Crochet Love

It's been such a long time since I've been here.   I've laid off the crafting and gotten pretty obsessed with crochet.  I've started a blanket here or there, but I could never stay with it.

Then an amazing stiched came up on my newsfeed in facebook!!

I thought it was such a gorgeous stitch I had to try it.  Thus began my first real project, a lapghan for my downstairs neighbors.  It was such a fast stitch and the results were so pretty I really wanted to keep going.  The project was done just in time for Christmas and it came out fantastic, my neighbors couldn't be happier.

Since I hadn't used a pattern to make my blanket and was winging it I way over purchased the yarn.  I used 3 skeins and had bought 6.  I loved the colors in the yarn so I decided to make something for myself out of it.  A matching hat and scarf.  In retrospect I wish I hadn't done a tassel ball on the hat and instead done a mass of curli-Qs but that's OK.  I can make another for next winter (yes, still a whole skein of that yarn left).  Still no pattern used, I was winging it so there are some errors but it's cool, these are all mine and they match my new winter coat perfectly.

I enjoy the crocheting so much but just making blankets and scarves seemed silly and wasteful, I wanted to make something really useful.  Now I'm experimenting with cotton yarns and trying some potholders to replace my very old and very ratty ones.  Still not real pattern or anything.  Just winging it since they are pretty basic.  

Two new potholders, done!  I used Lily Sugar N Cream Beach Ball Blues (with the pink) and Moondance (with the blues).  

These are pretty basic, just single crochet straight across,  Nothing fancy but quite functional!

On to start the next project!!