Spotty Dotty Cushion for Baby Ryder

Cushion for Baby Ryder to accompany the Keep Calm and Cuddle Me blanket

Yarn: Elle Rustica DK

Hooksize: 5mm

Pattern Front:  Squaring the Treble Circle / Spotty Dotty

Pattern Back: Square in hdc

Border:  Bobble Border by Dover & Madden 

Keep Calm and Cuddle Me Blanket blogged about here

This is all for now folks!  I am crawling back into my hooky corner to finish a little something for The Teen xxxx

Spotty Dotty Scarf and a few Mauritius pics

Dotty Scarf

2,16 meters long

60 squares hooked

363 ends weaved in (Phew!!!)

Hooksize: 4mm

Yarn: Vinnis Nikkim Colours, 8 colours used 

Pattern: Squaring the US Treble circle

Joining: slip stitch

Edge: one round sc

Oh dear, I just showed the Teen my plan for the next project, a Shortie Shell Capelet designed by Kathy North and she said nooooooo, that is for old people!   Hmmm I am glad she still view me as young; I still like the pattern, but I will come up with a new idea such as hooking up a few of the squares I intend to do a throw in for the master bedroom.  I am thinking of squares in simple sc hooked in the round (Amigurumi style) alternated with a square in a mesh pattern. I bought one skein of yarn to see how it will hook up the idea before I indulge in a full shopping expedition. I am not sure yet whether I should take the plunge and use a wool/acrylic/tweed mix.  I prefer using 100% natural fibers in my work, but the learning curve implies being open towards other ideas . . . 

Below are a few scenes I snapped in Mauritius.  I am slow on the editing since I am frustrated between using Snapseed on the Ipad and the usual pixlr on the laptop.  I am too lazy to learn Photoshop properly. Ditto a few other decent programmes.  These pics are snapshots and in many instances I shot from the hip and enjoyed the surprise when I finally took a look at what exactly I captured. 

Have a great weekend and be sure to pop over to Enhabiten and OmaKoppa to view some briliant hooky work. Cheers!

 

 

 

 

Spotty Dotty in Progress!

Bonjour!  It was a sunny and warm weekend in South Africa calling for a fun pattern to be hanging from the hooks. I am making yet another scarf but it certainly provides me with the opportunity to try out new ideas, colours and patterns with great satisfaction. I would love to make up a throw in this pattern and think it is an ideal stash buster! 

Are you thinking about new seasons ahead and what you will be hooking by December? I am planning to hook crochet squares throughout summer (it is the southern hemisphere here!) in order to have a King size spread ready by next winter. We have white bedding and oh boy, it is a real pain to keep it clean during winter, especially since the kittens love using the bed as a jogging track after they took a spin through all the dust and dry leaves in the garden!  I hope you are all enjoying a hooking happy week. xxxx

Squaring the Treble Circle

Hello!  I have been playing around with US Treble/Triple crochet stitches over the past few weeks and whilst I a still figuring out how to increase the rows beyond row 5 in order to create a beautiful flat circle of about cushion size, I managed to square 2 different sizes last night and thought I'd share with you how I did this. Perhaps instructions already exist, but I haven't come across it yet. (Ah - correction - I just came across Retro Circles which albeit hooked in DC, was squared similarly.) 

I also realised how beautiful a throw would be in the smaller square - perhaps each square also edged in one row of SC in a contrasting colour? I bought yarn in natural, peach, grapefruit and raspberry recently and now wonder whether I should be ditching the naturals and pick up cherry red and purple to create a funky doodle donkey vibrant scarf/bag/throw/potholder/doily?  Hmm I will mull over it and perhaps I should just get into my car and visit the yarn store? I also fell in love with the latest circles by Little Woollie and am most definitely hooking something in that pattern soon.

Cheers!

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