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Crochet on TV (Mike & Mollie)

17 Thursday Nov 2011

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Another crochet blanket spotted on TV last night! This one is a lovely hexagon blanket in muted colours in Mike & Mollie, Season 2, episode 8. 

In season 1 the blanket was on Mollie’s bed. I wasn’t mad enough to take photos of my TV in those days but luckily someone else was – and it’s a much better photo of the beautiful hexagon blanket on Mollie’s bed. (Hopefully Mollie wasn’t thinking of her crochet blanky when she pulled that face…)

You would probably be able to recreate the blanket using Lucy from Attic24’s Hexagon pattern, although any hexagon would do.

 

Brainy crochet

13 Sunday Nov 2011

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Last week I showed you a photo of a granny square blanket as seen on Big Bang Theory. Happy happy me. Well imagine my utter utter delight when I saw a whole advertisment made out of crochet!!!! That’s right, everthing in the latest Sudafed commercial is done in crochet.

It shows a crocheted lady trying to relieve her congestion over a bowl of steam. Then it uses crochet to illustrate where mucus (green yarn…) would be in your brain. Just look at the intricate details of this brain! I wonder who crocheted this? It’s not like there’s a pattern on Ravelry for something like this.

I even recorded the whole advertisement. It’s not the best video, but you get the idea. There’s not much sound but let’s face it, we’re not interested in the sound are we?

 

Proof once again that brainy people crochet.


Beautiful crochet at Accessorize (and how to recreate one)

11 Friday Nov 2011

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I’m especially loving the stripey triangle scarf. It looks like it’s done in rows of shells. Very easy to recreate. In fact….. you can probably get the same effect with a pattern called Sezession I by Rodger Murry, available on Ravelry as a free download. 134 Of these Sezession 1 triangle scarfs have been made already! You’ll just have add a fringe for it to look like the one in Accessorize. Result!

Green sleeves

09 Wednesday Nov 2011

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No, not the old Tudor song:

 

but a crocheted green cotton sleeve for my Starbucks cup at work.

I whipped this one up with a no. 6 hook and Drops Paris cotton yarn. I used the “House Blend Cozy” by Lion Brand yarn pattern as a base. In the end I had to almost double the foundation chain and as I didn’t do mine in stripes, I ended up doing it in Amigurumi style where you just keep on going in the round without a definite start and end to the row. I basically just used their pattern to get the shape of the sleeve right.

All things considered, quite a thing of beauty me doth thinketh.

 

Bye bye birdies

07 Monday Nov 2011

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Twelve days to go to the W.I. Maple Village Christmas fare and I am done crocheting things to sell. Finito. Kaput. Oppela.

Nine fleece blankets with crochet edges, 48 granny stars (yes, 48!) and 18 of the cutest little birdies. (Of course, there will be clocks as well but I haven’t made any new ones for the market.)

I really really really enjoyed making the birdies! They are so adorable!

They start off as Pac-Man shapes…

grow a pair of eyes, a tail and two wings. Of course their tummies are filled with lots of fluffy stuffing…

and lastly I have to add a triangle of orange felt so they can chirp tweety tweet like any flock of birdies would do.

Adorable aren’t they?

I’m sure you will want to make a flock of birdies for yourself now wouldn’t you? Yeah, I knew you would 🙂 Who can resist these cuties?!

You can find Bitter Sweet’s “Birds of a Feather” pattern here. My birdies are done in Rowan Handknit Cotton, Stylecraft Cotton Classique and Drops Paris with a 3.5mm hook.  The eyes are 6mm safety eyes.

As one of my fans on Facebook said, I hope these birdies “fly off the shelves”.  Then again, they look so freakin cute on the windowsill I might have to keep a couple for myself.

Feel free to comment to this post with links to your blog, or post photos to my crocheTime Facebook page, of birdies you make. I’d love to see them!