#crocheting!

[vixalorvixen]

Im gonna try out crocheting for the first time

[fiberandfancysticks]

This crocheted doily hangs out on my desk, being pretty! I made it back in 2020, in the first few months at this apartment!

Here it is on my hand, for scale:

It's made with size 40 crochet cotton, which I bought several colors of intending to 1) make more crocheted doilies, and 2) learn to make shuttle tatted lace. Mostly, I've used this assortment of thread to make thin tablet woven bands; I'll have to post some of those, next!

[fiberandfancysticks]

When I bought the first of my Fancy wooden crochet hooks, I realized I'd need something better to keep them in than the little plastic case I'd been using forever...

So I designed my own! And then I made a second, smaller, one for my Fancy Tiny Steel hooks!

3 years on, I can say that these continue to be very nearly perfect -- except my attempt at a pocket for the hook covers in the lace hook one, and also I should have just used magnets for that one, too! But the buttons WORK, and I didn't know that at the time! :D

The pockets for the hooks are made by doing a easy to do but hard to describe stitch that's basically a DTC in the front loop a few rows down and a hdc in the back loop, and they're joined on the last yo. And you just adjust the sizes to match the yarn and the size hook that needs to be held!

[fiberandfancysticks]

I made this blanket in 2018; it took me just a few days over 6 months, according to my project on Ravelry! It's been on my bed constantly, since then! I love it; my cats love it.

It's definitely the fastest I ever finished a bed-sized blanket, and it is warm and cozy and heavy!

It was very fun to do -- it's made in a bunch of different sections, then crocheted together, and the whole thing changes shape again and again as you go along. It's not just 'make a circle then square it off' like so many other things are! This pattern is brilliant; I've thought so since I first saw it; that's why it's the blanket I decided to make for myself!

... it does mean I have to always choose new bedsheets/blankets that match these colors, but since I chose the colors I used to match my existing bedsheets and other blankets, in 2018, that's not really a new issue!

[fiberandfancysticks]

This is my current Tiny Emergency Project; if you find yourself out with nothing to do but wait, it's very useful to have a Very Small intricate crochet doily in your bag, waiting patiently to be worked on!

I'm using very very thin yarn (it's actually one of the 4 2-ply yarns that made up a much thicker (but still thin!) shawl yarn, which I liked much better taken apart. (also, don't do that. Separating the plies in 1000-yard balls of yarn is REALLY ANNOYING! But in this case... it was worth it. Probably.)

The pattern is Carlotta, by Grace Fearon; I've been working on it very slowly. I... usually bring other projects with me! ^_^

[fiberandfancysticks]

This is the enormous circular blanket I made for my mom, 90% done in 2018! It's huge and heavy and I kept having to find new dark purples because yarn kept getting discontinued >_<;;

It is Extremely Cozy, and works very well on her bed!

[fiberandfancysticks]

Sometimes, you find a yarn that screams "I want to be [some type of thing!]" conveniently when you have a reason to make that sort of thing!

The yarn I used to make these pillows showed up just after my brother and his girlfriend managed to find (and purchase!) Their Perfect Couch (that needed pillows!) (This conveniently overlapped chronologically with the Winter Holiday Season, and therefore I did not have to worry about PRESENTS that year!)

These are two pillows -- each has a Red/Brown side, which are patterns I found, and a White/Green side, which is a pattern I designed!

(... next time I decide to make my pattern, though, I won't make the background white. It, um, makes them look a bit too much like eyes! Especially together! This was not obvious when they were flat, before I turned them into pillows!)