Whatcha makin'?

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Permalink Reply by Dora Thorn on October 18, 2007 at 5:03am

I have a striped baby blanket on the go for Jen in dark purple, blue, black, teal and rust, a throw I'm slowly making in various shades of brown and a girl baby blanket I'm making for Vivian mostly. All crochet. I haven't been down with knitting lately. I'm such a hooker. :)

I have a really easy crochet pattern for a dress if you want-I made it when Vivian was a baby, but I think you can make it bigger. Crochet is so much easier!

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Permalink Reply by Annika Barranti on October 22, 2007 at 11:44am

I've been knitting diaper soakers like a mad woman lately, for my toddler and several friends' babies. A mad woman!

I'm also working on the Crochet Blanket of Death, which I am mad at because I'd forgotten how crochet eats up yarn.

And I have approximately five million other projects in various states of progress and preparation...

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Permalink Reply by andrea on October 24, 2007 at 11:05am

Thank you so much for creating a non-Ravelry knitting group. I'm still a-waitin' and a-wishin' to get onto Ravelry.

My blog isn't strictly a knitting blog, because I write about all sorts of things, but I am most definitely a knitter.

Eden - a child's sweater is a good place to start when you're attempting your first sweater. Just because everything's so small that it goes much faster. Hope it goes well! Do you know what pattern you're going to use yet?

Dora (and other hookers!) - do you have a recommendation for a book or website for the totally novice crocheter? I'm thinking it's about time I learned how to crochet. The colors for your baby blanket sound really nice.

Annika - tell me about it! I have a million unfinished projects too. Maybe during November we should all try to finish some of our old unfinished projects?

What I'm currently working on:
- Just finished knitting all the pieces of the Rowan St. Mawes sweater for my husband (in delicious, delicious Rowan All-Seasons Cotton) and I'll probably be sewing it together this weekend.
- Working on the Elann Esprit Chemo Turban. It's fun and odd to work with such stretchy yarn.
- Contemplating patterns I can invent that will make use of the ridiculous amounts of leftover sock yarn I have in my stash.

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Permalink Reply by Eden on October 24, 2007 at 12:07pm

The book I learned to crochet from, I highly recommend:

Crochet: Learn to Crochet Six Great Projects (Klutz)
by Anne Akers Johnson

It has the best illustrations I've found (I learn visually) and is the most clearly written.

The pattern for the sweater is the Lion Brand Cotton-Ease child sweater in three colors. I'd already gotten the yarn, not knowing what I was going to make with it. Then they posted the pattern, one skein each of three colors. Perfect!

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Permalink Reply by Dora Thorn on October 24, 2007 at 3:22pm

I always use the about.com page for crochet-I picked it up on my own from that site, and various books I have. I'll dig them up later since a few of them have been great-my one favorite shows many different crochet combinations, which allows me to work stuff on my own instead of always following a pattern.

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Permalink Reply by Eden on October 25, 2007 at 9:31am

I had also printed "hot to crochet" instructions available from MarthaStewart.com but never got around to seeing if they'd work for me. So that's an option as well.

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Permalink Reply by AmySATX on October 28, 2007 at 2:02pm

I also joined the Ravelry group. I'm currently working on knitting the Huggable Hedgehog, tesselated fish blanket (knitting 160 fish), everlasting bagstopper, and some fingerless gloves(Eric's glovelets) which I'm seriously considering putting in a permanent time-out. I'm looking forward to the challenge of posting 30 days in a row. Hopefully it will encourage me to knit more too!

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Permalink Reply by Eden on October 28, 2007 at 7:33pm

Those pattern titles sound delicious. I'm a little kazoo for hedgehogs so I'm looking that one up first. I think there's a project group at Ravelry for a Knit Every Day type project.

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Permalink Reply by Stepford Mom on November 1, 2007 at 4:14am

I'm on a scarf binge lately, it's all about the gift giving season and trying to get things done and packed away before the panic sets in :) I've got a few simple ribbed ones that I'm doing for the kid's teachers, and some socks for a couple people as well. I have no luck with bigger projects aside from shawls, sweaters are the bane of my existence. I do have one that I've started on for my son, the front is done, let's see if I can actually finish it before the spring.

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Permalink Reply by Sadie on November 1, 2007 at 1:01pm

I've crocheted for many years...i've made a handful of afghans and too many scarves to count. Now I've taught myself to knit and have made a cardigan for myself...a sweater for my daughter, am halfway through a sweater for my other daughter and have plans for a sweater for my mother. I've totally lost my soul to the world of yarn!!!

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Permalink Reply by Leah on November 2, 2007 at 5:11pm

I too taught myself to knit and crochet. I just couldn't "get it" when someone tried to teach me, I had to read it!

I'm currently making a scarf for my son, a blanket (that's been in progress for over a year), and arm warmers for the football games. It's fianlly cold enough!

I haven't yet blogged about my knitting or crocheting, I'm not sure why.

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Permalink Reply by Janice Tauscher on November 2, 2007 at 9:55pm

I'm working on socks at the moment. I've got my first pair finished, need to blog them. My second pair has one well-fitting, and one ill-fitting leg, so I'm thinking of frogging half of one and redoing it. Finally, I have one anklet done that I'm not happy about, but the second is better, so again I may possibly frog part of it.

I'm thinking of starting Birch soon.

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