Completed Crochet Project
Below are pictures of a finished crochet project. Finally. The yarn is Loops & Threads, Charisma, Fuchsia and Off-White. I caught it on sale throughout the year for about $2.00 a skein. The pictures give it more purple than I feel it has in person. The stitch is a zigzag, something I didn’t think I would ever know how to do. I used to think it looked way too complicated. Thanks to the book The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet (Hubert), I was able to learn the zigzag. Actually, I should not say learn, I should say able to follow the directions. Because, I am realizing that I don’t ever learn a stitch, as in I retain it and can recall it at will, but rather am able to do the stitch with ease the next time I am faced with it in a pattern.
Forgive the photography, as always. My camera is older than the hills. And since I snapped the photo stretched over the sofa the blanket looks a bit stretched out. This yarn does tend to stretch a bit but all I have to do is throw it in the washer and dryer and it comes out as good as new. Of course I have the front loading no agitator type washer (Because I got it like that!) so I don’t have to worry about it being abused much. My oldest daughter washed the blanket I made for my grandchild and it looks horrible now. Besides throwing the blanket into an old fashion washing machine that agitates, she threw it in with a furry white blanket. Now it looks like a flocked Christmas tree.
Originally the Fuchsia yarn was meant to be a cape or shawl or something similar. I crocheted rows and rows and tried different stitches but I always ended up undoing it. I was afraid that the yarn was going to look too tortured by the time I figured out something to make. Eventually I will be able to know immediately what yarn is right for what type of project. With this project, the holes are bigger on the decreases (the valleys) than I see on most zigzag projects. I did expect to see a nice pattern of holes on the increases (the mountain tops) though.
The dangling threads were not sewn in at the time of the photographs. Sewing those things in is the main reason I don’t like switching colors.
Beautiful, Miss Kitty! I’ve often wished I could crochet and make quilts like my Gra’mama! used to by hand You obviously can!
Crocheting is a stress reliever. I just wish my hands could tolerate it as long as my mind wants it. If so, I would pump out something every day.
Okay, that was mostly the “stroke hand workin’! What I meant to type was, “I’ve often wished I could crochet and make quilts like my Gra’mama used to do by hand. You obviously can!”
How’s that hand doing? Is it still holding sticks? We should talk.
Hey! Don’t know how I missed your reply (hope you know I’d never leave you hanging, Miss Kitty — it just feels like we’ve “known” each other for such a long time!
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The hand’s doing well, almost all of the numbness is gone, which says that damned blood vessel in my brain’s healing itself. Not such good news to report with regard to your 2nd question though — still holding sticks.
I can’t lie, this 44-year habit’s a bitch, Kitty. The mind and body, both know what needs to happen, but as crutches go, it’s still whipping my ass, Sister-friend. This depression I’ve been dealing with for some time now has its hand, firmly planted on the rudder, it seems. Yeah, let’s talk and thanks for asking.
Beautiful.
Thank you!
Thank YOU, you kick-ass creatrix!