Andy, You’re A Star: Off da Hook
“Leave your number on the locker and I’ll give you a call…
Tag: Square
Pussycat Meow
The Name
Pussycat Meow by Deee-Lite
Another tush that needs some cush!
The Tush Cush
Dimensions: 15 inches square
This time I created in double crochet for faster turnaround. It still took just as long as the single crochet, only because I had to recall to memory my Solid Granny Square pattern. Maybe I better write it down before dementia sets in.
Yarn
Caron Simply Soft
Color: Black; Content: 100% Acrylic; Weight: 4, Worsted
Red Heart Super Saver
Color: Yellow*; Content: 100% Acrylic; Weight: 4, Worsted
Those are the only two I could come close to guessing. All other yarns – red, orange, green-purple multicolor, red-blue multicolor, tan, pink, brown – were deemed by me, as worsted and man-made fibers, except the gold lace crocheted together with the black Caron.
Smile On
The Name
Smile On by Deee-Lite
Nothing makes me smile more than Mojo, my pet dog.
The Pet Pad
In keeping with my promise to Omar, PAWS/LA for their financial assistance with Mojo’s dental work, I decided to convert der Kommissar and Someday afghan squares into another pet pad.
Getting my stuff ready for guild this month – to donate to charity – I found all my pet pads and decided to take them to PAWS/LA myself when I get a dozen or more.
The Yarn
Mixed fibers were used, yarn scraps.
Rehumanize Yourself: The Runt
I woke this morning, free from doctor’s appointments, prepared to enjoy the world by finishing the infant afghan request. I warmed my coffee, sat down, did some rows, and decided I wanted to catch up digitally.
While I am not “the runt,” I certainly feel like it after seeing the original pictures for this post! Yikes! I just presumed they were fine, a hint to my rushing of life. Why?
Anyway, the night before guild, I found the blue square and knew that I had left over yarn from squares that required unravelling/saving from the prior set: voila! a runt pet pad.
I love the color combination: nostalgia, fifties, argyle against country gingham.
I was able to get by with a single crochet, double-stranded border without sever puckering…well, not that I remember. Ha ha ha ha!
Rehumanize Yourself: Off da Hook
The Name
Rehumanize Yourself by The Police
Originally, these squares were going to be seamed into an afghan for charity, hence the name: a wish for the recipient.
The Pet Pads
You might be able to tell from the squares with excessive white borders that I was going to seam them together with white yarn. Because they were all different yarn weights, gauges, and sizes, I got too frustrated and chose to make pet pads instead. Still I had to do some frogging, adding, adjusting.
I got to say this is not the first time I have seamed together someone else’s work. It is not fun! I will never do this again.
The Yarn
I received the squares from the El Segundo Slipt Stitchers September meeting and agreed that I would seam them together into an afghan. Because they were already made, I have no idea what yarns were used; however, I can tell you that I noticed guard hairs and some of the yarns were extremely soft, indicating natural fibers. The majority , I am sure, were man-made fibers.
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!: Research & Development
It’s a boring job: repetitive. If nothing else, but it pays off in the end.
I want to make myself a new project bag. I started in August with this same pattern, but when I was called out on my slip stitch ladders by another crocheter, on another charity project, I questioned my previous favor of this characteristic.
The ladder, is created by the slip stitch on the previous row, causing color interruption. My first thought was that my traditional way of changing colors needed to be revised. The other issue was where the round was being joined. Slip stitching the first stitch can be confusing because it presents as two: the slipped stitch and the first stitch of the round.
As such, I began developing a new way to make my squares. On this square, I slip stitched on the stitch after the first crochet, overlapping the first stitch and cut my colors, each round. This seems more finished, but I was not happy with the first stitch creating additional posts/legs in the first stitch in the previous row.
My first thought was to hide the extra legs in the corner. On this version, I began each round on the the last stitch in the corner previous to the edge I ended the round. This provided for:
- better stitch counting/tracking
- slip stitch/first stitch issues (now treated as one)
- crocheting over tails – providing for tighter seams
I don’t think I want to make squares; it will require seaming. I want to crochet the bag in-the-round, but want a flat base. I want to crochet the base in the round and then work the sides in neon yellow and orange stripes. The bag base crocheted in the round will require more R&D to figure out how to get the right size.
Someday
The Name
Someday by The Strokes
Random selection from my music library. Actually, being a fan of connectivity, I could say that “someday” I was going to remember my in-the-round skills and yesterday was the day.
The Square
Another twelve-inch square for one of the El Segundo Slip Stitchers’ charities.
The Yarn
Mixed unknown fibers.
Designer Notes
This is the second square using (single crochet, chain, single crochet) in the corners versus 3 single crochet and the former alleviates fabric bias pinching. It is a bit trickier keeping stitch count even, but I have accommodated to the point where stitch markers are no longer needed. My project bag – accidentally double-named – is going to look FABULOUS!
