Crocheting, Sewing, and Baby Vegetables

Crocheting A Shawl

I made a new crochet shawl a couple of weeks ago. It uses a mohair mix yarn that was once a 90’s-made jumper. An old knitted sweater was unravelled by a 92 year old Nan, and remade as a shawl by me, for her daughter (my Mother-in-law!). The crochet pattern is the Elise shawl, which I found on Ravelry. It was such a nice and straightforward to make.

It needed blocking, which I did directly on the bedroom carpet. I don’t have any fancy blocking boards (if such things exist). I’m not sure this method is recommended, but it works for me.  Anyway, the shawl turned out well, so that’s all that matters.

Sewing Projects

As an accompanying birthday gift to go with the crochet shawl, I made this reversible bag. The tutorial is clear and easy to follow. A few years ago, I sewed a knitting needle case for my Mother-in-law out of the same fabric, so I thought it would make a nice matchy-matchy present. If I remember correctly, the fabric was from Ikea. I probably bought it about four years ago. Hmm,  I obviously didn’t press this bag very well.

More Crochet Projects

I also made up a very quick project from the crochet pattern book, Hook, Yarn and Crochet by Ros Badger. I bought a ball of King Cole Cottonsoft DK especially for this project. The cotton yarn is beautiful stuff to use. I’d love to make a baby blanket out of it, but I can’t justify the cost at the moment. If anyone I know begets a child, then I might consider spending the extra to buy some.

I Crocheted a Lamp Shade Cover!

It’s a lamp shade cover! I still haven’t sewn in the ends yet because as soon as I finished it, it was shoved straight onto the lamp. Maybe I’ll do that job today. It left the room a little bit darker, but I like it. With the yarn leftovers, I made four little crochet coasters, but I haven’t taken any pictures of those.

Time For Vegetables!

At the beginning of the week, I came up with an excuse that these new vegetables were ready to eat. In reality, they were super small and probably needed a weeny bit longer suckling from their roots.

Nevermind, we ate them anyway! I fried them in butter, garlic and lots of salt and pepper. Looking in the garden yesterday, everything has replenished, and there are definitely some spoils to be had. Properly grown this time, I reckon.

Good, now I feel as though I’m catching up with crafting projects. I have a few things half done and some things waiting to get started, but I’ve also ticked other things off the list, which makes me feel better.