A few posts back, I mentioned making some clothing for a friend’s impending daughter. She’s due to arrive at the end of this month and the baby shower is this weekend, making this the perfect opportunity to try my hand at making some shoes in miniature. I made three pair of booties and because I…
Author: jillpross
A shawl, slipper socks and hats – oh my!
I’ve worked on several projects lately, so I’m dumping them all in this post. First, I made a variation on that shawl I had already done three versions of – the Secret Paths Shawl. My co-worker Susan liked the look of it so much she asked me to make one for her. I made a…
Granny Square Coat ver2.0
If you recall, the very first post on this blog was about my initial foray back into the Ars Crochet. I messed up on my first project by combining somewhat similar, but not similar-enough yarns and not blocking each piece. I’ve since learned my lesson and decided to try another granny square coat, but this…
What ho, gentlepersons – another pattern!
I’ve crocheted a number of cowls, but they’ve been either wide eternity scarves or the not-quite-a-foot-in-diameter variety. But I’ve always wanted to do a cowl that could be used as a hood without being doubled-up. But none of my searches ever came up with a pattern for one of these, so I decided to make…
Sporty slippers
After making all those baby clothes, I thought I should make at least one item for the mother-to-be. But, since I didn’t know her all that well, the safest bet, as I saw it, was a pair of slippers. But that was also a potential minefield, since crochet slipper patterns varied so much. One thing…
Clothing in miniature
A young friend of mine is about to be a father for the first time (a daughter!) I offered to crochet some baby clothes – sweaters and hats – and assured him that they would not be too frou-frou. Fortunately, the Ars Crochet has evolved past the circular-yoke-with-frilly-collar type of sweater design, so I was…
My first pattern!
Link to pattern: MINI ME MANDALA VEST I designed this as part of a group of baby gifts for a young friend who is about to be a father for the first time. I had enjoyed making my friend Sharon’s mandala vest so much I decided to create my own Mini Me version. Mandala vests…
Cautionary Tale
This is a public service message, to save you from wasting your money on Red Heart It’s a Wrap yarn. This was – by a wide margin – the most frustrating yarn I’ve ever attempted to work with. It’s essentially four extremely fine threads in varying colours, with no twisting. Scheepjes Whirl is constructed the…
Four dollar shrug
Okay… so this shrug actually used only $3.50 worth of materials. This is the first of hopefully several shrugs. It’s meant to be part of a costume, which informed the medium I used to make it: cotton twine, four spools, from the Dollar Store. (This project took up three-and-a-half spools of it, but you can’t…
One skein – three projects
So this all started out as a plan to crochet a mandala vest – a birthday present for my friend Sharon. She’s a fan of bohemian fashions and turquoise. And I had wanted to crochet a mandala circle vest for ages. I had seen all sorts of pictures and patterns for them, but this was…
On the Hook 