Before Tiny arrived, I spent my pregnancy happily crocheting things. Blankets, cardigans, teddies. I was in the middle of a sort of sleep-mat when Tiny arrived. I never finished the mat. I didn’t, in fact, take up my hook again until a few weeks ago. I’m now half way through a toy for a young… Continue reading 2024.6: The Joy of Crochet
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The Receiving Blanket
Back in September, shortly after the first ante-natal class mentioned the importance of baby blankets being knitted or crocheted (the open-weave is best for helping babies to regulate their temperature), I set to work on a granny square blanket. It has since changed from being a granny square to being a granny rectangle. Partly, this… Continue reading The Receiving Blanket
The Less Simple Granny Square Blanket
The trouble I find with making granny square blankets is that, after a certain point, I get a bit bored. I like the not really thinking about what I’m doing, but the round-and-round part of it just becomes…samey. Especially since the one I’m now making is not my first. It’s true, I could have found… Continue reading The Less Simple Granny Square Blanket
The Baby Sleeping Bag
A few weeks ago, a friend’s mother gave me a couple of well-stocked bags of yarn. I’ve had a pattern in mind for a while, but hadn’t the yarn for it, so it was relegated down the list of Project Priorities while I completed the Sunshine Shawl, and thence a baby blanket. But a set… Continue reading The Baby Sleeping Bag
Notes From My Office: July 2022
That’s half the year done, and considerably less time being spent in the Office now that I can reclaim all that overtime. Funny how all the long weekends fill themselves with other activities, now that I can actually have something approaching a social life. The Sunshine Shawl Of course, there has also been more time… Continue reading Notes From My Office: July 2022
The Sunshine Shawl
After the admittedly not very complicated in the end cardigan (which still needs its buttons), I thought I’d ease myself back into larger craft projects with an easy shawl. I had four balls of a (clearance) WI Soft & Cuddly yarn, 50g (125 m each), in an Orange Mix colour, and the need for something… Continue reading The Sunshine Shawl
Notes From My Office: June 2022
I have hopes for June. Partly, perhaps, because the sun is more consistently shining, and that always lends an air of hope and optimism. But also because, finally, after about six months, the daily overtime is over, and I can begin to use my accumulated toil, and the holidays I haven’t touched since Christmas, to… Continue reading Notes From My Office: June 2022
Crocheting Baby Cardigans
It was a good weekend in the crochet-world. I finally got on with finishing the second front piece of the cardigan. I ended up with a different neckline shape to the first piece, though, which only served to emphasis the need to frog the first and re-make it. Not a happy thought. However, it turned… Continue reading Crocheting Baby Cardigans
Notes From My Office: May 2022
Another month down, and one in which my crafting took a back seat. I suspect that may continue to be the case in May, although I have a new toy arriving soon which may prevent that. Having struggled for so long to get along with my Gemini, and because I don’t often need an A4… Continue reading Notes From My Office: May 2022
Learning to Crochet Clothes
For a while now I’ve been meaning to expand my crocheting repertoire out of the blankets and Edward’s Menagerie toys I usually make, and learn to make clothes. Trouble is, as with the cards I make, I like simple things, and most of the clothes patterns I come across I tend to then put away… Continue reading Learning to Crochet Clothes
Life Ever Crafting 