Today I have finally managed to read e-mails and come back to the forum.
I have publicly admitted I need to practice my crochet beyond one stitch (half treble UK style).
I will practice my newly learnt stitch combination from "Art of crochet" and add photo evidence.
Now ........ just need to find the hook!!!!! Probably rolled under the sofa again (wonder if that is where my knitting needle went as well).
Shouldn't try and knit and crochet at the same time - too complicated !
Need to charge digital camera and fix printer.
Must remember to note down what I have done to make my new crochet square - cannot "read" the pattern looking at what I have done in the same way I can with knitting.
MMMM must also remember that sitting crosslegged on sofa is not good for circulation.
Also must not try surrounded by lots of balls of yarn as have now added in new yarn by accident and have to start row again - doh!!!!
Think it's time to give up for now and have an early night.
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The hook was definitely here last night. I KNOW it was. Great big 4mm silver thing.
Can't blame the cat as, unfortunately, he had to be put to sleep last year.
MMM guess where it was this time - yup Anne under the sofa. Along with some mysterious cat fur which still seems to appear by magic from the ether.
Have to go to Salisbury today for lunch so might see if I can find some cheap yarn there.
MMM as I speak yarn fibres now on laptop - ho hum .......... mustn't let nephew know or he will nag!!!
Okay......... 2 more squares in new crochet stitches (double and treble) as a departure from my usual half treble (UK).
Anne .......... I have sofa's which have fitted cushions so that, in theory, knitting needles don't get lost -HA HA! Doesn't work........... have lost my short 2.75mm knitting needle again!
Yes ...... I have got a special see-through pencil case to put them in but................ when you have sudden idea and then it doesn't work so you do something else to give yourself time to think about it well......... they don't (apparently) make their own way back into the pencil case. Go figure!!!!!
Also, bought cheap leather sofa to discourage my practice of sticking my sewing needle in the arm of the sofa ......................... YES I know.............. dangerous that's why habit needed to be broken. Guess what it's worked. Now stick sewing in needle in Jeans leg! I think it's progress ....... although strange looks from friends when they knock on the door................. maybe a work in progress.
Jeni
Back from a fantastic Japanese lunch.
Couldn't find the yarn shops - nada.............. found a ball of about 325g in Barnado's. Mauve in colour which will do for about 20 squares if I'm lucky.
Might do stripes again. Have some blue and some orange and yellow somewhere in the avalanche.
Well Anne, the needles in the sofa arms are my Gran's fault. I used to copy her. Drives my family batty. Ho hum never mind. Strange really ..... I have never stabbed myself this way but everyone else has!!!!!!
Pincushions roll under sofa's or get trodden on - dangerous I think. I really can't cope with the ones that attach to wrist or arm and I used to get told off for putting them in my mouth............ mmmmm gran again!!!!
Well, Laurie your husband is obviously a very understanding and brave man. More so than my ex boyfriends who really didn't get the obsession with craft. The notepads beside every seat and even in the bathroom ready to jot down an idea for knitting or sewing or a card or a canvas. The accidental jerk as you are trying to put the extra fine glitter back into the pot. The need to keep odd bits of yarn, tiny scrap of fabric or paper and lets not start on buttons!!!!!!!
The manic obsession when in a DIY shop of collecting paint colour charts when you aren't going to be painting because they come I handy when working colour schemes in designs.
The wandering around shops trailing threads and yarn which mysteriously appear when you leave the house!
I am sooooo glad I am not the only one in the world.
Was going to try and tidy the yarn avalanche but ........... nah......... maybe some squares first.
Good idea Enid - thank-you. I have one in my pin tin.
I think I should start a needle tin too.
The reason behind the one in the pin tin is because it is an old Strepsils tin (very old!!!) and they are quite stiff to open. Especially onehanded ............ yep pins everywhere> So .......... when I was 7 or 8 years I stuck a magnet in there and it worked! I had a brain cell when I was little. Must have lost it somewhere!!!!!
Okay have done 3 squares of new crochet and 2 of half treble.
Have all hooks and needles safe and sound.
Cannot find lead to connect camera to laptop.
Last seen in the pre-christmas clean up - so Iguess its in a bag of yarn in the yarn avalanche.
mmmmmmmmmm how long long can I put off doing the avalanche.
Maybe I will review the situation when I have finished the little sweater I am making for KAS from the mauve yarn I picked up yesterday.............
Okay, Blog is probably going to be confined to weekends or sleepless nights.
Mauve sweater doing nicely.
Just need to finish the slip-over thingy. Have used my new crochet stitches on this and my old stitch. So hope it works. Might make it a hoody.
A friend said she could led me her lead for the camera but she would have to stand over me and take it away again straight away! I have promised to find my lead!!!
My niece (age 3) still keeps asking me to teach her to knit. I can't decide. I was her age when I first started (my granny Salter was a whizz at everything and she taught me).
I guess it should be okay - I will keep the needles and yarn at my house. That way my brother won't get too worried that she might try when I am not around!!!
Have also started a blanket for my mother. It's crochet (shock horror gasp) and its using a 2.5mm hook and crochet cotton (5 count????). I think it is going to take forever. Never mind - the new crochet stitch looks good using the cotton.
Yes............. I know I have lots of things on the go. I get bored easily and am constantly thinking of new things to do and every time I pick up a ball of yarn my brain starts to whirl and ideas about shapes and colours come out and have to be practised straight away. Some of the spectacular failures have been turned into useful somethings.......... even if my brother once thought a masterpiece of mine was a rag to clean his car with ........!!!!!!!! I had chucked it under the stairs amongst some odds and ends ...........
Oh dear, Ma is nagging me again! Apparently, she has just trodden on an escaped ball of yarn ........... it jumped, honestly.
Gayle .... I am going to try and be good. Your foot story is something that good easily happen in my house.
Jeni ...... I can feel my long departed and adored grandfather reading this and despairing of us all. I think he thought it was only my granny who did the needle thing. I can hear him now telling us all off. He was an engineer and everything had its place - there was only a correct way of doing anything.
Oh no ............. have just cut yarn in wrong place. Laptop had frozen for a minute and I thought I would just finish off a square ........... wasn't paying attention.
The biggest problem with crochet is that I can't do anything else when I do it because I have to look at what I am doing.
When I knit I can watch tv and read and knit and use the phone on loudspeaker. With crochet I am too new to it. I even have to finish a row becaus eI am never sure where I am on it.
Okay, have just rescued hook from under sofa - more dust bunnies! Does someone come and put them there overnight????
Just don't seem to have time to go on-line lately.
NO...... it's not because I have been tidying up ...... quite the opposite.
We have squares and hats all over the house - so we have been busy. They keep getting put into bags when visitors come and now we need need to actually send some.
I have asked Mum to stop hats and do squares but........ I think she finds it more rewarding to produce an actual whole item.
However ......... I tried the pattern for a teddy as done by Angela (UK group) { at least I think it was Angela - sorry if I have got it wrong} and it was brilliant and I think not too fiddly for Mom and her arthritis. So I guess we are starting to think of Christmas and toys.
Recently got hold of some really cheap 39p cushions from IKEA. excellent for stuffing - meets EU regs etc.
Have taught myself to crochet granny squares now. It has been fun - well for me but not anyone within earshot when it kept going wrong. Not really up to experimenting yet and really find reading patterns hard. Find diagrams for crochet better. Strange really because for knitting I can't cope with the charts and diagrams have to read the patterns the old way!!!!!
I have posted some more photos - found the computer lead for the camera at last!!! Have decided to keep it in the laptop bag - trying to be tidy and a good girl! Don't worry, attempt at efficiency won't last!
Need to reorganise living room as now using the so-called eco-friendly lights and cannot actually see anything. Spent a small fortune on a daylight one and it has gone the way of all of the eco bulbs in our house. It started to smell and showed scorch marks so we had to take it out. On average we seem to be changing these bulbs as frequently as the old style ones ........!!!!!!
I wonder how many needles, hooks and other lost treasures I will find when I move things around????!!!!
Okay........ need to crack on with the squares now. Trying to average at least 2 per night.
Totsiens
Jeni
I do the same thing! With Mom's stash of 133 hats I will put 3 different sized hats with each baby blanket (pics coming later) that her friend May made.
Then the other hats with other 35 square batches. That way it's hopefully easier as you said and also ......... the post! I am not convinced all our parcels have arrived safe and sound. Have decided to send a parcel every 3/5 days so that they arrive at different times. It just reduces the statistics of losing some.
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