Welcome to my Blog, a Crafting Year

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I taught myself to knit in 2011 I have been posting photos of my knitting creations on facebook but as I am starting to bore my friends I have created this blog to record my progress. Then I thought I might try my hand at other crafts and see how I get along. I will try a different craft every month and you can read about my successes and failures and even laugh at my photos as I try different things like felting, crochet, sewing, papercrafts etc and try and make a few things from the kids favourite book Star Wars crafts, amongst others...lets see how it goes

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Hexagon Obsession Continues....

I am so close to finishing the Beach comber jumper as I only have 1 sleeve left to knit and I finally cracked the crochet pattern but my Hexagon obsession has taken hold. Every time I get the knitting bag out I seem to drift across to the crochet hook. Its also because the hexagons are very portable. As I am making them all individually I can take one ball of wool and a hook pretty much anywhere. So the tower gets higher....


I think they look pretty cool


On Mothers Day we stayed home so I sat with a glass of fizz and started adding the white border to them all


144 seems like an awful lot of hexagons and they are pretty big so I laid out all the ones I had made so far to see how big a blanket I could make

Not nearly enough for a double bed so back to making them...144 of them.

Meanwhile I have started a new job as a dog walker and have been enjoying the patterns that nature shows us


Especially when only half frozen


Normally ice freezes in triangles because water molecules are triangular but there was no triangles in these patterns




Maybe I should make the border on the hexagons bigger, giving it more of a patch work feel


hmmm that doesn't seem to have worked, too many stitches. I will have to block it to see how it looks then

Meanwhile the weather has been odd on my first week at work. 
Snow Monday, frost Tuesday, cold sunshine Wednesday, warm almost t shirt weather Thursday and torrential rain Friday but the views are stunning


Wooton Hill


The Chase

Lets see what weather this week brings.