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Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.

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OwlCapone · 14/08/2014 10:53

Team Hooker, now with added pictures :)

Whilst on holiday recently, I finished a hat and started a blanket. The blanket will have at least 200 4" squares in the end so I have a little way to go!

Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
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DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 21/12/2014 11:38

I had Pesky End fatigue yesterday :) however, they are done and I am on the happy bit where putting on the edge transforms a crumpled bundle of hooked together squares into a blanket.

KinkyDoritoWithJingleBellsOn · 21/12/2014 11:41

It sounds like we're making progress soup. My blanket has been put to one side for the past couple of months due to work pressure and fiddly-wreath commitments! Hoping to get back to making granny squares in block colours later today which I find far more relaxing than making blummin holly leaves Xmas Grin!

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 21/12/2014 13:08

My blanket has been put to one side for the past couple of months

That is where it all went wrong for me :o I started this in January so that I could do it bit by bit and finish it in plenty of time... ho hum!

KinkyDoritoWithJingleBellsOn · 21/12/2014 14:48

That took sooooo long! Weeks and weeks of fiddly faffing. Hoping DM will like it; it does look nice on wall.

Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
PolterGoose · 21/12/2014 15:08

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aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 21/12/2014 15:21

Gorgeous Kinky.
I made a little wreath for a friend (she'd been admiring the one I made for myself) and she cried when I gave it to her.
I've just realised I made it so quickly and was in such a rush to compete it I forgot to take a photo.

My mum has just told me that she has no idea what to get me for christmas and asked for ideas so I suggested I order myself some yarn on her behalf.
Off to do some serious browsing and decide what to get now.

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 21/12/2014 15:57

That is a beautiful wreath :)

PollyannaWhittier · 21/12/2014 16:14

Your wreath is beautiful Kinky . May I ask what holly leaf pattern you used ? I've been trying to make the attic 24 one but getting cross with stupid fiddly picot points !

KinkyDoritoWithJingleBellsOn · 21/12/2014 18:04

Thanks everyone Thanks. It's my first attempt and a bit curly - should probably have ironed the bits!

Polly it is that pattern, but I don't bother doing the chain down the centre. It is a faff - I didn't enjoy making those bits! Xmas Grin

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 23/12/2014 10:23

Tadaa!

Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
Team Hooker : Come flash your wares at the Hotel Crochetfornia.
KinkyDoritoWithJingleBellsOn · 23/12/2014 11:49

Stunning - really beautiful! Is it a gift or for you?

aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 23/12/2014 11:54

Gorgeous, lovely muted colours.

What yarn did you use?

CatCushion · 23/12/2014 12:10

Wow, Soupy that is fabulous! I bet your mum will be over the moon! Love the colours and the added interest of slight differences of pattern and tandom mixing of the different squares - really clever. Is it made in the Woolly Hug type yarns?

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 23/12/2014 12:20

Thank you :)

It's made from Drops Big Merino so is wonderfully snuggly despite all the holes in the design.

It is a gift for my mother which I have been "working on" since January Blush and is deliberately muted and neutral so that it can fit in anywhere. It's the Flowers in the Snow blanket which looks stunning done in bright colours on a white background.

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 23/12/2014 12:23

Technically the order of the squares isn't truly random, it's "planned random" so that all the variations are equally distributed round the blanket. I prefer this method as there is an element of control. The thought of genuinely pulled-out-of-the-hat random makes me feel faintly queasy [control freak emoticon]

aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 23/12/2014 12:27

I can't do random, but sadly I like to do planned-to-look-random.
I've even been known to make a spreadsheet to organise placement of squares!

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 23/12/2014 13:49

I shuffle the squares on the floor and take a photo :)

CatCushion · 23/12/2014 15:46

Ah, yes I like to do the 'shuffle on the floor' and 'planned random' (I count and balance out for tone and hue in the quadrants) and true random might produce an unintended rude shape. I've woken from that dream in a cold sweat on more tham one occasion! Xmas Grin

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 23/12/2014 16:31

Do you think you (we) have a problem...? :o

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CatCushion · 23/12/2014 20:45

My name is CatCushion and it has been a week since my last crochet.

Just can't decide between projects just now! Grin

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 24/12/2014 00:02

I now have just one cowl to finish for Christmas. Made out of left over Drops
Big Merino, oddly enough :)

Then I think I am free for fun projects.

Sirzy · 29/12/2014 07:53

I am getting bored of working on blankets but have so much in the go don't want to start something else!

DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn · 29/12/2014 07:56

I have two blankets to finish but I've put them to one side and am making a pair of Merino mittens. From left over blanket Merino :o

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 29/12/2014 11:01

The hippo was very popular, and has been much admired. It was just worth all the stress and sweary words involved in assembling him!