Team Hooker - One pointy thing is better than two

[SoupDragon]

Quiche-tastic.

[PurplePidjin]

Are you on ravelry? I've had a few flowers from there, cba with sewing them on. Generally it's a simple case of Make flower, Join new colour in back of a stitch :)

See y'all on the other side

[AnitaManeater]

cezzy I've done this one a couple times raised crocodile flower it's a big old square mind and took me all day!

[SoupDragon]

NEW THREAD

950 posts here so I'm starting it now :)

[SoupDragon]

Oh, we're a very lax clique - we'll accept anyone who only uses one hook. Except Abu Hamza al-Masri.

[Cezzy]

Browsing and really chuffed to find this thread, may I join? I did a couple of day courses to learn the basics and am hooked! I spend evenings after kids are in bed surrounded by my box of wool and needles. I have been trying to find a pattern for a granny square with a raised central flower, most I have found suggest sewing it on later but I am sure you can make it part of the square. I can do the flowers but not sure how to start it off within the granny, any help would be appreciated.

[SoupDragon]

[waves]

[AnitaManeater]

this is me Quite a lot of my projects are on here if you fancy a nosey :)

[AnitaManeater]

Hiya. Just marking my spot on this thread. I'm a happy hooker and I've been sent here from the wooly hugs thread. I've been hooking for a couple years, self taught courtesy of youtube. I've got a commission to finish and then I'm going to do a mini hugs blanket with my leftover baby wool :)

[flubba]

What do you mean you're not magic Pidj?!! Have you been leading us all up a merry path?! :o

[PurplePidjin]

There's still a bit of sewing with grannies or chop the ends off short I'm not magic, you know!

[BananaCarpets]

Does that work with grannys though? Would the colour not show through the gaps

[PurplePidjin]

Bring up the last loop of the last stitch of the round in the new colour. Knot pesky ends together. Lay both ends on top of previous row and work stitches over them.

Voila, no sewing.

[BananaCarpets]

Oh I know Flubba, I know I should do them as I go along but I put it off until the end and then spend a bitter half an hour sewing them all in whilst muttering under my breath!

[flubba]

My philosophy with lumps and bumps is that they add to the charm

And I blinkin' HATE tail ends. They drive me crazy and with the stripey blanket I made recently, there were about 500 of the buggers.

[arpita1]

i also like to art and craft item...

[BananaCarpets]

How does everyone join colours on their granny squares? I started one last night and I'd forgotten how much I hate joining colours, I always seems to end up with little lumps!
When you've finished one round , what do you do with the tail - I find them tricky to weave in securely. I do love grannys though, once you are started you can just crack on without following pattern/complicated counting

[flubba]

Somersaults you sound like Veruca Salt! :o

I must get on with my cheapy yarn granny squares - although seeing my first granny ahem 'squares' lined up against my newer and much squarer squares makes me a bit but reading about no need to block from the Oh-So-Wise Pidj is re-inspiring me :) Think I might add some roses to the joins to hide some of my sins.

[BananaCarpets]

Don't you whistle innocently at me young lady, I know what's on there and don't think you can tempt me with that wanton Lucy and her attic either...

[PurplePidjin]

Have you been to //www.ravelry.com yet, banana?

[BananaCarpets]

Thanks Pidj. Partly it is impatience on my part, I want to see how they will look nice and smooth

I highly recommend that book, the instructions are easy to follow - although I occasionally get confused by the 'blah blah twice to then once to * stuff
Loads of patterns, colour suggestions and whole blanket patterns. It's like crochet porn

[Somersaults]

I want that book.

[PurplePidjin]

You can pin, but blocking is basically "ironing into shape" so it depends how lacy your work is. As i said, blankets squares are hauled into shape by their friends anyway so blocking is fairly futile.

[BananaCarpets]

Is that all blocking is Pidj? The damp tea towels trick?! I thought it involved pinning and towels Excellent. The reason I wanted them flat was to check on the sizes.

Thanks

[PurplePidjin]

Don't bother blocking squares (ironing between two damp teatowels) because they'll pull into shape when you crochet them together

[BananaCarpets]

It was a joke Pidj - hence the grin and wink