Friday 8 August 2008

I'm a Speedy Hooker Too!!!


Its official i'm addicted to crocheting!!! i've perfected the granny square and the solid square and i'm now making a baby blanket for my heavily pregnant friend, using the ripple stitch. Its so much fun and i'm getting faster and faster each day. I'm only using cheap wool, as I didn't want to waste money on expensvie wool to find out I either hated crocheting or I couldn't perfect it, but now i'm making the wool into a baby blanket I'm not sure it is soft enough!! its 100% arcylic wool! I'm also wanting to make a Babette blanket like the one on Purl Bee (picture above), i've ordered the pattern from the interweave website, its only $6, i think they look amaing and are relatively easy to do. Anyway back to the baby blanket, I'm using three colours and I wanted the ripples to be random stripes and not all the same width, I stumbled on this website, which is amazing and I played with it for ages!! basically you select the colours you are wanting to use, the amount of rows you wish to crochet or knit in each colour so I selected, 1, 2 and 4 with a maximum of 100 rows all together and viola, there is your random stripe pattern!! its amazing!! everytime you click on the generate button it makes a different pattern, so you have to be careful that you don't lose the one that you love. Then you just print it out and it tells you how many to knit or crochet in each colour.

Saturday 2 August 2008

Speedy Mother Hooker

I have been working my fingers to the bone!! but unfortunately not in a crafty way.  I've not had anytime to do anything crafty for what seems like ages, but that's all about to change as my wonderful husband has just bought me knitting needles, a crochet needle and some bundles of wool!!! YEAH!! I'm so excited (it really doesn't take much) I've not knitted since i was 8 and I've never crocheted, mum used to crochet whenever there was a new baby on the way, anywhere in the world!!! and i used to watch in amazement as she was able to Crochet without taking her eyes off Coronation Street, the hook would move that fast i was surprised that steam wasn't coming off it.  She was one speedy mother hooker!!! So hopefully I'm destined to be one too.