Showing posts with label Crochet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crochet. Show all posts

11.24.2010

Soliciting opinions

My creative outlet remains crocheting - it's an activity for in the car while Aaron's driving, while watching a little tv, or while sitting next to Saul as he's settling down for the evening with a little Sesame Street. In general, it's a great hobby for me!

I recently selected yarn for baby boy #2's blanket and decided that I wanted to make squares and assemble quilt like. All I've determined thus far are the colors and the pattern for the square. The challenge now is the overall pattern of assembly. Below are three options I'm leaning towards. Personally, at least this evening I'm most torn between 2 of the options (I won't say which two), but am including all three options.

Option #1: The most straightforward and requiring the least amount of additional work before assembling. Dark chocolate brown down the middle . On the right side, turquoise and variegated turquoise for two rows and then the burnt orange and variegated orange on the outside. On the left side, the equivalent, but with orange and turquoise colors reversed.
Option #2: No dark brown at all (though the burnt orange looks brown in this picture. The variegated orange is the X that creates the four quadrants. Top and bottom quadrant is largely made up of solid and variegated turquoise. Left and right quadrants have the burnt orange and then set of three turquoise to fill in. Unfortunatley, to finish the pattern I basically need to make the other half.
Option #3: A varieation on option 2. The X is in the deep chocolate brown. Then, right and left quadrants are turquoise and top and bottom quadrants are orange.



12.15.2008

Saul in a sweater

In keeping with the intended play on words, it's finally time to post a picture of something yarn-related. Of course, Saul's also involved. Here's a picture of him in early October wearing a newborn-sized sweater I made for him before we knew just what a big kid he would be. I only forced him to wear this long enough for me to take a few pictures as proof that he actually wore it. I have a larger version in the same pattern that I'll need to be sure to document soon.

(Note to self: don't make super warm sweaters in newborn sizes for June babies!)