Team Hooker - One pointy thing is better than two

[SoupDragon]

Quiche-tastic.

Beginning of December, and he's Blue flavoured :o

Boys are the best. :) BabyDragons are a fecking nightmare. Love her to bits but...

I adore the Baby Bamboo. It makes beautiful baby blankets.

The James C Brett "Cotton On" I think is a replacement for "Kool Kotton" (thankfully) which I think Lucy of Attic24 may have used but I can't remember what for and liked.

Awww congratulations Pidj, I'm a December baby too (2nd) :)

I've got to undo some rows later, can see where I've gone wrong and am going all weird shaped again - but better than before so it's all good :)

Are you crocheting into the starting chain? Not sure what you're doing but not doing that seems to be a common mistake from reading a around - makes the edges wonky apparently.

That or accidentally skipping the last stitch of the previous row where it gets hidden under the turning chain or forgetting the turning ch altogether, oh no not me

I think I'm missing the last stitch of a row, then not, so the row basically shrinks by one stitch and I get a sort of weird shape instead of a square...

Crocheting into the previous row's turning chain can be a bit fiddly

ooh thats why you have all the lovely baby things - for pidj chick!
the snake looks very cute...

(Family keep asking who I'm going to give my teddy to, and I have to bite my tongue that I don't want to give it to anyone because if there's a little 'stuck' in the next few years I'd like them to have the first teddy I made!)

I like patterns that tell me how many stitches to expect at the end of the row, so I can count up and check I'm staying on track... Get a few rows done and the hang of the pattern and then you don't have to count as obssessively!

Yep, pregnancy = crocheter's heaven - especially as it involves sitting on my arse on the sofa with biscuits :o

I count rows but it becomes more subconscious with practice iyswim.

Signing in. Will hopefully catch up back through the thread a bit later but there's a whining DD who needs my attention just now!

Whoever said about making sure you crochet into the chain you used for turning is a genius! I am in the middle of crocheting a lovely square thanks to that bit of advice!

I think that's how I'll do my blanket - squares, there's less counting and it's a bit easier to go back.

Just need to work out how many balls of wool I need and how many squares...

Yay!

3 squares to a ball, 9 squares to a blanket = 3 balks of wool + 1 for joining and edging = 4

If they're 50g balls. Otherwise, 200g of yarn in total :)

Look what I did tee hee!

It's not perfect, but it's a start. I'm making a pink square now, to attach to it :)

That looks exactly like my first efforts. Except mine was lilac :o

Yay, Lolli!

I'm guessing the yay means it's looking OK?

I went to the wool shop today. Oh my, when I know some more patterns I'll be in heaven!

Need to get rid of my current stash before I go spending, but don't think it's soft enough for a Little Hug, so am making a pink blanket to use that up, and will be showing it to various people I know with baby girls, to see if they'd like it.

Then I've got 2 shades of blue to use, but a friend has a 1 yo DS and another friend's DP has recently given birth to a DS.

Friends are going to be getting blankets for Christmas muahahahaha!

I've seen a LOVELY wool I'd like to use to make a blanket for myself, for when I get cold at the ice hockey - Look!

I also LOVE the marble baby wool here I felt it today - it's SO soft!

It looks fabulous! Hope you have plenty of free time to make all these blankets, though Mind, you could crochet at ice hockey, on the bus etc :o

I'm currently job hunting after uni, so I have too much a lot of free time!

Hmmm, crocheting during the hockey, at least in the intervals, is a possibility. Might earn me the reputation of the crazy crochet lady among my friends, but oh well! :)

Decent friends will let you get on with it, maybe a gentle ribbing - but we can teach you that technique later

That's what I meant Pidj, there is much ribbing amongst my hockey friends for various things - it's great fun! :)

Just tell them they obviously don't want a Christmas present this year :o

I crochet at rugby :)

It's not me playing, obviously. :o

Your hockey friends will all be after team scarves before long.

I crochet everywhere, if I could get away with it in staff meetings I would (it would probably be a more productive use of my time)