Kaeleigh: Well, if you read my Canadian holiday post, you know I have a few projects on the go - as always. I'm blocking the Creature Comforts cardi this weekend (and then come the arms, since it's cocoon-style), and still plugging away on the Starting Point shawl, which will probably finish sometime before Christmas but since the M is off the MKAL, to be honest I'm not that rushed. I've also finally started a Flax pullover for my husband since I've been trying to make him a sweater for three years and haven't yet got anything that fits him right. The first pullover was a wreck of ill-fitting sadness, and the cardigan was first, HUGE, and then once felted, too tight. Third time's the charm?
I also have in mind a cardigan for my Logan yarn, and I'm just desperate to get a few crochet projects going with the hooks that my father-in-law and I made together - that's right! We actually made crochet hooks; he's an award-winning wood carver and he let me loose on his workshop (probably too generous a statement; he taught me how to use a lathe and then I attempted to not ruin a few blanks, haha). All in all, I came away with five gorgeous hooks varying in size from I think 4.5mm to 6.5mm, and I can't wait to test them out! Bernice keeps me aware that a lot of the gorgeous patterns I see these days are done up in knitting, but I'm positive they can be "interpreted" in crochet, and a coworker of mine just brought over an Estonian knitting book that I will definitely be using for reference with some lovely colourwork charts! In essence, a very busy next few months for sure.
Bernice: Right now I'm working on a baby blanket idea I had been mulling over in my mind for quite some time - I wanted to make a blanket that utilized multiple different colourways of Caron Cakes yarn. What I finally decided on was a Tulip Stitch blanket. I decided that the four rows would be 1) a ground or dirt row, 2) the leaf row, 3) the flower row and then 4) a sky row. It took me a LONG time to decide on colours, but I eventually settled on Cookies and Cream for the ground, Lemon Lime for the leaves, Funfetti for the flowers, and Blueberry Cheesecake for the sky. I was kind of worried how it all might work out at first, but it didn't take too long before I settled into the rainbow coloured mayhem! The constant colour changes made this blanket a lot of fun to make, so much so, I had trouble putting it down and going to bed every night I worked on it!
There's a photo of how it started to work out! Once I got it to the appropriate size, it was time to decide on a border. Again I mulled over this for an incredible amount of time before I decided to keep leaning into the flower theme and went with a Rose Border. I'm using this border as an opportunity to hopefully use up more of the same colours I used for the main part of the blanket. Here's a little peek at how it's working out, now that I'm on the leaves portion of it:
The leaves are 2 triple crochet clusters separated by a chain of 5 worked into the same stitch. It is worked into the row 2 down from the leaf row and is creating a nice 3-D effect! I'm really happy with how it's coming out. Can't wait to share a finished product with you soon!
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