Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Latest Crochet Creations

I made these two earflap hats Sunday. I have to admit though that I finished up the trim on the blue hat on Monday morning.
Then, I needed a break from my marathon hat making session. I got out the bag of Nana Squares I had been making and started putting them together. I had 112 solid squares, and I used 110 of them to make this. I made strips of 10 squares then joined those strips together. It's a fairly good size so far, but I will need to make more Nana squares so I can add them to it. I want the finished product to be a lot bigger than this. Once I get all the squares made and joined, then I will add a funky border to it. I thought that the whole process of joining the squares would be a tedious nightmare, but it wasn't. I used a flat joining method and once I had the 11 strips done, I wove in any ends that I could before I joined the strips together. Then, I took care of the leftover yarn ends as I was joining the strips. My one "issue" with this blanket was trying to put the squares together in some sort of color sequence. I finally gave up on that and did the "blind" method of picking them out. I stuck them all in a bag and pulled out a square every time I needed to add one. Then, I laid all the strips out on the floor and put them together in the best sequence I could find. Nothing to it! LOL

6 comments:

  1. The quilt looks wonderful and the hats have a vibrant colour to them!

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  2. thank you so much! i'm really trying to do projects with more color in them. I tend to opt for more somber colors and i'm trying to refocus my choices. :)

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  3. shelly, YOU are awesome, and so are your projects

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  4. what pattern do you use for the newborn earflap hat?? I would love to make some of these for my charity. thanks

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  5. Danette, I have two patterns that I use for the newborn hats.
    http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/maias-hat
    http://myfairkatie.blogspot.com/ (baby earflap hat)

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  6. debra...i think you're pretty awesome too! :) shelly

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