Crazy Chevron fail

I've been absent again I'm sorry...
Things have not been going well with the crazy chevron.
To begin with, it took me a week just to complete one front panel...



lots of tiny triangles... 
but worse, the finished result is not as I'd envisaged it.

I think it looks more like a football jersey than a chevron ;)

I feel certain the buyer is not going to like it so I've done up a new pattern.

I plan to finish off the making up of the ripple cushions and the ripple blanket

and then I'll crochet the new chevron pattern for the buyer to choose which 

one she likes.

I know it sounds silly but I'd really like her to be happy with this order.


In the meantime, I've been working on the ripple blanket this week... and it's 
made me feel a whole lot happier :)



Hope you've had a good week.

My Creative Space - Crochet Skirt

It's my first week up and running with Kirsty's meme My Creative Space. Visit Kootoyoo to join in or see other spaces :)

Just before xmas, I saw this crochet skirt in one of Jo Sharp's pattern books and decided to have a go myself. At that time I was still totally intimidated by the crochet pattern symbols and thought I'd just 'wing it', so....

I crocheted a pile of navy hexagons in Jo Sharp's Desert Garden Aran Cotton (Nightsky) and joined them together to form a round tube. I have yet to crochet the waistband - I thought I'd do a few lines of double stitch and have a drawstring going through it. Also, I want to line the skirt in a navy stretch cotton I think... I'm not really into the breeze-through look! ;)


Happy new start to Creative Spaces :)

Winging it

The good thing about winging it is that you can discover so many new techniques and ways of playing with and constructing designs with fabric...

... it expands your understanding of fabric and process...

... you often learn what not to do next time...

...particularly when you suddenly realise you've created a maternity dress!

Would this be of use to anyone...? ...because I'm afraid it's going to be of no use to me ;)

Postscript: The dress has been claimed by a very lovely blogger who has just recently found out she's pregnant... I'm very happy about that :) I won't spoil her natal announcements... I'm sure you'll guess who soon :)