Wednesday, July 7, 2010

A quick update

Here are a few of my most recent projects, both crochet.


First up we have my first (and possibly only) pair of crochet socks.  I used left over sock yarn from my last pair of knit socks.













These had an after-thought heel and I didn't particularly enjoy making them.  An afterthought heel is when you make the entire sock and then go back and pick up stitches in the heel hole, crochet in circles decreasing by two every round.  I just don't like how they turned out.  I usually like to crochet more than I like to knit, but socks are an exception.

Next up is a mobius I made using Misti Alpaca Chunky Solids.  I also bought a fancy wooden L hook to use.  This was an expensive project, but I love how it turned out.













I was inspired to make this by seeing Andee Graves's published pattern in Crochet!  The magazine messed up her mobius pattern but she explained to me how it actually worked in order to make it a true mobius instead of twisting after or working on both sides of the chain.  I wanted something in a chunky yarn so didn't use her pattern.  So I made up my own pattern after flipping through some pattern books for inspiration.  This was a quick project and will be a really warm wrap.  I'm a little afraid to block it because alpaca can grow or bloom (kind of fluffing out) when it gets wet and it's already almost too big for me.

I've also dabbled again in card making.  I made a card for Amy and Scott's wedding but I haven't pulled that picture off of my camera yet.  It came out pretty cute though.  Stamping tip of the month . . . When re-inking a stamp pad remember to put the ink dispenser on the pad.  If you don't the ink doesn't come out, then when you touch the ink bottle the ink leaks out under your fingernails and you get to go to a wedding with purpley-black finger nails :)