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[hookedatweiss]

Sharing my 2023 wellness project, please, and wishing a Happy New Year, All! 🧶🎉

Wonky as it be, this stashghan helped me manage some fairly blah times. ❤

The project was inspired by a notoriously uncredited pinterest pic (below left*) which - somehow - led me to recall a long ago dream project (right) and was then encouraged by my precious friend @shesanearthgirl 🦋

I found some crochet charts and tutorials to lead me with making a granny square ripple. Next, I sorted yarn stash color groups to have five shades in each: four colors for a mix of 3-round squares; and a fifth color to use for a fourth jayg (join-as-you-go) round connecting the squares point-to-point.

Each 'diamond' band of squares was edged on either side with a row of white granny stitch ripple followed by a couple random colors from the squares, and then finished with a black row.**

I made a couple color bands and then tested my plan to connect them with a black-edged white diamond. THIS (above right) was my pure happy moment for sure! 😁🧶

Next step was making 3-round granny squares in white and connecting them with a fourth row in black jayg.

The real beauty of this overall project turned out being the ability to lay the color bands and adjust with a visual before committing to the stitched sequence.

Ideally, I would have made six color bands. As it happened with five bands, the throw ended a bit short so I needed to add white diamond bands to either end. It's not awful, but I think it would have been better to cap the ends in the larger color blocks.

The End... and happy forever! 🎉🧶🍻

* if you are able to track the rightful maker of this crochet, please share so I can credit as due

** I realized in hindsight that it was better to make the color bands WITHOUT the final row of black, and rather make that final black row of the color bands in jayg connecting to the black row of the white diamond bands.

[tj-crochets]

Hey, TJ. Do you take commissions for quilted mug rugs? 😁

Hey! I probably could? But if you're looking for a quilted mug rug, @anotherdayforchaosfay /@creations-by-chaosfay makes some absolutely awesome ones and has commissions open until the end of the month (August 2022, in case someone finds this post some time in the future lol) I could probably make a mug rug, but I couldn't do a complex pattern at that scale. Chaosfay is working on some pride butterfly hotpads right now and oh my gosh they are so cool! She does foundation paper piecing and can make super awesome designs at a small scale with it. I currently only do traditional piecing (I think that's what it's called?), and don't (yet) have the skill level to make small scale patterns with it.

[hookedatweiss]

Please allow me to introduce my Tiffany turtle. 🥰 🐢

Sooo, I recently had this reblog to grace my dash with an awesome crochet 'stained glass square' by Cookie Snob Crochet.

The square was still floating through my daydreams when the dock turtles (yellow belly slider terrapins) arrived for their afternoon snack.

I really couldn't NOT do the crochet, right? I mean, just crochet the stained glass circle part and then cap it for a shallow bowl shape.

My Tiffany's feets were fashioned after the 'baby sea turtle' by Whistle and Ivy. I think they worked perfectly for this project.

Tiff's belly was made flat and stitched with a wide hem on her front side to better display her signature 'yellow belly'. 🐢

Thank you! 😁

[hookedatweiss]

My 'frogging' has turned productive: please welcome Henley. 🐸

Y'all, this posable crochet dude is really soooo much fun!

I used the free pattern from AMIGURUMI TODAY for Frog Prince (previous post) with some deviations for the overalls and eyes. Bernat Softee Chunky yarn (🧶 omg love!) made my Henley just over 26" tall.

Anywho, I crocheted Henley for my kofi shop but couldn't get Hubs to stop playing with him. I mean, how could I take away the inner child’s toy?? 😅 Sigh... so now Henley belongs to the hubby who - in turn - commissioned me to make another (Henley II) for his aunt's birthday.

Thus, my frogging saga continues...

[hookedatweiss]

Hey, y'all. I designed a great blue heron track...

... and crocheted it to make a pillow envelope. 🧶

This is my first in a series of lake critter tracks that I've been working on. Sooo... whatcha think? 🤔 likey??

Also, I've started posting my stuff (crochet and lake pics) on Instagram lately. If you have an account there, I'd love to establish contact there, too.

Also also, am I the only one visualizing a circle around the heron print to make a peace sign? ☮

[hookedatweiss]

🦝 So, whatcha think of my raccoon track pillow envelope? 🧶

This dude is second in my series of c2c lake critter tracks, and I ended crocheting two versions. I'd love to hear if you have a favorite between the two... for color or design? 🤔