The ballet pink beret is finished and klaar, and seems to have made the grade. And as it’s nearly Christmas, I thought I’d let Carol model it for us with the Debbie Harry wig.
It still looks huge, but somehow doesn’t when it’s on a head. Please note the crochet rib welt, pleased as punch with that I am.
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Pink beret getting bigger.
Too much bigger. I’m thinking it might even be too big for a hippo by now BUT I FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS. Am NOT unravelling.
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A lovely new customer found me at the Somerset West Country Craft Market last Saturday, and I’m making a beret for her in Vinni’s Cotton in Ballet Pink. It’s similar to the mustard one I had on display (seems mustard isn’t a popular colour, who knew!)
It feels like a long long time since I used a 3mm hook for anything, but I’m enjoying the change:
And I’m using this pattern by Luba Davies:
I’ll be working on this while watching Madiba’s memorial service in Johannesburg at 11h00:
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I’m wondering why it took me so long to make a slouchie with Vinni’s amazing cotton! This is my variation on Jennifer Appleby’s lovely pattern for the Hot Cross Slouch (pattern here):
Yip, that’s me playing around with my camera and the mirror again….
It wasn’t going too badly until I tried to get a pic of the hat from the back, to show off the flower. And then, a most professional profile shot:
Snigger!
Next hat in progress, in raspberry pink:
And finally, on the subject of hats, Doreen showed me a beret she made ages ago, with no pattern of course, just straight out of her head. I have rummaged through books and the internet to find out how to do this vertical raised stitch but I’m not getting very far (probably because I’m inherently impatient).
Luckily Doreen doesn’t live too far away….. (unless any of you out there knows?)
Last of all, allow me to draw your attention to the link to my etsy shop in the right sidebar – took me yonks to get that right, and eventually I had to enlist the help of Ellen M in her Crafty Corner. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain that to me, Ellen, you are now my crochet and wordpress tech guru!
Hope you all have an excellent weekend. Back soon x
In just a few short minutes online this morning, I feel like I have been bombarded by amazing crochet patterns and designs from blogs and websites and shops worldwide and about thirty of them have my hands itching to get going. But I’ve been disciplined – I forced myself to finish my hat.
I’ve used this pattern by Jennifer Appleby many times, and it’s always turned out well. This time I used a Stylecraft Life DK in Denim and a 3.5mm hook (because the yarn seemed finer than other DKs to me). [[Please note my gorgeous hook with funky handmade handle that the wonderful Lisa at Yarnchick sent me a while ago. She sent me three, actually, and I use them all the time.]]
Too impatient to wait for Alex to get home from varsity, I have had to use a sheep as my model.
But I’m sure you’ll agree, the hat suits him very well, worn either over one ear to the side, or pulled right down like teenagers and women with bad hair days wear. I added a pompom instead of a button.
Sheep I love pompoms. Don’t know why I don’t make more of them, actually.
To be continued…
Nice piece of work 