crochet anyone ?

Diflower

Oh what lovely things to have Chipps, I'm sure you will treasure them. Yes, most of the older patterns are for very fine stuff, very lace-like, I just can't imagine being able to do those.
I do have a bone crochet hook though, it's 4.5mm so quite thick for its age! It is lovely to use, very smooth.
There's a gauge you can get, a line of holes, you just stick the hook through (or knitting needle) and it tells you the size:)

Chipps

Thanks Diflower. I hadn't thought about the gauge - I do have one, you can probably guess who gave it to me! Although I'm not sure it would work on those double ended bone hooks, as the two ends have different size hooks. I don't think I would use them, would hate to break them!

Rummer

Hello

I want to make a blanket out of Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino and I wondered if anyone knew where I could get it at a reasonable price. The cheapest I have seen so far is £3.80 which I think may be the best however I thought I would ask

jessie15

Hi, I am just learning to crochet, I have just about mastered the very basics. What can I make to start with? I want to do something easy but useful, any ideas?

PixieDust

I tend to stick to granny squares....but I wanted to post to bump for you

museumworker

Hello - I am a relatively new crocheter, having learnt this year. I did a one day crochet course at morley college for £30. Am still picking up the basics. Made a cotton buggy blanket for friends baby which was not bad, now started on a furry cape using wool I have had for years and the happy hooker book a friend got me for my birthday. Already learnt stuff from it and have completely messed up the pattern, but can't unpick it as wool is too furry! But going to carry on anyway.

Diflower wrote: »

Then I managed to grab a copy of '200 crochet blocks' for only £2:T so now have lots of lovely designs and am working my way through all the easy ones (they're graded 1,2 & 3).

Ooh - how did you get it for that price? Any still left? Probably missed the boat but will subscribe to the thread so let me know if any more become available!

Kirsty262

jessie15 wrote: »

Hi, I am just learning to crochet, I have just about mastered the very basics. What can I make to start with? I want to do something easy but useful, any ideas?

I taught myself too and I started with scarves and then went onto to baby cardigans, which I found on Ravelry. Then I did the ripple blanket off Attiuc24 which was very easy too

I have just finished a 3D gingerbread house and am now in the middle of a ladies cardigan

Diflower

museumworker wrote: »

Hello - I am a relatively new crocheter, having learnt this year. I did a one day crochet course at morley college for £30. Am still picking up the basics. Made a cotton buggy blanket for friends baby which was not bad, now started on a furry cape using wool I have had for years and the happy hooker book a friend got me for my birthday. Already learnt stuff from it and have completely messed up the pattern, but can't unpick it as wool is too furry! But going to carry on anyway.



Ooh - how did you get it for that price? Any still left? Probably missed the boat but will subscribe to the thread so let me know if any more become available!

Sorry, it was from a charity shop:) On a little stand, right by the door as I went it in - so I literally grabbed it!
Check every charity shop you see, but don't just buy any crochet titles, have a look through as even old books have good basic designs.
I've since found another, 'Easy crocheted accessories', I probably won't use much from it but then it was only 99p:)

Edited to add, just looked up 'easy crocheted accessories' on amazon it's £7.54

mavisangelica

Here is my first major crochet project after inspiration from this forum (thanks to the person who had made something similar.) It is a throw for these cold evenings but hubby has already claimed it

I crocheted it together rather than sew it and used the method of single crochet into a space then one chain and then single crochet into the middle stitch of the block then one chain.

In my haste though I didn't put the large squares in the right places (I thought that I had laid them out on the floor correctly!) so finished it and then had to unstitch around the last third of the border and remove the bottom 2 squares and then re stitch. But it was much quicker having crocheted together.

Can't believe how quick it was to make.

I have another pattern for squares which I think was a link from here using a 'special' treble stitch which I think I might have a go at but i am a bit nervous as it is not just crocheting into chain spaces so will have to concentrate more.

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jessie15

mavisangelica wrote: »

Here is my first major crochet project after inspiration from this forum (thanks to the person who had made something similar.) It is a throw for these cold evenings but hubby has already claimed it

I crocheted it together rather than sew it and used the method of single crochet into a space then one chain and then single crochet into the middle stitch of the block then one chain.

In my haste though I didn't put the large squares in the right places (I thought that I had laid them out on the floor correctly!) so finished it and then had to unstitch around the last third of the border and remove the bottom 2 squares and then re stitch. But it was much quicker having crocheted together.

Can't believe how quick it was to make.

I have another pattern for squares which I think was a link from here using a 'special' treble stitch which I think I might have a go at but i am a bit nervous as it is not just crocheting into chain spaces so will have to concentrate more.

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WOW!! Thats great! Where did you get the pattern from?