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Tag: Arts and Crafts
Scrap yarn granny blanket
A stash buster crocheting project
One day shrug project
Last Saturday, I finished my ambitious cardigan, first attempt of working with fine yarn. It turned out great. I thought I’ll take a break from hook for a couple of days. It will help to relieve my crochet finger syndrome. That pain in my index finger fie to long hours of working with crochet hook,…
Getting Lacy
Enough with the crochet cardigans and shawls and beanies. Now is the time to create something delicate. I wanted to make some jewellery using crochet art. but the only thread I had, was too delicate. The thread crochet hook was smallest size and it is difficult to work with that hook and that yarn. The…
Pooled variegated cardigan
My current project is sort of best of both worlds – a combination of top down and bottom up crocheting. While it is a little bit more effort than usual, I feel more confident about the “finishing” of the project. I had 4 hanks of 56g each in my stash. The yarn is 3 ply…
Cardigan vs shawl
I’ve crocheted 3 cardigans and 1 shawl so far. As I am finishing about to the 4th cardigan, and looking at my yarn stock to start another project in parallel. I decided to use the left over 3ply yarn for doing a diamond stitch. I started to wonder again – what should I do: cardigan…
6 months retrospective
So much has happened in past 6 months. My little sister got married, hurrah My younger brother got his first job in my city, moved here, and again back to home-town for his dream job My mother diagnosed with hypertension (sad) I put on 10 kilograms of weight, after that lost 5 kilograms, followed by…
Finally rippled
So my first ever crochet project is finally done. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, this project was not planned well. I had very small quantity of yarn. I added another color, again without calculating if it would be sufficient or not. And it was not a good feeling. This project made me depressed, it…
My first granny square project
As I looked at my yarn stash, I notices a lot of small little balls of left over yarn. I decided to create something pretty, and useful from it. Why let it go waste, or just sit idle in one lonely corner? The colors,being leftover were totally random. So were the quantities. The first thing…