I have been beavering away being quite inventive
and creative lately. I have been asked to design a pattern but I have so many ideas I
am not sure exactly where to begin!
Obviously the first thing to consider is the
yarn. Different types of fibre and weight are good for different types of
things. For example, I like cotton for things that need to hold a shape
(flowers and decorations) as there is little give with it and it has a nice
definite clear edge, no fuzziness.
Acrylic mixes tend to work well for baby blankets
as they wash well and keep their softness and woollier yarns tend to be good
for garments and shawls.
Of course most of the yarn I use is acrylic, it's
cheap and the colours are limitless. The yarn I will be using in my new project is acrylic and in
these wonderful colours!
Ooh so lovely. So first things first I decided to
just start crocheting and see what the yarn was like to work with, what kind of
fabric it made and how the colour would work up.
This brings me to the title of this post, a new stitch! I was just randomly hooking
up a flat circle but was getting annoyed by the gappiness of the usual 3 chain
at the start of each row. I vaguely remembered reading about a way to avoid
this a while ago by using a different stitch, so I took to Google to find out
more.
Standing stitches! You basically create a treble
stitch from the top down, ok it's not perfect but I am hoping with a bit of
practice I get better at it and it is so much better than the usual chain 3 gaps.
It’s still early days with this project but I am
super excited to be making it, I just hope it turns out well!
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