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I’m Alpaca Girl’s Fiber Arts Friday featured blogger!

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The lovely Katy from Alpaca Farm Girl contacted me to ask if I’d talk about the fine art of crochet for her Fiber Arts Friday feature. How could I refuse? I am but flesh and blood.

You can read my hilarious insights and homespun wisdom right here.

Also, I know it’s shameful of me, but I gave Katy the scoop on two things I finished making recently: my crochet blanket (well I say “finished” – I’ve still got a row of edging to do) and my amigurumi Milo, which I made for my Milo-mad niece over in Australia. She’s already picked a hole in the back of his neck, which I think speaks volumes about the ingratitude of 2 year olds.

New crochet blanket

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Those squares I started making a while back are finally being put to good use. I’ve begun composing them into some semblance of order, adding some in to the mix and sewing them together into – almost – coherent patterns. It’s almost as though I planned it that way!

Anyway, here’s what we’ve got so far:

The latest square to be finished.


Here it is next to the first one I made (still my favourite so far).


And this is the new one I’m working on. Still not sure how it will all come together (I might swap the corner pieces for something else), but it’s looking ok so far, I think!

Return of the Granny Blanket.

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My life’s work has had another makeover, returning in a smaller, more manageable format, and with a whole lot more sturdiness.

You’ll no doubt recall that I’ve been making this blanket since before I can remember (so – what – like, 10 years or something) and it’s never really been finished off properly, despite the fact that it’s been put to use on many occasions.

Since the weight of it meant it was starting to pull itself apart, I finally got my act together and rejoined the pieces (properly this time), taking out some squares to make it less heavy, and actually took the trouble to edge it as well.

However, as you’d expect, I’m still not entirely happy with it. I want to do something a bit more fancy with the edging and make it a little bit bigger. But it will do until I have my next little blanket break down.

PS. You’ll note that I’ve left in the “bright orange monstrosity” that I so objected to last time. That’s because it’s grown on me and it’s now my favourite one. Further proof that I just can’t get enough of ugly crochet.

You can never have enough squares

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Yet more squares, this time of the itty bitty variety. These ones were my attempt at making something a little less garish than normal, but I soon got bored of the teeny tininess, which involves far too much scissor action for my liking. How can I concentrate on Boston Legal if I’m constantly having to start off new colours? I can’t, that’s how. So, they too have been retired indefinitely to the work bag and may or may not make a come back some day in the future. Maybe when there’s no more television.

By the way, for some reason these ones came out all bluey and the last lot came out all pinky. To save me the effort of re-taking all the shots, I’d be much obliged if you could just adjust the colour mentally in your own heads (as opposed to anyone else’s) to reflect the *actual* colour. Thank you.

Square Eyes

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OK, time to play catch up. Here’s a selection of squares I made a while back. It all happened in the first throes of energetic blanket-making passion, during which time I was more than ready to create my crochet opus. Unfortunately, the passion was short-lived and after a frenzy of square-making, all production has ceased.

The squares are from the excellent 200 Crochet Blocks, by Jan Eaton. The problem is, I loved them all so much that I couldn’t settle on any particular designs or colours, and I ended up with a bit of a mish-mash of half-started colour schemes and half-arsed blanket designs. I’m sure that I’ll get round to finishing one rug, eventually, but in the meantime, they languish in my work bag with all the other unfinished masterpieces.

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