7 down and counting

Three to go! Getting more creative with the scarves and colors. Finding it to be loads of fun! Pics coming soon!

Six down...

...four to go! I am having a lot of fun with these scarves. I have had to think outside the box a little bit and make ones that I wouldn't wear myself so as to appeal to others. Let's hope they sell! Not looking to make gobs of money, but enough to supplement my yarn obsession! Pics to follow soon! Stay tuned!

Scarves! I've gone public!

This is an exciting time for me. I have a salon in San Juan Capistrano that has agreed to offer my scarves for sale. I have ordered clothing labels to sew into my scarves. They should be in soon and then I will make a delivery of ten scarves to the Christopher Perry Salon. The labels say "An Original by Red" I have been working hard on making the scarves for my first shipment. I will be posting pics of them on this site soon. More to follow!

Hey

I might start blogging again.. I am currently working on 4 blankets and they are coming along so nicely. I have new strategy, which is working for me and I can see progress by doing it. Perhaps I shall share...

P#1 and P#4

I am very close to being finished with P#1. So close in fact that I do believe it will be ready to ship to my sis on Monday, April 2nd. I will take a pic of the completed project.

Moving on.. Since I will not know what Bridget's preference is in reference to the Diamondback blanket I am going to start another patterned blanket using colors from my stash. I did a quick visual of colors and I think I have enough of 3 colors to start and complete yet another blanket. I am considering using a slightly different pattern this time. I have always liked the look of the Crazy Shell stitch. I've included the instructions for it below:

How To Do The Crazy Stitch With Photos and Instructions

The photos on this page can help you learn how to crochet this fun stitch, called a crazy stitch or crazy shell (also called brick stitch).
If you're curious to see how the vintage instructions for this stitch from 1899 and 1917 were written, see the printing page.

Starting Chain: Crochet a chain of length needed.



Row 1: 3 double crochet in 4th chain from hook, * skip 3 chains, single crochet in next chain, chain 3, 3 double crochet in same chain. The photo at left shows the first of these 3 double crochet in progress.










Row 1, cont. Repeat from * across row. End with: single crochet in next chain.


Row 2: Chain 3 to turn. 3 double crochet in single crochet of previous row.

Row 2, cont. * single crochet in next chain-3 space of previous row, chain 3, 3 double crochet in same chain-3 space.















Row 2, cont. Repeat from * across row. End with single crochet in last chain-3 of previous row.
Repeat row 2, until desired length is reached.



This is a two-color crazy stitch example of changing to the other color on each new row.









This is a two-color crazy stitch example done with 2 rows of each color.



















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I also wanted to include the following instructions I use on how to join squares.. I like to use this method because to me it gives depth to the squares. Some people don't care for this method. You'll have to work it and decide for yourself!

How To Create A Decorative Ridge When Joining Squares

Did you know that you can crochet squares together in such a way as to create a decorative ridge with your joining row? This article also shows other ways of joining squares:
Ways of Joining Crocheted Pieces
Crochet Stitch and Technique Directory
Photo copyright 1999 by Sandi Marshall, licensed to About.com, Inc.

3 more rows and how's this for a marketing scam?

I have 3 rows left on the P#1. I will finish those up tonight and then start on the border. Yay for me. I will put it thru the rinse cycle before I wrap it up and ship it off to my sis in OH.

I mentioned to my DH about my next patterned project for our friend Bridget. He told me that the Diamondbacks had changed their logo this year. He told me it was now RED instead of PURPLE and TURQOISE! I had to check this out for myself this morning and I can't believe they changed the whole color scheme!! What a marketing scam! Now all those die-hard fans will have to buy the new colors. I prefer the old colors myself... What do you think?

Old logo/colors...

New logo / colors...

I'm looking at the new logo and thinking, "What were they thinking??" Had to be nothing but dollar signs. :( *sigh* I hope she says to make her one with the old school colors.. But it is her choice!

Almost finished!

I worked again last night on P#1. It is almost finished. I am probably about 6 rows from completing the length and then I do believe I will put a border around the entire blanket twice round. My goal is to get it in the mail by April 6th. Then I can start on the new project!

I like to have several projects going at once. I think it just keeps my interest. If I don't feel like working on a specific color over and over I can easily just switch to one of the scraps and it helps to keep my interest up. I think if I only worked on one project at a time I would set it aside and not pick it up again for weeks, maybe even months..

This coming weekend I am going to go thru all of my yarn and really figure out how much I have in prep for our move. I will fold and put away all of my completed projects and get them to the staging area for all of the boxes going into storage. I should have a pretty good idea come Saturday what my yarn stash looks like!

Happy crafting!