NEW SUBSCRIBERS CROCHET PATTERN SITE.

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT A NUMBER OF MESSAGES HAVE ENDED UP IN PEOPLES
JUNK BOXES...
if you have shown an interest in the pattern site and have't received info mails
PLEASE CHECK YOU JUNK BOXES 

THIS WAS THE MESSAGE SHOWING UNTIL 9PM

so don't worry that you cant' see anything tonight......

I am adding all the patterns and checking they are all ok before adding

ALL WHO HAVE SUBSCRIBED

tomorrow morning......

Thank you for all the support.

The subscriptions are coming in ready for Tomorrows opening

of

GRANNY SQUARES PATTERN CLUB

I WILL BE MAILING EVERYONE WITH
THANK YOU/WELCOME MAIL
JUST BEFORE I ADD YOU TO THE CROCHET CLUB.

CLOSE DOWN WILL START AT 9PM TONIGHT AND A
RE-OPEN TO CLUB MEMBERS ONLY AT
9AM TOMORROW MORNING
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR JOINING THE FUN

CYA ALL TOMORRROW


RE-OPEN TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY ON

JUNE 1ST 2013 @ 9am

GRANNY SQUARES PATTERN SUBSCRIPTION SITE...

If you have expressed an interest in the new subscription only pattern site

GRANNY SQUARES: SUSAN PINNER

this is the link

http://susanpinnercrochet.blogspot.co.uk/

IF YOU WERE INTERESTED MAILED ME AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE PAYMENT INFO MAIL SENT TODAY

AND YOU ARE STILL INTERESTED IN JOINING THE CLUB

PLEASE MAIL ME

susanpinner@hotmail.com

I have checked and double check the list of interested members and sent out the mail TODAY

I hope I have not missed anyone but.....

If you haven't received your joining mail please let me know asap

THANK YOU so much, for your interest and support.

Just follow the instructions and you can join the fun on JUNE 1ST 2013

HAPPY HOOKING ALL

LATE LATE, LATE....ARE YOUR BLOOMS AS BEHIND AS OURS?

Taking a look back on the blog in the last few days...our Wisteria is soo behind this time in past years it has been in full bloom...

What it looked like May 27th 2010

This was May 18th 2010

 

This is what it looks like May 27th 2013

We are training it around my craft room and over the lounge window, but almost no blooms to be seen yet.......just a tiny hint of colour. Believe it or not the blooms are there just hardly visible yet.

What a difference hey?

hugs x

A LITTLE BIT OF BRIGHT TARTAN...

TARTAN GRANNY SQUARES

 

Simple one round mini Granny Square to make a tartan throw?

works for me lol

 

 

GRANNY SQUARE SUBSCRIBERS PATTERN CLUB

TO ALL WHO HAVE ASKED TO JOIN THE SUBSCRIBER ONLY PATTERN SITE

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT

I am on target,before i can open up for business, only a little bit left to do and I will be mailing you all with the Pay Pal  ETC, info

You will need to register with Google AND DECIDE ON A PASSWORD if you aren't alreadyregistered.

 I will be in touch asap

 

Anyone interested see link HERE

 

HAPPY HOOKING TO ALL XX

 

NEW CROCHET SUBSCRIBER SITE UPDATE

NEW SUBSCRIBER CROCHET PATTERN SITE LINK
click the above  link and mail me please if you are interested

CROSSING EVERYTHING for JUNE 1ST 2013.

GRANNY SQUARES SUBSCRIPTION SITE TOTALLY CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE JUST FOR TODAY
JUNE 24TH JUNE

 

There will be a year of crochet for subscribers.

 Ideas are coming thick and fast at the moment. Struggling to get it all written down...playing hooky is too much of a temptation. lol

 

I've got motif patterns with lots of variations, yarn and colour posts, over the year there will be competed projects.....cushions, chair covers, bunting, bags, hats, tea cosies, coats and jackets, cand rochet storage ideas.

 Lots of spots, circles, squares and hexagons and all the variations I can think of...

hoping to inspire and assist in all your crochet ideas.

 

Do hope you will find this new venture of interest.

 

One of the first designs I did last year, thinking Noo Noo camper blanket and was included in my book

GRANNY SQUARES....

 

A HUGE, HUGE THANK YOU.....

To everyone who has bought my book

A mail from GMC Publisher a couple of days ago telling me it was already going for a reprinted.

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you,

I can't tell you all how pleased I am that you all love it so much.

xx

6, 8 AND 12 PETAL VERSION OF GIANT FLOWER

US Terms 

DK..Smaller flower

4mm hook

Aran

5mm hook

chunky or 2 strands of dk larger flower

6mm hook

Join as you go  at the point of the petals 

12 AND 6 PETAL FLOWER can start with the same two rounds

 finger wrap of 8 wraps 
Round 1: 24dc into circle [24dc]

Round 2: 1sc in each st, [24sc ]

Round 3: is where it changes...

12 PETALS

Round 3: 2dc in each stitch with 4ch between each set of 4dc will make 12 petals,
Round 4: attach yarn between the pairs of dc, 9dc in each loop, sl st between the 4 dc, to anchor 'petal', repeat 7 more times, sl st to finish. [12 petals]

6 PETALS

ROUND 3: 1dc in each stitch with 4 ch between sets of 4 sts will make 6 petals

Round 4: 8dc into each loop, sl st, between pairs of dc, sl st to to complete. 

[6 petals]

8 PETAL FLOWER

Joined side by side you will need a SECOND SMALLER MOTIF to fill the large holes...pattern below

finger wrap of 8 wraps  

Round 1: 16dc into circle sl st to finish.

Round 2: SC in each st. sl st to finish.

Round 3: 2dc in first two sts, ch4 repeat 7 more times. sl st to finish.

Round 4: attach yarn between the pairs of dc, 9dc in each loop, sl st between the 4 dc, to anchor 'petal', repeat 7 more times, sl st to finish. [8 petals]

INFILL PATTERN

FINGER WRAP of 8 wraps

ROUND 1: ch2, 15dc into circle, sl st, to complete. pull tight [16dc]

ROUND 2: Att. second col. or continue with same col. ch2 [counts as first dc] dc into same st, 2dc in next st, ch1, sl st into first sp to join, ch1, 2dc in next 2 sts, repeat for each section until joined in the hole created by joining 4 flowers together [8 x 4dc sides]

SHOCKING PINK FLOWER THROW

Might do a 6 petal version, easier to join together or this will need a fill in.

 

 

MOTIF PATTERN HERE

 

 

 

HAPPY HOOKING

 

RE POST OF WEEK 8 FREE FLOWER PATTERN 2012

WEEK 8 FLOWER PATTERN

USA Terms, DK and a 4mm hook

Ch 3, sl st, into a circle...col 1

R1: 12 dc into circle, sl st to complete round....col 2 (12sts)

R2: 2sc in each st, sl st to complete round....col 3 (24sts)

R3: 1sc in each stitch (24sts) this the extra round at the centre

R4: Start in any stitch, 2dc in first and second st, ch4, miss a st, repeat until you have 8 sides sl st to complete round....picture above is the original octagon, the chain loops are just one ch st longer to take the petals

R5: attach yarn between the 2sets of 2dc with a sc,

4dc into chain loop, chain 4 sl st into the base of the 4ch, [picot), to make the point of the petal, 4dc into same chain loop sc in the middle of the 4 dc of previous round, repeat until 8 pointy petals have been made, sl st to complete round.

hey presto!..... an Octagon becomes a Flower

A WEEK 8:FLOWER VARIATION

Chain 8 sl st to complete the circle OR do a large magic circle

R1: 24 dc into the circle, sl st to complete round.

R2: 1sc in each stitch, sl st to complete round

R3: Start in any stitch, 2dc in first and second st, ch4, miss a st, repeat until you have 8 sides sl st to complete round....picture above is the original octagon, the chain loops are just one ch st longer to take the petals

R4: attach yarn between the 2sets of 2dc with a sc,

4dc into chain loop, chain 4 sl st into the base of the 4ch, to make the point of the petal, 4dc into same chain loop sc in the middle of the 4 dc of previous round, repeat until 8 pointy petals have been made, sl st to complete round.

Happy Hooking x

TWO CIRCLE BLANKETS MAKING PROGRESS...

May Daisy along side the spot throw...both making progress

 

 

 

 

Really Love the spaces too....Like a paper cut out

 

 

Happy Hooking x

 

 

FABULOUS SHARPIE PENS......great for all sorts.

A favourite red white spot Butter Dish had a couple of small chips in it and didn't look great. So I tried a matching SHARPIE PEN and it covered brilliantly and doesn't wash off either.

 

Tried the same red pen on Phil's coffee mug and it's been through the dish washer too....great pens for all sorts of jobs

 

Found this site...100 WAYS with a Sharpie Pen

some fun projects to try.

 

Have Fun

 

PATCHWORK MOTIF CUSHION FRONT

Possible Cushion Front.....

or may be a throw...

 

Inspiration from a small section of a Patchwork.

 

Happy Hooking x

 

CONWAY AND BLACK TULIPS

Hope yopu all had a good Bank Holiday...we had lovely weather for a change.

My Tub of Black Tulips had got blacker and blacker as the grew

Bought them at the Vintage Craft Fair in Bishops Castle

about a month ago...as soon as the sun came out they shot up.

 

 

DAY OUT AT THE SEA SIDE

 

We took a Trip to the Great Orme, Llandudno and Conway castle for our Bank Holiday day out.

The sun shone and the skies were blue but the wind a litttle nippy on top lol

great view out to sea

a new statue since I was last there.

A victorian fair on in Landudno, and we drove round and round eventually giving up, no where to park.

A couple of miles away is Conway, com[plete with a castle and is a walled town. battlements that run around the town

some interesting plaster work on one of the buildings

All in all a great weekend and a lovely day out with friends

 

a Knight or two hanging around too.

 

great view from the pub where we had a pint

Some fond memories of Conway and holidays.I still have a blue and white plate on my wall I bought in a Conway Craft shop about 28 years ago.

 

we'll be back I'm sure.

Only about an hour and three quarters from home, why don't we go more often?

 

Happy Hooking x

 

 

Have a great bank holiday everyone

1. Morning all hope you have a great Bank Holiday..off out with our best friends to do touristy stuff this weekend, they are stopping for the weekend so no hooky for me.

Have a great time what ever you are doing

THANKS AND FUTURE CROCHET PATTERN INFO....

THANK YOU NANA GO GO for the wonderful BOOK write up AND SOME PATTERN INFO

Another fabulous write up from a fellow blogger NANA GO GO about my first crochet book....

Thank you so much, I really am overwhelmed with the positive response I am getting from those that have seen a copy of my first book

Granny Squares

It's ll that I hoped for the book big cheesy grin from me, thank you.

Big Hugs x

 

 

LINK TO NEW PATTERN SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
please leave a message or mail me if your are interested in my patterns for the next year
or SINGLE PDF File PATTERNS.

WITH HELP FROM A FRIEND IN switzerland I can now do SINGLE PATTERN PDF FILES too!!!
whey hey, no stopping me now lol
Thanks Sandra your a gem! x

 

 

 

 

FUTURE PATERN SALES......

I've been trying very hard to make some decisions on how to sell my future patterns and some old favourites....so difficult!

Been playing with a header logo for a pattern site

still a WIP but something on the lines of the new header for The 8th Gem

I really would like to keep sharing patterns in a similar way as I do now, on line.

Thinking out loud.....

30 to 40 patterns in a year plus all the colour and crochet tips etc, for about £20 with exclusive online access to a pattern site for those subscribling.

For a yearly subscription.....

there would be instant access to about 10 NEW and a few of the old favourite patterns to start off and an additional couple of patterns every month over a year?

What do the people interested in my ideas and patterns all feel about that idea?

These pictures are a WIP but something on these lines for the new pattern site.

HAPPY HOOKING EVERYONE X