The Weekend - Days 271 & 272 - Book Reviews

I got an email from Sue AKA Crochet Addict today, saying that she had had a chance to review my book, so I clicked on the link and held my breathe.   I didn't need to hold it for a second longer as her review is great and I am very touched as I know that Sue is an experienced Crocheter of many years and highly regarded by many fellow crocheters.  Here's the link for you to read it too:

 http://www.crochetaddictuk.com/2013/09/crochet-for-beginners-who-want-to.html

Here are a couple more book reviews by

Mom With A Hook:  http://crochetbusiness.com/crochet-for-beginners-who-want-to-improve-book-review/

Crochet Queen:  http://crochetqueen-royalramblings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/book-review-crochet-for-beginners-who.html

Both of whom are top notch crocheters - hailing from the USA & master crafts women  in my opinion.

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I spent most of Saturday working on my latest commission for Inside Crochet Magazine

This is all that I can share with you

As my husband decided to work from the office upstairs, I really did make headway & cracked a good portion of my design & work.

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I went to put on my favourite "knock about" jeans this morning & found that the hole was crying out for a patch.

I searched for some spare denim but after looking High & Low I decided that the only way to go was CROCHET!

So I designed a little "cloud" patch

And sewed it in place.

This is what TWITTER has said:

Michelle mentioned you

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Michelle @Chellebab

@CrochetAli cool! Brilliant and original idea :)

cazz mentioned you

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cazz @beadercollie

@CrochetAli that's genius!!

Faery Designs mentioned you

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Faery Designs @Faerydesigns

@CrochetAli looks great :)

And after a lovely afternoon with friends & dogs

Here are Twitter Blanket Squares 271 & 272

Day #6 Granny Square Mania + I confess!

Yes it's Day 6 of Granny A Day 2012 & here's my square for today

I made it plain / one colour and you'd be thinking to yourself "well that's an easy one to do" 

Am I right?

Well let me tell you, it was a PAIN in the %$£* as I was using a scrap end of yarn & the more I got to the end the more the wool / yarn got worse and worse!

I ended up having to unravel, un knot,  tease strands back into place and 4 knot joins later it was finally finished

PHEW

So there are the 6 so far

Next to blog about is my trip to IKEA - we went (that's me and my lovely husband) a glass cabinet for our wine glasses, a project well overdue.

Whilst we were there I saw these lovely baskets and I thought that they would be just the ticket for sorting out my yarn stash!

(more later)

My Giant Granny Blanket is growing

Before you scroll down to the next picture, can you see the flaw?

Look in the bottom right hand corner

Yes I ran out of baby pink, so I swapped to the next colour that I use in the row above and continued with that.

Here's the close up

I must admit, you don't really notice it

Do you?

OK so back to the baskets and the yarn stash.

Another long over due project 

but I got my back into it

Top Row from left to right

1. 4 odd balls of Silver

2. More odd balls of baby green & blues

3. Purple balls are added to the basket

4. Then 2 new balls (well unused) of DK white

5. Topped with a bag of 10 balls of white cotton tape

Middle Row from left to right

1.  A bag of 20 multi colour 25g balls of DK (will be used in group class)

2. Basket off newly bought wools (see previous post) 17 x 100g balls in all

3.  Two book shelves full of various - chunky, cotton tape, merino, aran, fine cotton

4. The chair I am sitting on now - wools for my current Giant Granny Square project

5.  6 bags of Merino or Aran (JAEGER) each with 10 balls of wool

Bottom Row from left to right

1. Same as 5 above but from a different angle

2. 7 balls of 100% Cashmere wools (JAEGER) that I got for £1 from the wool sale

3.  My new IKEA basket with baby sized yarns - ideal for my Granny A Day 2012 project

4. More 25g balls of multi coloured acrylic yarns for my group classes

5.  My newly purchased wools in their old basket (so same as Middle row 2)

I am a Yarn Addict

I am a Hook A Holic

It wasn't me!

It wasn't me - really, it wasn't!! 

This was brought in today by one of my Students!!  

She's been making a blanket for her Mum, who lives abroad, for Christmas - wow what a FAB present to receive!!

All she had to do was to finish of the edge

So we had to revisit Double Crochet (that's Single Crochet for all the Crochet Friends in the USA) as she'd been working in Trebles (that's DC in the USA) for so long that she had forgotten them!!

So the edging was finished off and the blanket looks superb!

She's now officially a "Hook A Holic" or Crochet Addict!!

Well done CD

Question #2

Question

If an ALCOHOLIC has a drinking problem or is addicted to alcohol then what is a person called when they are addicted to CROCHET?

A CROCHETOLIC?

or do they have CROCHET-ITIS?

What would YOU call it?

Adding to this from a previous post see http://macscrochet.blogspot.com/2011/11/question.html

HOOK-A-HOLIC??