I’m probably one of the last crocheters in existence to create a hexagon granny stitch cardigan, but I finally got around to it. A hexagon cardigan is basically made of two hexagons crocheted like a granny square, but with six sides instead of four. You fold them in half to make a two L shapes,…
Another manly sweater
Those of you who read this blog may remember that a few years ago, I made Jack a sweater. https://onthehook.home.blog/2022/01/04/a-manly-sweater/ Last year, he hinted that if I could make him a shawl collar cardigan, he would be very pleased. I looked around, and found only one, since men’s sweater patterns have been, shall we say,…
The forever project
Or at least it seemed that way. This is also a tale of me reinventing the wheel. I wanted to create something significant for one of my closest friends, but none of my patterns seemed right. I stepped back and figured that I would eventually find an inspiration. A couple months later, while looking for…
A pixie hood
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,…
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