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Saturday, 21 September 2019

The Weekend Project That Took A Whole Week

This is the story of a very quick and easy project which could have been quicker without my tinkering!

Happy Photos

If you think this blanket looks cute …

A square baby blanket comprised of 9 squares, all white except for the centre square which is yellow. Each square has a blue border and a tan teddy bear face in the middle. The teddies have three dimensional ears stitched onto the surface of the blanket. The outside border of the blanket is crocheted in yellow with a row of filet crochet and ending with a scalloped edge. White satin ribbon is woven through the filet spaces.

… you should meet its new owner!

I was in the middle of making faces when the news came through that baby might be born within 24 hours!

That will teach me to get distracted and procrastinate. The Teddy Blanket was not ready at all!

Crochet to Extend Life

Close-up photo of the two border patterns, juxtaposed diagonally. The top has a filet pattern of two open squares followed by a closed square. This is repeated row on row to give an effect of 1-square wide columns and spaces between them that are 2 squares wide, with a solid filet border of tr around the outside edge. The bottom filet crochet border has a chequerboard arrangement of open and solid squares. The outside edge is a round of open filet squares and a round of solid dc.

Crochet is not only a fun creative activity, but also a practical skill that can save you money.

If you are interested in recycling and re-using, making do and mending, to both save money and care for the environment, you will be pleased to discover that crochet can add years of extra usefulness to household items.

More Examples of Crochet Spider Stitch

Diamond-Strike Banded Scarf in red on a black background. It is a filet crochet scarf with spider stitch diamonds.

Spider stitch features in this scarf.
(Made by Jodiebodie 2014.
Pattern: Diamond-Strike Scarf by Kristen Stolzfus)

Are you familiar with the phenomenon where you buy a new car and when you go driving, you suddenly start seeing lots of cars of the same model and make where previously you had never noticed them before?

I think that is what happened to me with spider stitches!

Seeing Double

Two red lacy scarves in filet crochet laid out horizontally with respective ring-shaped band fastenings next to them. Long sides have a scallopped edge; short sides have 15 cm straight fringe. The first scarf is at the bottom with 15 rows of spiderweb motifs, 2 per row. The second scarf is at the top with 14 rows of spiderweb motifs, again the width is 2 motifs per row. The shorter scarf at the top has had its fringe trimmed but the longer one at the bottom is yet to be trimmed.

Top: second and latest scarf (14 pattern repeats long)
Bottom: first scarf (15 pattern repeats long)

It's not your eyes!

I made a second filet crochet scarf just like the first (well, almost!)

These scarves differ in length. After making two scarves from one skein of 5 ply yarn, with barely anything left over, I am very pleased with the results. Now that I am not in such a (Christmas rush) hurry to make another scarf, there is time to explain the finer details.

Red Lacy Scarf Finished!

The filet crochet scarf has 15 cm fringe at each end.
A separate circular band can be used as a fastening.

I am so excited to have finished the red lacy scarf that I took with me to crochet in hospital.

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Saturday, 21 September 2019

The Weekend Project That Took A Whole Week

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Happy Photos

Saturday, 11 March 2017

Put on a Happy Face

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Crochet to Extend Life

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

More Examples of Crochet Spider Stitch

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Seeing Double

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Red Lacy Scarf Finished!