Yesterday, we went to Ikea to get a second mattress and slatted base for the bunk bed we've been working on. Last night, my dad helped bring the large pieces from his workshop to our house. Today, we put the bed together.
Got to making these guys when I was in a "Spring" mood yesterday. It may be -34ºC outside, but the sun was shining and I was in the mood for some colours in my life
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I have been working on this pattern for the better part of a month, ripping and frogging and hooking. It's like a battle sometimes between finding the right yarn and the right hook to get the texture you are imagining, and by battle, I mean lots of yarn carnage and violence. There's times where you rip out several days worth of effort and (think
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A few weeks ago I had a request for a custom order and was given a picture of a bag to create with some different size/colour options and here's the outcome:
I'm so excited to share this with you and really hope to see some people make this for themselves. It's more of an intermediate project but I've included some pictures that will hopefully help you along. I've always got ideas rattling around in my head and it isn't often that I make the time to work them out.
I've had this in my head for a while and finally got around to testing it out. I love the look of braided rope handles for crochet/knit or sewn bags, but if you use multiple strands of yarn, the finished product is rather unsightly to attach to the actual bag because there's just ends galore
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I've been asked a few times to make a smaller sailor tote. The original uses 2 strands or a bulky weight yarn with a J (6mm) hook and measures 20" x 12". So, I used a G/7 (4.5mm) and single-strand of medium worsted cotton to come up with this:
Hmm... Well, I was thinking Lilac when I made this, but hey, tomato, umm... tomato. Or something.
I was shopping for yarn for another project (which will RUIN my fingers!) and saw this colour of Lilac and had to have it. It was so pretty. The pictures don't do it justice.