tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29602159124028555342024-03-18T10:47:49.962+01:00Crochet between worldsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480707407713664239noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-17527109023216641452022-09-22T03:47:00.003+02:002022-09-22T03:47:54.015+02:00FREE PATTERN: The Blanket Stitch, Squared<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hey everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm so excited to share a new free pattern with you today! I've been hankering for an easy evening crochet project and decided to make another Wrap with Love blanket. I wondered - could I make this easier for myself and do the <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2017/01/wrap-with-love-caring-for-cold-humanity.html" target="_blank">same lovely squishy stitch pattern</a> in the round rather than back and forth?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">With a bit of experimentation and maths (I never thought I'd do this much maths in my life), I've got it! </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeDowr09m-93TGxfGwdsJ2ThWMgbodPgSkKwdKswkqPufNhhYuVu3yP13UrDPJN0jaIKlI7xZu57Nn_Q5AcjDLmp3tqO55L8w9UllBObW1Q9adr0PaAzGuZJfVLbJmPFqSAZXjFYCR8zoRK2jhOUbMQr49nxAUufZxNnFDcR_LpcmsXDH9k_T4tz1x3g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2676" data-original-width="3856" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeDowr09m-93TGxfGwdsJ2ThWMgbodPgSkKwdKswkqPufNhhYuVu3yP13UrDPJN0jaIKlI7xZu57Nn_Q5AcjDLmp3tqO55L8w9UllBObW1Q9adr0PaAzGuZJfVLbJmPFqSAZXjFYCR8zoRK2jhOUbMQr49nxAUufZxNnFDcR_LpcmsXDH9k_T4tz1x3g" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Without further ado, The Blanket Stitch, Squared :D </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;">Queue or favourite it on Ravelry here: </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-blanket-stitch-squared">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-blanket-stitch-squared</a> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPnB5fQtbcRJrEImA9QsrGltgWU3t18iX6xIdpVTiSqxfMLQJxPYLA8e98qsHL-IbmgHyTzuwQ5JJ8zzGr_4qIWlbTBZ_BdFYO53H3DwvbxSRkTSGUH9hYWV_NlxO8W_7TE7Qx-SL-SbfPpBIWE668YnFKu8lupm2uwGC6BlUiCIYjdG_meBR7NQZQqg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1980" data-original-width="4027" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPnB5fQtbcRJrEImA9QsrGltgWU3t18iX6xIdpVTiSqxfMLQJxPYLA8e98qsHL-IbmgHyTzuwQ5JJ8zzGr_4qIWlbTBZ_BdFYO53H3DwvbxSRkTSGUH9hYWV_NlxO8W_7TE7Qx-SL-SbfPpBIWE668YnFKu8lupm2uwGC6BlUiCIYjdG_meBR7NQZQqg" width="320" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>----------------------------------------------------------</b></span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>FREE PATTERN: THE BLANKET STITCH, SQUARED</b></span><br /><b>----------------------------------------------------------</b></span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Finished size: 10" / 25cm </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><u>Materials</u></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">40g DK/8 ply yarn<br /></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">4.5mm hook<br /></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Scissors<br /></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Yarn needle</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><u>This pattern uses all US terminology</u></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /></span></p><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">MC - magic circle (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8MRYsr7FE" target="_blank">tutorial from Every Trick on the Hook</a>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">st - stitch <br /></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">slst - slip stitch</span></span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">ch - chain</span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">sc - single crochet</span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">hdc - half double crochet</span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">dc - double crochet</span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">Blanket stitch block: (sc, 2dc)</span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><u>Directions:</u></span></span></p><p><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Make a magic circle.</span></p><p><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Round 1 - Into MC, (sc, 2dc) 4 times. slst to first sc, ch1 and turn. (1 block on each side)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho7xkJHzXiHDfPDtgnqzGs2RXloWmMW_yO8vglwwaJ4EpwMYaH6youDvjuA8YNglCosGnlODZeZxY5K5O6A67Bl4xF_8MdXeNRo-213awSeUXXXVA6FfFl2LrWnhjjgFDL3TMs1yw5_m2WNMAsGg3cCn94nAWJ8ySZFfEwAMhwK_lgEhuOW-l6HOy4nA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1715" data-original-width="1705" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho7xkJHzXiHDfPDtgnqzGs2RXloWmMW_yO8vglwwaJ4EpwMYaH6youDvjuA8YNglCosGnlODZeZxY5K5O6A67Bl4xF_8MdXeNRo-213awSeUXXXVA6FfFl2LrWnhjjgFDL3TMs1yw5_m2WNMAsGg3cCn94nAWJ8ySZFfEwAMhwK_lgEhuOW-l6HOy4nA" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Round 2 - In the stitch you just joined to in the round below (so just behind your working yarn), (sc, 2dc, <b>sc</b>, 2dc). *Skip 2st, (sc, 2dc, <b>sc</b>, 2dc) into the next st, which is the sc from the previous round* Repeat * to * 3 times. slst to first sc, ch1 and turn. (2 blocks on each side)</span><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMIqCbwcT4HbIkehEs8eL01hnwFnRZgrLi2zLGKAoIgUrwj7pou5vVub5vWspkSbk7OwgevJLI3OtyHnt4xq75eiF-VmT3lJCpth6G0rMaoNV_THEVkVb7-2pSWTGG8pKs4slo-OKEnaogRTXGZDe_AJ6BkFC88cIQ94P9tUG67MizJlpLXC4726R1qA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2897" data-original-width="2862" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMIqCbwcT4HbIkehEs8eL01hnwFnRZgrLi2zLGKAoIgUrwj7pou5vVub5vWspkSbk7OwgevJLI3OtyHnt4xq75eiF-VmT3lJCpth6G0rMaoNV_THEVkVb7-2pSWTGG8pKs4slo-OKEnaogRTXGZDe_AJ6BkFC88cIQ94P9tUG67MizJlpLXC4726R1qA" width="237" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">NOTE: Each stitch that has two blocks in it (i.e. sc, 2dc, <b>sc</b>, 2dc) is a corner! In the next row, the corner is worked in the central sc which is bolded above.</span></p><p><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Round 3 - I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">n the stitch you just joined to in the round below (so just behind your working yarn), (sc, 2dc</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">). *Skip 2st, (sc, 2dc, </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">sc</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">, 2dc) into the next st, which is the sc from the previous round, skip 2st, (sc, 2dc) in next stitch* Repeat * to * around your square. slst to first sc, ch1 and turn. (3 blocks on each side)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-0I1bH7NWsUdL0XR839CAI6RIzZtWN9411JO2ofiFJ1EYnHs9xRjCxwQMOEEU3LDlmU0ro9AHSW5N6brZaHOaL23HCUnGTsez9QTN6NIP4KzbJe6BFfcTz53Rb8ADchCPGknZZcNwBE094cTs0P8ltDP5Y1FpgwG4NMwZSMgaej36O7OX2MzMZ7tpTw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2262" data-original-width="2142" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-0I1bH7NWsUdL0XR839CAI6RIzZtWN9411JO2ofiFJ1EYnHs9xRjCxwQMOEEU3LDlmU0ro9AHSW5N6brZaHOaL23HCUnGTsez9QTN6NIP4KzbJe6BFfcTz53Rb8ADchCPGknZZcNwBE094cTs0P8ltDP5Y1FpgwG4NMwZSMgaej36O7OX2MzMZ7tpTw" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Rounds 4-14 - Repeat Row 3, adding one more blanket stitch block (sc, 2dc) in between the corners of each row. Measure your square after Row 14 to see if you're close to 10"/25cm; if not, do another row or two! </span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Round 15 - (make sure you turned at the end of Row 14!) sc in each stitch. In corner sc, work (hdc, ch2, hdc). slst to first sc to finish, cut yarn and weave in ends.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-PesuTjWGyHVeDQWIBtTvSmy5vhsmpCIlvU2WqJXvnruLaYgqq1dXmnYd4kNhmh90FMmf21gfEUprW0ZpKIt43VZ3e4jYNxTLcFJO3B0OrQmWtccRP_hEIhc6SXpts5tz-o5AZxiKGeMVdJFa-WwNxIYqIGAoQaQLLORfmqiBlc6snidchFHmaqLD_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2607" data-original-width="2665" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-PesuTjWGyHVeDQWIBtTvSmy5vhsmpCIlvU2WqJXvnruLaYgqq1dXmnYd4kNhmh90FMmf21gfEUprW0ZpKIt43VZ3e4jYNxTLcFJO3B0OrQmWtccRP_hEIhc6SXpts5tz-o5AZxiKGeMVdJFa-WwNxIYqIGAoQaQLLORfmqiBlc6snidchFHmaqLD_w" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-47513923639936519692022-08-19T06:16:00.005+02:002022-08-19T06:16:40.384+02:00FREE PATTERN: Granny 5 Petal Flower Square<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Did you participate in Granny Square Day 2022 this week? It's not something I usually do, but on Sunday evening I had some time to myself (!!) while everyone was asleep (!!!) and there wasn't anything else urgent that needed doing (!!!!) so I decided to do a little doodling with my hook and see if I could come up with something a bit different for my contribution. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Squaring a pentagon can be a bit tricky, but I think I figured it out! The trick was to make 5 pointed flower into a circle first, and then square the circle ;) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilwfzIoMK4EFTBGYg-Mf4SyQ6kb90bgdNIeg6gZf5-8iwK-HRPPc1aSGIG6_lFeBan79eHog3vp7NsAF5J8bqfIwJ4PQ6DdfktsUGnwmUMQNjG5dRfN7y7NgqA63E27gFAPq4UY8NViznvYbmNjap0hgvtXr8S_LXgA4owEZHmX7d-KMl06b6jCWNWQQ/s1420/BF9E4713-A6BA-41FD-99F4-EAAA2034FC4B%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1389" data-original-width="1420" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilwfzIoMK4EFTBGYg-Mf4SyQ6kb90bgdNIeg6gZf5-8iwK-HRPPc1aSGIG6_lFeBan79eHog3vp7NsAF5J8bqfIwJ4PQ6DdfktsUGnwmUMQNjG5dRfN7y7NgqA63E27gFAPq4UY8NViznvYbmNjap0hgvtXr8S_LXgA4owEZHmX7d-KMl06b6jCWNWQQ/s320/BF9E4713-A6BA-41FD-99F4-EAAA2034FC4B%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;">Queue or favourite it on Ravelry here: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/granny-5-petal-flower-square">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/granny-5-petal-flower-square</a></span></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>--------------------------------------------------</b></span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>FREE PATTERN: GRANNY 5 PETAL FLOWER SQUARE</b></span><br /><b>--------------------------------------------------</b></span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Finished size: 6" / 15cm </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u>Materials</u></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Small amounts of Stylecraft Organic Cotton in Buttermilk, Blush, Papaya and Gypsum<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">4mm/G hook<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Scissors<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Yarn needle</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u>This pattern uses all US terminology</u></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;" /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">MC - magic circle</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">st - stitch <br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">slst - slip stitch</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ch - chain</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">sc - single crochet</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">hdc - half double crochet</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">dc - double crochet</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">tr - treble crochet</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">blo - back loop only</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">flo - front loop only</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><u>Directions:</u></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 1 (Buttermilk) - make MC, 15dc in MC. finish off. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 2 (Papaya) - join to any stitch with sc. sc in each stitch around, slst to join to first sc. ch1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 3 (Papaya) - in FLO, [sc, (hdc, dc, hdc) in next st, sc] around. slst to join to first sc. finish off.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 4 (Coral) - in BLO of same stitch of Round 2 as you worked the (hdc, dc, hdc) in Round 3, join with sc. [ch4, skip 2 st, sc in next stitch] around, joining with slst to the first sc worked in this round. ch1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 5 (Coral) - ch1. in next chain space, [sc, hdc, 3dc in next st, hdc, sc, ch1]. repeat [] around, joining to first sc with slst. ch1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 6 (Coral) - sc in each stitch around, including the ch1 space. finish off.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 7 (Papaya) - join with sc in blo of the stitch after the sc in a ch1 space. [hdc, dc, (dc, ch2, dc), hdc, dc, sc, spike dc into top of dc of Round 3 below, sc]. Repeat [] around, skipping final sc on final repeat. slst to first sc to join, ch1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 8 (Papaya) - sc in each stitch, with 3sc in ch2sp at the point of each petal. join to first sc with slst and finish off.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 9 (Gypsum) - join with sc in centre sc of 3sc worked into a ch2sp of Round 7. [sc, hdc in next 2st, dc in next 2st, tr, dc in next 2st, hdc in next 2st, sc in next 2st] repeat [] around, omitting final sc on final repeat and join with slst to first sc. ch1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 10 (Gypsum) - [dc in next 3st, 2dc in next st] around, but do 3dc in the final stitch not 2. Join with slst to first dc. ch1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 11 (Gypsum) - [sc in next 3st, hdc in next 3 st, dc in next 3st, (2tr, ch2, 2tr) in next st, dc in next 3st, hdc in next 3st, sc in next 3 st] repeat [ ] around and join to first sc with slst. ch1.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Round 12 (Gypsum) - sc in each stitch around, working 3sc in the corner ch2 space. finish off and stitch in ends! </span></p>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-79807904588321939262022-05-22T01:39:00.004+02:002022-05-22T01:39:33.189+02:00Stylecraft Blogstars Garden Party!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hi everyone!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's been an age - racing around after tiny people certainly doesn't allow much time for blogging, or crafting, or... well, pretty much anything else. Allie is 4 years old today, and the time has absolutely flown! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNLqE-7-8bQTmHWaWmYbrgiqxypc0xFph_5Hruu6UlU3XLCusXy9tQekcy-SEB4ZsUtHN0t0nX61TFiaUzfToNp-DdUIpPmfnGiAKs33UfgShY8Nz0zVGQf4OMqhbYrkqARPJd2zZgMB4GzPGc7P425rKKtADi97X4MHaNwBCJj8aLaECNlVfekoIvyQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="414" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNLqE-7-8bQTmHWaWmYbrgiqxypc0xFph_5Hruu6UlU3XLCusXy9tQekcy-SEB4ZsUtHN0t0nX61TFiaUzfToNp-DdUIpPmfnGiAKs33UfgShY8Nz0zVGQf4OMqhbYrkqARPJd2zZgMB4GzPGc7P425rKKtADi97X4MHaNwBCJj8aLaECNlVfekoIvyQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">We were so excited when Stylecraft and the Blogstars suggested a Garden Party for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year - we hope you visited <a href="http://theknittingexploitsofjosiekitten.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">JosieKitten</a>'s blog for her gorgeous Macaron circular cushion pattern on Friday! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Garden Party concept was just the creative spark we needed to put together a new design in our Bargello series. This is our Bargello Ribbon Table Runner (all photos in this post credit to Stylecraft Yarns and their amazing photography and design team). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiZaq8etjzXVS4OWxq22c0BTD9X6bHFw3Puh2MODb15YJeSxPNbv7LW_2AQXwwGLSOms7fMnOgCm1DmPHJPnd5caeNgWPgEhFxUgg20GazC37MrC89PQLQEKm9pGmLXb2g0dW6sX7Vjq4F4-DK_rw2z-App0orA-jFj_IkaXQv8ZhuWS_PDEc6BuHAlg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="965" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiZaq8etjzXVS4OWxq22c0BTD9X6bHFw3Puh2MODb15YJeSxPNbv7LW_2AQXwwGLSOms7fMnOgCm1DmPHJPnd5caeNgWPgEhFxUgg20GazC37MrC89PQLQEKm9pGmLXb2g0dW6sX7Vjq4F4-DK_rw2z-App0orA-jFj_IkaXQv8ZhuWS_PDEc6BuHAlg=w267-h400" width="267" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've had this design mumbling around in the back of my head for ages, but just haven't had time to activate my almonds and get it out of the brain and into some yarn. It's based on a quilted bargello table runner that my mum has in a glorious patchwork pattern book, but in a pastel rainbow. I love the illusion of the ribbon twisting around itself up your table!</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p>As with our existing bargello patterns, I'm not going to lie - the style of writing the pattern is a bit strange. Please know that I tried as many different ways of writing the pattern as I could think of, and this was the clearest! I encourage you to read it all (even the boring introduction bit), and watch the videos linked in the pattern, and always reach out (on social media, or by email to wrappedwithlovebymichelle@gmail.com is more reliable than commenting here) if you need a hand to get going. The pattern has been tested by three crocheters of varying skill levels, and the text independently reviewed. </p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3JUp1mazbzLnxRXiKhK8lCcW0xYNsnUGC-vkc1C0aiqOsEpbPY95rkgP4SH2vpO2BfCiZ5LNCLLzSDgS7qhdgC5AoR_1oLde1H1_yXe7K0Jgeo9CTCvbnxE1jcRpvZFLa7z7ryx-T2ETO13Tz_3Ow1ci9LvQQFBjUM8bGDfvZS5hAK_7l0Lfdk_1crQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="965" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3JUp1mazbzLnxRXiKhK8lCcW0xYNsnUGC-vkc1C0aiqOsEpbPY95rkgP4SH2vpO2BfCiZ5LNCLLzSDgS7qhdgC5AoR_1oLde1H1_yXe7K0Jgeo9CTCvbnxE1jcRpvZFLa7z7ryx-T2ETO13Tz_3Ow1ci9LvQQFBjUM8bGDfvZS5hAK_7l0Lfdk_1crQ=w267-h400" width="267" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">A plus for purchasers between now and December 31, 2022 - US$2.50 (over half the purchase price after fees) will be donated to The Rotary Foundation's <a href="https://www.endpolio.org/" target="_blank">End Polio Now</a> campaign. Rotary has been working to defeat polio for over 35 years now, and worldwide cases have reduced by 99.9% in that time. There are only two countries now where polio is endemic, and ever decreasing numbers of wild polio cases in the world. As a proud Rotarian, I'm honoured to be able to support this very worthy cause. We are THIS CLOSE to ending the scourge of polio worldwide.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-21-at-10.45.16.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="715" height="184" src="https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-21-at-10.45.16.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And now, the pattern! To view or purchase the pattern on Ravelry, go here:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bargello-ribbon-table-runner">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bargello-ribbon-table-runner</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Keep bloghopping on 24 May to <a href="http://www.janiecrow.com" target="_blank">Janie Crow</a>, who has created some really special decorations for our Garden Party! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p></div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-51639584576228380192021-05-28T08:37:00.001+02:002021-05-28T08:37:17.889+02:00Yarn Review: You and Me! <p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hey everybody! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What an epic year we've had! Life regularly seems close to normal here in Australia, but we are still having outbreaks and mini lockdowns.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In between work and Rotary and now chasing two tiny humans around, I've had some time to try out Stylecraft's (now not all that new) yarn, <a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/You+&+Me/0_caea447_CAFA293.htm" target="_blank">You and Me</a>. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7tjyXJB5ktNgG3RPpV1Gw1WXz4qCfuhaq4Bxhc5Z2GAeMhw_PHI8pMjYfwD3_-FfLu_EmYJJ_0-9sMFl9fx2_xf558ztmCYZsm5YMWcXyEATzXKDcWBXAVfXK0Zx9Heq-O-OM3kwFpj3/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="1191" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7tjyXJB5ktNgG3RPpV1Gw1WXz4qCfuhaq4Bxhc5Z2GAeMhw_PHI8pMjYfwD3_-FfLu_EmYJJ_0-9sMFl9fx2_xf558ztmCYZsm5YMWcXyEATzXKDcWBXAVfXK0Zx9Heq-O-OM3kwFpj3/" width="294" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p>In short, I LOVE IT - and definitely not because they sent the first ball to me for free. As proof, I've been back to one of the big online retailers and bought more for myself to make jumpers for the kids. </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I made one of my <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/impossible-hexagon-sweater" target="_blank">Impossible Hexagon Sweaters</a> for Allie first, and it came up so rich and warm and sturdy, I can't imagine she will ever be able to wear it out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxJ5QIYCPepRVvtm7wldK57EEH1jdCLXS1sPPr6R88_sD_Y0zbPPi8tC152uEX_ONHU22Yj2dDuG-CcspdMpVW7kli-eBpgeLuwFXFEMBgSv-TNM1b-JcMA_B5aL4_1kPzGFB8MC2yLRyZ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1781" data-original-width="1293" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxJ5QIYCPepRVvtm7wldK57EEH1jdCLXS1sPPr6R88_sD_Y0zbPPi8tC152uEX_ONHU22Yj2dDuG-CcspdMpVW7kli-eBpgeLuwFXFEMBgSv-TNM1b-JcMA_B5aL4_1kPzGFB8MC2yLRyZ/" width="174" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The yarn is an acrylic and cashmere-effect polyamide blend - it feels like it has the strength and stitch definition of cotton, but the warmth of acrylic and just so ridiculously soft and silky. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wanted to branch out this year to some different cardigan and jumper designs, and my eyes just about jumped out of my head when I spotted the <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jasmine-sweater-2" target="_blank">Jasmine Sweater by Mon Petit Violon</a>... yes yes yes yes yes!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's taken weeks of scraping out a few minutes here and there, but finally I finished it last night, and couldn't wait to share it here! </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7hhyphenhyphengHCiwVSYLCV-VxL_Dm0O05LCVjac5WaHc3ceg1t1En5GbLxDYmy2Ux-OeffTL2rR5fys1cA48c8tE5ABblcTyPoFQhc3tOgPJvZeP3Laj6iUz0UnTqLzK9DwbB2P7QzioIuTqDEde/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1534" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7hhyphenhyphengHCiwVSYLCV-VxL_Dm0O05LCVjac5WaHc3ceg1t1En5GbLxDYmy2Ux-OeffTL2rR5fys1cA48c8tE5ABblcTyPoFQhc3tOgPJvZeP3Laj6iUz0UnTqLzK9DwbB2P7QzioIuTqDEde/" width="180" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Please excuse the grubbiness of the model - she had an excellent play with her new textas *eyeroll*) </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7yjb7dvP3Vp_5gt-QvXWQt-T-T5lBHnXFL94fXVCD7xrMTs48xSNniYl2pueH6Sopky0oFDmVtUbSFp20oL_AAL6ihOkmwqL1U4FVlpMYJpDho6fUWhaonVI_EqccI4mOycnXEe-c6sm/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7yjb7dvP3Vp_5gt-QvXWQt-T-T5lBHnXFL94fXVCD7xrMTs48xSNniYl2pueH6Sopky0oFDmVtUbSFp20oL_AAL6ihOkmwqL1U4FVlpMYJpDho6fUWhaonVI_EqccI4mOycnXEe-c6sm/" width="180" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />I love how the self-striping yarn worked in with the pattern. Often I find that highly textured designs lose all their effect when worked with other than a plain coloured yarn, but this worked really well - I think it looks a bit like a Monet?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSOX7eWJ6dPQWhlPaYBd6UuDt4f_bkP2_AKlNMtauIaJDnPkj5Eepj5DTOMFnuqfp7ChF1JERexKs6_0rEmaW7iUeR0RNj8WhlVpZXN0RgLyJvIGZzyEStkGin9usQxTUILlMfJ6iSjkn/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSOX7eWJ6dPQWhlPaYBd6UuDt4f_bkP2_AKlNMtauIaJDnPkj5Eepj5DTOMFnuqfp7ChF1JERexKs6_0rEmaW7iUeR0RNj8WhlVpZXN0RgLyJvIGZzyEStkGin9usQxTUILlMfJ6iSjkn/" width="180" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />It's so cosy warm too which is fortunate, because it looks like Sydney is in for a very cold and dry winter. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPPbkWevrWarFMiLhREF9BosDPSwJsAhRC-fYPw-_ZXxwnEoeFraii6E-7Fd1-TzNmvGjqVG8T4cr8J8Z02lcWovbt4iModMGdNxuukMN8U23fBRQN_9yyGvhr_W8D3ACDZQhOkY8eShA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1350" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPPbkWevrWarFMiLhREF9BosDPSwJsAhRC-fYPw-_ZXxwnEoeFraii6E-7Fd1-TzNmvGjqVG8T4cr8J8Z02lcWovbt4iModMGdNxuukMN8U23fBRQN_9yyGvhr_W8D3ACDZQhOkY8eShA/" width="158" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Check that stitch definition! I did have to fiddle with the pattern a bit to get the sleeves to fit, but I do have a very long skinny bean to clothe. Her little brother seems to be going the same way, although already much bigger than she was at this age. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTNqchQ2n-6wP0shtuGaaV0wG3gMGaIva5gHmKk-6UEedc7ZxNqHqH6f1PtEDpwbUmBGGKvTHDBBq4S-D1NRud9RXdu1pU-YHJRsFlKaH_uVs6-FMKP-GvCn8If1SGFJsuA7OdqbnHT_g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTNqchQ2n-6wP0shtuGaaV0wG3gMGaIva5gHmKk-6UEedc7ZxNqHqH6f1PtEDpwbUmBGGKvTHDBBq4S-D1NRud9RXdu1pU-YHJRsFlKaH_uVs6-FMKP-GvCn8If1SGFJsuA7OdqbnHT_g/" width="180" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do you have any other toddler/preschooler jumper or cardigan patterns you can suggest for me to try crocheting for this monkey? I'd love to hear your suggestions! </span><p></p>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-73902058847928946732020-11-09T06:27:00.003+01:002020-11-09T06:27:50.522+01:00PATTERN: Queen Bargello Wave Bedspread AND Bargello Blocks Throw!<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hi everyone! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Obligatory acknowledgement here that I've been terrible at blogging consistently again, along with vague intention to do better in the future... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This year has just been bananas for everyone! Hot tip: International Student Exchange and Regional Human Resources Consulting are NOT relaxing industries to work in during a global pandemic, 0/10 do not recommend. The jobs themselves are fascinating and interesting, but after the constant tsunamis of feelings coming at me for months on end, the idea of doing anything constructive other than staring at the wall has been too much to contemplate.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, I have made progress on my goal of getting written/designed patterns actually up there and published this year, and today is one of those red letter days!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In August, I finally published (to no announcement and fanfare) my Impossible Hexagon Sweater and Cardigan patterns, which I'll blog about another day (but here are the links to the patterns if you want to have a look:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/impossible-hexagon-sweater" target="_blank">Impossible Hexagon Sweater</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/impossible-hexagon-cardigan" target="_blank">Impossible Hexagon Cardigan</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But, to today's news!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">After the success of our Bargello Wave Baby Blanket, we decided to try and figure out how to make a bigger version that didn't lean even harder to the right, and by goodness we cracked it! Today I can share with you not one, but TWO larger bargello blanket patterns! Both of these test beauties were made by my partner in crochet crime Anne, and I'm sure you'll agree she's done an outstanding job.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BARGELLO BLOCKS THROW</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pattern Link: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bargello-blocks-throw">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bargello-blocks-throw</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji6y4fSO8FhOENV4a6wG9cj6D0Ut2X_3ECnB8bbFu2s_OS7-IorxwIRQ8n30yHrff35krD_GnWlD00Tr3EOxg0lgAvHxTj94KF3FyBrwW4PF79Xl49z2McU3eEDDVzQvf4HZxNMpwt5kxp/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2013" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji6y4fSO8FhOENV4a6wG9cj6D0Ut2X_3ECnB8bbFu2s_OS7-IorxwIRQ8n30yHrff35krD_GnWlD00Tr3EOxg0lgAvHxTj94KF3FyBrwW4PF79Xl49z2McU3eEDDVzQvf4HZxNMpwt5kxp/w394-h400/118112B7-D43B-4DF9-BAD8-5311C0300DB4.jpeg" width="394" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />This design is worked corner to corner using a unique block method, along with the classic bargello style of maintaining the same block height whilst changing the width of each column of blocks. 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Anne took her test blanket to the beach and my jaw literally dropped when the photos came in.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cnNVtNiHlutjENCoVs2w08AyYJBAMM6HnVkA5Ktn4qqJLp5T40POIgf0tws9BZ6NWW9MkkXPj1rLNRIj7IP4LlPh5Jw8EXi9LM9IEy7WfxdhXbS5XDZJGv8j6wK_HbtYtWRKQXuupUyJ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cnNVtNiHlutjENCoVs2w08AyYJBAMM6HnVkA5Ktn4qqJLp5T40POIgf0tws9BZ6NWW9MkkXPj1rLNRIj7IP4LlPh5Jw8EXi9LM9IEy7WfxdhXbS5XDZJGv8j6wK_HbtYtWRKQXuupUyJ/w300-h400/9D5DD156-0140-45BA-8577-5A1320C75298.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>QUEEN BARGELLO WAVE BEDSPREAD</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pattern Link: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/queen-bargello-wave-bedspread">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/queen-bargello-wave-bedspread</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8COOZrR8MmwiHsirQSOBlCOaZlr5RY-uw1k1w4BcFTCxPF6SbNoeqqfAjQIErzrr7_qhFTnNakpgg1D-ZM7JSxEU5StEdue3lVSCuEByzXVn1qDDJ_EuyqmwNrXCqZtkF3Vt6F-M0S-a/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8COOZrR8MmwiHsirQSOBlCOaZlr5RY-uw1k1w4BcFTCxPF6SbNoeqqfAjQIErzrr7_qhFTnNakpgg1D-ZM7JSxEU5StEdue3lVSCuEByzXVn1qDDJ_EuyqmwNrXCqZtkF3Vt6F-M0S-a/w400-h300/787BD269-09C4-4977-82F4-79AF0A4C22F1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The bedspread is a massive 210cm square (unblocked) to fit your queen size bed, and is made with larger blocks and two strands of yarn held together. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDtqAUrJDhYy_GnyvDe97vl6jQdB4HtPAZ_OyRWeGvHbGuhgtsurBopKVLhYkzIr1_N0Vz8NkPoe998GCf60XI9RTlXsF4V8LON7ZvKwdsclgfX8abeqcCTDyN30Npl_TLyVFfIKgZsW6/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1922" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDtqAUrJDhYy_GnyvDe97vl6jQdB4HtPAZ_OyRWeGvHbGuhgtsurBopKVLhYkzIr1_N0Vz8NkPoe998GCf60XI9RTlXsF4V8LON7ZvKwdsclgfX8abeqcCTDyN30Npl_TLyVFfIKgZsW6/w375-h400/A06C6F1F-DE4D-492A-B10A-73082CBA21BF.jpeg" width="375" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you love both of these patterns, for the next two weeks </div><div style="text-align: center;">(until Saturday 21 November), </div><div style="text-align: center;">put both patterns in your Ravelry cart and use the code</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">UNDULATE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">to get a discount! </span></p>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-34297047613154844682020-03-06T16:00:00.000+01:002020-03-06T16:00:04.489+01:00Back to blogging! <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Often, I would write one post per week, documenting my crochet journey and life
in general. When I started working for my own coaching business next to my
regular full-time work, time became scarce, and as a result, blogging became
less. Then, in 2018, my husband and I relocated to the Netherlands, started new
jobs, and bought a house. If I thought I was busy before, I was wrong! So, my
blogging “career” mostly stopped. I am still active on Instagram, but I miss blogging.
In fact, whenever I talk to my husband about what I would like to do more
blogging pops up within my top 5. Yet, even though I talk about it a lot, I
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over the last couple of weeks! Combined with grey clouds, it is sometimes hard
to remember that there is a sun out there (somewhere…). Yet, the first signs of
spring are here. In our (very) little garden, crocuses have been popping up for
some weeks now, and I think the first daffodil is getting ready to bloom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In February, on a dry day (yes! We had these, too), we even
planted new lilacs and a couple of other plants, which will hopefully be loved
by bees and other insects. The decrease in insect numbers is incredibly
worrying, and we are trying to do our best to help them find food. Gardens in
our area tend to be desgined to require as little maintenance as possible. As a
result, a lot of gardens are made out of stone only with a couple of flower
pots (if at all). When we bought our house, our garden had very little in it
that might appeal to bees. So, we have made it our task to transform our backyard.
This project will, of course, take time, but I guess little steps are better
than none. You should have heard my squeals of delight last summer whenever a
bumblebee visited my newly planted lavender! I hope that this year, my little
bumblebee will bring a lot of friends…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My crochet adventures over the last couple of weeks/months
have been focused on Bargello crochet. Michelle has three (!) new Bargello
patterns in the pipeline, which I have tested/am busy testing (one of them is
in the naughty corner. Not because of the pattern, but because I made a mess
counting stitches). I have finished one big blanket, and am working on an even
larger one at the moment. The latter one is my favorite so far – it uses two
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comes to visit me in April! YES! Michelle is coming to visit! We have not seen
each other in person since my trip to Australia in 2017, and, man, I can’t wait
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It has been a truly epic summer here in Australia, and I must admit I'm glad to be tumbling into February. Both Kiah and I ended up in hospital for several before Christmas with unrelated illnesses, the heat and humidity has been oppressive, the country has burned down and now there's floods. I think it's nearly time for a break!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So today I've put together something a bit fun for you, to show off Stylecraft's gorgeous new Regatta yarn. It's 74% cotton plus polyamide and elastane, which makes the yarn super bouncy. It still doesn't stretch lengthways like acrylic, but springs out sideways. I don't usually like making toys with cotton because the yarn gets "stringy" and the holes in the fabric get bigger and bigger, but with this yarn the sideways spring makes it look amazing. Check out the stitch definition, and these gorgeous colours! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used the Crew colourway, and Anne's adorable <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2015/11/free-pattern-cross-your-heart-teddy.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cross Your Heart Teddy</a> pattern. Allie has already claimed it, and loves cuddling Teddy and tucking him into bed . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>TEDDY'S BUSY DAY</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teddy rolled over and cracked open his eyes - it was 6am, time to start another day. He stumbled to the shower to wake himself up a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The shower wasn't quite enough, so he had to have a really strong coffee as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After coffee he felt a bit better, and so before work he had a play on the slide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At work, Teddy had LOTS of drawing to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He also had to do reading, but that was ok - Teddy likes reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After lunch, Teddy had to go to lots of meetings. Luckily there was cake at one of them, otherwise he didn't know how he would have coped.</span></div>
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Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-49755748744449774252019-12-22T00:01:00.000+01:002019-12-22T00:01:06.182+01:00Advent Meditation Crochet Along - Week 4<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Hi everyone!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is time for the fourth and last part of the Advent Meditation CAL! Hard to believe, isn't it? We had a good time and we hope you did as well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those who are just joining us, y<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ou can find an overview of all information about the CAL</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2019/11/cbw-advent-meditation-crochet-along.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those of you who celebrate: Merry Christmas! Have wonderful days with your loved ones and lots of good food - we </span>certainly plan to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sooo, here comes pattern no 4:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dc3tog - double crochet 3 together (or bobble stitch) - <a href="https://lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/crochet/crochet-tutorials/crochet-bobble-stitch/" target="_blank">Tutorial from LookAtWhatIMade</a> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(includes instructions for </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">beg dc3tog - beginning double crochet 3 together - called a First Bobble Stitch in this tutorial)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hdc - half double crochet - <a href="http://www.lionbrand.com/how-to-crochet-making-half-double-crochet/" target="_blank">Photo and Video Tutorial from Lion Brand Yarns</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">spike sc - spike single crochet - <a href="https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/single-crochet-spike-stitch-tutorial-photos-978522" target="_blank">Photo Tutorial from The Spruce Crafts</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2019 is disappearing quickly and somehow it's already time for Week 3 of the Crochet Between Worlds Advent Meditation Crochet Along! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can find an overview of all information about the CAL</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2019/11/cbw-advent-meditation-crochet-along.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We hope that you enjoyed the first two patterns and would love to see your pictures! If you use instagram, can you use the hashtag #cbwadvent? That would be brilliant. :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To slow down the video, you can click on "Settings" and reduce the Playback Speed to 0.75. If you go much slower than that, Michelle sounds like she's been having wayyyyy too much Christmas cheer :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">sc3tog - single crochet 3 together - <a href="https://knotions.com/issues/november-2018/tutorial-november-2018/sc3tog-tutorial/" target="_blank">Photo tutorial by Knotions</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">fphdc - front post half double crochet - <a href="http://crochetparfait.blogspot.com/p/fphdc-front-post-half-double-crochet.html" target="_blank">Photo Tutorial by Crochet Parfait</a></span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-10882858324100719662019-12-08T00:01:00.000+01:002019-12-08T00:32:52.124+01:00Advent Meditation Crochet Along - Week 2<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Hi everyone!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's already time for Week 2 of the Crochet Between Worlds Advent Meditation Crochet Along! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can find an overview of all information about the CAL</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2019/11/cbw-advent-meditation-crochet-along.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We hope that you enjoyed the first pattern and would love to see your pictures! If you use instagram, can you use the hashtag #cbwadvent? That would be brilliant. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To slow down the video, you can click on "Settings" and reduce the Playback Speed to 0.75. If you go much slower than that, Michelle sounds like she's been having wayyyyy too much Christmas cheer :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So without further ado, here comes pattern no 2!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Puff stitch - <a href="https://www.anniescatalog.com/crochet/content.html?content_id=14&type_id=S" target="_blank">Tutorial from Annie's Catalog</a> (but you can make your puff stitches as puffy as you want!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04245498764155066221noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-68785058663146120132019-12-01T00:00:00.000+01:002019-12-01T18:56:26.021+01:00Advent Meditation Crochet Along - Week 1<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Hi everyone!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's time for Week 1 of the Crochet Between Worlds Advent Meditation Crochet Along. We hope you are as excited as we are!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can find all information about the CAL <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2019/11/cbw-advent-meditation-crochet-along.html" target="_blank">here</a>. If you have questions, you can post them here. We are also active in the Stylecraft Make-Along Facebook group. We will try to answer as soon as possible, but we are not online all the time (you know... life, work, sleep, and so on).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The meditation available on youtube at <a class="style-scope ytcp-video-metadata-info" href="https://youtu.be/5w4fC-upjKM" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/5w4fC-upjKM</a> or you can view the file below. It's just audio, with a placeholder picture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This weeks pattern uses some "special" stitches next to the normal one. If you are unfamiliar with one of them (list below), we recommend that you read the linked tutorial before you start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stacked standing double crochet - you can use this instead of 3ch or another kind of standing dc - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4WbwtV3jiA" target="_blank">Video Tutorial by Michelle</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">treble 5 together - <a href="https://lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/crochet/crochet-tutorials/crochet-back-post-5-treble-cluster-tr5tog/" target="_blank">Tutorial by LookAtWhatIMade</a> but with an extra helper to make your tr5tog pointier: at the last step, don't pull through all 6 loops at the same! yo, pull through three, then yo, pull through the rest! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sc in the third loop - <a href="https://oombawkadesigncrochet.com/2014/12/the-3rd-loop-in-my-single-crochet-patterns.html" target="_blank">Where is the Third Loop - Tutorial by Oombawaka Design</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We can't wait to see your decorations! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Love,</b></span><br />
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Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-33252328726028562572019-11-27T15:00:00.000+01:002019-11-27T15:00:03.167+01:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 31-35!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Back again, as promised, with Squares 31 to 35 of the BAWJ2019! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Have you seen our <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2019/11/cbw-advent-meditation-crochet-along.html">2019 Advent Meditation CAL</a>? It starts on 1 December 2019, and the first episode is already recorded, tested and waiting for you!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019 and see the squares we've been working over the year, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">for more information.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 31 - OCTOBER LOVE by AURORA SUOMINEN</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh, it was so nice to have a relatively simple pattern this week! The clean lines made it the perfect opportunity to show off the Stylecraft Batik Elements in the centre section. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 32 - RINSKE SQUARE by SUSAN CARLSON</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Olive (no longer available), Plum and Coral</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I enjoyed playing with the colours on this incredible textured square. It uses a lot of yarn, with rows layered over one another! Felted Button writes beautifully clear patterns that are easy to follow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span> <a href="https://mobiusgirldesign.com/flora-fauna-free-crochet-block-pattern/" target="_blank">https://mobiusgirldesign.com/flora-fauna-free-crochet-block-pattern/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not sure where the fauna are in this square, but I do love it! It worked up pretty square, and the textures are lovely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These rich colours in the Stylecraft Batik made the design sing, in my opinion :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/amaya-3" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/amaya-3</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Lupin, Cream</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As advertised, this square worked up quickly and easily. I followed the colour change directions in the pattern, and it came out quite nicely! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://blackstone-designs.com/arboretum-square/" target="_blank">https://blackstone-designs.com/arboretum-square/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Mint, Plum, Heather</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hoo boy. No amount of blocking is going for make this look straight. I don't know how Julie did it in her test version!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The techniques were interesting to learn, and the design is fascinating but I think I'd need to change directions each row to get it to any semblance of straight. Overall it is square though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PHEW. Next instalment: Squares 36-40! </span></span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-30619650266767412032019-11-23T01:31:00.000+01:002019-11-23T01:31:50.771+01:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 26-30!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>It's time for a BAWJ2019 update - I'm up to date, but to keep you all sane I'll still keep reporting on 5 squares at a time. This time, so that I don't get caught up in other things, I've scheduled 3 posts over the next week or two :D We're nearly finished, then my Christmas project will be joining them up into blankets to donate to charity. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Have you seen our <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2019/11/cbw-advent-meditation-crochet-along.html">2019 Advent Meditation CAL</a>? It starts on 1 December 2019, and the first episode is already recorded, tested and waiting for you!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019 and see the squares we've been working over the year, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">for more information.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a very clever square - each row of stitches represented a different province of Canada!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While sampler things are not always my favourite style of work, it was fun to work lots of different stitches, and learn a bit more about Canadian geography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little maple leaves in the corner are so clever! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 27 - PATRIOTIC PLAID SQUARE by CYLINDA MATHEWS</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.crochetmemories.com/blog/patriotic-plaid-square/" target="_blank">https://www.crochetmemories.com/blog/patriotic-plaid-square/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Storm, Coral and Gold</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The repeating stitch pattern was quite cute, but it irritated me that the square struggled to be, well, square. I'm sure peer pressure will sort it out once the blankets are put together, but it's always a risk with layered post stitches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also found the pattern quite complicated to follow, and there was a reasonable amount of frogging and cursing. Once I got the hang of it, it was fine though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span> <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rebirth-2" target="_blank">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rebirth-2</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Plum, Sage, Gold and Cream</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite the popcorns, I loved this square! The design is just gorgeous, the instructions were straightforward and clear, and it sits pretty much square and flat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the detail of the spikes around the central circle. The colour options for this square were endless, but I'm very happy with my choice of the cream as a background colour including the popcorn texture, and highlighting the surface crochet with bright colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 29 - BLOOMING LILY OF THE WATER by JOANITA THERON</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/blooming-lily-of-the-water-square" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/blooming-lily-of-the-water-square</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Plum, Iron, Coral, Rose, Cherry, Graphite</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know me, I love a square square. The way that the lily petals are secured to the square pulls each side into the middle... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, the texture and design of the centre circle is lovely - I wonder if I could use this motif in another way? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kinnedy-nichelle-afghan-square" target="_blank">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kinnedy-nichelle-afghan-square</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Teal, Cream, Heather, Platinum, Mint, Gold</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another beautifully written and designed square by Pam Knighton-Haener! The textures are simply lovely, and such clear instructions for a relatively complicated pattern. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That daisy in the centre is so cute, and my only complaint is the number of ends after changing colour every single row :P </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PHEW. Coming in a few days: Squares 30-35! </span></span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-77814245929643854062019-11-15T13:34:00.000+01:002019-11-15T13:34:47.031+01:00CBW Advent Meditation Crochet Along 2019 - Overview<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi everyone,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two years ago we ran an advent meditation crochet
along through our blog. We got a lot of positive feedback, and several people
asked us if we would do it again. 2018 was too busy for the two of us (Michelle
welcomed her first child into the world, and Anne moved country); however, in
2019 we are game again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We love Advent, the time before Christmas, but we do
know that it can be a very hectic and stressful time. So why add
something <i>to do</i> during this time, you might ask. Well, we had
the idea that because life is so hectic during these days, it is all the more
important to take some time to calm down and to focus. So, the idea of the
Advent Meditation was born.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For us, crochet can be like a meditation, that is, a
time where you live in the moment because you focus on the task at hand and
don't let your mind wander. However, when one follows a written pattern, it is
very easy to get distracted (hello phone, hello family, hello housework... you
get the picture). It is also easy to skip ahead, to read ahead, and thus not
focus on the task at hand (in this case, the row or round you are working on).
While thinking about this dilemma, Michelle had the idea of a crochet
meditation podcast, that is, a pattern that can only be heard but not read.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the meditation podcast, each pattern is <i>read
out</i>, and one has to crochet the rows/rounds as one listens to the
instructions. No worries, it is not read at super speed but at a decent crochet
time (we had it tested). </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We will post the links and extra information for each
meditation here on the blog, so make sure to come back by the 1st of December!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This post is not the start of the CAL; it is designed
to answer frequently asked questions and to offer an overview of the overall
setup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><u>Two small personal notes beforehand</u></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Please
note that we are offering this crochet meditation CAL for free in our spare
time. We will not be able to answer your questions at any time of the day.
Living in two different time zones (Australia and Europe) means that we cover a
decent chunk of the days; however, we also have a life and will definitely not
always be online or available even if we are awake. Furthermore, there is a
chance that technical difficulties might occur (they did last time). We ask you
to notify us if they do, but we also ask you to be patient with us. To be
honest, people complaining in pretty mean words is not a big motivation to set
these kinds of things up for free (and it has happened in the past).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
are Stylecraft Blogstars, which means that Stylecraft sent us the yarn we used
for this CAL for free. We are under no obligation to say anything nice about
their yarns or use their yarns. If we do so (and we do), it is because it is
our own opinion. Furthermore, we will be active in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/443508396494452/">Stylecraft Make-Along
Group</a> on Facebook. Feel free to join, but it is not an obligation to do so
if you want to participate in this CAL.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">FAQ</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What will we crochet?</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">We will crochet a set of 4 different Christmas
tree decorations. So there is a nice side effect aside from taking some time
for yourself to relax: you will crochet a Christmas tree decoration set which
you could give away as a Christmas present!</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Will there be a written pattern or a
graph?</b></span></u><span style="background: white;"><br />
There will be <u>no</u> written pattern. There will be <u>no</u> graph.
There will be <u>nothing</u> which you can see. Nada. You will have
to listen to create the pattern. For anything other than the basic stitches (chain, slipstitch, single crochet, double crochet, treble crochet) we will have a stitch guide in the blog post too.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How do I participate?</u></b><br />
Every week, we will post the YouTube link in a separate post on the CBW blog.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Once you get the link, you will have
to find the time to listen and crochet as you listen to the meditation.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where can I get the file?</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We don’t own/rent file storage space
for the file. Last time, we tried googledrive (which maxed out after too many
downloads within the first 30 minutes) and a free file sharer (which had a lot
of advertisement, not all of it on topics we were comfortable with
“promoting”). So this time, we will upload the file to YouTube only.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We do know that YouTube is a mild
inconvenience to some of you as you cannot download the file. However, you have
to understand that we don’t have the funds to rent proper file storage space as
we offer this CAL for free and in our spare time.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Do I have to pay something to participate?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No! However, y</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ou have probably read/heard about the devastating bushfires in Australia this year. I</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">f you have something to give, we ask you to donate for the bushfire victims of the bushfires east of Armidale in Australia (know as the Bees Nest Fires). The donations are managed by <a href="https://donations.rawcs.com.au/22-2019-20?fbclid=IwAR15xOmovcJqK2vNGu08Wlkw2pkWgntzHt8wiIa8N0OKf2xG4Su0mL58WDc" target="_blank">Rotary Australia World Community Service</a>, an organisation we trust. Plus, if you're Australian, donations over $2 are tax deductible. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>What do I need?</u></b><br />
About 50gr of DK/8 ply yarn.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We have crocheted the patterns with
cotton yarn (using </span><span lang="NL" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/Classique+Cotton+DK/0_caea525_CAFA100.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Stylecraft Classique Cotton DK</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">) and acrylic yarn (<a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/Wondersoft+Stardust+/0_caea526_CAFA175.htm"><span style="color: black;">Stylecraft Stardust</span></a>). Both work, but the “end
product” looks a bit different. Cotton results in a bit more texture, whereas
acrylic was a bit prettier in regards to the colours.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you are in a festive mood, you
might want to choose Christmas-y colours. We used </span><span lang="NL" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/Classique+Cotton+DK/0_caea525_CAFA100.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Stylecraft Classique Cotton DK</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in Poppy, Ivory
and Leaf, and <a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/Wondersoft+Stardust+/0_caea526_CAFA175.htm"><span style="color: black;">Stylecraft Stardust</span></a> in Holly and Poppy. The Stardust yarn sparkles!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You will also need a 4.5mm crochet
hook, scissors and a yarn needle. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How many meditation podcasts will
there be?</u></b><br />
Four. One in each week of Advent.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How long is each podcast?</u></b><u><br />
</u>Each podcast is less than 30 minutes long - Michelle can make three or four
of each decoration in that time, so we are confident you will be able to make
one! </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<u><span style="background: white;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">When will the meditation podcasts
be published?</b></span></u><span style="background: white;"><br />
Each Sunday of Advent: 1 December, 8 December, 15 December and 22 December</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Will there be pictures of the
decorations available beforehand?</u></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b><span style="background: white;">No. We want you to focus on the process
and not to think ahead what might come next. We fear that a picture might
be a distraction. We will probably publish pictures one or two days after the
podcast episode was released. </span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Can I post pictures of my finished
items?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Of course! In fact, please do - we looovvee to
see what you made with our patterns. If you're on Instagram or Facebook, please
use the hashtag #cbwadvent, so we can find your pictures easily.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Furthermore, we will be active in the
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/443508396494452/">Stylecraft
Make-Along group</a>. We do, however, ask you to post your pictures in the
assigned post only (it will have SPOILER in the text), so that others are not
“spoilered” by your pictures. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Are the patterns hard to follow?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">No, at least we don't think so. They are
suitable for intermediate beginners, but not for total beginners. That is, you
need to know how to crochet specific stitches and be able to crochet at a
steady pace. Don't forget you can always pause the podcast to catch up, or
rewind and listen again. We will also post a list of the stitches used
beforehand and we will include links to tutorials, so you can check them out
beforehand.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For those of you who participated in
2017, please note that the patterns are a bit more difficult than last time.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you want to want to work on
slightly easier patterns, you can also check out the 2017 meditation as well.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Which crochet terms will you use?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">U.S. crochet terms. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>What if I find a mistake in the
pattern?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Please contact us right away, so we can start an
errata list. We try very, very hard not to have any mistakes in the pattern,
but oh well, it might happen – we are only humans after all. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04245498764155066221noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-69242265940367308382019-09-23T04:40:00.003+02:002019-09-23T04:40:39.337+02:00A Prayer-ish Blanket<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been working on super secret projects recently - terrible for blogging and instagram! But I can share one of them with you today :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you call the agnostic version of a prayer blanket? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with cancer. I know that cancer is never expected, but this one has been particularly aggressive and particularly fast-moving in someone too young and healthy. The news hit and I felt what I think everyone around feels in this situation - what on earth can I do? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anne sadly <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2015/12/prayer-shawls-for-my-dad.html" target="_blank">has some experience in this area </a>so I asked her - what is the most helpful thing that I could do to make my friend feel supported and loved through the horribleness that is cancer treatment? She said, make him a blanket to keep warm during radiotherapy sessions. It needed to be soft and machine washable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had less than a week before we were going on holidays for two weeks, so with a smoking hook I tore through my Special DK stash for the brightest colours, and used this <a href="http://littlemonkeyscrochet.com/sweet-ocean-breeze-baby-blanket/" target="_blank">Ocean Breeze pattern</a> and a 5mm hook for speed and texture! 24 squares made the perfect sized blanket, and it will be useful once he's better as a throw for the couch, or a single bed blanket. Fortunately Allie spent a weekend with her grandmother which gave me some extra assistance-free hours to watch movies and crochet as fast as humanly possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspired by fellow Stylecraft Blogstar Polly Plum's <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/arabella-22" target="_blank">Arabella CAL </a> I used Stylecraft Wondersoft Merrygoround in Rainbow and a continuous sc join in the back loops to put the squares together! It saved so many ends - I can never go back to the old crosshatch style of joining square blankets again! A border in the same Rainbow yarn finished it off beautifully. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get the same number of stitches on each side, the "squares" ended up more rectangular which meant that when they came together it wasn't very square! I did decide that the wavy lines were more of a design feature than a flaw though - what do you think? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mum, amazing as she is, whipped up a super quick drawstring bag for the blanket to be kept in, for schlepping back and forth to the hospital every day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good luck friend - may you be warm and cured <3 </span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-26567467569843589232019-08-03T00:56:00.002+02:002019-08-03T00:56:34.523+02:00BAWJ 2019 - Weeks 21-25!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm back! Kiah has had the rosters from hell, work has been extremely busy with outbound interviews, negotiations with people overseas and finalising the inbound paperwork, and Allie has changed her naptimes so there's been yet another adjustment period. I've still been crocheting a bit, written up my new sweater/cardigan pattern (that'll come out a bit later in the year, when it's less hot in the Northern Hemisphere!) and, well, the BAWJ2019 fell a little behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But! Now </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am caught up with the BAWJ2019! As I have (gulp) 10 squares to report on, I'll do 5 today and 5 next week :) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 21 - SYDNEY by SHELLEY HUSBAND</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The colour possibilities with this block were pretty much endless - I did like using the Batik Elements for the central flower. Plus, a square with the same name as my home town! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The method for squaring up the circle looks very different and effective, but I can't for the life of me make it sit flat. Hopefully the peer pressure of being in a blanket will smooth things out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's almost square, just bulging a bit at the sides from the central circle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 22 - AURORA by VANESSA PHILLIPS</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I loooove the centre circle of this square! It looks so cool, and is centred neatly on the rest of the square rather than being wonky! It did end up a bit looser than the outer rows though, so isn't quite flat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, something about the squaring up rows made the square twist a little bit, so it doesn't look very... square, by itself. That's ok though, being in a blanket will beat it into shape ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The textures of this square were lovely - not overdone, but just enough to give it some more interest. The centre circle does look like a compass! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The squaring up didn't come up quite straight, but not in a way that bothered me. At least the final square is relatively square! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lacy and textured? Sign me up! The additional "ruffle" around the centre square was fun to work and looks very effective :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A well-written square (and doing a multi-designer CAL reeeeally emphasises how good well-written squares are!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 25 - BERRYLICIOUS by MARIE SEGARES</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not sold on the name for this one - 12 "berrieds" around the middle does not make berrylicious! The tensions were all off for this one, I had to force it into a square to be able to take a picture at all. I'm not sure if I needed to change hooks for the v-stitch section. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The square also developed a noticeable twist as I went along, which as you will know by now is not my favourite. Overall, it was ok to work but not my favourite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PHEW. Coming next week: Squares 26-30! And I will try and keep up more regularly from now on for my sanity as well as yours! </span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-10572738961322054202019-07-27T16:06:00.001+02:002019-07-28T01:52:27.310+02:00Tutorial: Fold A Star Blanket<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A couple of weeks ago, I finished a star blanket for a newborn baby girl for good friends of ours and complained to my husband that I never know how to fold these blankets. They always look oddly shaped when folded, are impossible to gift wrap, and so on. Well, my husband took one look at the blanket and was like "uh, yes, of course, you could fold it", took the blanket andddd folded it perfectly. Right. I was baffled and posted a picture on Instagram. It looks like I am not the only one struggling with folding star blankets, and I was asked to ask my husband to show the world how he folds star blankets...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, I present the "fold your star blanket tutorial" :). The pattern I used for the blanket is from <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rainbow-ripple-baby-blanket" target="_blank">Celeste Young</a> and the yarn is <a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/Life+DK/0_caea525_CAFA001.htm" target="_blank">Life DK</a> and <a href="https://www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/Life+Changes+DK+/0_caea525_CAFA183.htm" target="_blank">Life Changes DK</a> from Stylecraft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I would love to see your folded blankets! Can you <a href="https://www.instagram.com/crochetbetweenworlds/?hl=de" target="_blank">tag us on instagram</a> or use the hashtag <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/crochetbetweenworlds/?hl=de" target="_blank">#crochetbetweenworlds</a>? That would be awesome!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If something is unclear, please let me know, and I will try to describe it in other words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lay it out with the wrong side facing up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fold in the first side. I use the corners (the dips) as guidelines. With larger blankets, you might to fold it over a bit further though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fold in the second side. If your blanket is bigger than mine, the sides will overlap more and you might need to fold the side in a bit further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It might sound more complicated than it actually is. In fact, it is super easy... So, we made a short video - it doesn't have the highest quality (we filmed it in the middle of our move and were rather short on time) but I hope you get the idea anyway. :)</span></div>
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Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04245498764155066221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-3775911521471673612019-05-25T13:30:00.002+02:002019-05-25T13:35:23.137+02:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 18, 19 and 20!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aargh! Time is running away from me at an alarming rate - I feel like I'm barely keeping up. We had all the family in town for Allie's first birthday </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(!!)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> last weekend and it's going to take me a bit longer to recover from all the excitement and cooking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Allie got her own little chocolate cake to munch and mash - as you can see, she had a LOT of fun (and needed a bath directly afterwards!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I still haven't convinced the little flea to stand still long enough to model cardigans for me, plus we are having a weird resurgence of summer at the moment and everyone is back in tshirts! Climate change is so weird and annoying, I want winter and snuggly blankets and hot tea! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have managed to squeeze a bit of crochet in here and there, mostly getting up to date with the BAWJ. Without further ado, here's my take on Weeks 18, 19 and 20!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 18 - SIMBELMYNË by POLLY PLUM</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ugh I love <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2016/09/ta-dah-lotus-moon-tiles-afghan.html" target="_blank">Polly Plum designs</a>. She makes art with yarn, and writes so clearly that making her afghan squares is almost effortless. Plus, she is an all round excellent person and one of our fellow Stylecraft Blogstars!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This one is another masterpiece, with a square that ends up both solid and lacy, somehow. It is almost identical front and back (which is great in an afghan) and all in all was a pleasure to crochet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Again, this square was a lot of fun to crochet. Working longer stitches into the row below, playing with back post stitches, and having the variety of a square design (most of these squares start as circles)... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, as you can see it came out quite wonky - it must need some hefty blocking. I'll ignore that for the moment and see if peer pressure will do the job for me in the finished blanket, but I remain slightly dubious for now. Plus, it is quite on the large size. Maybe I'll have one blanket for enormous squares and one for less enormous ones?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two new stitches to learn in this square - the bead stitch and the folding sc/hdc/dc. Bead stitch seems to be a neater and less tedious version of the bullion stitch. The folding sc/hdc/dc makes a really cool loopy texture! See the little tunnel of teal stitches? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have heard a lot about Ineke's patterns but hadn't had the chance to make one yet - this one is making me very curious to find out more :D </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Phew, that's another three weeks done! I have three new patterns off with testers at the moment, maybe one day I'll get around to writing them up properly and publishing... how soon does Allie start daycare? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>What are you working on at the moment? Link me to your blog or facebook or insta! </b></span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-61394473417194337242019-04-30T07:46:00.003+02:002019-04-30T07:46:55.774+02:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 15, 16 and 17!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a rollercoaster couple of weeks here at Casa del Westlund - we had a week's holiday at Lake Macquarie over Easter, I've been crocheting up a storm of cardigans for Allie since it seems like we might actually have winter this year (yay!) and she has decided all of a sudden that three naps in a day is for chumps, and breastfeeding is super slow and irritating and could we please just already have bottles!? Argh! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before we get to the BAWJ squares from the last few weeks, here's a photo of Allie's favourite holiday activity: DUCKS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ducks go KAK KAK KAK, and you feed them and pat them and even crunch on a bit of their seed. Now all birds are greeted with KAK KAK KAK, duck or not 😂</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll tell you all about the cardigan collection next week hopefully - it depends when Allie feels like stretching her modelling and cooperation muscles. Cross your fingers for me! She is a very determined and independent little miss. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On to the BAWJ2019! All three of these squares were very well written patterns!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 15 - LEMON ZINGER SQUARE by MARY BETH TEMPLE</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was interesting starting with a five pointed star in the middle - I'm not a huge fan of how wonky the circle is to get it back to a square, but the central flower is just so cute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also got to learn how to do a different kind of surface crochet! The wibbliness appeals to me :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 16 - FINDING BALANCE by RHONDDA MOL</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So much texture! I learned a new stitch, and was very grateful that there were photos of each round as after a bit I found the pattern very wordy and somewhat challenging to keep track of where I was up to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So bumpy and petally and deliciously squishy. A cushion cover in this stitch would be so lovely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even the back looks really cool, with the spiked trebles down behind the petals!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You might recall - I've made this square before! It was Julie Yeager's <a href="https://crochetbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com/2015/08/julieannys-summer-mosaic-mystery-afghan.html" target="_blank">Mystery CAL Afghan Square</a> from 2015, which I made in rainbow colours of Special DK. It was fun to follow Julie's lead and make this version in only two colours - Iron Elements and Cream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, doesn't it have lovely texture? Those front post stitches... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Phew, that brings me all up to date! Back soon with cardigan photos.. oh, here's a sneak peek ;) Don't forget to cross your fingers that we can get her to hold still for photos! </span><br />
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Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-64015391048702834982019-04-10T10:08:00.000+02:002019-04-10T10:08:10.716+02:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 13 & 14!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a bit behind in the BAWJ2019 this fortnight - Kiah has been working lots of night shifts, and Allie has had a chest infection which has made the nights very long and the days very busy... zzzz... Fortunately Allie is on the mend now, so I'm starting to get a bit more sleep again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think these two squares are some of my favourites so far - clearly written patterns, nice designs and not overly fussy or complicated :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a> <span style="background-color: white;">for more information.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lots of popcorns again in this one! It was very interesting the way the shape of this square transformed with each row - very well thought out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole square has a lot of texture going on, but mostly focussed in the central part. Back post stitches, working in the back loop and of course the popcorns do the magic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One slight downside of such heavily textured squares is that they aren't really reversible. The back just isn't very nice to look at, and in an afghan I kinda prefer it when the back is at least almost as pretty as the front. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think this is my favourite square so far :) Straightforward pattern but still interesting, and the look would change endlessly just by playing with the colours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I love the little row of tulips in the border! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The square does have a little bit of texture in the front post stitches, but you can see on the next picture that it is still very nice to look at on the back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall I'm really enjoying the BAWJ2019 - meeting lots of new designers, and having a crochet goal for each week which helps keep me sane when it would be so easy for crochet to just fall by the wayside! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-23062853157419004622019-03-25T22:36:00.002+01:002019-03-25T22:36:16.730+01:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 9-12!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My BAWJ2019 is coming along nicely! I have 13 squares completed now, all in different colour combinations. What do you think of my e-afghan? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is going to be a bit of a long post because I have FOUR squares to show you! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If you want to join in on BAWJ2019, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Facebookgroup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a> <span style="background-color: white;">for more information.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 9 - QUATREFOIL ROSETTE by LISA MAUSER</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern: </span><a href="https://thislittlehookofmine.blogspot.com/2019/03/quatrefoil-rosette.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://thislittlehookofmine.blogspot.com/2019/03/quatrefoil-rosette.html</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yarn colours: Teal, Cream, Indigo, Storm, Sage, Old Gold, Graphite</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This square was well written and worked up very nicely. It was interesting to use so many colours - the other squares so far have a maximum of 4-5 colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 10 - ROSEBUD FLOWER SQUARE by CHERYL DEE CROCHET</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I particularly liked how this square took into account the twist from hdc rows by changing direction each row - the backs of the hdc stitches provide a different texture, and the square stayed very straight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not sure how much I love the little extra rosebud, but it's nice to learn new techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's easier to see on the back how the alternating hdc rows keep the square nice and straight:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 11 - MISTLEY by JACQUI GOULBOURN</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another well written square! It's so nice when a pattern just slides off the hook without much thought or consideration! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 12 - LITHA by KRIS KELLN</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Talk about a well-written pattern! I think this is my favourite square so far - interesting stitches, not overly complicated but extremely easy to follow. If only all patterns were like this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Again, I wish the centre diamond was, well, centred, but maybe the little twist is a design feature not a bug :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Phew, I'm up to date (and up to date on here) - bring on the next 36 weeks! </span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-78576691742050072932019-03-22T15:00:00.000+01:002019-03-22T15:00:05.525+01:00Woohoo! The finished Hydrangea Stripe Blanket<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phew, it has been a long time since I wrote my last blog post. I thought about it a lot, but in the end, my day didn't have enough hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recently, we went to Denmark for a week and I finally (!!) finished my <a href="https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/hydrangea-stripe-blanket.html" target="_blank">Hydrangea Stripe Blanket</a>! Phew. The project took far too long for my liking and some point it wasn't a lot of fun anymore. I guess, I am not cut out for projects which take very long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now that the blanket is finished, I love it. It is soft and lush. I really hope, the recipient will like it too. It is a gift for a dear friend of mine who turned 60 last December. I wanted to finish the blanket in time for her birthday, but eh, that didn't work out. It will be more of a Easter surprise now. I will pack and ship it soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The pattern is really easy to follow and after a couple of rows, i developed a nice rhythm. I had to crochet more rows (lots more) to reach the desired length. I assume that's because I used a 4mm hook and a slightly different yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Belissma is a lovely yarn to work with. It was a great stitch definition and just flows from the hook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Color order stripes:</b> Toasted Almonds, Ash Rose, Raspberry Riot, Mellow Yellow, Sugar Snap, Overly Olive, Silver Lining, Smoked Pearl, Bashful Blue, Double Denim, Purple Passion, Rio Red, Crushed Plum</span></div>
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Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04245498764155066221noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-17229323579623126602019-03-01T05:15:00.000+01:002019-03-01T05:15:06.890+01:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 7 and 8! <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi everyone! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>It's March! How can it possibly be March already - 2019 is zipping by at a terrifying rate. We've survived two weeks of multiple night shifts here and Miss Allie has her first tooth! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been working on my miniaturisation project over the last few weeks in between feeding the baby 7 times a day (hurgh I liked it better when she just had milk), persuading her to have naps and keeping up with work. So far I have 5 tiny monsters, and #6 is in progress but having a rest while I make a hippo for a lovely friend's upcoming tiny human! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week's post is a bit later than usual because Square 8 of the BAWJ2019 took me somewhat longer than previous weeks for reasons which I will describe below... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This square was ok! I did alter the instructions slightly so I didn't have quite so many silver ends from the overlay rounds, just by starting in a different spot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It worked up fairly well, although it irritates my symmetrical mind that the mandala isn't straight on the square. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I almost like the back better - the combination of colours and stitches (and the beautiful Batik yarn) gives it an impressionist look!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hoo boy, this was an interesting square. Pretty? Yes, I'll give it that. I liked the way the circular centre was squared up - very clever and much less awkward than other methods I have seen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I do not want to seem ungrateful because these lovely designers are offering squares for the BAWJ2019 for free, but... it makes me really disappointed when designers don't take pride in presenting a great, well-designed, well laid out pattern. And this one was a real challenge, not in a fun way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Julie noted as a "fun fact" in her introductory blog post that the designer has never made an afghan before! This became very obvious when there were two rows that had 16ch strings along the back. It's true, they aren't visible from the front. But as anyone who has ever made or used an afghan can tell you, having such long loose strings along the back can be very unpleasant for the toes as well as affecting the tension of the square! I ended up catching the chain strings into the following row to try and mitigate this a bit. But, you can see how the overlay crochet is sitting right up off the surface of the underlying stitches due to the tension of the chain strings behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">There were some issues with the pattern as well. In some places the colour change was not marked clearly, and the layout was not super easy to follow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The stitch counts and instructions for Rounds 18 and 19 didn't match. It was very confusing, caused a few bouts of ripping back and retrying before I could make it work. In case you're making this and are as perplexed as I was, I worked Rounds 18 and 19 as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Round 18</b> - *working in BLO, hdc in first two st of one side including the first hidden st, 15 star stitches across, hdc in last two st, (hdc, ch2, hdc) in corner ch2sp*. repeat 4 times. (6hdc and 15 star st on each side) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Round 19</b> - *hdc in first three st of one side including first hidden st (where Round 18 joined), hdc in top of Round 18 hdc to start first star st, 2hdc in eye of each star stitch, hdc in last 3 st, (hdc, ch2, hdc) in corner ch2sp* repeat 4 times (39 hdc on each side) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">More than one hdc round also twists a square quite badly because the top of the stitch is so far to the right of the post, as you can see in the back shot of this square:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hopefully the power of peer pressure will pull it back into line once we join them all together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Onwards and upwards! </span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960215912402855534.post-37743270906764782882019-02-12T07:50:00.001+01:002019-02-12T07:50:57.683+01:00BAWJ2019 - Weeks 5 and 6!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me again! Have I blogged more than I did all of 2018 yet?? It feels a bit like it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This last two weeks has been a bit busier - we had a big day of youth exchange and funnily enough, having a tiny human really cuts down on the time and capacity available to recuperate properly. I'm doing ok with the day to day stuff, but an extra big event and poof, it's all over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, I did manage to keep up with the BAWJ2019 CAL so here are Weeks 5 and 6 for you :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 5 - CLARISSA by HELEN SHRIMPTON </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pattern: <a href="https://crystalsandcrochet.com/crochet/clarissa/">https://crystalsandcrochet.com/crochet/clarissa/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boy, this square was a challenge. The actual stitches were fine, the pattern was well written, but I got to the end and the square was almost two inches bigger than the next biggest square! I used the same hook and yarn, and the same tension as far as I know. So, I undid it all (threading the little balls on a knitting needle to keep them in order, I felt so clever), and redid it with a 3mm hook and it came out perfectly sized. I know I talk about peer pressure being a powerful force in a blanket, but this wasn't fudgeable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The textures are really lovely, and I liked how the colour changes worked! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 6 - ONE LOVE II by RACHELE CARMONA </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pattern: <a href="https://cypresstextiles.net/2019/02/09/free-12-inch-crochet-motif-for-valentines-day-2019-one-love-ii/">https://cypresstextiles.net/2019/02/09/free-12-inch-crochet-motif-for-valentines-day-2019-one-love-ii/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In contrast to Week 5, this square was almost too small! It was within the margin of error though, so it'll all work into the final blanket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the little hearts :) They came out really well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can't wait for next week! In between the BAWJ2019 squares I've been working on a new project - stay tuned ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm doing it! So far! The first time is happenstance, the second is coincidence, so managing to blog three weeks in a row makes it tradition, right? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not too late, so if you want to join in on BAWJ2019, check out Julie's </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/351656498338028/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Facebook group</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://julieyeagerdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/julie-yeager-designs/3850577/1-25" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ravelry Board</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week I have three BAWJ blocks to show you, because there was a bonus square for Week 4! I chose to do both Week 4 blocks in the same set of colours. Without further ado...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 3 - FLAME SQUARE by JESSIE RAYOT</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pattern: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://jessieathome.com/flame-square/">https://jessieathome.com/flame-square/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It ended up a bit wonky, I think because of the hdc rounds pushing the next stitches quite far to the right. But, peer pressure is a powerful force and it'll square up nicely when surrounded by friends! The pattern was easy to follow and quite rhythmic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The texture of this square is lovely - I do like what post stitches do for crochet, even though I don't overly enjoy actually doing them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 4 - IRIS TWINS by MARGARET MACINNES </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pattern: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/iris-twins-afghan-block-square">https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/iris-twins-afghan-block-square</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one was marked as advanced level, challenging even for experienced crocheters but maybe I am more advanced than I thought because it wasn't that hard? It certainly was complicated but as long as I read each step carefully and worked the stitches as I read the pattern, it worked out fine. I only had one problem moment when I couldn't figure out where to join yarn for a row, but sorted it out fairly quickly with a lot of zooming on the pictures</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is another heavily textured square, but in a completely different style to the last one. It could possibly use blocking, but since it's already a bit bigger than the other squares I will leave it and assume that the weight of the finished blanket will sort it out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using standing stitches to start each row was definitely easier and neater than chains! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WEEK 4 BONUS - BUFFLEHEAD by MARGARET MACINNES</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This block was kindly offered by Margaret as a bonus easier option for Week 4 in case the Iris Twins was just too unmanageable. I actually ended up having more puzzled moments with this block than the other one! But, it all worked out in the end!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's nice to have a lacy block in the mix. Again, using the stacked standing stitches to start rows rather than chains or other kinds of standing stitches made the end product neater (in my opinion) - I much recommend this technique if you haven't tried it yet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Phew! 4/48 blocks completed plus a bonus already! I still have plenty of Batik in the box, ready for next week :D </span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910287804024257064noreply@blogger.com3