Crochet skills: zero to Totoro in one month!
(Pattern link: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/grey-totoro-amigurumi)
I hereby declare my crochet skills to be adequate.
Hopefully the birthday boy likes his present.
Pattern is here: https://www.amigurumitogo.com/2014/11/crochet-teddy-bear-youtube-tutorial.html
So my brain has decided it wants to level up again and now I am teaching myself crochet? I’ve tried this a few times before but I seem to be getting the hang of it this time. Not as mindless as knitting but good in a different way.
Pictured: (blue) circle which became the end cap for a knitted tube; (red) series of chains folded into a flower; (white) hemisphere which will evolve into a doll’s head eventually.
I’m no longer sure this is the platform I want to continue using for these posts, but for now, have some pictures of things I knit in 2019. As always, details on my Ravelry projects page.
First finished project of 2019. Mostly I’ve been continuing to slog through the blanket I started making for my sister over a year ago.
I really enjoyed working this pattern. It’s the first shawl I’ve made where you knit the long lacy edge first (which is 90% of the work) and then quickly fill in the boring middle without having to pick up stitches. Very clever.
Unfortunately I was not entirely happy with the yarn I used for this project. Although the weight and composition worked well with the pattern, my skein broke no fewer than four times while I was winding it, making it necessary to weave in ends several times on a project that was designed to use one continuous length of yarn.
I might use this pattern again in the future with a different yarn.
Catching up on photos of my finished knitting projects this year. I recently finished the two hats pictured: the sheep hat is a pattern that my mother requested, and the purple and blue hat is a rework of a pattern I did last year in different colors. The small afghan went to friends in Oregon who welcomed their first child a few weeks ago. The lace pattern is from a shawl that was my summer project this year, and the phone pouch was another request that I worked up around Easter.
I still have a few other blankets in progress, and at least one more hat that I plan to make for a Christmas gift using the leftover yarn from the sheep hat.
I finally got around to photographing the scarf I made in February while I watched the Olympics. It’s both a flat tube and a closed loop, so it’s super heavy, but the colors are so vivid. The pattern is called Birmingham and it used about 6 full skeins’ worth of Tosh DK.
