The instructions were good and, although at first the clunies took some getting used to, after a while it was easy crocheting going around and around. Definitely fun, and definitely a wool eater!
I’m not sure I was poking my crochet hook in to the right part of the spaces because the gaps in my potholders turned out larger, more U-shaped, than the smaller O-shaped in the photographs I’ve seen, but I decided to just keep going in the same way and I’ll experiment with it some more another time.
I wanted to use up some scraps of wool so I didn’t put much thought in to the colour choice. While my finished pincushion doesn’t resemble a standard flower, I think it’s turned out quite pretty. Continue reading →
The rain keeps tumbling down in Sydney. I had been thinking about crocheting a cushion cover but then I remembered a stash of patchwork pieces I recently found in my fabric stash.
I tried my hand at patchwork a few years ago. I don’t remember what I had been planning to make from these pieces, or what pattern I was aiming for. There were a few rows of joined patches and a whole lot of squares made up from triangle pieces. I played around with the pieces and strips for a while until I decided that a zig zag pattern would look nice on a cushion.
