Knit & Crochet Blog Week: Day 5

Where do you like to indulge in your craft? Is your favorite arm chair your little knitting cubby area, or do you prefer to ‘knit in public’? Do you like to crochet in the great outdoors, perhaps, or knit in the bath, or at the pub?

This one is easy!  I have crocheted on a plane and on a train and in the car and … hehe, well I won’t crochet at the bar because I don’t want to have my yarn stink like smoke or have beer spilled on it…  But my favorite place to crochet is at home on the couch with a pug in my lap :)

Since today is the last day of April, I’m going to wrap up my April CAL project, the Walking After Midnight skirt, and introduce my plan for the May Crochet-A-Long.  I’m not quite finished with the skirt but I’ll post photos of what I have so far.  I just need to finish the waist band part.  For May I’ve decided to use my own pattern, the Climbing Shells Mini Bag, and I’ll be marking down the price of it to $3.99 for the whole month for anyone who wants to crochet along :)

I’m going to make mine with an L hook and Jelly Yarn so it’s likely to turn out not-so-mini.

with a plain knit purple skirt underneath

Tags: bag, CAL, crochet, knitcroblo5, pug, sale, skirt
Category 4/10 Walking After Midnight, 5/10 Climbing Shells Mini Bag, Crochet |

Walking After Midnight Skirt: Progress

I’m about halfway done I think… this one is pretty easy :)

Tags: CAL, cotton, crochet, skirt
Category 4/10 Walking After Midnight, Crochet |

Happy April

I love April… lots of flowers growing, spring smells, soothing rainstorms, my birthday ;)

Just a couple days ago I finished up my March CAL project, the Crystaline Snood.  It was a more complex pattern than I expected but it turned out beautifully.  It’s a bit smaller than the one in the pattern because I used lace weight yarn instead of the called for DK weight so it fits a little more closely around my neck, which I prefer.

So, on to the next project… my April CAL (which I’ve just started) will be Doris Chan’s Walking After Midnight skirt from her book Amazing Crochet Lace.  I’m using Comfy Sport in black, a really soft cotton acrylic blend sport weight yarn from Knit Picks.

Tags: CAL, crochet, FO, lace, seamless, skirt
Category 3/10 Crystaline Snood, 4/10 Walking After Midnight, Crochet |