Crochetville Holiday Exchange

I received wonderful gift from andyM - look at this! Everything is so wonderful! Thank you! The green rectangle thing on the left is a crochet hook holder - very nice, another green rectangle is a bag, black bag is for storing yarn and it has many pockets and grommets to thread the yarn through and crochet right from the bag! Then there is a crochet calendar for the next year, and holiday pens and CD with holiday music, and cookies, and candy canes and tea, and holiday socks, and ornament with my name on it, and checkbook cover with space for placing pictures - I will put my kids pictures in there! Thank you very much, Andy! I love everything! I really hope you will like what I am sending to you!

Slim-Fitting cardigan

Ok, last one for today! There you can see where the leftover yarn from the shawl went. The pattern is called Slim-Fitting Cardigan and is found in Fabulous and Flirty Crochet book. I really enjoyed making this. My only complain is it is tapered to the bottom, and it ends below the waist, and it does not sit very much right down at the back. I would make waistline shaping, not taper if I would make this again. it would be easy to do since the ripple pattern goes on back and front only, and the sides are just plain dc's - easy to adjust for size and shape! Otherwize the pattern is good. I did not add buttons as I couldn't find the perfect ones, and also I am not sure it will look good all buttoned up at the back because of tapered shape. I am afraid it will pull at the lower edge and it will not show waist.

Tunisian Crochet top.

This one is made with Knit Picks Shine sport weight yarn. The yarn is so very soft, I liked to work with it very much, although it tends to split a little. Anyway, it is very pleasant to touch, I am looking forward to using this yarn again. The basic pattern was made with the same Knitware Sweaters program. it is Tunisian crochet in the round cardigan with the closure on the back (I stitched it shut almost to the top, leaving some space for a button and the buttnohole of ease of wearing) It has reglan sleeves and slightly shaped waist, and it is tight-fitting. I added narrow lacy edging to the sleeves and neck, and wide edging to the bottom.

Crochet sweater

This one was crocheted from Patons Fresco. I made a pattern using trial version of Knitware Sweaters program. It is crochet in the round top down, the stitch pattern is very simple *single crochet - chain one*. It was such a releif to just make one gauge square, like it and then make a pattern using my gauge, not someone else's. I am very floppy crocheter and knitter, and always have to use hooks and needles several sizes down from recommended, or the item will be huge. That was really great to use the program. It has some features disabled for demo version, but I could still make print the pattern. I think as is the sweater is a bit too blend, so I am considering adding some edging to it. And, yes, it is exactly the size I wanted it to be! No more pattern adjustments for sleeve and waist length!

Capelet an hat

Both made from a boucle yarn from Crochet! magazine (November 2007)

63 crochet squares crochet-along

This is my current progress on this afghan. I made 28 squares. I skipped about a half of the squares published in the book because I did not find those to be right for me. I think I will make couple more squares and then move to the 63 more squares book. There is going to be 9 colors in this afghan.

Crocheting bag

This bag was made in Berocco Softwist yarn. I made up this Tunisian crochet pattern. The bag is intended for crocheting or knitting while out in public or waiting for an appointment. It is worn around the left wrist and I put some yarn inside and crochet. I even crocheted while walking! It obviously works for small projects only. I used up two skeins of yarn for the bag. Next time I will make the handle shorter a bit.

Green Capelet

I do not remember where I got the pattern for this, But I really like it, and made three capelets with it as for now. This one is crocheted in a Yarn bee yarn, again, sorry, forgot the name - so much for procrastination!

Crochetville winter scarf exchange

This is the scarves and matching pins I got from Lisa. They are very soft and pretty and warm. I like the matching pins! Thank you, Lisa!

Aviator hat

This is a hat from Crochet! magazine (either September or November issue 2006), made with the yarns pattern is called for (another rare case of using the right yarn). Caron boucle for edging, and I forgot the name of the other yarn. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough yarn for it (it called for one skein of each) so I had to alter the pattern, mainly the earflaps are smaller.

Yet another shawl

This one was crochet with Lion Brand Suede yarn (4 skeins, if I remember it right) and the pattern is from Interweave crochet Winter 2006. I so much like it - soft and the color is gorgeous!

Tunisian crochet throw

This throw is from Tunisian crochet baby blankets book, but I made it bigger with bigger hook and worsted weight yarn. It has less pattern repeats then called for, but it is still to big to be considered a baby blanket. I worked on it for almost a year, just couldn't make myself to finally finish it. I am glad I did. It is soft and cuddly.

Interweave knits

This one made from Berocco Echo yarn, the pattern was found in Summer 2007 issue of interweave knits magazine. it has very nice and long cable ribbing and then it is plain to the top.

Ribbon yarn tank top

This tank was knitted from some ribbon yarn (do not remember the name) from the big knits book. It is very simple, slightly shaped at the waist with turtleneck collar. I was really surprized to find how stretchy the fabric becomes when knit with ribbon yarn. The yarn itself was absolutely non-stretchy!

Shawl

This shawl is from the Happy Hooker book, I made three of them to date - two as gifts and this one finally for me :) It is made from Four Seasons Nobleese yarn (100% superwash wool), do not remember the hook size. Used up 10 skeins plus about a yard. That was very disappointing, as I had to buy more of the yarn, because the shawl works from the long side to the point. It was either that or starting over, and it is not so much fun considering it was shawl #3. Anyway, I like it and it is just perfect for Summer to wear in air-conditioned buildings. And I just couldn't buy just one ball of the yarn, so I got more, and made a cardigan.

Filati Valentino

This one was knitted from a knitting magazine with Filati Valentino yarn. It is cooton fine weight, thick and thin yarn, used it with two strands.

Evita

This tunic was knit using Patons Evita yarn, from their brochure. I think I got the pattern and the yarn together for a project for the first time there :)

Shawl-Collared Wrap Cardigan

This is Shawl-Collared Wrap cardigan from Fabulous and Flirty Crochet book. I used Berocco Lullaby yarn and hook size G. I did not like the idea of pocket and the cuffs - I actually made one cuff, and it looked too bulky so I just worked a round of single crochets there.

Back to blogging.

Ok, I totally neglected my blog. But I did not neglect crochet and knitting any little bit this summer and autumn. I just made a bunch of pictures of what I made, and I am going to start posting.