Work ~ in ~ Progress Wednesday

Hello my lovely friends  💕 Thanks for visiting! 

Before Wednesday turns into Thursday I wanna show you real quick what I’m working on these days. 😊

Here’s the reason why I’m so late…

Yesterday I finished this stole….and not a moment too soon I might add. See… 😜

I guess you can say that the ‘Crochet Goddess’ smiled fondly upon me. 😇 

Well, that was yesterday. Today…not so much. 😕

I spent a good chunk of the day adding a ruffle border to the stole. That was a lot more time consuming than I anticipated. That thing is biiiiig! 😳

So….after picking up stitches (a lot of stitches!) with the ruffle yarn, knitting one round, starting to bind off…I noticed that the stole is now quite wavy. Not the desired effect. Meh 😔

🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 ⬅️ My immediate future 😛

Oh well, not the first time, and probably not the last. 

I’m pretty sure that I know where I went wrong….more about that -hopefully- tomorrow. 

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There are two more projects in progress right now. 

This one…

I’m not sure where it’s going…I just wanted to see how the fuzzy yarn looks as a piece, not just as a border. It’s kinda cute, don’t you think? There is an idea trying to form in my mind….let’s see if it leads to something. 

And then there is, of course, the never ending story of the cardigan. 😏

After I finished the back with the funky yarn, the maroon seams really didn’t fit the picture anymore. So I undid them, and redid them in funky 😁

See what you think 

Before 

After 

It’s definitely more ‘me’ now. I love crazy colors, and sorta mismatched clothes. 😍

Did you ever rework a piece numerous times? Please tell me that -eventually – I’ll be done! 😉

I’m looking forward to hearing from you! 🤗

Until next time 💕

~ Tina xoxo 

Playing ‘Yarn Chicken’ and winning 🤣

Boom! 💥 And that’s how it’s done….well, this time 😜

Last inch of the last skein on the last row 😳 I’m quite happy that I won this round of                 ‘Yarn Chicken’ 😃 Sometimes it’s the little things, right? 

Hello my lovely friends 💕 

My blogger friend Mrs. Craft posted 5 Rules for playing Yarn Chicken a couple of weeks ago…that’s where I learned that the battle against the end of the skein has a name. 😋

As you can gather, the ‘Purple-icious Triangle Scarf’ is almost finished! 😁 There will be a surprise finish 😏 More on that tomorrow in the ‘Work~in~Progress’ Post. 

(Hint: think Ruffle 😉) 

Thanks for visiting 😍 I hope you’ll peek in tomorrow! 

Until then 💕

~ Tina xoxo 

New ~ Stitch ~ Sunday – Lemonpeel and Moss

…..nope, not a new Smoothie recipe – really the names of two beautiful crochet stitches. 😋

Hello my lovely friends 💕 I’m glad you could visit! 

Today’s stitches are not just beautiful, but also very easy…even for beginners. 

The first one – the ‘Lemonpeel’ stitch only uses two basic stitches. Single- and Double Crochet. 

So grab some yarn and a matching hook and crochet along. 😊

– Chain an even number of stitches for the foundation chain. 

– Row 1 Chain 1, sc in the second chain from the hook, dc in the next stitch. *sc in the next stitch, dc in the one after that* . Repeat to the end of the row. 

– Row 2 Chain 1, turn your work. Sc in the very first stitch, dc into the next. Repeat alternating sc and dc to the end of the row. 

Repeat Row 2 until your piece is the desired size. 

It’ll look like this…

The second stitch is the Moss Stitch. This one is moving fast to the top of my list of favorites! 😍

Ready? Let’s go…

– Chain an even number of stitches for the foundation chain. 

Row 1  Skip the first 3 chain stitches, and sc into the fourth. *Ch 1, skip the next stitch, sc into the next* Repeat to the end of the row, ending with a sc in the last chain. 

Row 2  Ch 2, turn your work. Sc in the first chain space of the previous row. Ch1, sc in chain space and so on. Last stitch should be a sc into ch space. 

Repeat Row 2 until you’ve reached the desired length. 

There, wasn’t that easy. 🤗 You wanna know what it looks like? 

I love it worked with a ‘self-patterned’ yarn 

Pretty nifty, eh? 😎

Do you think you’ll give these stitches a try? What will you make? Let me know …because I’m quite nosy by nature 😜

Now I leave you alone so you have time to practice! 😁

I hope to see you soon! 

Until then 💕

~ Tina xoxo 

Work~in~Progress Wednesday 🌺 Join your Granny Squares and Crochet some Lollipops

Hello my lovely friends 💕 Thanks for popping by to see the progress on the Granny Square Cardi 🤗

Here’s the reason why I’m so late today….

  The Lollipops 😀

I’ll show you what I did with them in a minute.

But first…all the Squares and Triangles are finished. Time to join everything together. You might remember that I had joined some already  – just to see where I was going with this. 😊 There are different ways to sew/crochet them together. I didn’t want them to be attached to closely, so I chose this ….

It’s easy to do…take a look 👀 

Start with 2 squares, and crochet one double-crochet into one corner. Yo, 3 dc into the corner of another square. 

Come back to the first square and place 3 dc into the second square. 

I found that this is the best way to hold the two pieces 

Keep going back and forth until the last square. Work 1dc into it. 

Alright…now that all the pieces are joined I noticed that there was a gap in the back! 😳 The pieces didn’t fit as perfectly as I thought. 

I forgot to take a picture….here’s one from the first attempt to fill it in. That’s quite a gap, isn’t it?! 😝

I didn’t just want to fill it in with the yarn color on either side. So I tried Granny Squares in the contrast color ⬆️ Meh….nah 

Then I tried bigger blocks to place in the middle and go from there 

  
Well, that looked waaaaay better in my head 🤣 

Next….

Hmmm…. Getting closer – I love the yarn, love the mandala….just not on the cardi. 

Show of hands – who knew that, eventually, I’d add something oddly mismatched, wild and colorful? 😝 You were right! Here we go 

And there are the Lollipops 😂

Because just a square of outrageous yarn just wouldn’t do! 😉

That’s where I am so far. I was really hoping I could show you the finished cardi today….but the Design-Goddess had other ideas. 😊 Hopefully next week. 

So…what do you think? Too much? Not enough? 😁 See, I’m almost tempted to add some more of this yarn – I love this yarn…can you tell? 😜 – somewhere else. 

Have you ever made anything that went so completely ‘out of the box’? 

I’m looking forward to hearing from you! 😘

Until then 💕

~ Tina xoxo 

New ~ Stitch ~ Sunday ☀️ The Catherine Wheel

Hello my lovely friends 💕 How nice to see you! Thanks for visiting today! ☀️

It’s a glorious sunny Sunday, so I’m on my way outside to read a bit, crochet some – I started a ‘cotton’ project, not so hot on the hands 😜 

But first this…

Today I wanna show you how to crochet the beautiful ‘Catherine Wheel’. 

The instructions tell you to ‘7 dc tog dec’. If you’re a beginner, and don’t really know what to do here (or you do, but can’t quite remember) here’s a ‘how-to’ …

Crochet to the place where you wanna use this stitch 

Work 1 dc. In the same stitch work 6 more, without finishing them all the way. By that I mean – start the dc (3 loops on the hook)

but pull the yarn through 2 loops only one time…that adds 1 loop to the hook. 

After you worked 7 dc – you will have 8 loops on the hook, hook the yarn over and pull through all 8 loops 

Done! 😀 Now you’re ready for the ‘Catherine Wheel‘ 

⚡️Pictures are at the end of the written tutorial ⚡️

Start with a foundation chain of a multiple of 8 stitches, plus 2

Row 1 Sc 2nd ch from hook and next chain. *skip 2 chains, put 7 dc into next chain. Skip 2 chains, 1 sc into each of the next three stitches. Repeat * across. Final two stitches left over should be 1 sc into each. Fasten off yarn. Turn.

Row 2 Fasten on new colour. Ch 3, 3 dc tog dec, ch 3. 1 sc into next 3 stitches. *Ch 2, 7 dc tog dec, ch 3, 1 sc into next three stitches. Repeat * Across. Final semi circle is ch 2, 4 dc tog dec, ch 1. Turn.
Row 3 Ch 3, 3 dc into same stitch where the Ch 3 started, 1 sc into next 3 sc stitches on the row below. *7 dc into middle of the next Catherine Wheel Stitch, 1 sc into next 3 sc stitches from the row below. Repeat * across. Final 1/4 circle is 4 dc into the middle of the Catherine Wheel. Fasten off.

Row 4 Fasten on new colour. Ch 1, sc into the next 2 sc. *ch 2, 7 dc tog dec, ch 3, 1 sc into each of the next 3 stitches. Repeat * across. Final two stitches are 1 sc into each. Turn.

Row 5 Ch 1, 1 sc into the same stitch and the next stitch. *7 dc into middle of the next Catherine Wheel Stitch, 1 sc into next 3 sc stitches from the row below. Repeat * across. Final 2 stitches are 1 sc into each.

Repeat rows 2 – 5 over and over until you get to the desired length of project you want.

  Row 1
At first everything will look a bit wonky, but don’t worry, it’ll straighten itself out at the end. 😊

 Row 2
 Row 3

 Row 4

Row 5 

It is so pretty, isn’t it. 

Here a few things I learned during the practice runs 😉

1. Make sure there are 8 loops on the hook when you stitch the ‘7dc tog dec’ 😁

2. Always skip the ch3 from the previous row….the first (few) tries I didn’t, and, well, was not happy 😖 until the 💡-moment 😜

3. Sometimes you’ll think you can’t fit the 7dc into one stitch…keep going, you can 😊

I think that’s it 😀 If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! 😍 I’m always just one message away! 

Let me know what you’ll be making using this gorgeous stitch. I think I’ll use it to fill a little gap on the back of my ‘Granny Square Cardi’. ☺️

Take care! Have fun! I hope to see you next time!

Until then 💕

~ Tina xoxo 

Work ~ in ~ Progress – Wednesday 🌸 Update on the Granny Square Cardi

Hello my lovely friends 💕 Thank you so much for peeking in today! 

I’ve made a little progress on the Granny Square Cardigan 😀 ….the – partial – construction has begun. There’s still a lot of Granny Squares and – Triangles to be made, but now I have an idea where I’m going…that the ‘blueprint’ actually makes sense in real life! 🤓

I did make a change though – it was just a bit too much yellow for my taste. Especially since it’s not a bright lemon-y yellow, but a very pale one. My thought was ‘why not go to the other end of the spectrum…lavender’ 😁 So….back to the store for….green! 🤣 Silly me thought I found the perfect match to the peacock yarn (the finished square was safely at home 😝). I get it home….yeah – not a good match. At all 😖 Lavender it is.

 *Thanks to hubby for driving me through a torrential downpour back to the yarn store 😘

Now, without further ado…here’s where I am so far 

I do need your input here….with or without the lavender on the sleeve? I’m not sure which version I like better – the pointy half sleeve, or the sorta long, wide sleeve. Any thoughts really are appreciated 🤗

Thanks for looking, and- maybe – thinking about it! 😊

I’m looking forward to your comments!

 I hope to see you next time! 🙋🏻

Until then 💕

~ Tina xoxo 

Work~in~Progress Wednesday – The Granny Square Cardi

Hello my lovely friends 💕 Thanks for peeking in.

I’ve made a little progress on the ‘Granny Square Cardigan. 

The sleeve design is finished…they’re 2 Granny Square halves, joined with a crocheted mock lace-up. 

To get the second one to be absolutely identical was a bit of a challenge 😁 See, the number of the yellow squares would not come out the same. The first sleeve has 33 on each side, when I finished the second one I got 32…unravel 😕, next time was 34. Ugh! 

So I layered the unfinished pieces onto the finished sleeve and marked the entry for the stitches with pins. 

Bingo! 33! 🤓

That’s all I’ve got crocheted. To continue I have to plan a bit more. Like I mentioned before, looks like it’ll be another puzzle project! 😋

This is the latest design 

I do like it….the neckline is giving me a little headache though. Any suggestions really are welcomed. 

Now I’ll start on the yellow square halves…hopefully by next week this cardi will have taken shape. 😊

I’m looking forward to your comments/suggestions 😎

Until then 💕

~Tina xoxo