bye bye, sort of

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I'll be closing this blog down.

But I'll continue blogging about crochet, other crafting, and weeds, wildcrafting, moon stuff, etc, at
Holistic Mama.

You can find all my crochet projects in my index there.

Thanks to those who Followed and those who have taken the time to comment here. I really appreciate the support.

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Touchstone Tuesday

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Snippets of our life that fill me with simple Joy. Join in.


... she grows in light and I hear the little one say, 'hello moon'. I'm filled with double-wonder.
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Curling crochet bottoms & Chainless foundations

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Here's what I've learnt over the last few days as I work on my girl's cardigan.

When you have done a row or two after your chain, and you lay it down flat as possible (chain at bottom), and it curls upward...

.... your chain is too loose in comparison to your rows.

Solutions:

• Choose a smaller hook for you chain (I find this makes the next row difficult to stitch)
• Make a tighter chain.
• Make a chainless foundation.

If your work curls downwards, your chain is too tight.

Solutions:

• Choose a larger hook just for the chain.
• Make a looser chain (easy option)
• Make a chainless foundation.

The most compehensive tutorial for chainless foundation (but can become a bit info-overload) is over here at futuregirl's great blog. There's a video at the bottom there as well.

A useful video over here.



The chainless foundation looks fab, and as a non-chain lover, this could be the way of my crochet future. But it's a whole different technique and I'm finding that it requires its own practice.
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Crochet amigurumi owl

Tamie Snow's Cutest Little Owl is definitely a cutie and the girl-child loves it.

Oops, I forgot the feet, will get them on later...

Crochet Phannie Beret

Pattern: Phannie

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Hook: 4.5mm
Yarn: cheapo acrylic

Don't know what it is about my camera, but the yarn is definitely black.

Still quite small on me… hmmmm…. Nice hat but would prefer slightly larger. It came out really well and it's easy (if you understand FPDC). Might try it again with a nicer yarn, and possibly larger hook.

Pattern Notes:
I changed the start. I began with a magic ring with 4 sc, then 2 dc in each sc. Then caried on with row 2 as pattern.

After row 18 I checked the size and it was tiny! I don’t think I have a particularly lage head, lol, and I know I will always buy the ‘medium’ in hats.

That 11” guideline after Rnd14 is not the final width, more like 9”. Once you start the decreases it draws in dramatically.

Rnd 14b: Ch 3 (counts as 1 dc), * FPDC around post of next st, dc in next dc, dc dec over next 2 sts (1 st
decreased), dc in next dc, rep from * around, end FPDC around post of next st, dc in next dc, dc dec over next
2 sts, join with a sl st in top of beg ch-3 – 32 FPDC’s with 5 dc’s between them.
Rnd 14c: repeatb14b

Then an extra decrease rnd…



I added a picot edging.

Sorry, wish I could take better pics of myself.