Julie Kempton's Page

Julie:

 

Sorry I didn't get around to it earlier, but I wanted to tell you that the video about using the "faux" double crochet stitch instead of chaining three at the start of a new row was absolutely fantastic.  That's my "ladder up" of choice now.  I appreciate your steering me that way! 

 

Many thanks and happy new year!

 

Donna

Have a very happy birthday Julie. Thank you so much not only for your inspirational work but for all the encouraging remarks you make and the support you offer - a lovely KASister.

Have a lovely birthday Julie

Thanks Julie, I'll try that.

Hi Julie, I love your fruity hats - pretty colours and I noticed that they have a 'rib' effect border. I have been trying to work out how to achieve this in crochet and I was hoping that you could tell me what the stitch is called so that I can look it up. I've just used back-post sc for a KASCuddle and I liked the effect on one side of that but it's going in the wrong direction for hats unless I make a rectangle and gather the top? Is there another way? As I am typing this I can see photos of the beautiful things that you have made and there seem to be lots of lovely hats. I have made some crochet progress but I still have a long way to go.

Julie,
I was looking into that 200 Crochet Squares book, but the reviews on Amazon.com said there were A LOT of errors in the patterns; have you found that to be a problem? I'm enjoying watching your squares go by =); I REALLY like those star squares! What a beautiful pattern/color combination!

P.S. I have been sitting back viewing and thoroughly enjoying a slide show of your work - lovely stuff, well done !!

Hi Julie, Sorry not to reply to your query sooner than this. I was away for several days and since I got home I have not done much on the computer. Today is the first time I have had time on my own so I thought I'd pop in and see what has been going on in KAS world. I can't seem to find the book which had the pattern in it but I will look tonight, and get back to you a.s.a.p. There's a war going on in this house books and yarn fight for space - who know which will win out in the end?! And I always know exactly where anything is - that is until I want to put my hands on it. lv - Jen

great to hear back from you. once we moved to Maryland we lived in Alexandria virginia before that. We moved to Maryland to afford a townhouse.
I knew once we moved there I wouldn't be visiting my friends or going back to virginia. The beltway then overwhelmed me. I feel so blessed to live here because had we stayed in Maryland to afford a house we would have to move out further and my husband already had a hour commute. Moving to CS was a blessing I think it was a better environment for my boys and my husbands job is only a beautiful 15 min drive away and we could afford a 3,000 square foot house it was new when we moved in. They were in a housing slump when we moved here. Colorado Springs has grown so much since then but I absolutely love it here.