Crochet sanctuary… Day two

Well, it’s crazily late… Despite crocheting all day I wanted to keep going till I finished my first sock! And then WordPress unhelpfully decided to delete my whole post when the app stopped working just as I tried to add the final photo! Really I should be going to sleep, but it’s bothering me, and I want the post written today. So here goes!

This morning started with a very tasty breakfast where you could pick just about anything you could possibly want. Then we went straight into our first workshop where we could choose a toft kit to work on. I chose Emma the bunny who has very cute floppy ears, and I used the very practical row counter ring we were given to keep track of where I was in the pattern. After working all morning I had finished and stuffed her body and this afternoon I got her head done too. Just four limbs, two ears, a tail and then sewing on her face to get her finished.

We had an amazing lunch, which gave us a chance to chat to some other people too. There are more people here today as they have come on a day pass, and it was cool to get to know some of them.

After lunch I got to meet eleonora from coastal crochet, which I was super excited about!

She brought loads of pebbles from home and got us crocheting pebble covers to make them into decorations or paperweights. It was fab to see other people taking her patterns and adapting them to create new ideas. I had hit a bit of a wall with my mood which I think linked to just being on a high of excitement for too long, being around lots of people who I don’t know very well, and having a sudden loss of confidence in myself. Thankfully it’s really laid back here, so I took a bit of time out, and then just ‘hid’ in my crochet for a while. I followed two of eleonora’s patterns but got a bit creative with the colours I used. One lady made an ammonite design up, which she talked me through. This evening, once I had a bit of bounce and confidence back I gave it a go, and was thrilled with the result.

Finally this evening, after a few glasses of wine and a three course meal that included sticky toffee pudding, I finished off my first sock. My first attempt at ribbing using front and back post stitches didn’t work (twice!) and lisa helped by pointing out that I’d done front and back loops… Not posts. But she helped more by frogging some of the rows for me (it’s beautiful wool but a pig to frog… Taking longer to frog than to crochet I reckon, and that poor part of the sock was onto its second frogging as well!). Anyway, a quick demonstration later and I was on my way to the desired ribbed effect and a perfectly fitted sock. Now I just need to make the second one!

I can’t quite believe that even after all this crochet I’m still eager to do more tomorrow! I did take a bit of time out of crochet to draw notebook covers to say thank you to Lisa, lynda-rose and eleonora for all their hard work. Lisa got a schnauzer as she has one at home, lynda-rose got a cat as she loves them and eleonora got a seahorse as she’s coastal crochet. It was fun to look for ideas to copy and adapt, and to do three such different styles.

OK… Text now copied incase I have another malfunction while adding photos… Here goes…phew!

And publish….!

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