Crochet Inspiration: Dalek Hat

 

I have had so much fun crocheting the tardis hat by the designer I found on Ravelry that I am going to try the pattern she has for a Dalek hat too.  Going to try it in the basic gray and black which is the traditional color combo for this fun Dr. Who villain.   Going to go diving into my yarn stash to see if I have yarn to make it up as well in the new colors that were shown in the last episode they were in on BBC America.  Should be lots of fun.

Completed Project: Tardis Hat

This was a fun hat to make.  The pattern is by Acquanette Ferguson and the pattern is listed on Ravelry.  I am making another one right now and I am tweaking things a bit.  I am making three rounds of single crochet for the black section where the words Police Box go.  Stitching over the double crochets was a bit tedious and does not look too good in my opinion.  I am also going to do rounds of single crochets for the white / blue changing section of the windows so the blue will be hidden better.  This is a great pattern and very easy to follow. 

Brandon's Bunny is completed!

Finished this little guy on Saturday.  He will be headed to parts unknown this week for my co-workers son.  It is amazing how the military gets mail to where ever the soldier is at the time.  Bye, bye little bunny.

This is so cool!

While going through my e-mail newsletters today, I came across Aesthetic Nest's post about seaming your work.   The mattress stitch is so going to make this afghan happen!  I have already planned on lining the back of the afghan with a very light material to hide all the sewing stitches of the chains.  This will also help hide the seaming work.  Looks like I can break the base up into four equal sections and then seam them together.

This is looking like a more doable project as time goes by.  Will probably start the base right after the fair in October because it will probably take me at least three months to crochet the base.  

Dreaming of Pollock

For the last three years I have had the idea in my head about crocheting an afghan inspired by one of Jackson Pollock's drip painting pieces.  I had planned on make tons of little granny motifs and try to make the afghan look something like my favorite piece, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30).

 

This week I have finally come up with a better plan for crocheting this afghan.  Pretty bad I am planning next year's state fair project now while in the middle of making all of this years items.  But this has been bouncing around in my head for years and I guess it just will not go away.  LOL

The thought of making over 600 small granny motifs and then sewing them all together was sounding less and less appealing.  So a new idea came to me while driving to work, my best planning mode lately.  My plan is to single crochet a base and them make random lengths of chain and attach them to the base to try to mimic the painting.  

Pollock's pieces are very large, have never seen one yet, so I am going to try to make the afghan have the same presence.  I am estimating the afghan will be four to five feet wide by ten to twelve feet long.  Will have to measure my open space up in the bonus room to see if I will be able to lay this thing down on the floor to sew on the chains.  

Since this is going to be such a big project, the afghan will be the only item I crochet for the 2013 NC State Fair.  I am guessing the base will take me a couple of months to complete.  Not sure if I will be doing it in sections then sewing them together.  Will have to do a smaller test version to see how bad the seams will be.  

This project has to stay on the back burner but at least I have it written down now so hopefully I will stop dreaming about making this thing now!  

Hooks and Needles Salute to you all!!

Marshmallow bunny for Easter

I have seen CopperScaleDragon's pattern for this marshmallow bunny several times and have always wanted to give it a try but never have had the chance to do so.  Since I was not able to make anything at Christmas for the other kid's at Joanne's daycare last year, I wanted to do something for them.  The original pattern was too small for my liking.  I played with the pattern and got the bunny to be 13" tall.  Thought that would be a great size for the 2 year old's to play with or sleep with.  

I am trying to be thrifty with my yarn purchases so I am using the left over yarn from my multiple color afghan for this year's state fair.  I have a pink one done so far that will be for Joanne.

I have three girls and one boy to make one for at daycare.  I will be using a fun green, blue, purple and yellow for these.  They work up very fast and are fun to make.  I might tweak the pattern again to make them a bit smaller so I can make a small, medium and large size of the bunny.  The smaller ones would be easier to turn out to make to Online Angels.

Sock monkey is complete!

I finished assembling my sock monkey last weekend.  I thought Joanne would get a kick out of playing with him, but that did not go so well.  I tried two different times and she wanted nothing to do with Mr. Jiggy (named after my favorite NHL goalie not that crazy dog on HOBH.)  

I brought him into work to show him to one of my co-workers and one of our sales reps wanted Jiggy for her grandson in FL.  Penny was going to see him later next month and thought he would love him.  Since I had to do something to get him out of the house I agreed and sold off Mr. Jiggy to his new home.  Joanne loved the purple hippo I crocheted for someone here at work so much I will have to make her one to replace the sock monkey. 

Freshly completed sock monkey hanging out in the recliner.

Jiggy hanging out at work with me.

Starting first fair entry for 2012

I have been itching to start one of my projects for this year's state fair.  So I pulled one of the skeins of Caron Simply Soft in Pagoda to start making a scarf I fell in love with the first time I saw it.  I am making the Fall Lace Scarf by Design Adventures.  Her sample is made in red but I wanted to use teal as a tribute to Mike's mom Donna.  Teal is the color for Cervical cancer so this year I want to use as much teal as I can in my projects.  I have been feeling her around a lot lately and Joanne flashes faces sometimes that make her the splitting image of Donna.