Now he’s not the original Chi-kore, but a very close relative…
And the pattern is finally available for sale
this quirky creature stands approximately 27cm tall
the project is worked in pieces, with clear and specific assembly instructions
pattern is presented in table format, making it very easy to follow
US crochet terminology used throughout
15 pages, 15 clear photographs
AU$4.50 [...]
Sometimes it’s fun to allow a project to morph into whatever it wants to be.
This pincushion started life as a wing for a bird, cut from a felted jumper and trimmed with a blanket stitch edging.
But I decided not to go ahead with that plan… so it lay around wastefully for a while.
A lonely, single [...]
I’m finally done.
For the moment, anyway!
Remember the mess that was my craft room?
Well…
That room was transformed back into a study again, and I have moved my goodies downstairs into the family room.
Not the ENTIRE family room.
Just a wall of it, really.
It’s perfect, because I can be around the family while I work.
Rather than tucked away [...]
Tidying my craft desk the other day…
And I draped my freeform crochet piece over the sewing machine…
I kind of love it there!
Pretty and practical!!!
I’m thinking of adding some more to it, so that it covers the machine completely…
here’s another embellishment, photographed as it comes together
a small felt heart
unply some yarn, because it would be too chunky otherwise
use one strand to blanket stitch around
add a button
needs something more
colour behind? yes… but not this one
I prefer this colour
cut into a heart
but it doesn’t look shabby enough…
so:
snip around the edges
still not shabby enough
moisten and scrunch
ahh…. [...]
I know that you hear me talk about it a lot… but have you ever wondered what this EMBELLISHING thing is all about???
Essentially, it is DECORATING
or ADORNING
or MAKING IT LOOK PRETTY…
But the big question is:
HOW DO YOU DO IT???
It’s kind of hard to explain.
I know that doesn’t help any, but it’s kind of one of [...]
So I’ve started joining.
I’m using what I call a ZIG ZAG join.
Don’t know if that is the proper name for it or not, but you simply work a zig zag of stitches back and forth between the two edges which you are joining.
It’s a bit hard to tell in the photo below, but all of [...]
Alrighty then…
I feel like I’ve sickened myself of this afghan.
It’s been a Work In Progress (WIP) for such a long time… and I must have written a bazillion blog posts about it!
So…
If you’re as sick of it as I am, then you might as well stop reading right now.
Just walk away.
I won’t take it [...]
It feels like such a long time since I was last involved in a swap… so this was lots of fun!
The theme was PEACOCK colours…
The idea was to crochet an item, and team it with a few surprises for your swap partner.
This time I was really stumped for ideas.
Sometimes I just get inspired and know [...]
My freeform CAL is finished.
Well, almost finished… I think…
What I mean to say, is that I have finished with the instructions.
You might recall that we were give one instruction each day for the entire month of March. I started out well, but once I missed a day… then that suddenly became two days… which then [...]