Stitch Whimsy

I was curious as to how much yarn crochet uses versus knitting. A girl from Ravelry said that crochet uses more. I needed to know just how much more.

I made a loop in my yarn and used size 8 knitting and crochet needles and did single stitch rows till I got to the loop. I get 5 rows of 10 stitches with knitting and 3 rows of 10 stitches doing crochet. Who would have guessed? I never thought crochet used more. I really thought that since knitting takes more time and is so stretchy, that it obviously took more yarn.

Boy was I wrong.

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I forgot to post this yesterday, so I will post it today

There you have 2 projects that are just finished… well probably not completely done. The scarf is completely finished other than if I decide to add fringe. The slippers are done, except for one of them does not don the dark blue trim around the top.

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# You signed up on October 20, 2007
# You are #46611 on the list.
# 345 people are ahead of you in line.
# 10658 people are behind you in line.
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Looks like tomorrow will be the day I get invited to the community. I can hardly contain the excitement bubbling inside.

WIP update:

• Finished the black slippers FINALLY
• Still working on the blue and white dainty striped scarf. That is a project and a half.
• Still no buttons on the brown/purple scarf collar
• Sewed up some lingering family projects i.e. the underarm of the Man’s jacket, dog’s bed, socks
• Started rectangle two tone slippers, experimenting with stitches
• Still unsure of what to do with the black and red project. It’s pretty but has no real purpose.

The last one I didn’t tell you about before because I thought I knew what I wanted to do with it. Now I have no clue, other than for it to sit there and look awesome. Black and red are my 2 favorite colors to put together. If I had more red, I would make it into something larger.

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Hey all! Welcome to what I have just deemed to be Work With Me Wednesday. Every Wednesday I will do my level best to make you a crochet tutorial that will help you to progress in the process of you learning to crochet. Let me know what you think!

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# You signed up on October 20, 2007
# You are #46611 on the list.
# 760 people are ahead of you in line.
# 10149 people are behind you in line.
# 79% of the list has been invited so far

Looks like I will be getting an invite tomorrow or the next day. The list behind me has grown tremendously. I can barely contain my glee.

In other news, I have completed a few projects and would like to share them. One of them I am not so sure about. I mean, I like it, but I don’t love it. The other project I love, but it takes a lot of yarn. *in that order I shall show them to you*:

I adore the snowflake. I really would love ot make smaller ornaments with that design. I can also see it in a wintry afghan or shawl of some sort. I would have to break down and buy a pure white or almost white color yarn. I don’t like those as they tend to dirty quickly. I hate having something look dingy five minutes after you finish it. I love the grey that I have, but I would need the lighter one to do the type of thing I am wanting to do.

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# You signed up on October 20, 2007
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# 1962 people are ahead of you in line.
# 9263 people are behind you in line.
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Holy smokes. The list is FLYING. I am so excited!

In other news, I am working on a hat of sorts. I don’t like it yet, though. I might end up ripping out the edging. Personally, I like hats that go around my head proper. This one is more of a decorative head covering. Take a look and tell me what you think:

I love the top. That is one of the new stitches I learned from the Stitch Bible. IT really is amazing to look at, especially in a picture like this. I think it’s hard to see the beauty in it when you have worked on it yourself. The pattern gets fuzzy in your mind as you try to make it out with your eyes. I think all you can see by the time you get done is sc, dc, ss, LOL It’s the crochet matrix

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Tags: crochet, hat, ravelry, nablopomo

• You signed up on October 20, 2007
• You are #46611 on the list.
• 2351 people are ahead of you in line.
• 9036 people are behind you in line.
• 79% of the list has been invited so far

Those are my up to the minute ravelry invite numbers.

In other news, I was so agitated yesterday that I did this hat in about 20 minutes:

I think I used the J needle for this, but danged if I can remember. It came out really nice for a little boy. I don’t know if I will sell or keep for Christmas. It’s called smoky because it is a nice grey color. I love the way it looks. I might have to make another one sometime soon.

I might get into the stitch book tonight. It’s a lot to take in. I have to decide what exactly I want to do first, then attack it. You know, visualize and attack..like Bobby Bouchet from Waterboy hehe.

In other news:
I am going to try and do a tutorial or two a week on video for all my crochet friends.

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Here is my entry for the online craft club hosted by CassKnits. She is in Vegas right now enjoying the high life with a bunch of my buddies, but that isn’t going to stop me from posting my entry today.

This hat and necklace I made last night. I decided to play with the wonders of mesh stitching. It was a lot of fun. I am calling this the Purple Lotus Collection. I am wearing the necklace right now

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My latest projects. The mittens are up for sale right now. The hat that I made with the same color as the mittens is being sold, too. They are in a set on my etsy shop.

The little rose hat I have here is up for sale, but I didn’t put it in the shop yet. I don’t really know if I want to keep that for Christmas time or just sell this one and make another one. If anyone is interested in this one, let me know. It will fit a child around one to three years, I would fathom. IT does stretch, even though it looks pretty conical.

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Tags: hat, crochet, pink, etsy