At this point I have yet to learn just on what would one start out with a picot cast on? Is it purely just for like a decorative edging on blankets? It does look neat.
Monday, January 4, 2010
I also really like this afghan! Crocheted Hexagons.
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If you ever get bored tired of making the regular old granny square afghans here's a cool way to switch it up a notch. I like the randomness of how the blocks are nestled together.. just like grandmother's flower garden ; ) That is a very time-honored classic quilt pattern as most know.
Lucy of attic24 in this link...
http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/hexagon-crochet.html
generously shares an excellent 'how to' tutorial with lots and lots of big and clear pictures.
Also I learned from visiting Lucy's webpage a new way of joining the blocks together as you go. Leastways, it's new to me. LOL. She learned it from this other gal whose webpage is where the link is located.
So if you don't like the idea of having a hundred or so blocks waiting for you at the end to have an 'all join together' marathon session try moonstitches method of 'block meet' it's a great way to crochet and join as you go. And this joining method really gives an invisible join appearance I think. http://moonstitches.typepad.com/photos/block_meet/index.html
Five years ago I crocheted my 1st. ever afghan for our grand-daughter. It turned out really wonderful. [now that I have a cell phone that takes pictures I'll have to pop oer' to their house and snap a photo of it to share with you]Traditional granny squares of Bernats soft pastels was my choice. 100 blocks was the size of her afghan. When I made that I kept thinking of when she gets into kindergarten and they have the show n' tell... and at our schools they also celebrate '100 day' or something like that it's called. Not sure why I kept thinking of that as I worked on it, might of had something to do with fact that I did my own show n' tell evertime someone came to the house. But those 100 blocks really did make a nice sized afghan. Now here it is.. 5 years later.. and I find myself ready to make our grandson his afghan so these crocheted hexagon's will just fit the bill.
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Lucy of attic24 in this link...
http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/hexagon-crochet.html
generously shares an excellent 'how to' tutorial with lots and lots of big and clear pictures.
Also I learned from visiting Lucy's webpage a new way of joining the blocks together as you go. Leastways, it's new to me. LOL. She learned it from this other gal whose webpage is where the link is located.
So if you don't like the idea of having a hundred or so blocks waiting for you at the end to have an 'all join together' marathon session try moonstitches method of 'block meet' it's a great way to crochet and join as you go. And this joining method really gives an invisible join appearance I think. http://moonstitches.typepad.com/photos/block_meet/index.html
Five years ago I crocheted my 1st. ever afghan for our grand-daughter. It turned out really wonderful. [now that I have a cell phone that takes pictures I'll have to pop oer' to their house and snap a photo of it to share with you]Traditional granny squares of Bernats soft pastels was my choice. 100 blocks was the size of her afghan. When I made that I kept thinking of when she gets into kindergarten and they have the show n' tell... and at our schools they also celebrate '100 day' or something like that it's called. Not sure why I kept thinking of that as I worked on it, might of had something to do with fact that I did my own show n' tell evertime someone came to the house. But those 100 blocks really did make a nice sized afghan. Now here it is.. 5 years later.. and I find myself ready to make our grandson his afghan so these crocheted hexagon's will just fit the bill.
youtube: Estonian cast on for sock knitting
Knitting Daily TV Episode 212: author and knitwear designer Nancy Bush demonstrates a stretchy Estonian cast on for sock knitting that has many benefits, including an attractive cuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frc5_9AIVy0
It looks right easy. I'm going to try this today. So far I only know how to cast-on one way. Not sure of the name of how I do it... but I think it's the continental way. And I was only able to learn how to do that in hugh THANKS to my sister-in-law Vickie! If it never weren't for her I'd of never gotten the hang of learning how to cast-on! I had spent days looking at books and pictures of how to do it. Kept practicing and practicing... but I'll tell there's nothing like hands-on learning for me. And now I've recently discovered youtube videos! I mean I always knew youtube existed. Before I had just only seen what the kids and teenagers were always checking out which is mostly just funny and or stupid funny things to watch. Never had I before realized that a person can actually use youtube to learn something. Awesome ; )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frc5_9AIVy0
It looks right easy. I'm going to try this today. So far I only know how to cast-on one way. Not sure of the name of how I do it... but I think it's the continental way. And I was only able to learn how to do that in hugh THANKS to my sister-in-law Vickie! If it never weren't for her I'd of never gotten the hang of learning how to cast-on! I had spent days looking at books and pictures of how to do it. Kept practicing and practicing... but I'll tell there's nothing like hands-on learning for me. And now I've recently discovered youtube videos! I mean I always knew youtube existed. Before I had just only seen what the kids and teenagers were always checking out which is mostly just funny and or stupid funny things to watch. Never had I before realized that a person can actually use youtube to learn something. Awesome ; )
What of the new milleniums' first decade are you most appreciative for?
I must have to say that the internet experience of the new milleniums' first decade is one of the things that I have found the most useful and am the most thankful for. It's been a hugh difficult adjustment these last several years not being able to hop in the car and go drive to other towns to go do my shopping... especially since the town I live being only 6 blocks wide & a mile long is surrounded by corn fields for like 10-15 miles in any direction with no taxi cabs or bus service, no library... and well, virtually no nothing but peaceful quietness ~ other towns is where all the shopping is. LOL It must have been incredibly frustrating, depressing and boring to be a shut-in back in the old'n days. But now what with Ravelry, Etsy.com, Amazon.com and Ebay what more could a person ask for!
Here's where I like to spend time looking at lovely work and learning how things will look in certain yarns/colors.. I find this a great way to window shop b4 I go and buy project necessities.
Lace Knitting Ring ~ such awesome & talented knitters!
Ravelry ~ now this is a right gi-hugic knitting group folks!
As of december 2009 ravelry's newsletter said they calculated that there exists 277,000 knitting and crochet projects on Ravelry have been made from the 7,000 free patterns and 13,000 for-sale patterns that have been published on Rav! AND that 98.7% of the money from those sales have gone to the designers of those patterns themselves. Now that's pride of support. Their newsletter also says that during busy times of day, people buy 4 patterns every minute using the Ravelry pattern sales service, and with about 50 new patterns available as Ravelry downloads each day, it's clear that this support is going to keep on growing!
And a person can do Pattern gifting too! Personally I like this idea better than walmart gift cards ;)
all a person has to do is look for the little gift icon on the pattern page, just underneath the "buy it now" and "add to cart" links.
And talk about groups... this is just as great as surfing by rings to find a knitters friendship. You can find people in your city, your state, by topic of interest, by craft and you can even look for events. It's really the coolest thing!
Here's where I like to spend time looking at lovely work and learning how things will look in certain yarns/colors.. I find this a great way to window shop b4 I go and buy project necessities.
Lace Knitting Ring ~ such awesome & talented knitters!
Ravelry ~ now this is a right gi-hugic knitting group folks!
As of december 2009 ravelry's newsletter said they calculated that there exists 277,000 knitting and crochet projects on Ravelry have been made from the 7,000 free patterns and 13,000 for-sale patterns that have been published on Rav! AND that 98.7% of the money from those sales have gone to the designers of those patterns themselves. Now that's pride of support. Their newsletter also says that during busy times of day, people buy 4 patterns every minute using the Ravelry pattern sales service, and with about 50 new patterns available as Ravelry downloads each day, it's clear that this support is going to keep on growing!
And a person can do Pattern gifting too! Personally I like this idea better than walmart gift cards ;)
all a person has to do is look for the little gift icon on the pattern page, just underneath the "buy it now" and "add to cart" links.
And talk about groups... this is just as great as surfing by rings to find a knitters friendship. You can find people in your city, your state, by topic of interest, by craft and you can even look for events. It's really the coolest thing!
This is our lil guy 'Patches' ! petfinder.com is what we used to find our him. He's a JRT [jack russel terrier]. what's nice about that site is you can put in your zip code and it will narrow down to local results. Patches was rescued from the county animal shelter by a lady who runs a lil doggy botique thats only abt. 45 minutes from us. She had kept & cared him for about two months before we came across him on petfinder.com. Dog catcher told her they found him just a runnin' along a country road slab boot scootin & boogie'n like no-ones business. Whether he's a run-a-away or a 'dump off' we'll never know. She let us 'try' him out for two weeks before we committed to the adoption.
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