Groovyghan Crochet Patternwhen Do Row 4 Again
Sep 1
Terminal post, I showed yous a bunch of stash yarn that I had gathered that I was thinking of using for the Groovyghan CAL. Well, I had some options – all the primaries and secondaries plus either browns, grey, or black. Only in the finish I went for Plan D which was to buy more yarn. I know, I am so bad! Hey, it came out of my birthday money.
The fabric store where I piece of work is clearing out their Ruby Heart and Premier, and rebranding their own line, so I was able to go these skeins of Red Heart With Love at 65% off. The yarn was somewhat overpriced to brainstorm with, just comparing what I paid to Herrschner's catalogue (because I've not seen this yarn for sale locally) I paid a reasonable price.
The 12 skeins fit perfectly into this wooden box which will live next to my crocheting spot for a few months. As you tin can see, I have a bit extra of iii of the colours from a previous purchase.
The colours are
Navy
Mallard (teal)
Blueish Hawaii (turquoise)
Iced Aqua
Hot Pink
Bubblegum
Violet
Boysenberry
Lilac
Cornsilk
Mango
Jadeite
I think they will make a groovy afghan!
The CAL starts today so in one case this post is published I volition be starting my first square.
A couple of other things to testify you: I FINALLY finished my March sweater which was halted when I broke my wrist in February. All it needed was some end-weaving, a scrap of single crocheting around the neckline and armholes, and a couple of buttons. I'm not actually in love with it, only at least it is DONE!
Crocheted with black Stylecraft Aran and a rainbow coloured Bernat Pop!
And another matter I finished this week was some other mesomorphic beanie out of the Sommer Wolle Venezia from Switzerland.
Well, I tin can't hang around hither, I'thou off to practise some crochet!
Jul 24
New haircut, hair colour, and specs
After my weekend, I withal had two full days of fourth dimension at dwelling to enjoy. The downside to being at home is…no AC! However information technology is fashion libation downstairs and that encourages me to go down to my craft room and actually get some sewing done.
Daytime maximums have been over xxx, then both days I prepped a bunch of food in the morning when the kitchen was more bearable and then went downstairs in the afternoon. This is super-satisfying equally I can then sew to my centre's content, knowing that the work of dinner prep is behind me and I tin can focus on what I'm doing.
Yesterday I spent some time sorting through my knitting and crochet pattern folder. I institute the pattern from the Groovyghan that I've made twice (this one and this ane) and pulled information technology out, every bit I am thinking of making another. There is a CAL running in the Vanna's Choice Fan Society grouping on Ravelry for the Groovyghan blanket and the designer, Tracy St John, has said that she will brand the blueprint free for a curt time for members of the Crochet-Along. I must have downloaded and printed the pattern when it was costless before as I don't recall paying for it. If you go and visit that group, click on the Involvement Thread that's stickied at the superlative of the discussion threads. (I have only ever made one blanket with Vanna'due south Choice – I joined the group just for this CAL and intend to utilise mostly stash yarn for it.)
After I'd dug out that blueprint, I tidied upwards my yarn a chip and made sure that the Mandala was being shown off properly! And then I decided to cut out all the pieces for a sewn backpack for which I had a blueprint from work, Butterick B6335. I used three coordinating fabrics. I made a big tote and a small-scale drawstring bag from the cat fabric a while back (a quick search shows me that was Jan 2016) and this fourth dimension I wanted to utilise all iii fabrics together.
Monday afternoon, all the cut was done, and today I went downstairs ready to kickoff sewing merely remembered I needed something to reinforce the base of operations of the backpack, similar plastic canvas. So I popped downward to the nearest dollar store, only they had nothing, so I went over to Walmart, got my new glasses tightened upward a bit, institute some plastic canvas and as well some Red Heart It'due south a Wrap which was strangely fatigued to my manus and begged to come domicile with me. In that location were merely two colourways to choose from and I didn't like the pinky-orangey one, and so this one in shades of blue (called Documentary) was what I bought. I have seen this a lot online recently – it's a fingering weight yarn with 1100 yards (about m metres) in a cake. Wouldn't that make an awesome holiday yarn! A whole kilometre of yarn to crochet or knit up. And it wouldn't take upwards much space in your luggage.
And finally, the sewing could commence. There was a couple of fiddly bits, the most memorable being the sewing of the backpack straps into the bottom band without catching the lining. But I was pleased that sewing the oval base into the cylinder of the primary bag went smoothly and I seem to take finally figured out how to do information technology properly (a large office of that being that I realised that when the instructions say to snip into the seam allowance to get effectually the curves you are to snip into the bottom of the cylinder, NOT the oval or circular base)! A big AHA moment there!!
And…TA DA!
That blackness and white striped fabric made it easier to get my hems straight, as did the pattern on the pocket. At that place are four cakes of Mandala in there for photography purposes so it is very roomy – way bigger than I expected, actually, going by the photo on the design envelope.
And now that I have waffled on, information technology's 11pm and time I went to bed. Work tomorrow. TTYL.
Jun 26
I'm only a yr and a half 'late' on doing this Crochet-along. It actually started in January 2016 and all the parts were published, done and dusted long ago. Still information technology fitted my criteria for a summer blanket project. It's modular which ways I tin can work on pocket-size pieces without being swamped in yarn on hot summer evenings. I tin can employ multiple colours and get a scrappy look because, hey, it's a Groovyghan and information technology's supposed to be a flake wacky.
Information technology's coming along quite quickly. I'chiliad using my stash of DK yarn, which is combination of Stylecraft Special, Deramores Studio and Mark & Kattens Carolina. I've had that Carolina for so long that it's now discontinued and information technology was annoying me that it was still hanging around. I invested a lot of coin in greens and browns, thinking I'd make this gorgeous cardigan, an adult version of a blueprint I had with fiddlehead ferns embroidered on it. Nope, that stalled, every bit did the other projects I tried with it.
I see most people use a 4mm hook with DK, even a 3.5mm, merely I'grand using my Addi Swing iv.5mm considering (a) it's an awesomely comfy hook, (b) I tend to crochet tightly, and (c) I don't want my coating coming out also modest.
Here's the pile of stash, sorted past colour:
And here's my progress:
1 strip of granny squares is finished (though I haven't woven in all the ends yet). To control the colours somewhat, all the centres are yellow, and all the 2nd and fifth rounds are shades of green (I have a lot of greens). That was part 1 of the CAL. Then function 2 is the popcorn blocks, where I chose to employ the aforementioned regal for the background on both blocks and two of the greens for the popcorns to tie things in with the grannies.
The Ravelry link for the CAL is here. And the page on the Keep Calm and Crochet On UK website where information technology all comes together is hither. Whilst I'm not crocheting along with other people, I have the benefit of working at my ain stride, which means I'm not waiting around for the side by side part to be published, or rushing to finish a section and feeling pressured.
As you can see, this is non a portable project. I accept three large bags/baskets of yarn and I'thou choosing colours as I become. And so I needed a small project which would fit into a project bag for taking to work and other places. This is 1 which I have worked on solely in my lunchbreaks the final three days:
It'south a nice bit of comforting Tunisian crochet in simple sew together using a beefy yarn from Michaels and an 8mm hook. This will probably finish up being another co-worker gift. No blitz to finish this 1 either.
So that's that! Summer has officially hit hither, with temperatures into the 30s, though I think perchance it will be mid-20s for the next few days. The over-full lake has started to recede, and hopefully the beaches will all be open once again soon (that's if they are usable, because the debris, dead grass etc all over the place). I have started an practise routine as I need to firm things upwards for MAUI! Yes, we have booked a week in Maui for our 30th hymeneals ceremony in Dec. I've been wanting to go there for a long fourth dimension and run across for myself if all the rumours are true – that information technology's an astonishing identify!
Tai Chi Human being has sadly been given extra work around the house that he actually didn't need. He has the week off and already has a "honey-practice" list as long as his arm, but we're having problem with the plumbing. The water pressure is triple what it should be which of course we discovered just before the weekend, the extra pressure level is making the toilets and dishwasher quite unhappy, and he has had to phone effectually for parts and make numerous trips to the hardware store. I guess the pressure valve on the pipe coming into the house failed (no cold water tank like nosotros used to have in the UK, just a direct line). What a nuisance! Old houses are always giving you lot piddling surprises. Nasty ones. Sometimes expensive ones.
I'd better go and get started on straightening up around here. The water is off so I can't clean the bathrooms only I tin certainly vacuum, and hem curtains, and become some things crossed off MY to-do listing.
Happy crafting!
Oct 10
If you lot're in Canada, I trust you are making a special endeavour to remember all the things you are thankful for today. Family, friends, a roof over your head, abundant food, etc. I normally make a betoken of feeling thankful every day (or at least at breakfast time, every bit often I forget the rest of the day). A good life is all near attitude.
I am thankful for all you blog readers, for my laptop and iPad, for the ability to beget yarn to enjoy my hobby. This is going to exist a curt post today as I have to gear up a big dinner and the more I practice this morning the less I take to do this afternoon. We have a family hike planned for early afternoon, though it's cold and blustery out at that place with a forecast of viii degrees Celsius. As long as it doesn't rain, then I'm fine. None of us has raingear (every bit we live in a relatively dry role of Canada where not a lot of rain falls).
Tai Chi Human being just came in with a bowl of carrots and potatoes from the garden. I am thankful for that likewise!
And so without further ado, let me show you my Demelza progress. Thanks to a relaxing weekend, where amazingly I have iv days off in a row, I accept blasted through the fix of eight Flat Bloom 2 blocks. I have a pic of the eight squares plus a few of the components of the blanket side by side. Side by side up, the four 3D bloom squares for the corners, and then it'll be time for joining all the pieces together earlier crocheting the edge. I decided on gold for the border and I take an extra two assurance of information technology coming from Wool Warehouse so that I don't run out.
Have a wonderful day!
October 4
This is the Week 4 part of the blanket CAL though by at present we are well into Week five. These squares took some fourth dimension and it didn't help that some days I haven't had a adventure to pick up a claw. I don't similar days like that!
I grouped my pinks and purples in these squares, with green for 'foliage' and a camel and copper edging. The next set, Apartment Bloom 2, will be browns and dejection. They are already started. I was watching a movie concluding night, Joy, which is about a woman with a VERY dysfunctional family who invents a self-wringing mop. It'southward based on a true story and she certainly had a lot of challenges on the route to success. The family will irritate the heck out of you but exist bodacious she overcomes it all in the end.
I have an eight hour shift today and I'k going to continue to avoid heavy lifting equally much as possible. The pinched nerve or whatever it is in my left shoulder isn't giving me as much carp this forenoon and I recollect it may be on the mend. Even the hip isn't as sore.
Wherever you become today, I promise you are able to smile and be positive. It makes all the divergence!
Sep 27
Firstly, Demelza progress. These "flat flowers" experience like they're taking ages. I've washed seven rounds on each so far and there are still four rounds to become to foursquare them up. At that place are two types of flat bloom in this blanket, and I decided to concentrate my pinks and purples in this set and my blues and greens in the other set. Unless I change it up somewhere forth the line.
What am I reading right now? I just finished House Rules past Jodi Picoult, a novel based around an 18 yr old young man with Asperger's whose passion is forensics. I am besides reading Recollect Zen past a local author (book is not to manus right now) which summarises much of the Buddhism/Taoism learning I have been doing over the final six years in a manageable paperback book. Next I will choice upward The Different Drum by G Scott Peck, a volume that a friend gave me for my altogether.
Netflix-watching is currently Broadchurch Flavour two. I watched Season 1 yonks ago but merely but realised that Season ii is out. It'due south a bit gloomy – I shall have to balance it out with some lighter amusement. Close-ups of David Tennant'due south myriad pained expressions are getting a bit much and I've merely watched the first ii episodes!
Aches and pains haven't got whatsoever amend but I have three different modalities planned for this week. A person at my chiro's office offers something chosen SCENAR which involves electrical pulses that stimulate the torso's natural painkilling effects. That's tomorrow, then Th morning time I'll exist seeing a massage therapist, but I have a feeling from reading the info on his website that this won't be a gentle massage with scented oils (he doesn't use oil) merely more in depth and possibly painful as he digs in and finds the knots etc.
I have a friend who also does healing for complimentary in her dwelling house and I will encounter her another twenty-four hour period, and that'll make 3 healing sessions in one calendar week. Hopefully at to the lowest degree i of them will make a difference so I tin get back to normal….or better than normal.
I was at work today (fabric store) and was put on cut tabular array 2 which is in the upholstery section. You can guarantee that means lots of lifting of long rolls of fabric, in add-on to which I had huge boxes of curtain rods to unpack and price. Despite the lifting and the standing/walking on a concrete floor for 6 – 8 hours, I actually feel all-time at piece of work, probably considering it takes my mind off my back and hip. I was at a form tonight and had to sit in a folding chair for nearly 2 hours and that really didn't experience good.
Well, that's plenty from me tonight – I need slumber. Hopefully I'll accept more Demelza progress to show you soon.
Sep 24
Almost there!
The handbag'southward front and back are now joined and the top band is finished. The handbag is at present blocking, hence the pins and wet spots where my iron dripped while steaming information technology.
I have two small crochet tabs to make for the D rings and I still don't have a handle, simply I did find some batik fabric in my modest stash which will be perfect for lining.
Information technology's been a decorated few days with work and errands. Yesterday in detail the store was really buzzing as we had one of our "ultimate sales" which continues throughout the weekend. I am grateful not to be working today – instead I am going to an intro session for piano lessons and this evening a potluck with dear friends.
For nearly the concluding month I've been feeling like an old crock as I have had a few aches and pains in my back, shoulders, neck and left hip. Information technology has disturbed my sleep, stiffened me upwardly and so I have to whorl out of bed slowly in the mornings, made me limp when I get up off the couch. I think it might be due to my overly enthusiastic efforts at getting back into weight grooming – I really wanted to feel fit and strong but it backfired and left me whinging and wincing like an old curmudgeon.
I've been to the chiropractor twice this week (she institute a lot out of alignment) and had a massage final weekend. This week I have more therapeutic appointments to make because I really don't like it when my trunk is not flexible and hurting-costless.
Anyway, enough of my whining. Things to do, people to come across. Improve get on with it. Take a wonderful weekend, peeps!
Sep xix
The 16 small squares are washed. This blanket is made working from the centre out. The centre square is crocheted get-go, so the iv rectangles that will be attached on all four sides of that square, then these xvi squares will exist joined into blocks of 4 and placed in all four corners.
The designer has you use only two colourways – so viii and 8. I went rogue and used 14 colours plus the 15th (lime) for bordering, so they are all different.
Later on I volition have to work out how they volition get together, but for now I can get on with the adjacent role of the pattern.
On the drive home today, which will be at to the lowest degree two hours, I may weave in ends on the Peacock Tail Purse pieces.
Sabbatum night was interesting. A big storm whipped up, at that place was lightning, there was air current, there were pino cones striking the roof, and my power went out. Wifi continued for an extra half an 60 minutes (apparently it has a support battery) then went out. I had to make do with candles for low-cal. The more inconvenient part of the power going out was that the pump for the water supply was likewise not working so I had to make it all dark with only the small corporeality of water in the filter jug. I didn't bother trying to wash my face or brush my teeth.
While the air current was at its strongest, I thought I heard a thud, simply put information technology down to thunder. Well later I had climbed into bed I heard a chainsaw going and realised that the driveway behind the cottage had been blocked by falling trees and the neighbour was clearing information technology. That was a niggling shut for comfort.
Next mean solar day, I had a text bulletin that there was bottled water in the main house, so I helped myself, had a quick wash and breakfast, and went out walking to encounter what damage the storm had brought. Not only had copse fallen across the neighbor'southward driveway, only ii more had come down forth the road to the highway. In that location is merely one way in and out here – information technology's a No Through Road – so some of the residents had had to park on the route and walk to their houses. Or, in the case of my hosts, stay elsewhere for the night.
I walked for a couple of hours and when I got back BC Hydro had worked their magic and fixed the power line. It was lovely to be able to (a) flush the toilet, (b) make a cup of tea and (c) fire upwardly the laptop and see what I missed!
That was plenty excitement for the weekend.
Tai Chi Human being joined me at the cottage yesterday afternoon as his conference was over. This morning, we have to pack up and clean up, but aren't in a rush to get going. Information technology's wet and cool and nosotros are quite happy tucked indoors.
Happy Mon to all!
Sep 17
I have no shortage of things to do. With hindsight, I probably should have gone out for a short walk before the rain started, but I deferred it in favour of crocheting, thinking I'd get out later on on. We shall meet! I don't mind getting wet, but I just brought one sweater with me that I need indoors and I don't have a backup.
So I take food, tea, crochet, colouring supplies, an ebook, an actual book…and I can likewise do some yoga stretches, some of which I did before just information technology would be a good idea to go off the couch at present and again and stretch some more than. Things in the shoulder area practise actually experience a bit better since yesterday's massage.
Week Three of the Demelza coating CAL is going well. Since breakfast this morning, I take done all the round ones and twos of 16 squares. These will be 5-round squares and I am going to make the last round the aforementioned colour in all of them, similar to the design. The major difference is that the blueprint says to brand eight in i colour combination and eight in some other combination, just ending all rounds with green, and what I am doing is using all of my colours for a more random look.
What I did was make 16 circular ones in 14 of my colours (I accept fifteen but I'grand using lime to do all the circular fives), obviously duplicating ii of the colours.
And then I added all the round twos, again having to use two colours twice, merely existence conscientious not to put the same colours together.
Doing this production-line style seems a lot quicker than doing one whole foursquare at a time. Quicker colour decisions, easy to memorise and repeat the pattern for that round, and I'm weaving in ends as I go.
I know that only we yarny types will understand the warm fuzzy feeling we get from seeing a trivial stack of squares like this…
Sep 16
Well, that made a change for a title, didn't it!
It's my retreat weekend and I accept taken myself off for a few days at a friend's cottage by the lake, complete with new magenta hair (thanks Joan)!
While Tai Chi Homo goes to his own weekend conference location (pleasance non concern) I am enjoying my own. We were up at 5am and while getting ready nosotros heard this weird hooting sound. TC Man reckoned it was owls, then I stepped out on the back deck that leads out from the kitchen and in the dawn light, which was beautiful on its own, two owls swooped overhead and perched in the very tiptops of the trees at the bottom of the garden. Wow! That was an unexpected treat. Worth getting up early on for, I'd say.
It took a couple of hours to go to the conference heart and drop husband off. I then returned to the nearest town for a pre-booked massage. Yikes! It may have only been half an hr simply it was a powerful i. I don't call up I've been massaged that deeply before – she did my neck, shoulders and back because that's what I requested – I've had a lot of pain in that area for weeks now and information technology's time to take time out for some self care. I'll be booking some chiro when I go dorsum.
Later I headed out to find the cottage, forgetting to bank check the address or directions while I had wifi. Well, I knew which road I had to drive down, I just didn't know the number of the house, so at one bespeak I turned around thinking I'd missed it. I turned around a couple more than times after that, even calling TC Man and request if he could wait upwards the address. Thankfully he picked up the telephone call and found it out for me and I realised that I hadn't been going far enough down the lakeshore road. The deer in this story come in here – if I hadn't been going dorsum and forth trying to find the house, I'd have missed seeing the doe and her two fawns (who hadn't yet learned road sense). Cute creatures (I volition never understand people who can look at a deer and shoot information technology).
And then finally I found the cottage and the door is covered in stinkbugs. They are outside, a few are within, and later settling in I felt I should adios the indoor ones so I didn't stride on them or find them in my nutrient. I recall I got them all.
A curt walk from the cottage is the beautiful lake, where I sat and mulled over some things that take been on my listen. While sitting at that place, three trains passed by on the opposite side – they were all actually long – the commencement one I counted seventy cars earlier giving upward. Information technology reminded me that when we camped in this surface area years agone with the kids we would be woken up at nighttime past train whistles.
I was startled past a creature appearing at my side. I hadn't heard it approach and so when it put its head about my correct shoulder I jumped. It was a black labrador that was thankfully very friendly. I petted him and he sabbatum by me for a while. After collecting some interesting rocks with sparkly bits in, I headed dorsum to the cottage.
My crochet spot here is perfect: couch, lamp, crocheted granny square coating (as shortly as I saw that in the cupboard I pulled it out), table for my laptop with a socket non far away for charging. I have completed role five of the Peacock Tail Bag CAL (well, the front, anyway) and dashed exterior to get a quick photo before I lost the light.
Now to go on with the back piece then next week I can expect forward to joining and finishing off the top of the pocketbook.
I plan to take a very relaxing weekend and hope yous become to do whatever gives you joy this weekend.
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