Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, jaeger, merino, Scarlet, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Thursday, December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finn’s felted stocking
Originally uploaded by fiona-kelly
Eek! Slightly more of a colour run when it felted than I expected. The red isn’t so Christmassy and the cream… well it’s now more of a definite pink… even the snowman is the same shade (i’m not even going to bother photographing that). On the plus side the fringing [...]
Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, jaeger, merino, red, Scarlet, wool, xmas on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The fringing is finished so it’s now in the washing machine. Keep your fingers crossed the red doesn’t leak too much and turn the cream pink!
Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, jaeger, merino, Scarlet, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the snowman so far for finn’s stocking. It’s also in the machine and I’ll add the rest of his details when I sew him into place.
Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finn christmas stocking, fringing, jaeger, merino, red, Scarlet, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
just 5 more rounds to go
Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, fringing, jaeger, merino, red, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
just a bit more to do. I re-did the toe section and I’m now doing some fringing around the top. a little snowman decoration next before felting..
Posted in December 2008, Felted Patterns, tagged crochet, DK, Finns Christmas Stocking, Scarlet, wool, Yarn on Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m making fast progress with Finns Christmas Stocking now… Just a bit more to do height wise, then the fringed top and I think the toe section is a bit short so I need to re-do that part. I just have to untangle my ball of cream merino DK that Finn got hold of before [...]
Posted in November 2008, tagged 4ply, babies, bag, colinette, cream, crochet, evilla, frills, hat, jitterbug, kauni, pink, quick projects, scarf, sue whiting, weekend crochet for babies, wool on Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
About 3 weeks ago a Lauren from New Holland Publishers sent me an email wondering if I might be interested in doing any reviews for them. As you may know New Holland publish a wide range of crochet, craft & knitting titles. I emailed Lauren to say I’d be delighted to have a go a [...]
Posted in November 2008, tagged afghan, afghan square, blanket square, bullion stitches, crochet, embroidery, musical notes, songbird on Saturday, November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
To make this 15cm blanket square you will need
1 x 4mm (USA ‘g’) crochet hook & 1 x embroidery needle
1 x 50g Debbie Bliss cotton DK in shades Ecru / Cream shade 02 (or similar)
A small amount of soft brown cotton DK for the bird itself, an oddment of orange for the beak & a [...]
Posted in November 2008, tagged afgan square, afghan, blanket square, crochet, flower, Free patten, square on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To make all 4 of the 15cm blanket squares as shown in my previous post I used…
1 each x 50g Debbie Bliss cotton DK in shades Ecru / Cream shade 02 & Bright Orange shade 42
1 x 100g Katia 100% cotton DK in Jamaica (multi col… red, green, yellow & soft brown).
( I still have [...]
Posted in November 2008, tagged blanket squares, crochet, DK, granny square, multi-colour flower, songbird, tangerine dreams on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The 4 squares together
Originally uploaded by fiona-kelly
I managed to rattle off a couple more squares in addition to finishing the songbird one. I’ll write up the patterns longhand tonight as they’re going off in the post tomorrow.
As soon as I can I’ll pop patterns for all 4 in the free patterns page so you can [...]
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