Sunday 5 February 2012

Snow is gone but I am still feeling creative.

Look at this. Isn't it beautiful. The instructions are hopefully idiot proof. I am going to have a go at it. I am hoping I am the old dog who can learn a new trick. The blog is just lovely so I will make my way through it just as soon as I can get the hang of the ripples. No-one in my family crochets and so there was no-one to teach me. In fact I am pretty sure that my grandma didn't knit or embroider either. My mum embroidered at school and knitted for me when I was a child but otherwise nothing there either. Anyway I can, or at least could, kind of knit. I made the kids jumpers and other clothes when they were little. I can do a bit of basic embroidery. It's time to see if I can still do any kind of crochet. The only thing that puts me off crochet is the endless changing of wool. I like to start something and get into it. I can see how that could happen if I was knitting, for example, a granny blanket. So when I saw a few photos of these lovely ripple blankets I was hooked (geddit??)

Just of try to find a crochet hook and some wool for a bit of a practice before I invest in materials.

I just googled images of ripple crochet and am now promtped to ask the age old question. How come some people are so clever, and I am not? Sigh.

6 comments:

  1. No photo Lizzie - hope you can make a go of it - whatever it is lol

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    1. Hi Cathy
      very weird. it is still there when i look. I'll try!!

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  2. I googled it because I wanted to see what you were talking about. Very pretty. Still, I think I would rather buy one from someone else than do the work myself.

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    1. Hi Daizy
      The cold weather and being stuck indoors without distraction, got to do something so it might as well be pretty. Also good for my hands. They ache a lot the last few years from all of the computer work over the years.

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  3. No photo on my end, take some baby steps and give it a try. Your local yarn shop might have free classes to get you started.

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  4. I think my tutorials will have to come from youtube. Our local wool shop is holding less and less stock and looks to be ion the edge of closure. Very sad.

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