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Crochet - I love it

I tried to learn crochet from my Mum years ago and it didn't click with me. Fortunately, the basics got through enough for me and I have been crocheting steadily for the last 3 years.  I use the Ravelry website for patterns and ideas. The crafting community is a wonderfully generous place with so many people sharing. I hope to be good enough one day to give back. Anyway here are a few things I have crocheted.

 This is a hat for a new born. I did a plum and an apple.

 This was supposed to be a dress that I decided to change into a cardigan. It has fitted well for 2 years. I used the pattern by Nicki Trench

 A Scarf for Olivia. Pattern "Summer Sorbet Wraps" by Edie Eckman

 

Baby Monster Beginner Amigurumi by Allison Hoffman

 Rainbow Scarf by Crafty is Cool

 Viking Hat a basic crochet hat (pattern Skater Beanie by Ariane Donoghue) and I added 'horns'

 Angry Birds Black Bird by Deborah Hutchinson

Big Girl Hat #1 by Laurie Laliberte

 Lacey Shells Poncho by Chelle Grissam

 Poke'ball Hat by Bonnie Jacobs

My lovely husband in a Skater Beanie

 

My Ravelry contact is fricknit so if you have a look on there you can see a few more things I would like to make!! It's a great website and if you like to knit or crochet it is a definite must and it is free to join with lots of free and paid patterns.



Baby blanket

Baby blanket, a photo by FickleFrickMakes on Flickr.

This is the first crochet project I had started with earnest. I forgot to check dye lots when I bought the wool so you can see the effect it made. I used flower patterns out of a Good Housekeeping Crochet Basics books that was my Mum's!

Okay more details - Sugar Pop Crosses

I like to call this quilt Sugar Pop Crosses. I made this using the tutorial from the Greek Cross tutorial on fresh lemon quilts blog. Fresh Lemon Quilts tutorialThe difference I made was in cutting as I used a layer cake of Sugar Pop by Moda. When cutting out from the layer cake I took into account the direction of the design. This way my complete cross was in the same direction.
Firstly I matched the 2 colours I wanted together.

The layer cake needs to be vertically aligned so I cut a 4.5 x 10" piece.

I then took 4.5 off this to make the square.




From the remains I cut 2 lots of 2.5 x 4.5. From the 5.5 x 10" pice I cut a 2.5 x 10" strip. Then I cut this down into 2 lots of 2.5 x 4.5" This is how the pattern is connected. I did all my corners in the 1 colour (brown with white dots) so I needed 2 lots of  5" square of this and 2 lots of the background colour per cross. I did all my cutting in groups of crosses so I could try to strip sew as much as possible. It is a fantastic tutorial!

 

Sorry about the photos I am out of practice!!

 

But here is the finished quilt. The back is 2 of the designs in the Sugar Pop line and the binding matches the corners.

 

So much for consistency!

Well I was going to do a lot more but instead I will try to do a catchup!

Table runners

I had two people turning 80 a month apart. For my Nanna my sister embroidered teacups onto linen and then I sewed them into a table runner.

For my neighbour I had a similar layout but chose dairy fabric as she was on a dairy farm as a young girl.

Blast from the Past - My 3rd Quilt

With my third quilt I ordered the fabric from Spoonflower. The designer is Bora Bora. I love her designs. I did not know what I wanted to make before I bought the material and ended up short for my original idea. So I added a spotted line on each side. Looking back I can now see ways I could have changed it. Also as the order would take 6 weeks I didn't want to wait for more fabric. So I grabbed some from Spotlight and made a quilt for son number 2. The batting is bamboo. It is a really light quilt but a nice level of warmth. The idea with the layout was for the boy to be chasing dragons on his way home to the castle.

Blast from the Past- My First Quilt

The first quilt I made was for my husband on our 10th wedding anniversary. I used the pattern from the book Jelly Roll Inspirations by Pam and Nicky Lincott. The quilt was "Pick n Mix". I had no idea what a jelly roll was so I converted the requirements back to yardage with the seamstress who taught me how to quilt. I also made the "mistake" and put my squares 90 degrees to the instructions. I like the look so it was a fortune mistake. Took me a little bit of time to get my head around it all.

 

 

I added our initials to each side

FickleFrickMakes' photostream

FickleFrickMakes' photostream on Flickr.

These are makes from the last 2 years!
When I have the chance I will break this down into what I made up and what I used a base tutorial for!!