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  1. #1
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    That's why I love crocheting - it grows quickly when using some of the taller stitches - trebles, half trebles & double trebles mainly with doubles for the white


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    So a week ago it was a friends baby shower. 3 days before someone else reminded me how she'd seen owl beanie's at the baby expo a couple of months earlier, but didn't buy one cause they were all very 'boy' or 'girl' and she doesn't know what she's having. So I decided to go crazy and have a crack at making one, despite never making one before. Gotta say, I'm pretty damn happy with how it turned out, especially given I hadn't ever tried this before and I started 2 days before her baby shower.
    Owl beanie 1.jpg

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    Having to do a double post to show off the next one. When my niece saw a photo of the beanie she got all excited and asked Nanny to buy her one. Nanny told her Aunty Dee made it so she just had to call me and ask me to make her a pink and purple one. Pretty sure this makes me the best Aunty ever
    Owl Beanie 2.jpg

    So happy with them both. I also want to have a go at other animals now so I think I'll have to find a pattern book somewhere and actually teach myself to read a pattern (which currently I can't )

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    That's gorgeous! I've got a similar pattern here waiting for me to make too. I just have to find the perfect colour.

    I finished crocheting a cowl but I haven't gotten around to looking for some buttons for it so it's not completely done just yet. Other than that I've been quite lazyyyyyyyyyyy.

  5. #5

    Nov 2007
    Earth
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    I've made my first beanie! Actually, I've made 3 this week Found an awesome all rounder pattern on Ravelry, gives the basic pattern and you just keep increasing til it's a certain size for prem, baby, toddler, teen, woman or man. So far I've made a preemie, baby and woman, all in different colours. I wanna try another kind of hat soon - there's so many awesome patterns on Ravelry!

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    Yay I'm so in for a BB yarners group ( BB Hookers!). Ravelry rocks my socks! I also pin a lot of things I find on ravelry...
    I have almost finished knitting that bloomin jumper I've been working on forever. Just waiting on MIL aid on the stupid collar. In the mean time I've moved onto trying out a bootie pattern for the pickle. It's looking ok.........

    sent from my watzamajig so may not make sense....

  7. #7

    Nov 2007
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    I totally wanna be a hooker!

  8. #8
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    Ok Keike, your enthusiasm paid off, the Hookers are up!

    I am sending you and AngelPants the Ravelry link to our new BB Hookers Ravelry group so you can join up. It needs at least 3 members to be a bona fide group and I need member names to invite directly but I figure if you follow the link you should be able to find it and join.

    If anyone else wants to join in, PM me or try giving "BB Hookers" a search on the Ravelry site (it hasn't come up so far but that might be because of the lack of members so far!)

    All yarners welcome, knitters, crocheters, felters, finger knitters… or those inspired to try

  9. #9

    Nov 2007
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    Joined! Now suffering from an inferiority complex though - I've done 2 projects, both the same thing, and you've done approximately a bazillion. And it says you've been knitting for 3 years, and yet you're making clothes. I have been knitting for 10 years and can only successfully make scarves. And one time, I made a shawl.

  10. #10
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    Oh, don't be too concerned, it is all front! I have been knitting officially for 3 years, I *knew* how to knit for about 10 years prior to that but that is if you call misshapen items, knitting with unintentioned holes, beginning and never finishing hundreds of scarfs and accidental picking up and dropping of stitches 'knitting'! I was more of a crocheter and was reasonable with that. Then I went through post natal depression last year and the thing which kept me sane was knitting. That and Ravelry created the perfect set up for my knitting to take off.

    Mind you, making clothes… you will notice that all my pieces are small, quick knit (quick gratification ) no big impressive committed items in my list, just enough to make my knitting prowess look good at a glance AND I have never successfully knit a scarf!

    Plus, don't you have some Afgan glory you should post about?? I'd love to see some pics and details of that work.

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    Can someone let me know details about/for raverly or however it's spelt. I'm curious but don't know enough about it to go further - doesn't help my main way of being on the net is on my phone.


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  12. #12
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    Found yas on ravelry! I'm satine669. Now to properly set up my profiley thingo...

    Leckert, it's ravelry dot com
    I just use it like a google for patterns. I tell the search engine I want a free crochet pattern for, say, a toddler beret, and it spits out links to patterns that I check out and pick what I like best Some more seasoned Ravelers can probably tell you more about how to actually 'use' the site better, but that's all I do for now

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    I too use it like a giant library for patterns and ideas. I have also just found a knitting group in Adelaide I've joined.

    sent from my watzamajig so may not make sense....

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    Okay found revelry and joined the BB hookers - updating profile details (username leckert1)

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