Crochet Sunny Shawlette

I found a lovely pattern on Ravelry that I fancied having a go at. So on Sunday I took the following ingredients



and by Monday night they had become



Ta-da!!
It's a gorgeous little 'Sunny shawlette' made from King Cole Glitz yarn so it has sparkle all through it. I chose black for 2 reasons really 1. It'll go with loads of things and is perfect for taking on my hols (which are fast approaching yay!) and 2. I already had one ball of the black in my stash.




You can find the pattern here sunny shawlette by Vicarno's mama on Ravelry. The pattern was super easy to follow and I can see me making more of these. Perfect for a little shoulder coverage at a wedding perhaps? And although a reasonably simple pattern it could look completely different when made up in different colours and yarns.



I've still to block mine which i think will bring out the shell pattern more but I was so pleased with it I wanted to show it off.






The fact that it buttons is what I loved because my problem with shawls most of the time is getting them to sit right and half the time I take them off before leaving the house because I don't think it looks right.

If you make this pattern for yourself I'd love to see
Louise x

(FO) Still crafting away

The last couple of weeks have been crazy busy. We've been having our kitchen disaster put right and the end of term run of events and things seem to have been endless but I've still been crafting away any spare minute i can find. I currently have 2 knitting and one crochet project on the go but I'll save them and show them off on wednesday as I've 3 finished projects from the last few weeks today.
I had been working on another cross stitch as a gift. This time it was for a wedding gift and I started it just about early enough to avoid having to pull a late night crafting session again. My sister had picked the kit and asked me to stitch it up for her to gift to her good friend on her wedding day. It is a lovely design and I love the finished piece (wish I had one myself). The vines and flowers did get a bit tedious but totally worth it

It's been washed and pressed since this pic but have left it for my sister to deal with the framing.
Once I'd got that finished I had time to pick up my crochet beach bag again.


It's big, very roomy but perfect for towel, book, sunnies, suncream, etc.. all the beach essentials. I should probably line it but haven't got round to that yet.
And finally a quick project I hooked up for my youngest daughter last week

It now hangs at the top of her bookshelf.
I'm off for a quick look around everyone else's finished projects you should go check some out too

Summer Top Off the Hook

FO Friday and I've my crochet vest/tank summer top that I was working on in this post to show you. I really enjoyed making this and it worked up super quickly. This was my first time using RICO cotton. It has a nice feel to it but a bit of a shine and i think it worked perfectly. As I mentioned in the previous post the pattern was from July/August 2012 issue of Crochet today! I'm sure they have an app with this back issue available to download if you fancy giving the pattern a go yourself. Pattern wise it took a bit of concentration to begin with. The front straps were worked first and then the back was added on to these but eventually, once past the neckline, the rest of the top was worked it the round.
So here is the finished item



The detail from the back


View from the back with 3 lines of the pattern repeat (so hard to take a picture of it on while home alone)





Have quite enjoyed making clothes for myself. I've finished both this and a striped jumper in the last month. The thing I liked most with this one was I could add a few extra rows at the bottom to the perfect length I wanted. Custom sizing in a way. Anyway I keep finding myself browsing Ravelry for more clothing patterns I fancy but have a few other things to get on with first and I haven't knitted anything in a while. Must rectify that

Louise x

Crochet Holiday/beach bag

I have finished my crochet vest/tank top and I mean completely finished, sewn in the ends AND blocked! The last two of these usually take me a while to get round to. I shall hopefully find time to blog on friday and show it to you. I've been working away on my cross stitch wedding sampler but find I can't cope without a crochet project on the go at the same time. So I have started on a crochet holiday/beach bag. The pattern is Slouch Bag from Nicki Trench's book Geek Chic Crochet




My sister got me the book for christmas but this is the first pattern I've made from it. I'm quite enjoying using the Catherine wheel stitch as something a bit different.



First side is already finished so shouldn't take too long to do although everything seems to be going crazily busy right now. Be sure to pop by everyone else's blogs and see what they've been making there's loads of lovely things in some delicious colours Tami's Amis

Wip Wednesday- Crochet tank top

After finally finishing my striped jumper, that i started away back here , at the weekend I have jumped straight onto another piece of clothing for myself. The pattern is called Kerala Tank and is from the July/August 2012 issue of Crochet Today!
I've had it on my list of want to makes since I got the mag and had originally planned on making it using some King Cole Smooth from my stash but I had recently purchased this gorgeous mint Rico Cotton from the lovely Emma's Yarn and Craft shop and thought it'd be perfect



Started it on Sunday and am making quick progress. The pattern is taking a bit of concentrating but I'm quite enjoying that. Hopefully have the finished top to show you soon



Remember and head on over to check out what everyone else is up to WIP wednesday

FO- I Love This Blanket!

7 weeks ago on a bit of a whim I started crocheting a new blanket. I blame Instagram! The pattern was in the then current issue of Mollie Makes magazine and quite a few people from my feed had been having a go at the squares. The centre of each square is made using Sirdar crofter yarn which is a gorgeous variated yarn that knits up to a fair isle effect. I just so happened to have 3/4 of a ball left from a previous project so i raided the stash for it and jumped right on that bandwagon



That was it I was hooked (pardon the pun!) I got 9 squares from what I had but I knew they stocked it in my local yarn shop so off I went. They didn't have a huge range of shades in stock but I purchased 4 different ones and thought that'd do me for a bit (I still had plenty other projects on the go)



I not really sure why but I became obsessed with making these. I played about with the bordering yarn and ended up using a different one from the pattern. I used Paton's Smoothie DK in cream mostly because I had a least 3 balls left over from my last blanket project



I began to really love it when the cream was added. It seemed to make the colour variations really pop! The squares soon stacked up



Time to decide exactly how big this blanket was going to be and how much more yarn I needed to order



I patiently waited for the delivery of 3 more shades, checking for the postman far too many times (you do that too right???) Dropped everything as soon as it did and raced to get them finished. I have to thank the lovely Lululovescrochet for spurring me on to the end as she was working on the same pattern and finished hers first. It was so beautiful I was desperate to finish mine.

And so in 7 weeks-165 squares, approx 11 balls of the sirdar crofter yarn and I don't really know how much of the Paton's Smoothie and it was done.
Big Ta-da










I think it might just be my most favourite crochet project ever! I completely love it and I'm keeping it all for myself x

Late night crafting

Today I feel very drained and tired. It's my own fault and can all be blamed on late night crafting. I had started a crossstitch baby sampler as a gift for a friends daughter. I knew they were having a Naming ceremony for her so had started working on it a good while ago although I thought probably not early enough so in my head i had planned to just give her it whenever I got round to finishing it off.



The design is a DMC disney baby kit. I think I picked it up at the craft fair in Glasgow last March at a reduced price. By the beginning of last week I had done quite a bit of the stitching and was also planning on missing out a few bits and jiggling things about a bit just so I could fit it in a standard picture frame. The naming ceremony was yesterday and when Thursday came around I was at that point of weighing up if it was going to be feasible to finish it in time.



On friday I think I stitched for maybe about 6 hours with only short breaks for more tea and on Saturday I decided I was close enough to finishing that I was just gonna go for it. By midnight on Saturday this is what I had



Almost done, all the important information was on but the sand across the bottom was still missing. Dilema! Missing it out just wasn't going to work. I could just admit defeat and post it out next week when it was finished or I could just pull a late night and get it done. So thats what I did. Almost 3 hours of yellow half cross stitches but it was worth it to just get it done and delivered yesterday



Feel like I've got a bit of a crafting hangover today but the sun is shining so off to the park for some fresh air. Hope you all had a lovely weekend x


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