This is actually something I made a while back, but forgot to mention, since I’ve been working on so many projects. Like so many others, it was a suggestion sent to me by a friend in Facebook. This looked pretty cool, so I decided to make one of these for each of us. I found…
What you can make with problematic yarn
I had some leftover Loops and Threads Facets yarn from my failed sweater project and decided to try to make something out of it. Since I was limited to one-skein projects, I decided to go with hats – toques, to be exact. I’m really fond of the moss stitch, so decided to go with that….
Another difficult yarn – Loops & Threads Facets
I stumbled across this yarn at Michaels and loved the colours. Generally, purple yarns tend toward grape, and their variation was more of a dusty dark plum. I had it in my mind to do a short granny square cardigan, so I picked up some plum (as the primary colour), teal, pink and sage green….
Longer-term projects
You wouldn’t know it from this blog, but I’m a fairly prolific crocheter. That’s primarily because I only post new things I’ve done here. There’s no reason to mention the additional times I’ve created something because I wanted another one in a different colour or a friend saw what I had just made and complimented…
Cue Wagner
This is yet another project I did based on a conversation I had on social media. A good friend started a conversation about crocheted beards and another said, “Jackie – you should get Wheezer (her husband, who already has a resplendent beard) a hat with horns!” I had just finished a commission for a short-crowned…
Not-So-Mad Hat(ter)
I just finished my fifth pattern – this time, for a hat. The Mad Hatter topper I made a few years back (mentioned here: https://onthehook.home.blog/2019/08/28/lots-of-projects/) was a great educational exercise and I loved how it turned out, but… I never wore it. So I decided to re-visit this type of hat but make it a…
Skull part deux
So the yarn arrived for my companion piece to the mini skull plant hangers and I was finally able to get this piece done. Actually, it was three pieces that appeared to be one piece. I found the pattern here:https://www.etsy.com/listing/1757805356/brainy-skull-coaster-set-crochet-pattern?external=1&ref=cl_thank_you_recs_listings-0-listing-0&page_type=cl_thank_you_page It’s a hollow skull with a couple of coasters, that, when stuffed into the skull,…
The Weatherby Cardigan
I just finished this last night. Or rather, I finished it a couple weeks ago and worked on the wee skull planters while waiting for the buttons, and then finished sewing the buttons on last night (there were a lot of buttons). I can’t for the life of me remember how I stumbled across this…
Wee skulls – with plants
This is another project that came about from a discussion with friends on Facebook. This particular friend posted a picture of some small hanging skull fake planters, mentioned that she didn’t crochet and was pondering if this (and other interesting projects) would be a good place to start. Since these had a lot of moving…
Two new sweaters!
I’ve been working to up my sweater game recently, and correcting past mistakes. One mistake I made early on when getting back into this hobby was to use the wrong yarn. When I took up crochet as a child and then as a young adult, I made nothing more challenging than granny square blankets, so…
On the Hook 