Over at All About Ami, Stephanie is calling for bloggers to link up and discover one another. Stephanie is going to create a list of crochet and amigurumi blogs, so get amongst it! Click the pic above and leave your name, location and blog URL.
Do me a favour? Repeat the process here too so I can add you to my own blogroll and create a page with a blog list myself?
Thanks!
Not in the health sense, but more in the B&S Ball sense (if you have never heard of a B&S Ball, you need to check these photos out for some feral goodness. Not that I’ve spent the weekend at a B&S Ball (I’m way too old for that!), but I have just travelled an epic distance, celebrated a fabulous wedding and then returned home to have about zero sleep thanks to my lovely daughter who decided play time was 2 am.
The wedding at the weekend was fabulous. That’s the only way to accurately describe it. The champagne (as in, real champagne) was free-flowing and the food was spectacular. I’m talking foie gras for starters followed by four or five courses during the evening. I think we finished with dessert (two stunning profiterole towers) after midnight. I went from being the anti-foodie to trying just about everything on the menu and loving it!
The cheese table. Forgive my fuzzy photo, it was about midnight when this rolled out!
The couple were gorgeous of course and I was so honoured to be invited. We zoomed down on Friday morning. Well, zoomed is a complete lie. We sat in massive traffic jams all day Friday and spent a lovely day visiting Langres before joining the celebrations in the late afternoon on Saturday.
After stuffing ourselves on food all night, doing the macarena, and being coaxed into reviving the Big Johnny Stag dance (you don’t want to know. Really), we fell into bed some where in the early hours of the morning, only to leap out a few hours later to zoom home again.
Now it really is a task to recover for the week. Thankfully I haven’t a lot scheduled. A trip to Heerenveen for work and going out for dinner with some lovely friends before celebrating one of my dearest friend’s birthday on Saturday.
Oh, crochet! Of course. I’m still working on more Yodas, and a lovely little unicorn headband for a four year old’s birthday. It will look something like this:
Unicorn Applique from One & Two Company
What do you have planned?
Join Molly from The Move to America’s Monday Coffee Morning and tell us all about your plans.
I’m taking baby-steps into the pattern design world and along with adding my first pattern to Ravelry, I’ve added it to my favourite pattern site: Craftsy.
If you click on the photo, you’ll go straight to the pattern to be able to download it.
Source: Do, or Do Not – Yoda inspired hat via MissNeriss on Craftsy
Enjoy!
Tagged craftsy, free pattern, pattern, ravelry, yoda. star wars
I’ve just finished this one for a special order and I was desperately sad to see it go. It was definitely one of my favorite projects to date; so much so that I’ve ordered more yarn to make one for myself.
For this bag I used Drops Big Merino, which is one of my favourite yarns. Its lovely and strong, with loads of stretch. It’s the perfect hat yarn. I am perhaps a little biased towards merino, growing up on a sheep farm with a wool classer for a father. Wool is definitely in my DNA.
I found the original, free pattern here: http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/crochet-bag.html
Perhaps I should call it Monday Wine Time..?
While I was going through my blogroll this morning (one of my favourite Monday morning tasks), Molly from The Move to America popped up with a Monday Coffee Morning post; the beginning of a new series where she talks about her plans for the week and what she hopes to achieve.
I thought to myself, what a great idea! Then promptly went on and did something else (like work). But the idea kept coming back into my head. I absolutely love blogging; I find the relationships are so rewarding. I have made so many fabulous friends through my expat blog Adventures in Integration over the last three years and I hope that MissNeriss does the same for me over time.
So, here’s what I’m planning to do this week:
Work. Gah. Busy. New release coming up fast that needs to be tested. I still can’t quite believe I’m working as a software tester. In my past life I’ve been a shed hand, a tour guide, an events manager, a PA, but never in my wildest imagination did I think that I’d work in IT, let alone as a tester. My job will be changing in the coming months; something I’m very excited about. I’ll be moving into a writing and editing and consultation position within the company. I can’t wait!
Family. For the first time ever, My husband and I will be going away for the weekend without our daughter. I know I should be nervous and anxious and feel guilty for abandoning her, but I don’t! Instead I’m ridiculously excited. I get to pretend I’m not a mum for a couple of days, and the added bonuses are that we’re going to France, and we’re going to a wedding of one of my dearest friends.
Out and about. We’re going to Toomler in Amsterdam this week to catch some live Aussie comedy which is always great fun. One year at a gig I went to I managed to chat to Adam Hills as part of his show. Talk about star-struck!
Crochet. I’m so busy!! I can’t believe it. I’ve just finished a lovely bag and bolero for a friend of mine and I’m working through a stack of Yodas. Hopefully I’ll get through them all this week, then it’s on to a giant bear which I’m gagging to get my hook into.
What are you up to? I’d love to hear about your week. I’m sure Molly would love you to link up too.
Don’t forget, I’m all over Twitter and Instagram like a rash, come say hi.
When a friend of mine contacted me about making a hat for a colleague’s soon to be born baby, but it had to be Irish, I immediately thought of a leprechaun. I mean, who wouldn’t, right? This friend of mine loved the idea, so I went hunting for patterns.
And hunting… And hunting.
I found a few, but nothing was quite what I had envisaged. So, I decided: “Time to design my own!” And here is the result:
I’m part way through writing a pattern, then I have to test it (testing should be a cinch as that’s what I’m doing for a living at the moment – software testing), and finally publish it.
Off topic, I spend the majority of my time hanging out on my Facebook page, and on Instagram. There’s something about Instagram that I can’t get enough of. Except the photos of feet. I’m not a fan of all these photos of feet. But, better than the zexy selfies I guess…
Anyway, come join me. I’d love to get to know you better.
My mother in law pointed out to me last week that she wants to recommend my work to a friend, but there is no where here on my site to see my projects all in one place. Cue much forehead slapping and head shaking. How could I miss something so obvious?!
So, here it is. A gallery containing quite a few of the projects I have completed over the last few months. There are many, many more, but I never seem to remember to photograph them and they’ve moved into their new homes before I realise.
I hope you like it! The link is on the menu bar above, or just here, below:
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged amigurumi, craft, crochet, gallery, haken, hat, photography, projects
Do, or do not. There is no Try.
Yoda inspired hat for babies.
Beginner
For this pattern I use American terms. If you decide to use a different weigh yarn, no problem. You’ll just have to add or remove one or two increase rows and perhaps some length.
This pattern is written in the round. I’m not a fan of joining and chaining and a visible seam, but you can work that way if you prefer.
I’ve made three sizes; newborn, 6-12 months, and 12 months – 2 years. I do have an adult version too, but will add that separately, later.
By all means, please feel free to sell items that you make from this pattern, but please do not sell this pattern or make changes and redistribute it claiming it as your own. I would be forever grateful if you credit Miss Neriss when using this pattern – it’s important to all support one another.
May the force be with you, and if you spot any mistakes, please let me know!
R1: 7 HDC into a magic ring, pull tight to close the hole.
R2: INC into each stitch around (14)
R3: INC, 1HDC x 7 (21)
R4: INC, 2HDC x 7 (28)
R5: INC, 3HDC x 7 (35)
R6: It gets a bit weird here. A normal increase round makes the hat too big, yet leaving it at R5 makes it just too small (for a premie you could skip R6 and go straight to R7). Instead we have a reduced increase row: INC, 6HDC x 5 (40).
R7-13: HDC around (40)
R14: SC around (40)
R15: SC around (40), tie off and weave in ends.
Make 2.
R1: MR4
R2: HDC x 4 (4)
R3: INC, HDC x 2 (6)
R4: HDC x 6 (6)
R5: INC, 2HDC x 2 (8)
R6: HDC x 8 (8)
R7: INC, 3HDC x 2 (10)
R8: HDC x 10 (10)
R9: INC, 4HDC x 2 (12)
R10: HDC x12 (12)
R11: DEC, 4HDC x 2 (10)
Sew open end shut then attach to the side of the hat.
R1: 7 HDC into a magic ring, pull tight to close the hole.
R2: INC into each stitch around (14)
R3: INC, 1HDC x 7 (21)
R4: INC, 2HDC x 7 (28)
R5: INC, 3HDC x 7 (35)
R6: INC, 4HDC x7 (42)
R7-16: HDC around (42)
R17: SC around (42)
R18: SC around (42), tie off and weave in ends.
Make 2.
R1: MR4
R2: HDC x 4 (4)
R3: INC, HDC x 2 (6)
R4: HDC x 6 (6)
R5: INC, 2HDC x 2 (8)
R6: HDC x 8 (8)
R7: INC, 3HDC x 2 (10)
R8: HDC x 10 (10)
R9: INC, 4HDC x 2 (12)
R10: HDC x 12 (12)
R11: INC, 5HDC x2 (14)
R12: HDC X 14 (14)
R13: INC, 6HDC x2 (16)
R14: HDC x 6 (16)
R15: DEC, 6HDC x 2 (14)
R16: DEC, 5HDC x 2 (12)
Sew open end shut then attach to the side of the hat.
R1: 7 HDC into a magic ring, pull tight to close the hole.
R2: INC into each stitch around (14)
R3: INC, 1HDC x 7 (21)
R4: INC, 2HDC x 7 (28)
R5: INC, 3HDC x 7 (35)
R6: INC, 4HDC x7 (42)
R7: INC, 5HDC x7 (49)
R8-17: HDC around (49)
R18: SC around (49)
R19: SC around (49)
R20: SC around (49)
Make 2.
R1: MR4
R2: HDC x 4 (4)
R3: INC, HDC x 2 (6)
R4: HDC x 6 (6)
R5: INC, 2HDC x 2 (8)
R6: HDC x 8 (8)
R7: INC, 3HDC x 2 (10)
R8: HDC x 10 (10)
R9: INC, 4HDC x 2 (12)
Sew open end shut then attach to the side of the hat.
When my good friend Becky started to push me (and I mean really push!) to start this venture, I knew that I would need some outstanding images to accompany the work. But, I had no idea what I wanted or even how I saw myself. All I knew was that all the best crochet people have excellent branding and if I wanted to even contemplate joining their ranks, I would need some too.
Enter the Amsterdam Small Business Network an Joanne Lew-Vriethoff. Via the network I saw Joanne’s work and was immediately in love with what she does. I could feel in my bones that she was the designer for me.
I approached Joanne and she came back with an excellent quote package to create a banner for my Facebook page and for this site, so I jumped at the chance.
I supplied a few images of myself and of my daughter, along with a vague, high level idea of what I had in mind. I had seen this image of my friend Tammy and thought to myself: that image sums me up too! I have so many things on the go at once, I should illustrate that.
What Joanne created for me absolutely blew my mind. I’ll be perfectly honest; from my description (or lack thereof), I wasn’t sure she had enough to go on to make something that I could connect with, but it was like she crawled inside my head and pulled all the best bits out and put them on paper!
Once the banner was created I was so happy that I knew I couldn’t stop there. Next was a postcard and then, business cards! I’m so over the moon with the results, now I have to just sit down and get them all printed. Can’t wait to have them in my hot little hands! I’m now also thinking about going down the Etsy route, so there will be even more work to do in that case.
Thanks again to Joanne, and to Sharon and Marjolijn from The Amsterdam Small Business Network for hooking us up. Now I just hope that I can pay it forward…
Tagged branding, crochet, cute, illustration, Joanne Lew-Vreithoff, logo, marketing, MissNeriss
This is a bag that I’m working on for a friend. I’m loving the way that the colours work together. I was a bit apprehensive at first, because colour-matching is something that I really struggle with. I just seem to miss that gene…
Yarn used: Drops Big Merino in 06, 07, 09, 10, 16, 20
The original pattern can be found on Attic 24, for free!
What do you think of the colours?
June 18, 2013 in Drops, WIP
Tagged bag, Big Merino, crochet, drops, haken, merino, project, WIP, work in progress, yarn
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