The first week of March has been blustery, rainy and busy.
There has been plenty of fun with fabric and threads stitched in.
The pieces for the shamrock block are cut slightly oversized and
trimmed to size to make a 5.5" square
with narrow border strips on top and bottom.
I now have four rows done and the fifth begun.
I have also been working on the next block for my
I am working on this challenging Sugar Plum Block.
I made plastic templates for this block last week.
When it came time to cut, I extended the inner points
as I had seen a block made this way on a website.
I started on the outside edge leaving a quarter inch seam start.
I am very comfortable sewing curved seams on my machine with no pins.
I just ease the seam as feed the fabric.
in the template in the book and it came together well.
The center appilque circle cover the center of the Sugar Plum swirl.
I am now working on the outer pieced circle of triangles
and preparing to sew it to this center.
which opened near me in New Hampshire.
I am not sure how long this one has been there.
I have not been to a Hobby Lobby in many years.
I have actually not been to a large box craft store since before Covid
closed us in our houses.
I have been buying all of my crafty stuff online
except for a few stops at my small local quilt shop.
I felt lovely and new to go to a store and look at all the pretty
yarns and fabric and craft supplies and spring decor.
The reason for my adventure was to purchase the same yarn and colors
for a this fun
Spring Blanket Crochet Along @
The videos are colorful and give all information needed to
stitch by stitch and row by row make a lovely spring blanket.
The hosts are two very creative sisters.
It is free and there is nothing to buy.
My idea of a fun creative endeavor.
This started with a green foundation row and
then a pretty pink tulip field under a blue sky.
Maestro helped.
Nutmeg helped.
I am a day behind because I had to find my yarn
and hope to catch up by the weekend.
This yarn is made for Hobby Lobby,
My "I Love This Yarn" is acrylic
although there is a cotton version of the yarn, too.
While I was at Hobby Lobby, I looked at the notions
and saw this new-to-me Yarnology Crochet Hook.
Normally I do not like plastic crochet hooks,
but this looked interesting so I thought I would give it a try.
I do have a lot of arthritis in my hands these days.
You can see how bent by this is my pinky,
which can be quite painful at times.
and the shape of the ergonomic handle fits well in my hand.
The hook is tapered and round and it has a deep hook to hold the yarn.
I like this in a hook.
I did a few rows with my favorite old aluminum Boye crochet hook
and quickly switched back to this one.
It is much gentler on my hands.
I will likely be purchasing more of these in different sizes, as needed.
I had not crocheted in over a year in part because of the pain in my hands.
My trip to the store and coming home with the yarn and new hook
for under $30 to start this new spring crochet adventure
has brightened this gray and rainy week considerably.
I hope your week has been filled with happy stitches.
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Happy Thursday!
3 comments:
I love your temperature quilt with all the trees, Pat! That's a really fun idea. Your crochet project looks fun, too - pretty colors! Your cats look like wonderful creative helpers!
Lovely to catch up on your projects, Pat. I find crochet a little harder on my fingers than knitting is for some odd reason. I usually crochet every second night rather than every night if I've a project on the go. Now I use a regular steel hook so I'm going to look up that special one you showed. Who knows; it might make all the difference.
love crochet and your set up/colors and snoopervisors...
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