Another month another block

Hurray, it's March, which means a new block has been posted in the Ravelry One-block-a-month CAL group.

This month it's Cygnus by Chris Simon. It's lovely and I could not wait to get started on it. And so I did, tonight. I finished it in 2.5 hours, including an extra round with dc's (and 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in the corners) because it wasn't big enough.

I now 'only' have to do a second March block, a second January block and 6 filler blocks and I will have 2 strips for my afghan all finished. This is going to keep me busy for a while.....

Crochetalong

It's been a while, but I've been keeping myself busy. I've done two scarves (one I still need to take pictures of), three more hats, and today... a brand new block!

Ravelry has been fuelling my crochet fire, and I found a great group of people who are all crocheting the same project each month, a so called 'crochetalong'.

This block was the January one, and it took me two attempts to get it right, but hey, I'm quite chuffed by the way it turned out. (More pictures can be found on my Ravelry page.)

The square is called Dream Catcher, and it's designed by Sherri Welch.

One Skein Scarf (short)

This was an ‘oops, I made a scarf’ experience. I was trying to save this project for when travelling at the end of this week. But then I thought, hmm, as this is the first time ever I will be working from an actual pattern instead of following someone on YouTube, I will test it first so I don’t get stuck while on the train.

I started chaining a few stitches, then figured it was too short to do anything with once finished and ended up chaining 50” worth of stitches. It’s now a very nice length, almost the same as a normal neck tie.

It was done within 3 hours, and I’m very proud of it. I wore it the next day and I’ve had two people ask me where I got that cute scarf. To get to tell them ‘I made it’ felt wonderful!

(The pattern for the One Skein Scarf by Denise Cozzitorto can be found here and in the Stitch 'n Bitch : Happy Hooker book by Debbie Stoller.)

I'm learning to crochet!

I'm learning to crochet! Some of what I've learned has been from the Stitch 'n Bitch: Happy Hooker book, but most of it I've learned by watching the video's YouTuber Tjw1963 has posted. She's very patient, and I can stop and rewind whenever I need to, which is good.

I'm getting rather addicted, which is gooooood, I think.