Well, my two nieces have tried on their hats, scarves and mittens. The hats turned out a bit big, the mittens were way too big and the scarves were OK. I am thinking that next time I see the girls, I will get them to trace their hand for me, so I can judge how big to make mittens for them.
The other day I sat down to crochet, but I hadn't decided what my next project would be, so I wanted something quick. I had seen the clever idea of putting small pieces of yarn onto wooden clothes pegs to keep them from getting all tangled up, and being a nuisance. But what do you do with them then? So I decided to make a bowl for the pegs. The first one turned out a bit big so I made a smaller one as well.
The red doily was inspired by a pin on +Pinterest . There is a picture of a cute set of crochet coasters that I love. The picture didn't link to a pattern, so I tried to work it out from the picture. I used 8ply acrylic yarn and a 4 mm hook. It looks quite like the coasters, but its bigger and more open. When I try again I will use a smaller hook and maybe 4 ply yarn.
Recently I discovered that US patterns have different terminology than what my Nanna taught me many years ago. At first I thought that my old Nanna had been mistaken, but it bothered me that she had stressed so vehemently that what she was teaching me was TREBLE stitch. Then when I tried to follow patterns, it just worked out all wrong. It took me some time to realize that when the pattern said DOUBLE crochet, that I should do what Nanna said was TREBLE crochet. Then today I found a site that has a whole conversion page for US to UK crochet terminology.
So I thought I would share it here - http://www.crochetaustralia.com.au .
My current project is the Spring Fling Flower Pillow from The Crochet Crowd +Michael Sellick . I have chosen four colours and made the front and back of the pillow, next I will make the flower.
Happy Crocheting.
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