I’m back into crocheting again… I haven’t done much of it in the past. A few years ago I completed an afghan for my pastor. My current project is a forest green afghan - 85% complete. Pretty easy one. Mostly double stitches with diamonds of popcorn stitches and stripes of reverse single stitches. This one is for my best friend. I’m going to make a run to the store this weekend to get supplies for a new one just for me!
Any other crocheting Dopers out there? If so, what have you made? What’s your current project? Any resources for cheap yarn?
Anyway, I registered to post this. I hope I don’t get addicted since I already have enough online addictions.
I have made countless rugs, hats, gloves, scarves, afghans and such. The rugs are the worst since you can’t really deviate from the pattern or you wind up with holes.
Afghans are fun though. You can do a lot of nice things with just single, double, and chaining. I can follow a pattern but find it is more rewarding to make it up as you go or have a pattern in mind that you want to make.
My favourite thing is to make diamonds in squares with afghans. I am not good at ASCII art but it looks something like this:
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Just pretend it is a prefect square inside another perfect square.
Oh, I didn’t get to the other questions that you had. I am not doing any projects currently since I don’t have time thanks to the online thing and work. However, in the fall I am going to make another afghan for myself I think.
I used to get yarn fairly cheaply by waiting for the sales to happen or them to discontinue a line and then go in and buy out all I could of a few choice colors.
I love crocheting!! I spend a good part of the winter working on afghans and give them to people for the holidays! I’m made several dozen afhgans. I tried to make a tablecloth when I was learning how to do tatting, but I only managed a few doilies a la my grandmother. I always say I’m going to take the pile of afhgans I have sitting around here (there’s at least 15) and donate them somewhere, but I never figured where I wanted to take them.
I’m working on a rug now out of scrap yarns, which I made chains holding two colors together, now am crocheting the chains into chains with an H hook, then braiding them together. It’s about 80% done now, but it’s taken me months to work on. The bummer is it’s going to be an outdoor rug and will probably only last a few years before it’s too stained.
I get a lot of yarn at Goodwill or Deseret industries. Often there are huge bags of leftover yarn for a buck or two, and at least half of the time there are four or five skeins of the same color or run.
Yep. I’m currently making a baby blanket, but I’ve also got four or five string projects on the go - a doily and a tablecloth and curtains. I have tendonitis that flares up from time to time, so I stop and start up again when it’s gone.
I just finished a baby blanket for my new son (aqua and white zig-zag pattern).
I’ve done blankets for my other kids & assorted nieces & nephews. One Christmas most of my extended family got loooong scarves.
One day I’ll try an afghan - probably in granny squares made of heavy yarn. I’m intimidated by the scope of a project like that. Having three young kids, too, makes it difficult to find the time to simply sit and weave.
Smashed, I was going to suggest you try to sell your extra afghans on eBay but a quick search shows that there’s not a big demand. It’s a shame, really; hours and hours to make a bed-sized afghan and it sells for $15.
Actually, if smashed wants to donate the afghans (s)he should take them to her local women’s shelter.
I know the one out by me loves getting blankets & similar.
I knit, rather than crocheting, but I’m thinking about crocheting a giant granny square and giving it to my best friend as an afghan for the baby that’s due in three weeks.
Right now I’m working on knitting an afghan for my mother. Fortunately, she’s not expecting it until Christmas, since it’s been too damn hot to sit around with yarn on my lap.
I have two projects that I started back in 1996 or 1997 that are sitting in a box, I really should finish them.
One is done in rounds…there must be over 100 that I have to make then piece together. The other is a big square with a little hood on one corner. You also attach two ears, rolly eyes and stitch on a nose and mouth so it looks like a bunny.
I’ve got half an afghan that I haven’t touched in 3 years, and they quit making the yarn for it. And I’ve got a partial that I started last year, but I lost the pattern. The year I was pregnant, I made 7 afghans between Oct. and Dec.
At garage sales one can often find partial skeins of yarn dirt cheap. I don’t mind that because I do a lot of granny squares and they only need short portions of yarn.
I have done a lot of thread crochet as well, making lacy christening/baptismal gowns, and several whole tableclothes over the years. The lacy stuff is harder but makes good gifts.
I just started to learn this summer. I’m doing mostly thread crochet now, and I’ve gotten pretty good at making snowflakes. I’d like to try making a sweater when the weather gets cooler. Any advice for a beginner?
Smashed Ice Cream, there are several organizations that make blankets and quilts for premature babies and such. I wonder if they’d take crocheted afghans?
Anyway, I keep reading this thread title as “Any Crotchety Dopers?” and I wanna say “Heck yes.”
I havent crocheted in a long time. Back in third grade I had a teacher who was really obese… she didn’t move around a whole lot, and never went out to supervise recess. But, she did offer, for those of us who were interested, to teach crochet in class during recess. So, I learned to crochet. I made potholders and such. I haven’t done it since grade school, but I think I’ve still got my needles somewhere. What fun. (Oh, I’m a 22 year old male, by the way).
I crochet - I love to do grannies (and was pretty proud of myself when I figured out how to attach them to one another as I go, rather than stitch them all together at one time!) Right now I’m THINKING about new afghan ideas, not actually making any. One thing I really like to do is grannies in solid colors, then arranging them into quilt patterns. I have plans for a nine-patch in crochet for a friend for Christmas right now.
I crochet - I love to do grannies (and was pretty proud of myself when I figured out how to attach them to one another as I go, rather than stitch them all together at one time!) Right now I’m THINKING about new afghan ideas, not actually making any. One thing I really like to do is grannies in solid colors, then arranging them into quilt patterns. I have plans for a nine-patch in crochet for a friend for Christmas right now.
I’m more of a knitter than a crocheter, but I do both. My current active project is knitting a purple, variegated cow for a Mensa RG (more about the RG in a couple of weeks), but my next project will be crocheting a pair of baby booties for the woman who’ll be running registration at it. She’s due a week or two after the RG, but we’re aware we might have one special, unexpected progam on childbirth if things don’t go as planned.
I swear by Ames’ craft section for everyday yarns. Also, if there’s a local knitters/crocheters club, they sometimes have yarn exchanges. For the good stuff, I know of 3 local stores which specialize in yarn, although I’m considering giving up one (I don’t spend enought money for them).
I crochet and knit, but hot as it is here, there’s no way I’d sit with an afghan on my lap for hours on end! I prefer making afghans all in one piece rather than sewing together a bajillion squares. It’s much more satisfying, and the work seems to go faster. I’ve made more afghans than I can count - my sibs and their kids each have at least one - some have two. We’ve got at least 7 or 8 in our house, including the very first one I ever made - it’s now a dog blanket. All of a sudden, I’ve got a hankerin’ for a handful of yarn - hope the weather cools soon.
I never thought about donating to women’s shelters - my Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] is doing volunteer work at our county’s shelter - I can make some and she can deliver them for me. And speaking of the Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup], she’s crocheting a bajillion squares right now - making her first afghan. It’s going to be wild - each square is two colors, and the kid picks some crazy color combinations.
