Summer Top Work Continues & Maltese Crochet GAD 136

If you were following my blog yesterday, you will have seen that I picked up a WIP that I was determined to finish off, as it's been a long time since I started making the hundreds of motifs that make up the top.

Actually I have just added it all up and the pattern says to make 123 of them, but get a better fit, as I am not a size zero like the lady in the picture, and despite the pattern saying that it will fit a size 34 inch bust etc., I have had to make a few more.

So I started today with making some of the larger motifs

Making sure that I was making the right size to fill the gaps that I found

Once I had joined the front to the back

As you can see

There are quite a few of them!

And I even took some motifs of, from around the back neckline, as they seemed to flop over and were therefore surplus to requirements!

Now here it is

This is the back

And this is the front

I still have some more little gaps to fill, which I will now do tomorrow as I have spent most of my free time today working on this.

Now for GAD 136

I had the Maltese Flag in mind when I started to work with the white, so I naturally chose red for the next colour

So this Granny Square is dedicated to my fellow countrymen, women & Maltese Crocheters out there

GAD 135 & WIP news

WIP News:

I decided that I would have a good go at finishing of the joining of the motifs on my Summer Top today

Here is the back before the last 10 or so motifs were added

And here is a close up of the painstaking work involved

Once I had joined the front to the back via the shoulder straps there was only one way to proceed

and that was by putting the whole top on my tailors dummy

It's still not finished but at least it's looking more like a top

The pattern says "one size fits all" and "it's meant to be a tight fit" but I am not so sure!

I think I will have to make a few more motifs so that the fit is a lot more comfortable.

Now for Granny A Day 135

I used Cream, followed by Purple, then cream again with a Fuchsia Pink edge 

And here is another view of the back

to show off the neatness of the join as you go method

Which I am very pleased that I have used

Thanks for reading

Ali x

Granny A Day #69 + A mountain climbed - phew!

 I am going to work through my day in my Crochet World as it happened today.

As you can see from the fluffy white cuff of my Bath Robe on the left of the picture, here I am first thing this morning, whilst having my first cup of tea (Co-Op tea if you are interested, which is the best in my opinion), blocking the motifs that I made last night

Later on in the morning, I went to the Wool Sale.

I have mentioned the Wool Sale before - every ball of wool is a pound - yes £1 sterling.

I have in the past bought balls of Cashmere, Merino (my poncho was made from Merino at £1 a ball) and Aran for £1, along with numerous amounts of Chunky, Double Knit and 4 Ply!!

So today, I was thinking of colours that I could add to my Granny A Day basket Stash and I found these, all DK and all perfect for more Granny A Day Squares. 

I then came across this bag of wool

It's colour attracted me.

It's by JAEGER and it's called

Iona Tweed Aran

84% Wool, 8% Acrylic & 8% Nylon

The bag had 14 balls inside so I bought them all

Unfortunately, since getting the wool home (I suppose I can officially call this Wool as opposed to "Yarn" as it does have 84% wool in it's make up) I noticed that some of the balls are a little worse for wear as it's stored in the "owner" garage, and I think that the mice or rats like a little nibble.

Still I am not complaining for the price!  I can always knot a few strands together!

I just hope it hasn't got a flea problem and infest the rest of my wools / yarns in that basket!! 

Next was my Granny A Day #69

Needless to say I used the wool that I bought today - it was too tempting not try out some new colours!

To bring you up to time (it's just gone 17.:30 here GMT) I made the final amounts of the motifs No.3 (bottom right) and 6 of the No.4 Motif which was my mountain to climb today.

Don't get me wrong, I love the motif No.4 it's just that I fell out of love with making it for some reason

Here is my little "gate" chart and can you see 17 are all marked off!

I am just going to have a final count just in case before I get too excited.

Right I am off to prepare dinner now and to continue working Motifs 5 & 6

I have about 10 of each to make

to complete the total amount of motifs needed

before I can start to "assemble" my top