Lariath- Live a Little.

I have completed my second blanket for Sixty Milion Trebles. (Find out more information about this charity Here ). This is a 36x36 inch blanket made by crocheting corner to corner (c2c). After struggling with the first blanket being so heavy to handle and my yarn holding finger getting tired I used my  DIY Crochet Accessories  for assistance. I have never tried a corner to corner blanket like this, I love it. It worked up a lot faster then my Charity Granny Square blanket . I love the colours and I quite like how random it is aswell. As I have never made a corner to corner blanket before I didn't know what pattern to do. It would annoy me if the pattern didn't finish perfectly when I got to 36 inches. I probably could have worked it out, if I could be bothered, but nah. So instead I used a  Random Number Generator  to choose the number of rows of each colour for me. I think it turned out really nice, and no annoyance of a pattern not being perfect. Anyway eno...

The past few weeks I've been concentrating on making crochet blankets for the charity  sixty million trebles  and I am really not used to making projects this big. I normally make Amigurumi or other smaller type projects. So making larger projects is something new to me and it was putting a strain on my 'Yarn holding finger' which I have never really had much experience of before. Luckily I had already made a finger saver (find the pattern for my finger saver  Here ). The finger saver has been a literal finger saver and after messing around with it for a while I realised I could change the tension with it! I am not the brightest spark so if this is nothing new to those who crochet then accept my apologies. So weaving the Yarn through the finger saver once like this: Gives very low tension which was not enough tension for my liking so I thought what would happen if I weave the Yarn through it more, surely the tension would increase, so I gave it a whirl: Alas...

I have completed a 36x36" crochet blanket for the Sixty Million Trebles charity if you missed my blog with the information about this charity  Click Here . I have never made a blanket before what's a better excuse than charity. The blanket took me longer than I anticipated. It is made of all the scrap Yarn that I have. I've used up most of my scraps now which is great, I've already gone out to buy more Yarn! The blanket is made out of granny squares. Instead of making the granny squares separately and sewing them altogether all the end I joined each granny square to the blanket as I went...anything to get out of sewing. All the squares didn't make the blanket to 36" so I made a border carrying on with the granny square theme. Lastly I finished off the blanket with a row of a simple crochet stitch for ease of attaching to other blankets. 15, 615 trebles have now been added to the 60 million count. We have just passed 18.5 million! I am planning on st...

Be warned this is not a very exciting post it was an experiment for my own benefit but I decided to share just incase, by chance, someone may find it useful (also if I make more of these I can read what I did...). If you don't care about blocking but want the pattern to these shawls  Click here  for a link. I made 3  Fortune's Shawlette  as gifts for Christmas. I really love the pattern and how the shawl falls ect. It looks gorgeous when it's finished. My only issue is that as I'm giving them as gifts I don't think my giftees will want to block the shawls after they have been washed. So I just wanted to see the size difference in the shawls after blocking/stretching and not doing any blocking/stretching. I left one as it was without blocking or anything, I blocked one after wasing it and the 3rd one I washed and stretched with hangers... I used hangers as weights on the corners of the shawl (don't judge me). The picture shows the purple one (the largest...

(Please read the important update at the bottom of the post)  Just a quick post to shout out about a charity I'm joining in with. I think it is a fantastic idea so here's some info: Fancy helping with a charity orientated humongous London Yarn bomb? Get involved. The aim is to make a blanket the equivalent of sixty million trebles out of handmade blankets that are 36x36". The blanket is to represent the amount of refugees worldwide.  The huge blanket will then be spilt apart to provide charities with warm blankets throughout the UK and Hand In Hand For Syria. I know the title says 'Trebles' but any stitch can be using including knitting, the stitches can all be calcualted into treble equivalents. There are also many drop off points for blankets dotted around the UK (and some other countries are involved too) There is a really friendly and active Facebook page devoted to this charity event just search for 'sixty million trebles' on F...

A while back I fell in love with the tiny hats I made for the  Crochet Santa Minion  and the Crochet Snowmen . I had a great urge to make more this year but I want to make a LOT so I wanted to find an easier and quicker way than crochet. Here it is: I think these would be a great crafts for kids where they could choose whatever colour Yarn strips they want to make funky coloured hats! To make these hats you need: Yarn (I used some scrap Yarn in holiday colours but any colour would look awesome) Scissors Tape measure/ruler Toilet roll or kitchen roll Cotton balls First cut the toilet roll or kitchen roll into Just under 1 inch pieces and cut the Yarn into approx 12 inch strips. For one hat I used 1 piece of toilet roll and between 40-60 strips of Yarn (depending on the Yarn thickness). Next tie Larks head knots with the Yarn all the way around the toilet roll, here's how: Take a piece of Yarn put the two ends together to fold the Yarn in half....

I made this a year ago but haven't got round to putting it on here. I think this is one of the best/most enjoyable projects I have made to date. I made it for a friend's Halloween party last year. I think it took me 3 days to make but I loved making the beard, it was so much fun! The only thing is the beard needs a lot of yarn to a get it long, thick and luxurious. (I just had to have a ginger beard as orange is my favourite colour!) Please excuse the photo it was taken before I had attached the beard to the hat. Which I also love because it was attached with buttons so the beard is removable! However after a few drinks I totally forgot and was very warm for most of the night with a massive yarn beard on... I used a few different patterns to make the hat and beard. For the hat I found a generic hat pattern, there are many hat patterns out there. I found a separate pattern for the horns (horn patterns are again easy to find). To make the 'bolts' I made cir...