Doctor Who scarf!!

...Well, almost. :) It's based on the Doctor's scarf in season 13, (classic Who), but is instead blue. It's a great pattern that I found here, and works up really quickly. I have been working on mine on and off for 13 days, and it's not quite half way done and is around about 57 inches (144cm) long!! Crazy! It's lovely and soft though - I used the yarn the pattern recommended (Cascade 220) which is 100% Peruvian highland wool. Crazy expensive, but nice to work with.

Crafty goodness. :D

It's been a while since I updated this. Having long finished the Minecraft blanket saga, I have since moved onto other things.

My first idea was to master the art of arm knitting, (seen here: Arm knitting), and knit myself an infinity scarf. It took a while getting the hang of casting on, especially as the video I was using was face-on rather than as I would be seeing my work, but I don't thinkI did too bad. Overall, it took me just under an hour to complete the whole scarf, start to end. I did this on March 31st.

I thoroughly enjoyed making this, and kind of wish I had reason to make more. Maybe Christmas presents? ^^

After completing the scarf, I started work on some friendship charm bracelets. These were a family request, and took around about a day each. There are actually 4 of them, but I haven't taken photos of the last one yet. Overall I am very pleased with these - I think they've come out beautifully.

April has been a brilliantly crafty month. :)

Finally finished!!

I feel like I should have unlocked some sort of achievement or something, as I finally finished my blanket yesterday. It took me 60 days altogether, from Jan 29th to March 30th, and it is huge. My son absolutely loves it, and if I didn't put my foot down he would be trailing it all over the house!!

All in all, one very happy Mum.

Creeper blanket!!!!

Ok, so I started this blanket on January 29th. I really wanted it finished by March 29th (tomorrow). When I first told Damien I would have it finished by today, the plan was for a total of 100 squares, 165cm in each direction. Easy peasy - just do 2 squares a day and it'll be done in 50 days!! Since then, however, Damien has told me he wants his name on it. Given how much of the blanket I had already done by that point, all I could do was add his name to the existing blanket, making it much bigger - 180 squares, and around about 250cm by 200cm. Yowzers - that is HUGE!! So, I stepped up the pace, some days doing 10 squares in a day. Now I have carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands, serious muscle aches in my fore arms, and near constant eye strain. >.<

Well, the blanket won't be finished today. It is technically finished, in that all the squares are completed and sewn together, the stray threads are weaved and snipped, and - if I do say so myself - IT. LOOKS. AWESOME. However, now that it's finished, the raw edges have got a strange sort of scalloped look, and I don't like it. So, the plan has evolved yet again, and I am about to add an edging. Never one to do anything by halves, the edging is going to be 7 rounds. Yay for crazy amounts of extra effort!

This is the blanket as it stands now:

Sooooo close to finishing...

No photo today, but I am SOOOO close to finishing the blanket it is unreal... I am getting so antsy! Heheh.

So, I have completed 175/180 squares, and will likely have the last 5 finished tonight. 'Course, I then have to stitch them together, tidy up the loose ends and straighten the edges of the squares before I even *think* about an edging or border, which I have already decided I am going to do.

Still, it's not bad - I started on the 29th January, and am looking to be finished by the 29th March... Two months for a blanket that has so far used up twenty-five 100g balls of yarn, and is big enough to spread across a full sized double bed. I am feeling very proud of myself at the moment... =^.^=

120/180 squares

I am officially two-thirds done with the blanket, which is brilliant. Progress has been slow lately as I made the letter squares for his name, and it took 9 mini-squares to make one full-sized square, but I'm finally done. I will post photos of that soon.

In the meantime, this it what the blanket looked like on the 13th March:

I am aiming to have it completely finished by the 29th, so that it only took me two months, and I can start out April with a new - more colourful - project....

One HUNDRED squares!!

I finally reached the end of the Creeper face! I still have another 80 squares before I'm done, (the finished design will look a bit like a demotivational poster!), but this is an exciting milestone.

Now I need to stitch them together vertically and tidy up the loose ends before I move onto the black background and his name. ^^

Definitely feeling very pleased. :)

Creeper blanket - 70 squares!

So...I took almost 2 weeks off after a marathon crochet session killed my hands and left me a bit burned out. Back to it now though, and this is what the blanket looked like this morning:

Creeper blanket.

So, I've been working on the blanket for 4 weeks now, but haven't done any crochet in the last week. Computer games stole my brain... >.<
Anyways, as of last Tuesday, I had done 60 squares, and this is how it looked:

The bottom row isn't sewn on in that picture, but I wanted to take advantage of the natural light while it lasted.

Now the hardest thing will be escaping the pull of WoW, and crocheting again!

Minecraft blanket

So, today marks two weeks since I started on my son's Creeper blanket, and I thought I was doing pretty well. After all, I'd managed to go from this on the first day:

To this:

And finally to this:

It was originally supposed to be a 10 by 10 square creeper face to cover his bed, and so I intentionally made the squares about 7 inches across, so that it would cover his whole bed. The whole thing was going to be around about 165cm in each direction.

However....

My son has since decided that he wants the design changed, to accommodate his name as well... I have two choices. I can either scrap what I've done, (which is about 70 by 21 inches of blanket!), or work around what I've done and just add the name on once I've finished. I opted for the second option, and ran up a quick design on squared paper:

Unfortunately, the finished size of this design is about 231 x 297cm. My son only has a single bed, so this would drown it... Making the squares for his name a bit smaller I managed to shave off around half a meter in each direction, but the problem remains... His bed is 90 x 190cm... If I make the changes he wants, then he won't see them when it is spread on his bed.

He would know it was there I suppose... Maybe that is the point?

Free time = Craft time!!

Well, I've not had much to do since being made redundant, so I taught myself to crochet. Hey - It's something, and all skills help at some point in life!!
My mum picked up the old dolls bedframe from a second hand shop for my niece. It was a nice little pink thing, but bare wood and not really very pretty, so I took it and said I'd spruce it up a little. Using only materials I had lying around in my craft collection and a £1.50 pillowcase from Wilko's, I managed to turn this:

Into this:

I even added curtains to it:

I'm pretty pleased with it overall, and the crochet blankets caused my son to turn around and ask for one of his own. So my long term project is now a 160cm*160cm crochet blanket, with a Creeper face on it (Minecraft - he's obsessed with that game!!)

I'll post pics as I work... :)