tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37751275689198936862024-03-13T16:22:04.795+01:00Getting Hooked (again)Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-60882174862291247642014-03-05T21:30:00.000+01:002014-03-05T21:44:48.212+01:00Four years of Getting Hooked (again) and boy did I get hooked!!!!I'm full of ideas and inspiration at the moment.<br />
I just wish I could crochet quicker lol!!!<br />
I think you know what I mean, like I'm busy working on a project and another idea just pops into my head.<br />
When I was younger I would have just started on the new idea and end up having don't know how many WIP.<br />
And of course that meant that not many of them got finished.<br />
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Now, however I try, (yes I really try) not to have more than two projects going at once.<br />
And I have to finish them.<br />
Living up to these rules isn't always easy.<br />
But I'm working on two projects at the moment so that is ok.<br />
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It's now March 5th and I'd forgotten that on March 3rd this blog was 4 years old.<br />
So, a couple of days too late but I got to thinking about just how many blankets have I made, and finished (very important) since I started this blog?<br />
So, here they are.<br />
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This was the first one I made.<br />
I ordered the yarn for this online and when I got it it was much darker than I really wanted, but I finished it all the same.<br />
And I didn't know about joining as you go then so I stitched it together.<br />
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In between making this granny and the next blanket I made stuff that I ended up pulling apart.<br />
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Then came this hexagon blanket.<br />
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Which I still love to this day.<br />
I have it over hanging over a chair in one of the bedrooms.<br />
It's been washed a lot (because the cats love it too) and it still looks good.<br />
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Then I fell in love with Japanese Flowers.<br />
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Didn't know when I'd finished this one it would be the first of three.<br />
It's made with the same yarn as the hexagon blanket (which has been discontinued....) so it washes up well.<br />
It's home is our sofa bed.<br />
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Then I made three large granny square blankets for my granddaughters, Megan, Emily & Katie.<br />
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It ended up going to my Daughter Sarah.<br />
And she still loves it I'm glad to say.<br />
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And then another Japanese Blanket<br />
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In this photo it wasn't quite finished I had one more row to join and the edging to add.<br />
But this is the only photo where you can see almost all of it.<br />
This hangs a crossed the bottom of our bed.<br />
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And then yet another Japanese Blanket.<br />
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This one went to my Granddaughter Libby.<br />
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Then her brother wanted a blanket too so back to grannies.<br />
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The photos of this blanket are not really that good because it was and is lovely.<br />
And my Grandson Chris loves it.<br />
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And the last one I've made so far.<br />
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The multi-coloured black granny for my son Tim.<br />
So there you have it 11 blankets made and finished over the past 4 years since starting this blog.<br />
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And I still have another couple to make for Family members.<br />
But first I have to finish the two I'm working on now!!!!<br />
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Chris XxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-63050381374272052882014-02-20T13:15:00.002+01:002014-02-20T13:16:48.304+01:00White Multi-Coloured BlanketThe other project I'm working on at the moment is this one.<br />
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Another Multi-coloured blanket but this time joined with white.<br />
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This blanket is for myself this time.<br />
It's made up of three round granny squares.<br />
All the squares are finished so it's just a question of joining now.<br />
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I'm really pleased with both of these granny blankets, (that is this one and the one from my last post) because I've used up loads of small balls of yarn I had on them.<br />
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However, I've started yet another new project which I am also working on.<br />
But more about that in my next post.<br />
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Chris XxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-72246088610536237542014-02-11T14:49:00.000+01:002014-02-11T14:49:30.926+01:00Ta-dah......... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At last I've finished the multi-coloured black blanket for my son Tim.<br />
I'm really pleased with it!!<br />
And I've already started new projects, but more about them soon.<br />
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Chris XxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-44416236938146273672014-01-01T20:15:00.000+01:002014-01-01T20:15:07.873+01:00Happy New Year!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.<br />
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And lots of creative inspiration!!<br />
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Chris XxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-29468598015219050962013-06-15T11:10:00.002+02:002013-06-15T11:11:04.118+02:00Old Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having finished my last project, the granny square blanket for my grandson Chris.<br />
I'm back working on an old project I started last year. <br />
(For which I had all the coloured grannies done by the way, I ask myself why I didn't finish it back then.)<br />
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So I'm making all these granny squares into a retro style multi coloured black granny square blanket.<br />
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I've started joining and have the first row done, that is the first of 12 rows.<br />
They are four round squares for which I'd used up loads of leftover yarn.<br />
And I'm going around them with black and then joining as I go with black.<br />
So they end up being 6 round grannies.<br />
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And this blanket is for my son Tim.<br />
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I think this will be a quick one because all the coloured parts are already done.<br />
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Have a great weekend.<br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-32682482067973733222013-06-03T15:47:00.001+02:002013-06-03T15:52:13.615+02:00Granny Square Blanket For Chris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Last Thursday I finished this granny square blanket for my Grandson Chris.</div>
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It took me exactly six weeks to make.</div>
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I love the way it turned out and hope he likes it too.<br />
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I used 16 different colours all greens and blues for the first three rounds of the squares.<br />
The 4th round is off white.<br />
And the 5th and joining round is middle gray.<br />
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It's 9 squares wide and 14 squares long.<br />
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I also love the edging which I found<a href="http://happyinred.blogspot.nl/2012/02/granny-stripe-edging-tutorial.html"> here</a>.<br />
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All with all I'm really pleased with the way it has turned out.<br />
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Now I'm really into granny squares again and I'm working on my Multi coloured black joined granny blanket I started last year.<br />
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Chris XxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-9277078953031645182013-04-07T13:25:00.001+02:002013-04-07T13:29:49.901+02:00Remember This?????<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finished at last!!!!!!<br />
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Just before Christmas I stopped working on it and just couldn't seem to get back into it.<br />
But I'm pleased to say I pulled myself together and have now finished it.<br />
Here are some of the colour details.<br />
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The colours are abit deeper than in the photos.<br />
And our cat Bo loves it and seems to think I made it just for her.<br />
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However, I didn't, it's for our granddaughter Elizabeth.<br />
So I'll be sending it to her tomorrow together with my ripple blanket (above) which I'm giving to my daughter Sarah (Elizabeth's Mum).<br />
I'm so glad it's finished at last!!!!<br />
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Chris XxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-50382118484246409262013-01-14T22:22:00.000+01:002013-01-14T22:39:35.783+01:00Projects I Started In 2012 and Want To Finish In 2013 Part 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I still haven't finished my multi-coloured Japanese Flower blanket yet.</div>
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Somewhere in October I just put down my hook and I couldn't seem to get back into it again.</div>
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-75998832706502161172013-01-04T09:12:00.001+01:002013-01-06T01:24:14.035+01:00First Real Post of 2013<br />
It's something I do at the end of the year, that is look back and review the old one.<br />
Well, I was going to go off on a negative note about how I've hardly finished anything in 2012.<br />
And that I haven't blogged much.<br />
But then I thought, " come on Chris not so negative it's a new year with new possibilities right?"<br />
So, firstly I'm going to take a look at the things I did finish.<br />
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The Things I did Finish<br />
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Two blankets!!!<br />
No need to be negative is there.<br />
Although 2012 was the year where starting a project seemed more interesting than finishing it.<br />
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I have five projects on going at this moment!!!<br />
But more about them in the coming days.<br />
2013 will be the year I finish them!!!<br />
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Love & A Happy New Year to you all!!!<br />
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It's growing fast there are seven rows finished now!!!<br />
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In this photo I've finished three rows.<br />
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All the odd numbered rows have 15 flowers and the even numbered ones 14 flowers.<br />
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Our new kitten Bo (she's nearly six months old now) seems to like it
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People have often asked me about the pattern.<br />
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chart pattern when it was posted on a site before they were asked to remove it
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It comes from a Japanese crochet book.<br />
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It's a German blog but the picture are clear.<br />
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If you put the directions under the pictures into the <a href="http://translate.google.com/"><span style="color: blue;">google translater</span></a> you can get the pattern.<br />
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My blanket is really growing, and looking good if I may say so!!!!<br />
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This time with a rainbow/colour wheel theme.<br />
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Every evening a few flowers while watching t.v.<br />
So it's coming a long nicely.<br />
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Did some tidying up in the garden today and yesterday.<br />
Although these are weeds and will have to go they look quite cute.<br />
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<br />Yesterday my new Cookie Cutters came can't wait to get started creating new clay stuff with them.<br />
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No crochet, but a new hobby!!!<br />
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I was inspired a couple of weeks ago to have ago at making things with clay.<br />
Using cookie cutters to cut out the shapes.<br />
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I used Polymer Air-Dry clay, which as the name suggests will dry without having to fire it or bake it.<br />
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I rolled out the clay with a small plastic rolling pin.<br />
Making the textured look in the clay is easy too.<br />
Just take a dollie, crocheted or paper and put it on top of your already rolled out clay, then roll over it gentally with your rolling pin.<br />
Or just make patterns in the clay with stuff you have around the house, like the little star pattern in the one above.<br />
I then used my cookie cutters to cut out the shapes.<br />
I didn't use a cookie cutter for the one with the stars, which you can see but I still think it look good.<br />
I made a hole to put the ribbon through by carefully push a drinking strew through to the otherside.<br />
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On the packet it says 24 hours but some of mine took a bit longer than that to dry out.<br />
When they were dry I gave them two coats of vanish.<br />
After the vanish dried I add the ribbon.<br />
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The one above I pushed into a cake form to get this pattern.<br />
I'm going to be having lots of fun with this new hobby in the future.<br />
I've always had a thing about cookie cutters I love them, and all the shapes and sizes they come in.<br />
So I'm looking out to buy some new ones and see what I can create with them.<br />
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I've already made some Christmasy plain ones, I'll be making more of these to give away as gifts.<br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936727122157166154noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775127568919893686.post-25360057981685239352012-05-16T00:13:00.002+02:002012-05-18T18:29:43.255+02:00What I've I Been Upto Part 2I also finished my Ripple blanket.<br />
In the end I didn't make it as big as Mia's one.<br />
I just got to the point where I thought it was big enough.<br />
Big enough to snuggle under.<br />
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By the way, the links in <a href="http://gettinghookedagain.blogspot.com/2012/02/story-behind-my-ripple.html"><span style="color: blue;">my post</span></a> about the ripple blanket on Mia's site won't work anymore.<br />
It seems that Mia stopped blogging, no one seems to know why.<br />
I think it's a pity because it was a blog that really inspired me.<br />
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I love the way it turned out, I would never have thought of putting these colours together.<br />
The idea is Mia's idea and she based it on the Cath Kidston colours.<br />
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Well my last post was about my flower blanket that I said was finished.<br />
Well, I decided to put an edging on it.<br />
It just seemed to be the right thing to do just to bring it all together and make it a bit stronger.<br />
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Just a simple single crochet picot edging.<br />
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I think it brings it more together.<br />
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My flowered blanket is finished!!!<br />
I finished it last week to be honest but just didn't get around to posting this post until now.<br />
So it was finished in March like I hoped it would be.<br />
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13 rows all together.<br />
The odd rows are rows of 15 flowers.<br />
The even rows are rows of 14 flowers.<br />
So 189 flowers all together.<br />
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I took a couple of photos of it spread on the floor but they didn't come out right, so I'll take a couple more soon.<br />
I'm really pleased with it!!!<br />
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11 Rows<br />
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Just one row to be joined now!!!<br />
Here are all 15 remaining flowers ready and waiting to be joined.<br />
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It will be finished this week.<br />
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I'd put it down for a while and that is something you shouldn't really do.<br />
But I managed to get some joining done this week (at last).<br />
So here it is.....<br />
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Nine rows<br />
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All the flowers for rows 11 & 12 are done and ready to be joined, the blanket will be 13 rows altogether.<br />
So nearly there!!!!!<br />
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