it right now.

😭

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Mood Blanket Progress - Week 8

The first row of the blanket is officially together. It fits across my queen size bed. I had to use the panorama mode on my camera to get a picture of the whole thing.

We all knew this was going to be a big blanket when we got started. It’s just that no it’s actually showing me how big it’s really going to be.

The second row is in progress.

You can see this week’s square there on the end. Today was kind of blah but overall it was another good week.

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So I think I have decided that the tulips are going to be set in the way you see them in the picture. So they’re going sideways rather than up and down. I’m going to create another panel like that and that will be the two sides of my sweater, and then I will make sleeves to go with it. I have a vague notion of what I’m doing, and a pattern that I’m kind of following a little bit, but really this is me making things up out of my own head. So we’ll see how it works out for me I guess.

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July August September corner square for the mood blanket.

This one looks pretty chaotic, but I do like it. It kind of fits the feeling of that time of year for me. July is kind of the end of summer because school has started in August where I live, so August and September are the beginning of school time for me. Obviously July is the red white and blue and then August is the pastel rainbow and September is the brighter rainbow. I definitely wanted that one for September because that feels like the real start of school and reminds me of a fresh crayons and everything the pastel rainbow is kind of the feeling. I’ve always wanted my classroom to have a kind of bright and pastel and sparkly and welcoming.

I don’t know that I would combine all these colors together again on purpose, but I do like a little bit of chaos in this square.

(Yes, I know it’s only February. For some reason, not having all the colors for the monthly borders was bugging me so I ordered what I needed. And I am putting together those corner squares now so I don’t have to worry about making them later. Don’t ask me how my brain works. I don’t even know.)

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First corner square made. I love these colors together. The green on there is red heart super saver green tones. Combined with the pink in the middle on the blue at the center it just reminds me of a flower field. These are the border colors for the first three months on my mood blanket. I’m excited to see how the rest of the blanket ties together as I keep going.

(Technically the green is for March, and we’re still in February, but I wanted to make sure I had it and I wanted to finish the square so that I can attach the February squares to the next row.) was

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I intended for this heart to be inside a granny square that might eventually turn into a sweater front. However, I can’t figure out how to squarify the dang thing. rather than fuss with it – especially since Valentine’s Day was this past weekend – I have decided to turn it into a fan pull instead. I do think it’s really really pretty. Maybe I’ll take another stab at turning it into a square at some other point.

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I don’t have my model with me, so a flat lay on the bed will have to do. I am halfway done with my hexagon sweater. Or, maybe more like a third or even a quarter of the way done? The sleeve is wide enough for me and it fits when I put it on. The front and the back are not nearly wide enough yet, and if I kept it at the length that is, it would be incredibly cropped. That’s normal for these.

In the past, I have added on a panel directly to the back. This time I am planning on making some granny squares to fill in that’s space for back and front. It’s really interesting to see how the stripes in the yarn behave differently with different patterns.

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February week two square. This mood blanket is coming along. I think everybody should be proud of me for sticking with it.

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He just let me put it on him and he just sat there and looked cute for like two more minutes…

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All my hearts have been turned into squares. Now I just need to sew them all together.

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So this is really silly. You know how I got new yarn so that I could start the rainbow gradient at the same point that I started it on the first side of the sweater? I don’t know if you can tell but the pink from the brand new ball of pink that’s supposed to start exactly the same point… is darker.

At this point, I’m just gonna roll with it. I bought two and I checked the other one and it starts at that color too. So that’s just what we’re gonna go with and nobody’s gonna care.

It’s still really pretty, right?

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Helping

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Here is my weekly mood blanket square. for everyone who has just joined me, I am making a weekly granny square tracking my moods. Yellow means grumpy, pink means good, and purple means great. The last row around represents what month we’re in. I got to start a new color this week because we’re in February now!

I had a yarn I was going to use for this, but then I got a new bitty stripes yarn from yarnspirations that was made specifically for Valentine’s Day and I kinda had to use it. This is called rose bouquet.