Friday 27 June 2014

Too busy 'yarning' to blog...




I realise it's a while since I last blogged here - life's events and excitements get in the way from time to time. However, there aren't many free moments when I HAVEN'T had some yarn in my hands, lately (even if that's just moving stash piles to other boxes.....)

Best of all, I decided to put in an order to The Wool Warehouse (yes, I know I already have SEVERAL large crates of the stuff up in my workroom.....but one can never have too much!) and it arrived this morning! (not bad, since I ordered it after-hours on Wednesday evening)  I'm SO impressed - quick service and VERY attractive prices, too! I don't normally like ordering yarn without seeing it, but I can happily say the Wool Warehouse is now my online shop of choice! :-)

Just looking at it all is making me lick my lips in anticipation :-)


I've also been experimenting a lot more with crochet, which is becoming ever more addictive.

I'd heard about the 'African Flower' motif and decided to have a go. (There's a great tutorial here )  Well, I was very soon hooked (excuse the pun!) and now I'm happily creating blocks (....a cushion cover?  .....a blanket? ....who knows!)

....and you all know how I HATE seaming things together, so I've taught myself to 'join-as-I-go' (I sort of made it up, don't think it's a 'proper' method, but it works for me) - on the final round, I hook the yarn through a trb on a finished side and then trb on the new square, like this:


Here's a finished seam:

I'm really loving using cotton and cotton-mix yarns, too. I recently made a loose cover for a footstool:
We've just inherited the footstool, which has an embroidered cover created by hubby's Grandmother many years ago:
It's beautiful, but to preserve the colours it had spent a lot of it's life with a cloth over it. Being re-housed in our conservatory we didn't want to risk the sun bleaching the colours, so a loose cover was the order of the day.

Now....back to the newly-arrived stash......where's that crochet hook......?  :-)

5 comments:

  1. I'd never really considered cotton for a granny square afghan. It will be lovely.

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  2. The loose cover looks amazing, and I'm in awe of your crochet skills! Love the stash enhancement too.

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  3. Wow. Fabulous!

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  4. Oh Sue, this African Flower square is so beautiful! I checked the tutorial, too...and I'm adding it to my To Do List! I want to make an Afghan!! Well, right after I finish my Snowflake afghan!

    Perhaps you can tell, I've been looking at alot of your posts, after your visit to my blog - thanks! I'm adding you to my Blog List and appreciate you adding me to yours. {You might want to delete my old blog - The Comfort of a Safe Place - from your sidebar, as it's now closed, since opening my new blog.}

    Have a wonderful weekend.

    Jan

    ps...I noticed you're a no-reply blogger - so I couldn't send you an email message to your comment.

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    1. Jan - thanks for your comments! I still get email prompts when people leave messages here, I will have to investigate my blog set-up to see what you mean by 'no-reply'...... ;-p
      Thanks for stopping by, hope you like what you've seen!

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