Three and a half odd skeins of different purple yarns. What to do?
I wanted to use them to make something for myself because I love the colors, but I didn’t have enough for any bigger project.
A novel idea in itself! I don’t even know when I last made something for myself …
(Oh, last winter I knitted a pair of wool socks, but I haven’t used them yet in case I’d like to give them as a gift.)
Anyway, searching for something to make I found a pattern I really like. A granny square shrug!
Oh my! It’s fall already!
Not that you can see or feel it yet. Here in southwestern Minnesota it’s still sunny and warm and the leaves are just starting to change color.
But, where did this summer go? When I read my post from May 14th, I realized I didn’t have time to tackle even half of my craft projects.
But then again, I did do a lot of other things. A lot!
I am overwhelmed by the huge response to my humble spiral tutorials! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!
One request from many of you is to learn how to make the spiral bigger. It’s done the same way as making a normal round shape bigger, by adding one more stitch between the double stitches all around on every level.
It gets a bit more tricky when using several colors though.
Here’s how to do it:
The nautilus shell is a popular motif in freeform crochet. It’s made in the same way as the spiral, or two-colored spiral, except the height of the stitches progressively gets higher, creating a widening of the spiral towards the end.
The pattern is based on the actual living sea creature commonly called nautilus shell, a marine mollusc with a spiral shell divided into chambers.
The pattern is also called the Fibonacci Shell. The Fibonacci sequence, also known as the Golden Spiral, is a mathematical formula for natural spiral formations.
Here’s how to crochet a basic Nautilus Shell:
Today I noticed to my horror that my very popular post about instantly aging wood has been without its photos for a long time!
I apologize, and am happy to say that all the photos have been reposted!
I happened to notice the problem because I needed to check my own tutorial for treating a shelf.
Here’s the shelf before and after:
This past week has gone by way too quickly! I can’t believe it’s Friday already!
Last Saturday my newly founded knitting circle made a yarn bomb in our village. The concept of yarn graffiti is pretty unknown in this rural part of the world, but everybody I heard comment on it, loved it.
“At least it made the old, ugly billboard a bit more colorful!” was a statement I heard several times.
In my previous tutorials about Freeform Crochet I showed you how to make a spiral and how to make a spiral with two colors.
Here’s a few more ideas for making spirals.
It’s been hot here in Finland. Maybe not very hot, but hot enough for me. When it’s above 28-30 degrees Celsius (82-86 F), I normally go hide somewhere cool. I make jokes about going to clean the root cellar …
Today there’s been a light breeze. No need to totally hide, but perfect for me to recline under the apple tree with a cool drink and some reading.
I’ve been searching for freeform crochet on the internet. There’s a lot out there! Try searching for images, or search on Pinterest and Etsy, and you’ll find lots of beautiful amazing works of art. But I wanted to interact with others. Not finding anything on Facebook, I decided to start a new page there …
This week I’ve been collecting dandelions, spruce shoots, stinging nettles and ground elder. My first wild harvest this year!
Two years ago I wrote about fried dandelion flowers. Unfortunately I had to remove that recipe because I lost the photos due to unfortunate events. Today I made them again and I remembered to take photos, and repost the recipes.
This is what I wrote two years ago: