So I’ve not posted about my crochet for a while… But I HAVE been doing some! Last weekend I caught up quite a lot with the seaside stash buster blanket and created a lot of ends!
Also a friend of mine and her daughter wanted to learn how to crochet as they’d been given a couple of crochet kits as presents but didn’t know how to crochet. So they came for lunch and the lesson started. E (aged 7) got the chain sussed, but found the next stage too much for the same afternoon. K (her mum) persevered and found a way to hold the wool and wrap yarn and manipulate it all, which was fab. I was really proud of her persevering and her final piece of crochet.
This weekend I kept going with the stashbuster, and yesterday and today I got all the rest of the ends sewn in.
I particularly liked learning the basket weave stitch, which I’d never done before. Though I did have to play yarn chicken with the green yarn… Lost the first game, so unravelled the incomplete fourth row and re crocheted it with a smaller hook, which got me to 4 sections from the end 🙄. So third game I frogged 2 rows and recrocheted them both. That was the game I won!
Earlier I really enjoyed making the mint choc chip ice cream rows in granny stitch.
I’m feeling rather pleased with myself right now, and hoping I don’t get so far behind again!
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That blanket really is coming along well 🙂
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Thank you… I’m suddenly surprised by how big it is!
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I love how it looks like a picture, of sorts, of the seaside…waves, sand, seashells, greenery. A lovely landscape. Hope you can see it too! ✔💎
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Oh thank you… I’ve imagined different things for different rows but I’d not really taken a step back and looked at it as a whole. Thank you for pointing that out to me 😊
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I love your stashbuster, it’s looking great!
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Thank you so much… I’m loving it too 😊
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Ooh, it’s looking fab and very tidy with the ends sewn in. I haven’t started on last week’s rows yet! 😆🌹🌻🌼❤
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Ooh they’re fun rows with the basket weave 😊. Thank you so much, I so pleased now the ends are done
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Love your blanket, and the yellow is really cheerful.
Well done on teaching your friend to crochet too, I think she has it down, just needs practice. 🙂
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Thank you. I’m loving including the yellows. I’m so pleased to have been able to teach some crochet… I get à real sense of achievement when I help someone to do something they couldn’t do before.
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Indeed, the yellow really works to nicely.
I agree, it feels great to share ones talents. I taught my daughter to knit and crochet, but I think she likes the crochet better as it goes faster. She is working on squares for a blanket. 🙂
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That’s cool… I definitely prefer crochet to knitting!
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Your blanket is looking so good now. Well done on teaching crochet, not easy is it!
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Thank you so much. Nope… Teaching crochet is not easy but it’s very satisfying!
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I love how this is coming together. I can’t imagine teaching a child to crochet is very easy but great to start so young 🙂
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I don’t know that she really took to it, but it was fun to try!
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it’s looking lovely! I love the pop of yellow
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Thank you 😊
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I still want to try basketweave stitch, is it tricky? The grey-tipped waves are still my favourite part of your blanket, but it’s all gorgeous really!
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Thank you so much. I love the grey topped waves too. 😊 Basket weave wasn’t tricky at all. Check out eleonora’s Post on it and she’s got a video that would help you too
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Well done for catching up. I love your colours Julia and confess I too really enjoyed learning the basket weave stitch 💙
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Oh cool. I’ve got behind again since then, but never mind! I’ll catch up again some time!
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