Blue Bunny

My 5th crochet animal, for my 3yo son (his yarn choice) .... I made SO many ears trying to get it right. Finally messaged a crochet friend in AU for input. <3 She helped me. :)

He's smaller than I expected, but I REALLY like how he turned out in the end. <3

This pattern.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bunny-rabbit-4

I finished my second bunny

The little one, made with super-soft, 2.75mm Clover hook.

Will be going to live in Arizona. Baby gift for a rainbow baby pregnancy. <3

The YarnIt!

Got one of these. It's SO amazing! :)

Not my doilies but worth sharing :)

This first doily, I am told, was made by my dh's grandma R. Isn't it pretty? :) I have found many pineapples but I'm not sure I've found a pattern with that open center. Or 7 petals? It intrigues me. :)

I am a bit in awe of the use of color in the next two! I don't really like switching colors.  So, all of this color is somewhat dazzling and impressive to me. :) If they were blocked they would be a bit more impressive, but I think the top one especially would be tricky to block with the motifs.  Let alone crochet it ... I almost wonder if it's a made-up pattern?  Probably not; but ... I just haven't seen anything like it that I am aware of - or I skipped over it in my mind because it looks complicated.....

I wonder if the inner ring is crochetted first, then each individualflower, then  the border was added? I suspect that is how it has to go together. I dont' think there is any way to do it in rounds!

Of course, I could be wrong. :)

I'd like the pattern for this one. Only I wouldn't use all those colors. ;)

I like the result, it's beautiful, but it's a lot of ends to weave in for my taste! :)

~Ashley~

Amineko - attempt #1

He's not perfect, but lovable anyway.

I had no idea how big he would be, so I just used scrap yarn, and ran out 90% through. Oops.

Half his head and one leg is different yarn. :P

I also learned a lot about weaving in yarn ends .....

I had to sew on his face as fast as I could because prying him out of my 2yo's arms produced tears. ;) Which is my excuse for why it looks so amateurish. ;)

I bought safety eyes for the next one!

Pattern:


http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~mite/diagram/crochetedCat.html

~Ashley~

Table Socks

It's warm (tis July after all), and I haven't done much crochet, but I have the itch!

And it hasn't waited for cold weather, which is new. :)

I made some table socks, to protect our new wood floor. I had to make 3 before I really figured out what I wanted to do. :)

The table is very old, and removing the wheels makes it even shorter. So, the solution was "socks".

(We tried Velcro/felt and it fell off rather rapidly, think hours, not days.)

So, walla, tiny table "socks" .... the 7 that I made (3 experiments, 4 functional) only took about an hour. :)

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And, just for fun ... we were watching the first season of Jeeves & Wooster, and when Wooster spikes the lemonaid, he removes a beaded cover. I do NOT think it was all crochet, only the edges, but it was a pitcher cover, sort of like mine!

Now I'm dying to make another one, only with larger, glass beads which will "clink" like the one I saw in the J&W episode. LOL

Mother's Day Doily #2

Blue Pineapples pattern. (Though, obviously, I used white thread.)

I really, really, REALLY liked how this turned out, although the tiny triangles were a bit of a pain. Honestly I was also grateful for a fairly big image of the finished doily as the last few lines of instructions were not that easy to decode.

At least for me. YMMV.

All in all I think it was a nice gift for my second mama. (Dh's mom)

~Ashley~