Wednesday, November 19, 2008

New Tunisian Hook Additions

I ordered these from Crochet Australia, last week and I have them already. I also received a complimentary bag of lollies.
I did not feel so comfortable with the bamboo hook and I also wanted a larger hook, so I've gone from a 4mm to 6 mm here. I also think it will help with the ply of yarn I am using, evidently you need to use a hook a couple of sizes larger than you would normally use, when working with Tunisian St.
The circular crochet hooks are to be used for hat experimentation, can't wait to try them.
I'm going to frog my experimental Tunisian scarf as I have come up with a better idea, so stay tuned.
At the moment I am working on a graphghan and want to concentrate on that, I'm having fun with it and it will be completed in a few days, so stay tuned for that on too.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Tunisian Worked In The Round

Well this is a little hat made with the Tunisian st and an extendable Tunisian hook. It does look like it is work around, but it is not. The regular Tunisian forward and return has been used here, but there is one exception. At the end of the forward row, you slip st to the beginning of the row you are working on, then you complete the return row as usual. I tell you this had me stumped for a bit. When I was working with the extendable hook, I could not reach half of the st's to work on, it was like I needed a rubber hook to bend to meet the st's I needed to work on. So then I tried 3 crochet hooks, like working with knitting dpn's, that did work but it was uncomfortable. So I tried the extendable again, this time I pushed the st's I had just worked on (say half of the row) all the way down to the end of the extension and I was able to reach the unworked st's. YES!
This hat was just a demo, the above picture is the right way out and the picture below is wrong side out. You can see the size difference in st's where I used the 3 hooks in the lower white part. The hat was worked from the bottom upwards. And a doll is my model.


Crochet Sock Anybody?

Well here we go with my first crochet sock, it's almost finished here, just have to change the yarn and shape the toe.


Now that's better it will keep my toes warm now, good fit too.

I used a ripple st pattern, I had never tried the ripple st before. Lots of colour changes, there fore lots of ends to sew in. The basic sock is very easy to make, just follow the pattern. I'm just wondering if I will get around to making it's pair, I did not enjoy making the sock as much as I thought. I picked it up and put it down for about a week. I could have made the complete pair in a couple of days if my interest was there. So I could have a sock for a decoration, or I may get enthused and complete the pair.


The pattern is from this pattern book


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I have 2 new head models

My sister-in-law Robyn has been at it again!
She bought me 2 new head models.
I must say they are prettier than the other 2 head models I have, I think that is why she bought them for me, LOL.

The older and uglier head models.