Alice's Jumper Complete. . .

Once she had decided upon the colours to finish the jumper it didnt take too long to hook up and be finished...yeye...

Alice's Jumper WIP . . .

I have been slowly adapting a Doris Chan pattern, first my florescent pink jumper by adding arms to her vest design along with numerous vest were I have altered the stitch pattern slightly. This is another alteration combining a different stitch pattern and sleeves for my sister to use up some balls of creme beige yarn I've had for ages. There isn't enough for a full jumper so a colour change is in order...

Just Got To Sew In All The Ends . . .

And then the jumper for Esther should be finished, now I just hope it fits...

Using Up Left Overs . . .

I had two 50g balls of the orange KoolKotton left from my making my sister a lacy cardigan, which I have now realised after looking for a link to the cardigan I never actually took a picture of the finished thing whoops! I decided to use it up and make her a vest like the one I have turned into a jumper, only 2x50g wasn't nearly long enough in keeping with the pattern so I repeated the V stitch row and I think it turned out quite well.

Too Florescent Updated - Now with Arms . . .

Acrylic Fabric Medium . . .

I've been working using textiles for my current course and I have found this stuff called Acrylic Fabric Medium, its mixed with arcylic paint normally a 1:1 ratio and as long as you heat set it once dry the acrylic paint as like fabric paint. I thought id test it out on some tshirts before I decided to use it in my college work. After a 30 wash it came out really well, only down side is it is a little stiff unlike some fabric paints, but i have loads of acrylic and can mix up lots of colours without worrying that i've wasted all the paint. 

Esther's Jumper Update . . .

Esther finally has a sleeve and a cuff on the way, once I get more wool she shall have another...

Tooo Florescent?...

I've been eying up this yarn for a while, it looked really pretty in the ball, but now I've crocheted it I'm not sure if its tooo florescent for me...I really liked the darker pink areas and for a whole ball there isn't much of that colour. I'm going to try and adapt the pattern to add arms, If i succeed I can always whip up another...

Esther's Jumper. . .

I've recently bought two Doris Chan books of crochet clothing designs and a friend of mine, Esther has commissioned me to make her one of the jumpers. This is my progress so far, I forgot to take much earlier photos.

Growing Wool Eater . . .

My wool eater has grown quite a bit, I intend to add two more white rows and perhaps a grey edging - we'll see...

Farpoint Topper . . .

Farpoint Topper is another pattern from the Doris Chan - Amazing Crochet Lace pattern book I bought recently. It has very simple construction of 4 pentagon motifs, I have finished making the last motif today and it is blocking at the moment, its a really simple design, one i'd like to try using a granny pentagon method. Simply create a pentagon motif which every side measures 33cm or 13".

Wool Eater Six Motifs . . .

Wool Eater Update . . .

Since here I haven't gotten very far with my attempt at a wool eater, I have made six blocks of two different colour rows so far and am slowly adding the final row of colour and joining. This did bring up the issue that I'd totally ignored the pattern and done the 2nd colour row wrong but I've worked around it.

Exhibition Point Six Six

I have dedicated this blog space to all crochet and handmade items I produce in my spare time, separate from the pieces I produce at college. My second year is over and to end nicely two of my final piece have been picked to be in an exhibition in Hereford called Point Six Six, along with the work of 12 other students. Its been a really good experience putting up a show but sadly this has caused my crochet to lapse just a little, well at least my blogging of it.

Here's the link to the exhibition blog and my own art blog;

www.CAA2013.blogspot.co.uk

www.lucysalter.tumblr.com

Crochet and Fishing . . .

 

This weekend has been full of fishing and crochet...The purple piece above is in essence the Sambuca jacket I have made quite a few times now but I hope to sew up the opening and wear it backwards like a jumper. The two piece's below were started only this weekend as I watched Danul catch lots of fishes nice and warm from the car. The red piece is another Sambuca Jacket the body is complete but I will need more wool for the sleeves, its a birthday present to come. The white vest is a new pattern from one of the books i recently purchased and crocheted up really quite quickly, another birthday present. Just lots of ends to sew in ... wooop...

 

Granny Square Cushion . . .

Finished the Granny Square Cushion I was making as a present, luckily completed with just a little of the grey spare. It was given to its new owner this weekend with the response of ''ohh isn't that lovely'' and me suggesting it was turned over as what she was looking at was the back. Good result all round, sad to see it go though, think I might need to make a few for myself...

Wool Eater - Sorf of ...

Sarah London has published the Wool Eater blanket pattern on her website and has started a Crochet Along at the beginning of this year, she has a Flickr account where all the people taking part have uploaded images of their blankets. I'd downloaded the pdf and had a go at the pattern a while ago but didn't really know what to do with it until now. Whilst in Aldi I came across 400g giant balls of 8-10ply wool for only £2.50 - bargain - so I have decided to start making a blanket using the Wool Eater pattern as a block of two rows of colour for a third to be added later and join all of the blocks together...

Granny Square Cushion

 Currently working on a cushion for someone's birthday...I've seen alot of Granny Square cushions but realised I've never made one...Sadly I am running out of wool and accidentally just bought the wrong grey grrr...

Plethora Continued...

I subscribe to Inside Crochet - its full of patterns, not always amazing, but the last issue held a patten by Doris Chan, really easy to work up and quite adaptable. So I've made one for me using cheap acrylic DK in black, and have two works in progress, one for my aunty in black smoothie dk, and one for my sister in orange "kool" cotton...

Plethora of Crochet Jumpers . . .

I have been through a phase of trying to make my own jumpers without using a pattern, but I realised I don't think I've ever made a jumper from a pattern. That all ends now...I found this quite unusual pattern on Red Heart Yarns the pattern is downloadable but be warned its in American terminology. I used two balls (200g) of J.C.Bretts Marble chunky yarn in this quite unusual green and purpley brown.