What's on your hook?

[Jewel]

Ree- Your things are so cute. I loveee your embellished singlets. I bet the floppy ear lamb beanie will look awesome. Can't wait to see those. I think they're adorable. I sometime regret I wasn't into crocheting much when my kids were tiny little bubbas cause I would have been beanie obsessed!

ooh jewel where abouts? we had a mini honeymoon in eden in jan.

Near there. I'm in Beg.a

[AngelPants]

jewel- ahh cool! im a lil jealous!! its a really nice bit of aus!
leckert- that sounds really nice!
i love beanies on tiny bubbas! cman never kept his on past a month or so old so never wore one. next time around i am going to find one with a chin strap!

[AngelPants]

oh and liz, is the wool lion brand? if so could you contact them and ask if they could direct you to someone who stocks it in aus (or even someone who ships to aus?)

[leckert]

Not lion brand - its hereschners 2 ply afghan yarn - I'm going to find some baby 3-4 ply and make it from that.

I know years ago I tried getting lion brand in from the us and they wouldnt ship it and that's as far as I went with that yarn.


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[Miss_Dee]

I'm not a terribly skilled crocheter, but I've previously made a blanket like the one that one of the characters in True Blood has, for a raffle prize at an event. In the process of making another one of those, and having a go at making a hat/beanie. Would love to learn to do something a bit more difficult, but I think I'll probably stick with blankets and hats should this one turn out.

Jewel, that doll is so gorgeous!

[leckert]

just found that herrschners (the us website) sends to Aus and they stock lion brand yarn I noticed.
The only reason I now know this is because Spotlight don't have pale green 3ply yarn so I thought I'd google the yarn brand herrschners to see if there was a stockist of theirs in Aus but saw they now ship to Aus so am just going to order my yarn from there direct

ETA - just have to wait up to 21 days for delivery but yay for getting it here. about 1/3 of the price was postage Yarn and postage was still only ~$40 all up though so not too bad.

Back to Add - looks like 10-14 days and it should be here (according to the email)

[AngelPants]

That's fantastic Liz! Hmm I may have to go have a sneak peak!

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[Jewel]

I'm not a terribly skilled crocheter, but I've previously made a blanket like the one that one of the characters in True Blood has, for a raffle prize at an event. In the process of making another one of those, and having a go at making a hat/beanie. Would love to learn to do something a bit more difficult, but I think I'll probably stick with blankets and hats should this one turn out.

Jewel, that doll is so gorgeous!

Which true blood character? That's be awesome to make! Way to go!
Good luck with your hat/beanie making. Once you do one or two you know what's going on and they get easier ( well I think they do)

[Gigi]

i do have some crochet hooks, need to find them, cos i want to give crochetting another try. To get further than chain stitch. To actually make something. Can find the wool, the knitting needles but not the crochet hooks, still searching.

[AngelPants]

Gigi that's the trouble with crochet hooks they are so easy to loose! If you can't find them, opshops tend to have some.

Ooh im going to have to look up the blanket, ive never watched it.

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[Ree*Ree]

Which true blood character? That's be awesome to make! Way to go!
Good luck with your hat/beanie making. Once you do one or two you know what's going on and they get easier ( well I think they do)

I wanna know too! Is it Lafayette's from season 2? I had a little google and that seems the most popular. Think I may have to give that one a go one day too

[AngelPants]

yeah google showed me one made from granny squares? it looks really cute! blankets are too daunting i like things i can finish pretty quickly. that being said i have everything to make a patchwork knitted blanket havent even started yet!!

[Jewel]

I just found the cutest mittens. They're crocodiles, or you can make a shark ones - I think the pattern is for the shark ones. Super cuteeeeeeeeeeee.

They're on Ravelry.

[Miss_Dee]

Which true blood character? That's be awesome to make! Way to go!
Good luck with your hat/beanie making. Once you do one or two you know what's going on and they get easier ( well I think they do)

I wanna know too! Is it Lafayette's from season 2? I had a little google and that seems the most popular. Think I may have to give that one a go one day too

It was Lafayette's from season 1....think he has it in season 2 also. He has a new one in season 3, but I'm yet to find a pattern for it.

Here's the pattern I found if you're interested

[AngelPants]

Naw! Crocodiles and sharks how cute!!

I have bookmarked that Afghan pattern!

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[leckert]

Got my herrschners yarn on Saturday from the PO just about to start on the gentle waves baby afghan!
Will have to put the spotlight krista block of the week afghan on hold for a bit while I do freckle's blanket.

Will get onto computer later to link pics of both so people can see them both.

[Jewel]

YAY!

I totally wish I had Spotlight here.
Buying online just isn't the same as irl. I like to browse in the shop. Fussy, yep.

I found this cuteeeeeeee pattern and so want to use the same colour wool as they have but don't know if I can get it anywhere. It's Patrons brand, shadow tweed.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

The wool I generally use is just the stuff from Big W, Carnival I think it's called.

Giant afghan finished now, except for the billion loose ends. It didn't end up being as big as I thought, it's more wide than tall. It'll work nicely for saving our seats when we go to assemblies though, so it'll still work. I think I'm gonna hafta start actually planning blankets before I make them from now on, how grown up!

I got given 2 balls of super soft, fluffy rainbow yarn that I made myself a scarf out of. Long and skinny, and hangs down to the floor! I love it to bits, can't wait for it to cool down so I can wear it.

Also finished the bubba blanket, I'll hafta upload the pic Sarah put on FB, I forgot to take one!

I wanna start something new, but I don't know what. Creativity is stirring, but it has no direction yet unfortunately...