things by t.

the turquoise dahlia

I decided to go with the alpaca yarn after all, because I liked the softness of it. I'm hoping blocking will eventually help with stitch definition.

hej och välkomna!

This is mostly for the students of my latest crochet class in granny squares and flowers. I promised them an upload of the patterns that we worked on today. So here goes:

Mormorsrutor

Blommor

(The patterns are in Swedish.)

every day

Swatching for Everyday Cardi from Crochet Today.

inspirational

 

There was a knitting café yesterday evening at my LYS and I was invited to show some of my amigurumis. As always, a wonderful time was had by all.

everything's coming up roses

I am busy crocheting flowers for my class next week at Litet Nystan. I will be showing three basic designs that should be fairly easy to learn. This rose was knit in Kid Silk Haze, which makes it very delicate and small. But I also made a version using thicker mohair yarn, which produces a more robust flower.

change of heart

I swatched with the Pakucho yarn today and wasn't happy with the result at all. So today I went to Litet nystan and took advantage of the 20% off on Drops Muskat instead. My cat will be dark purple.

heartfelt

As you may have notice I have recently become very fond of the Amineko crochet cat pattern. Now some ingenious person here in Sweden has decided to start a KAL (or should that be a CAL?) crocheting said cats for a sort of charity. The goal is to make 100 cats to give to babies born with heart issues at the Queen Silvia hospital for children and young adults in Gothenburg.

You can read more about it here (in Swedish only). I have decided to use the above yarn, Pakucho organic cotton.

cat people

I fell in love with Amineko a long time ago, but only recently did I take the time to actually make my own. I chose Visjögarn in grey (and some undyed for the paws and nose) and a size 3.5 mm hook.Then I spent the whole of Friday crocheting...

We were both exhausted by the time Edith was all finished.

She made friends with Wilbert at once. Well, he was the one who asked me to make her!

She joined me for breakfast this morning.

next please

I'm supposed to be preparing for a class in granny squares this Saturday and well, I am. In a way. I just don't have any photos of it. Bah.

and we are live!