Category: crochet

  • catch-up

    It was great having Ysolda here this week, we had lots of fun! Let’s see how much I can cram into this post – mostly photos.

    We did lots of knitting on the various forms of the TTC.

    day two, streetcar

    Ysolda got two awesome dresses at the Clothing Show (there’s a photo of the other one on her blog). Her sweater pattern will be forthcoming on the blog as well..

    day four: shopping jaunt

    We went ribbon shopping at Mokuba:

    so. much. ribbon.

    And yarn shopping at Romni (where I got the fibranatura from the last post).

    shopping at Romni

    On her last day here, Ysolda came with me to work, and we sat and chatted and crocheted.

    last day: ysolda at LK

    And then it was time to say goodbye, sniff.

    bye!

    Now I really want to go visit Edinburgh!

    us.

  • red and swingy

    herringbone skirt, iii.

    Herringbone Skirt
    Pattern: from Knitscene Fall 2007
    Yarn: 8 skeins Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool. I forget what the colour name is, but it’s, you know, red.
    Needles Hook: 3.25 mm Boye

    I just finished up this skirt Wednesday morning, finally. It seemed like a forever project, but it did actually work up relatively quickly – and I love the result!

    herringbone skirt, ii

    I do kind of wish I’d started the flarey part a little earlier, so it would be a longer section of the skirt, but it worked out fine. I did modify the seaming, slightly – the directions tell you to ch 2 between each sc of the seam. Didn’t make much sense to me, I tried it and just decided to nix the ch 2’s.

    I think I used 3/4″ elastic rather than the 1″ the pattern calls for, and also canned the bottom mini-ruffle. It was a bit too much for me and definitely would’ve taken more than the eight skeins the pattern called for.

    The fabric, being crocheted, is pretty see-through…

    see-through skirt

    But since it is a wool skirt, I’ll always be wearing leggings or tights underneath. And if not, there’s always the old-fashioned (but very useful) half-slip.

    Not bad for a first crochet project, eh? I’ve done crochet edgings and stuff before, but this was my first all-crochet project and first time following a crochet pattern. I’m glad it worked out – now I’m seeing a little more crochet in my future.

  • back on track

    The pain and any surface marks from the burn went away pretty quickly, and I’ve set my sights on finishing the crocheted herringbone skirt.

    getting closer!

    I’m farther along now, with just a few inches to go on one of the pieces. The other piece is about halfway done as well. The pattern, just as a reminder, is from the Fall 2007 issue of Knitscene.

    I had four skeins of the yarn (silky wool) in my stash to start with – the pattern calls for eight. I crocheted two balls each of the front and back while waiting for more yarn to come. I knew it’d be a different dyelot, of course.

    flare closeup

    It does show (the new yarn is brighter) but luckily, it’s at a point where it looks perhaps intentional – pretty much right where the increasing for the flare begins. So I’m okay with it. I ordered five extra skeins (so nine total), and I think I’ll only need seven. Maybe I’ll make it a little longer, since I’m not planning on doing the mini ruffle at the bottom.

    And now, a different type of (almost) FO:

    a BIG tomato

    I grew that! A HUGE tomato, heartland variety. Those aren’t kid-hands, either! It’s not quiiiiite ripe, but I picked it anyway under the strong urging of a garden-neighbour, because it is almost ripe, was at the front of the garden (easily accessible), and because it is big – don’t want to risk someone coming along and yoinking it! I’ll give it a day or two in the kitchen to ripen up before the ritual devouring.