I recently discovered that once again, my yarn stash was getting out of control. I don't have a lot of room to store my yarn, so I decided that rather than go out and buy even more for a project I was designing, that I would come up with a large stashbuster instead to free up some space using some of the insane amount of acrylic yarn I possess. I came up with this shell stitch pattern and then decided to use white to tie things together. I started with a stripe of white, then 8 stripes of colors randomly selected from my stash, then white again, lather, rinse, repeat. This afghan is 52" wide, and is currently 24" long, so I've still got a lot of work left to do on it. I have to say that I'm extremely proud of myself for actually working the ends in as I go for once, which I never do, instead of leaving them all to do at the end.
More market bags, this time in cotton. I used a cone of variegated brown cotton yarn with some hints of red for this project. I love the way it ended up with these wavy stripes. Funny thing is, I'm making a second bag from the same yarn, and the stripes are nowhere to be found. Funny how that works out sometimes.
Here it is, my latest amigurumi creation, Octavio Octopus. I decided to use some variegated blue, green, and yellow acrylic yarn I had lying around, and then also crocheted the eyes in black acrylic yarn. I'm really having fun with making the amigurumis, but have decided to finish up a few afghans that have been hanging around incomplete for quite some time. I hope to have finished pics of them to post soon.
I recently discovered that once again, my yarn stash was getting out of control. I don't have a lot of room to store my yarn, so I decided that rather than go out and buy even more for a project I was designing, that I would come up with a large stashbuster instead to free up some space using some of the insane amount of acrylic yarn I possess. I came up with this shell stitch pattern and then decided to use white to tie things together. I started with a stripe of white, then 8 stripes of colors randomly selected from my stash, then white again, lather, rinse, repeat. This afghan is 52" wide, and is currently 24" long, so I've still got a lot of work left to do on it. I have to say that I'm extremely proud of myself for actually working the ends in as I go for once, which I never do, instead of leaving them all to do at the end.
