Sunday 4 March 2012

Crocheting Frenzy!

As the title of this blog says, have had a sort of crocheting frenzy this week!  I got some cotton yarn from Planet Penny so have been using that and also some other yarn I ordered turned up at the same time - so for the first part of the week I had so much yarn I couldn't decide what to make!

Anyway, as the week progressed I made a few things - booties!



Also some little crocheted 'rose bud rings' - which I thought may be nice little things for mother's day -


I decided too to make a necklace - made up of 46 little crocheted circles and I was going to embellish each circle with beads or some fancy crochet stitches, however after finishing the base of the necklace, I'm not sure if I like it!

Thankfully I didn't go on and start the decoration.  I'm just not sure.  I don't know if it's the pink or not.  I will leave it just now and see if inspiration strikes!  It just took a while to make and to sew in all the ends!

I had planned to make a tiara this weekend and on Friday after work (we finish at 4pm on a Friday) cycled 'like the devil' into town to go to the bead shop - it was closed grrrrr.  I knew I wouldn't be in town on Saturday as I was looking after my daughter's dog (Jess) and when Jess and Mindy get together they are like 2 naughty school girls and not to be trusted so didn't want to leave them in the house.  If it had just been Mindy I could have taken her into town but Jess tends to bark at people who are wearing hats and then Mindy joins in, so its not exactly a relaxed visit to shops when they are there!  However, next weekend is the Bead Fair (I think) so will get some nice sparkly beads there next Sunday.

Well I think that's about all for today.  Pop over to 1st Unique Gifts and see what others have been making this week.

Mich :)

18 comments:

  1. Love all the crocheting. I'm laughing at the thought of Jess barking at people wearing hats - so funny! x

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    1. lol it is not that funny when I'm trying to get her to shut up!

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  2. Sounds like Jess and Mindy are great fun together - although exhausting. Lovely crochet work Mich, the bootees are so cute. The colours you have used are gorgeous. Hope you have a good week.

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  3. You have had a crochet frenzy, love the bootees, did you think of adding buttons to the crochet necklace in the centre of each circle? just a thought have a wonderful week

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    1. Hi Caroline - yes did think of that just not sure about the actual necklace - if I like it. Maybe I should do a few things to it and see if that makes a difference.

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  4. I'd think about butons in the necklace too. maybe not in every circle, or maybe mix it up and put a variety in there.
    The bootees are gorgeous!

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  5. I love your crochet booties. I haven't been able to get my little boy to wear shoes since he learnt how to take them off at a few months old so I gave up buying/making them. They're still cute to look at though.

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  6. Ooooooh I love the necklace idea. That's super cute and interesting all in one. The booties are cute too. More great work!

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  7. The booties are so cute, the necklace is pretty too, I like the ideas above about adding buttons to it. x

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  8. I like the idea of cycling places because at least, even if you don't get your errand done you've gotten exercise! As for the necklace, the button idea sounds cute. And the booties are wonderful. My boys would never leave them on tho, they always kicked one off. So I ended up with singleton booties. :)

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  9. Gorgeous booties! The colours are lovely and bright. Hope you enjoy your Planet Penny Cotton :) Maybe add little crochet flowers in the circles on the necklace? x

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  10. Loving the booties...so cute
    Bit addictive isn't it crochet? lol
    Have a fun filled week x

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  11. Lovely booties!!! I really want to try to make some booties but don't feel I have the skills just yet!! Thank god its not just my dog that barks at people with hats on!!

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  12. You've been very busy!Love the booties.

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  13. ohmygod a Bead Fair! Drool, drool! I'm sure you'll be inspired by what you see there. I love both the bootees and the necklace. So creative with your crochet, I'm stiil doing granny squares!

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  14. Sometimes we need to step away and leave things for a few days and hopefully see things in a different way when we go back to it. I hope that happens for you with the necklace. If not it could make a nice embellishment for a cardi or even used as bunting. I love the colours.

    Jan x

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  15. Ooh, lots of pretty things! Do add your link to the Planet Penny Cotton Club Linky so lots more people can see what you've been making!

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  16. Love the little booties! And how nice to find another crocheting, bead-loving, cyclist-blogger.

    Your necklace reminds me a tad of a new pattern that just popped up on Ravelry today - I think it's called Sea Pennies. If you decide to scrap the necklace (although I think it's cute) perhaps you could come up with some way of netting the circles together for a scarf-ish type of thing.

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