houseelf: A line drawing of Dobby the house elf holding a skein of yarn and knitting needles. (Default)
I think that one of my goals for 2008 is going to be to update here more than once a year. These aren't the first or the only things I've made this year, but they are the first photos I took.

This year, anyone who got homemade Christmas presents got crocheted washcloths. The pattern I'm using is this dishcloth pattern from The Dishcloth Botique. The yarn is Sugar&Cream, in solid green and a green/purple, and in blue and blue/brown/cream. I think I used a H hook, but I might be remembering wrong.

Pictures behind the cut! )

This was a pattern I had made before, sans ruffle around the edge, so I knew what to expect from it. It's easy and fairly mindless, which means good tv-watching. If I make these again, I need to figure out how to make the point in the circle where I start new rows stand out less. It looks okay on the blue ones, but it's obvious in the other photos exactly where it happens. I also need to make the original chain more loosely so that I spend less time fighting with the first row.
houseelf: A line drawing of Dobby the house elf holding a skein of yarn and knitting needles. (Default)
Fall has definitely arrived. I'm sitting in my bedroom wearing a hoodie and seriously considering making my next project a pair of fingerless gloves to keep up here.

I took a crochet class last week at my LYS. It feels like I should know the basics even if I have no intention of taking it up as a main hobby. I started a granny square while I was there and promptly ripped it out when I got home. I have better uses for a full skein of yarn. I got the rest of my practice with the remains of a ball of some sort of kitchen cotton, and pawned the result off on my grandmother. She likes it.

Doily-ish thing )

It's inexpertly made, but I have the general idea now.

I finished the tree square that I mentioned last time. Weaving in the ends can wait until after it's blocked. Astute viewers will notice the mistake in the cable in the upper right. That was on purpose. It was not on purpose when I did the same thing on the lower left. I figure that symmetry should count for something.

Tree square x2 )