Susan Pinner: October 2013

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Design for Mini Triangle, Rhombus Bag

Final decision on the Mini Triangle Rhombus bag.

one complete Rhombus in mini triangles and two with mini rhombus centre....sc border

Original Triangle Pattern here

first triangle is ch2,

ROW 1: sc into 2nd ch from hook.turn. (2sts)

ROW2: ch1, 2sc in st, turn, (3sts)

ROW 3: ch1, turn, sc in first st, 2sc in next st. (4sts)
ROW 4: ch1, sc in next 2 sts, 2sc in last st, turn. (5sts)
ROW5: ch1, sc in every st to last st, 2sc in last st, turn (6sts)
ROW 6: ch1, sc in every st, 2sc in last st, turn (7sts)

repeat until you have 9sts across triangle or the triangle size you want.

finish with 9sts = 2.5" 6.5cm equilateral triangle

2strands of DK and a 5mm hook

following triangles are made in reverse 9sc into one side of the first triangle and a decrease on each row until one st left pull yarn through. Weave in ends.

Great use for all those ends.....

Have Fun x

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

CROCHET: Pastel Block Stitch..how to do.

A favourite stitch and lots of options to play with

PATTERN:
US Terms in black, UK Terms in red brackets

In Lime ch muliples of 3sts.

ROW1: Cont in lime, 1dc [1tr], in each ch st. (MULTPLES OF 3)

ROW2: In pink/lilac, att. yarn, sc [dc], on first st, ch3, miss 2sts, sc [dc], in next st, ch3, miss two sts, repeat to end.

ROW3: In Lime, 3dc [3tr] in each chain space, to end.

ROW 4 In pink, repeat row 2

Cont. Rows 3 and 4, working 3 rows of pink ch sts, and 3 rows of lilac ch sts, alternately. All dc [tr] rows in lime

Edge with....

ROW1: att. pink yarn in firt st, miss 2sts, 2dc [2tr], ch2, 2dc [2tr], in next st, miss 2sts, sc [dc], in next st, repeat to endof row.

ROW 2: turn, cont. in pink, make ch3 loops from one st to the next. (6 tiny loops on each shell)

COLOURFUL VERSION

Every row in a different colour

SPACE DYED YARN

Random space dyed yarn and one colour for the chain row gives another interesting combination

Monday, 28 October 2013

Moss Stitch How to do, Single crochet, lots of texture and not much colour

Moss Stitch Passion random dyed and grey Merino, very soft

Sock wool and Merino

Texture, direction and single crochet...

and hardly any colour...

three colours of sock wool and Grey merino..

HOW TO DO MOSS STITCH
QUICK PICTURE HOW TO DO MOSS STITCH

Sunday, 27 October 2013

New Ikea Wardrobe....

When we moved to this house, it has no attic, and the only room with a wardrobe was ours...

This single bedroom was starting to turn into a storage room with no style!!

It's been re-arranged, tidied and a big new wardrobe added....

Its taken 3 years to sort out the upstairs storage......I now have a lovely big wardrobe in the single bedroom to fill up.

We decide a relatively cheap Ikea wardrobe was best as it was just for storage in a room no one ever sleeps in... a pretty room but no grand children as yet to fill up the space.

So I will be using it as extra storage for clothes, out of season or that I plan to get back into one day and just can't part with..lol