A lovely Embroidered gift

I received this in the post today from AuntieElle, who is a member in the Crochet Lovers group at Ravelry. It is a care gift as Elle, knew I had been unwell. She has embroidered my nick name along with some cats and paw prints. I'm sure she has made the card too! Thanks so much Elle. It's so nice to know that people care.

Visual tutorial for Tunisian Colour Change and how to keep a neat edge.

I have found this video tutorial very helpful for Tunisian colour change. It also has a good method for keeping a nice edge.

Enjoy!

This is also a colour change method, mid row or from the beginning.

Move over and make room for Christmas

I made a quick trip into Spotlight which is a major craft chain here in Australia. I was looking to purchase some sock yarn. To my dissapointment, they have reduced their yarn aisle's to make lots of room for christmas decorations! So my sock yarn choice was very limited, I was very annoyed after walking up and down the 2 aisle's they now have to cater for the yarn enthusiast. I eventually chose the yarn below, which is a very soft acrylic and absolutely no stretch, so these may have to be my practice balls. Although I did come across a clearance on some crochet hooks, the 3 in the middle are the hooks with the light in the end of them and a .99c aluminium large hook. I did need these particular sizes and they all have the fat handle which I prefer to use.

Onto something else. I bit the bullet and purchased this Tunisian cable hook set from Crochet Australia.

I'm involved in a christmas swap and I have my swap items made and ready to go, which now gives me the time to spend on Tunisian crochet and sock making practice. Yippee!

I can't blog about the christmas items I have made yet. I do not want to spoil the surprise for my swap partner, just in case they read my blog. But I will take pictures before I send them off on the due date and blog about them later on, I will say that I have made something that I have not delved into before.

Linda's Woodland Shawl Finished

Remember the shawl Linda sent me?

Well the pattern has a flowered border and she could not get the pattern right, she thought it was because she was a lefty and she thought I may have better luck with it, so she sent me the yarn for the flowers and the pattern too.

Well I had no luck with the pattern either!

So I improvised, the pattern calls for the flowers to be crocheted onto the border, so I just made a long chain of the flowers seperately, then sewed them onto the edge where they belong.

And here she is. What a beauty!

Once again, thank you Linda, no more cold shoulders. Oh one more thing, I ran out of yarn on the last stitch of the last flower! How was that!