Its more pinks, lavender and purple except for darker blue.
I'm making for a little girl who turns 12 next week. She saw the ones I made for the grandkids up here, loved them, so I said I would make her one. She was thrilled.
Yeh, I do find it very relaxing and pleased I can still crochet as I can't knit anymore. My fingers knot up with arthritis.
I have a few part done projects, but my elbow is giving me heaps. Doc says its "golfers elbow" - opposite of the joint from "tennis elbow" can caused by knitting and crocheting.... drat !! By golly its sore !
I can still get past the little bit of arthritis I have in my thumbs as its early stages (more coming I expect).
I'm not looking forward to an old age without handiwork!
My worse fear is that my eyes will go blind - with MD or whatever - so I've been stockpiling baby blankets and rugs for the kids who haven't had their families yet so they won't miss out on something made by their Mum.
I know what you mean Ruth. I'm in the very early stages of cataracts. Would rather lose my hearing before my sight. Do as much as I can now while I am able.
I know what you mean Ruth. I'm in the very early stages of cataracts. Would rather lose my hearing before my sight. Do as much as I can now while I am able.
OT I know but I wouldn't worry too much about cataracts Marj. I had both my eyes done earlier this year ( 2 weeks apart ) and for the first time in many years I don't need glasses for distance and driving and have very minimal correction for reading. I can use the computer and my phone without glasses. I't like a miracle.
I've got hearing aids, which I only wear when I actually want to hear something ! which isn't all that often. I expect to have more problems as I get older, as my mother and all of her sisters ended up stone deaf.
Eyesight is ok, just needing glasses like most everyone, but its the arthritis which will change my life. The knees, hands, shoulders and elbows.......... walking, gardening, knitting, crochet, even shopping.
Now, I note a wry smile when I include shopping, but its a craft, takes talent and experience to be a great shopper!
My Mother did the same stockpiling beautiful layettes ,matinee jackets even knitted toys for her future Great Grandchildren. She was blind in one eye and going blind in the other. She made the most beautiful things and put them all in a large box with tissue paper , with instructions for me to hand them out when the time came.
When she died my sons hadn't even married but years later the time came and I handed them out, tears all around by the family and daughter in laws both thought the clothes were beautiful. The clothes after they weren't needed were passed onto other family and the knitted toys are still being played with. her beautiful work was appreciated for years after she died.
She had Glaucoma and Leukemia but that didn't stop her from crocheting and knitting.
I've got hearing aids, which I only wear when I actually want to hear something ! which isn't all that often. I expect to have more problems as I get older, as my mother and all of her sisters ended up stone deaf.
Eyesight is ok, just needing glasses like most everyone, but its the arthritis which will change my life. The knees, hands, shoulders and elbows.......... walking, gardening, knitting, crochet, even shopping.
Now, I note a wry smile when I include shopping, but its a craft, takes talent and experience to be a great shopper!
I think loss of hearing is one of the most frustration side effects of the passing of the years (refuse to say "getting older), it is hard to get through to my 5 year old g/daughter that unless she speaks clearly, louder and looks at me when she talks, I just can't hear or understand what she wants, at her age she just does not understand!
I eventually agreed that i needed a hearing aid, but find i dont use it much because I am afraid of loosing it. I get a bit sick of having to continually ask people to speak up or repeat something, so sadly i am finding myself doing the auto nodding and smiling as if I heard every word. but on the upside, at least I am not subjected to my 14 year old grandsons incessant chatter about his X-box and iPhone and other assorted and miscellaneous electronic games and contraptions ....lol
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The secret with crochet and knitting (both) is to practice heaps.... be prepared to pull it out if you need, re-work the wool/cotton/ string whatever if you have to until you get something you can at least give away.
It doesn't matter what you make - some people make dishcloths- but its the practice that gets your tension right.
A good beginning is a granny square- basic is easy. It has just 2 basic stitches - treble and chain.
I made rugs (some of them were crap, some plain ugly) then I went on to doilies.... gave dozens to fetes along the way. Then I did round tablecloths (helps that I have a round table). They are just big doilies I figured, just count more rows! lots more !
With crochet there are 3 or 4 basic stitches, and with knitting just 2...master those and you're an expert!
My advice is be brave enough to undo work, and re-use the yarn till you're happy.
It was easy Jeanne. I chose the flecked ball, then got one of each matching colour that were in the flecks. Same with the green.
It's the 8ply acrylic from the cheapy shop.
I find crochet easier to unravel than knitting happycamper when you a learning. There's only one stitch not like knitting than can have quite a lot on one needle. So you can unravel a bit if you make a mistake and just carry on.
I still find I need to follow instructions for the first bit till I have it in my head then off I go making up the colour formation as I go. Finish when I run out of wool leaving some of the dark colour for the outside border.
I never do anything exact to the pattern, just make it up as I go.
That's why I like doing rugs, would be no good doing clothes.
Why not post the pattern? That's a good idea. And Marj..... unravelling is called 'reverse crochet'. Unfortunately it's easier to do than the original crochet.
