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Sunday 10 October 2010

Hi there

Hi everyone
Yes it is Sunday morning, so why am I here?
Well, hubby left while it was dark this morning to play golf and I thought I would catch up with blog-world.

Now I do have something to show you, but the weather has been overcast for almost 2 weeks now.  And I really think it has gotten confused and thinks it is now Autumn, a little cool, not Spring, a little warm.  ☺

I wanted to take a nice, sunshiney photo, but it seems to be going against me - so you will have to just get a glimpse of it.
Now before I show you, I will tell you the story ....... didn't I mention something about that in the last post
 ☺ ☺☺

About a month ago I mentioned that I was not alone in the hospital waiting room crocheting.  So while us ladies chatted and compared notes - I really admired her lovely pattern, which was for a baby blanket.  She could not remember the name, so I tried to work it out by looking at it - Nope, not my forte!!!!  I could not follow what she was doing - I was chatting and working on my project at the same time - I'm just not that talented ☺  She did mention it was really easy and was always her fall-back pattern.

So I have been scouring the net, but unfortunately I really needed to see a close up of the stitches to confirm I had the right pattern - it took me a few weeks of searching to find that close up - came close lots of times, but was never quite sure.  Then I spotted a close-up of some-ones project on Ravelry - Yahoo!!!!  I found it.

Now hubby's cricket season has started and this has become a perfect, no actually PERFECT, pattern to work
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will show you a little glimpse
Eventually .......

Firstly, I am working this in Paton Australia's Smoothie - an acrylic which is not usually my choice.
It has been discontinued and a bargain is a bargain
And I was very surprised how soft and squishy and SMOOTH!!!  this yarn is
Ok all good so far
But there is one drawback, and for me a MAJOR one
See if you can spot it in the photo ....

Yep, it sure is splitty
Lucky I'm using a slightly rounded head crochet hook
I still have to be careful that all the strands are looped
This would be so difficult knitting or crocheting with a pointy head

You really can't see the pattern too well with this yarn, but it is still working up so lovely
It looks like a basket-weave when done in one colour - another project which I will definitely be starting shortly in more male colours, or in neutral colours

As today is D3's hubby's birthday and D3's is on Wednesday, I am off to have lunch with them and D2 and partner and a whole lot of other invitee's.
Eventually hubby will join us to
But he will miss out on the scrumptious lunch

Hope you all enjoy your day of rest

10 comments:

  1. It looks lovely and I hope you can show us the big reveal soon.

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  2. Hello Maria,
    Thanks for the links to Charity groups. My CWA group knits rugs for charity so I will probably give the rugs to them . They also have lots of wool donated so from now on I will use their wool and only buy yarn for my rug when I start it.
    I love the colours in your new project so am anxiously waiting to see it.
    Cheers
    Helen

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  3. Gotta love when they go out to hit a few rounds of golf. Love this pattern, so far... but my friend please show us more soon.

    Fore....playing through.....
    Kate

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  4. I am staring at that stitch-pattern trying to work it out! (And I've got no hope!) It looks really interesting, though, looking forward to hearing more about it. And yes, Patons Smoothie is sooooo smooth - almost silky - but, yes, soooooooooo annoyingly SPLITTY!

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  5. yuk, splitty yarn - i have a cotton i'm working with now and it seems to take ever sticth twice as long to manouver over the hook.
    it's a lovely colour, and looks like a great texture. Good luck with finishing it without launching it !

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  6. Can't wait to see the whole project; this glimpse you showed makes one curious. I can imagine you looking for the pattern, as it really looks great.
    groetjes, Dorien

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  7. I know what you mean when you say the yarn splits.
    I had that trouble with the baby shawl, but wasn't going to let it get the better of me.. I think you will be very pleased with it.. I love the colour too. Will be waiting for the pic :))

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  8. Enjoyed the post Maria.
    I love the look of the yarn,
    brilliant colours.
    Such an interesting pattern,
    Love Suex

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  9. It does look like a very complicated pattern. Well done you for finding it! The colour of the yarn is really lovely.

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  10. Maria the pattern looks so interesting! I find splitty yarn annoying too and that yarn does look splitty!! Lovely post Maria!x

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