Finnish Granny Square Scarf, V-Stitch Cowl, Flower Necklace and more Autumn Crochet

Hi, nice to see you here again!

How was your week? Mine was very busy, but the good news is that I have got lots to show you here!

I'm starting with some flower power - read more about that further down!

My Little Crochet Flower Necklace

V-Stitch Cowl

On Monday and Tuesday I was busy making this V-Stitch Cowl with a 7mm hook (Veritas Laura yarn). It is both lightweight and warm! I found this stitch strangely soothing and the Cowl was finished pretty quickly. As usual, there were plenty of ends to sew in, but luckily I did some already in the first third or so.

Also at the beginning of the week I had another go at crocheting the same doily I made recently in colour. This one I made with very fine white Cotton and a 2.5mm hook, you can see it it slightly smaller than the first one (underneath). I gave it to my mother in Germany when we visited her on Wednesday and she was very happy with it!

White Doily

The crochet bracelet that I won from Marianne in the Netherlands!

On Thursday I received some post from the Netherlands - it came from Marianne. She organized a give away and I had won one of her hand crocheted bead bracelets, yay!!! I was so happy to receive this and immediately put it on! You can read more about it here.

I thought it such a brilliant idea! I've been reading her blog for a while and I'm loving her unique colourful style, what an inspiration! Please do check it out for yourself!

Modelling my new bracelet

Ok, back to the flowers! On Wednesday we left in the middle of the night to drive to Germany so we could get there during the morning. As usual at breakfast time, I went to read a few blogs and came across an inspiring post, so I quickly printed off the tutorial and took it with me (together with my Granny Square Bag full of yarn and hooks!) I tried to sleep in the car, but as soon as the sun had come up I got busy with my crochet hook, the tutorial and some of Scheepjeswol Stone Washed yarn.

And this is the result: I joined the flowers to make a necklace. I used all 16 available colours, luckily I had them all with me in a bag of small yarn balls.

Atty gives a fantastic tutorial how to make and also join up flowers here.

I've only found her blog relatively recently, but already have come across a number of interesting ideas with regard to joining modules (such as the flowers in this case).

My little crochet flower necklace

The Flowers close up, aren't they pretty?

On Thursday I managed to finish off the Finnish Granny Square Scarf, here it is!

The Finnish Granny Square Scarf

I joined the squares with a simple blanket stitch and did 2 rows of double crochet all around.

Close up detail of scarf

I even blocked the scarf!

I wanted some sort of tassels at the ends, but something different! I made triple treble clusters of 4, with 10 chains and let the ends hang loose!

My quirky Tassels! (reverse side here)

Thursday late evening after coming home from my Dutch class, I found this lovely pattern by Maaike from Crejjtion - Flower Square Cushion here. I immediately had a go to make a little square following her instructions. You can see the result here, next to one of the Maybelle flowers I made before (to get an idea of scale.

Crejjtion Flower Square and Maybelle Crochet Flower

Also on Thursday late afternoon, I took some new Fenna variegated yarn and some hooks with me and just started some granny crochet. That yarn works up nicely and the colours are like gems, rich and colourful. I've not yet decided what it will be made into, I got 3 balls of yarn, but I am making it quite wide (about 36cm - it would fit a cushion nicely! On the other hand, if I can still get some more, then it could be made into a scarf/shawl. This is what it looked like this morning:

Current Mystery WIP

I'm loving these deep colours!

Close up colourful stitches

So, there you have it, a summary of what has been happening in my crochet corner of the world! Apart from that, I started 2 different Dutch courses in the evening, went to a crochet/knitting meeting and been to Germany and back. This means I need to catch up on everyone else's blog which I'm hoping to do over the weekend!

Please don't be shy and write some comments in the space below, I'm pleased to hear from you and like to know what you think!

And last, not least, thank you again to Marianne, Atty and Maaike for their brilliant blog inspiration!
Please, go and visit their pages!

http://atty-s.blogspot.be/
http://crejjtion.com/
http://marrose-ccc.com/

Single Motif Doily by Emma Lamb and some knitting WIP

Hello, welcome back, hope you are having a good week so far?

Time has been flying by, it seems, so I thought I do a quick update on what I have been doing and making!

But first I want to thank all of you reading this blog for your kind support and lovely comments! Also, I want to welcome some new readers! Happy that you managed to find me amongst a huge number of blogs! I really appreciate you taking the time to take a look here and I do hope you will find some little nuggets of interesting things!

Single Motif Doily by Emma Lamb

I have to thank Mirjam (or Stins, as she likes to be known) for giving me a little challenge! (You can read her lovely blog here! She even has got crafty cats!) You see, I was admiring her colourful doilies and she thought that I should give it a go!

Turns out the pattern is by the talented  Emma Lamb, published in Mollie Makes Crochet (book).

The original pattern is made with just 3 colours, but you know me, I love colours, so I managed to squeeze in an extra one!

The pattern and how I made it

Made with DMC Natura Just Cotton

Single Motif Doily - Finished!!!

I started this last night, managed to make it to the Turquoise ring and then gave it some rest. This morning I went back to it, and once I could see how the lacy bits were going, continued, at snails' pace or so it seemed to me. The trouble was not the pattern (I'm still learning this skill, so far I hardly followed patterns!), but the yarn iself. Natura is a lovely looking Cotton, very thin (use 2.5-3.5 mm hook, I used a 3mm) and apparently available in 60 colours by now. I bought a few balls only a year ago, but never made much with it. My problem is that the yarn always splits, practically with every stitch, which to me is no fun at all. Anyway, I got there in the end! And I really love how it looks! However, I shelved the plan to make a whole family of them... That is for another day!!!

Knitting

The thick and squishy Scarf that I started knitting with Boston  (the yarn I bought on Monday) is coming along nicely, by now I'm on the 5th ball of yarn, so it will be finished soon. I'm using a single rib stich (k1, p1). I love the feeling of it, so thick and soft. I hope my son will love wearing it! I think this would also make the most amazing warm blanket, but who knows how much yarn it would require!!!

The thick Scarf I started knitting since Monday

New WIP

I finish with a short glimpse of my latest project, which I started early evening (tonight). I spent ages working out a design on little squared paper. I couldn't wait to get started! All this drawing was making me itching to turn it into reality! Can you guess what I'm making?

Mystery WIP

And that's all for now! Over to you.... just leave a little comment, you know you want to! (And I love reading them!) Are you ready for the weekend? (Have a lovely one!) Now I must go and catch up reading your entertaining and interesting blogs in return, where did the time go!!!