Crochet projects show and tell

KathyB1968

KathyB1968

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Crochet projects show and tell.

WIP (works in progress) welcome

I do a lot of really basic stuff, mostly shawls with no basic stitches. Somedays I just need something I don't have too think about. The repetitive pattern is soothing.

I like mixed projects where multiple types of yarn are used.

Recently, I have been dabbling in freeform crochet.

This just completed shawl is double stitch almost all the way through. Then when I got toward the end, I added in random stitches.

This is a picture of the whole thing with a few details of the freeform bits on the bottom.

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I have one freeform project started. I think I will also start another basic piece with plain stitches for days I don't feel up to thinking about my stitches.

Freeform has the advantage of being modular if you want it to be. You can make individual bits that are crocheted together later. For people crocheting in the middle of a heatwave like me.
 

KathyB1968 said:
Crochet projects show and tell.

WIP (works in progress) welcome

I do a lot of really basic stuff, mostly shawls with no basic stitches. Somedays I just need something I don't have too think about. The repetitive pattern is soothing.

I like mixed projects where multiple types of yarn are used.

Recently, I have been dabbling in freeform crochet.

This just completed shawl is double stitch almost all the way through. Then when I got toward the end, I added in random stitches.

This is a picture of the whole thing with a few details of the freeform bits on the bottom.

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I have one freeform project started. I think I will also start another basic piece with plain stitches for days I don't feel up to thinking about my stitches.

Freeform has the advantage of being modular if you want it to be. You can make individual bits that are crocheted together later. For people crocheting in the middle of a heatwave like me.
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I wouldn’t have guessed that first photo to be a shawl. I thought it was 1/2 a plant doily. After reading your explanation I realized it’s much bigger than that. It’s beautiful. Crochet shawls are beautiful. Nice work and thanks for showing us.
 

I used to make a Load of these Shawls, and blankets... and hats... all basic stuff.. but I learned when I was in my early 20's when my DD was just a baby...

In the end I couldn't give them away people just didn't want them any more preferring man-made materials...

Now I have OA in my fingers mostly in my predominant hand so I would find it too painful to do any now..
 
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Is this crochet?

This was sent to me by a lady in Syria. Her nephew worked for me, and he was a Syrian immigrant and after he became a US citizen, he visited his family in Syria. He came back with this gigantic doily thing, saying his aunt made it for me as a thank you for helping him get his citizenship.

I'm not a doily guy but I've had it for about 20 years....because it was hand-made (he said) by a lady in Syria, and that's pretty novel. Not everybody has one.

In the 2nd picture you can see it's almost as long as the old bureau it's on...over 3ft long...and it's over 2ft wide.

Anyway, is it crochet, and do you think she really made it herself? I've always wondered.

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It looks like crochet to me. I feel like I might have seen the design in a classic crochet book.

I recognize many of the stitches. The center circle looks like double crochet with chain stitches it between.

I am not sure about the little squares. The more solid circle has a little more texture than single crochet, so I am not sure about it.

The second row from the outside looks like triple crochet with chain stitches in between.

The outer row would be single crochet over a chain stitch with a picot stitch in the center of each one.
 
KathyB1968 said:
It looks like crochet to me. I feel like I might have seen the design in a classic crochet book.

I recognize many of the stitches. The center circle looks like double crochet with chain stitches it between.

I am not sure about the little squares. The more solid circle has a little more texture than single crochet, so I am not sure about it.

The second row from the outside looks like triple crochet with chain stitches in between.

The outer row would be single crochet over a chain stitch with a picot stitch in the center of each one.
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That's Greek to me, but cool! Thanks!

Remy said:
Yes, @Murrmurr it's crochet and I'm sure she made it. It is absolutely hand done. I love handmade and vintage crochet and look for it in thrift stores.
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Thank you, Remy.
 
On the news last night, there was a lady and her husband in their wedding clothes. She owns a crochet shop and did everything, including the attendants. It was beautiful.

@Murrmurr, those runners and tablecloths were standard for women to make when my mother was young. Lots of work. My mother made the tablecloth when she was in her forties. It was usually on the dining room table and covered a red cloth at Christmas time. I had it for years and never used it. It was passed on to my DDs and then disappeared.
 
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That beautiful runner is crocheted. My mother was always crocheting, and taught me. She made some very intricate pieces .. mainly tablecloths. Her sister used to send beautiful little crocheted change purses to us, from Japan, with little glass beads worked into them. I wish I'd kept mine :(
 
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@Murrmurr that piece is beautiful. Like the others here, my Grandmother would crochet doilies & runners like that. I have a few left from her.

That is a real talent to do crochet with yarn that thin & a hook that small. I have all of her hooks & still use them. I bugged her so much when I was about 4 that she taught me using some wooden 1/4" thick hooks. I still have those.

I love to crochet & will do everything except doilies. I just don't have the patients or talent to that kind of work.
 
Lilac said:
@Murrmurr that piece is beautiful. Like the others here, my Grandmother would crochet doilies & runners like that. I have a few left from her.

That is a real talent to do crochet with yarn that thin & a hook that small. I have all of her hooks & still use them. I bugged her so much when I was about 4 that she taught me using some wooden 1/4" thick hooks. I still have those.

I love to crochet & will do everything except doilies. I just don't have the patients or talent to that kind of work.
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The reason I wasn't sure if it's crochet or something else is because of how thin the thread (or whatever) is. My grandma crochet but she used thin yarn. What this lady used looks like thick thread, so I thought maybe it's called something different from crochet. And I didn't know yarn could be that thin.
 
Murrmurr said:
The reason I wasn't sure if it's crochet or something else is because of how thin the thread (or whatever) is. My grandma crochet but she used thin yarn. What this lady used looks like thick thread, so I thought maybe it's called something different from crochet. And I didn't know yarn could be that thin.
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Crochet thread can be very thin/fine, Murr. My mother used the fine thread to crochet tablecloths. They were beautiful.
 
Pinky said:
Crochet thread can be very thin/fine, Murr. My mother used the fine thread to crochet tablecloths. They were beautiful.
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Ah....you reminded me; isn't there a famous Scottish crocheted lace that's light as air and practically invisible because the thread is super, super thin? I forget what it's called, but it's not synthetic, it's from sheep's wool...a specific breed, I think.

Or maybe Irish. I just remember there's only like 3 women on the whole planet who still do this craft, and they're related.
 
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Murrmurr said:
Ah....you reminded me; isn't there a famous Scottish crocheted lace that's light as air and practically invisible because the thread is super, super thin? I forget what it's called, but it's not synthetic, it's from sheep's wool...a specific breed, I think.

Or maybe Irish. I just remember there's only like 3 women on the whole planet who still do this craft, and they're related.
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I know of Irish crocheted lace .. I don't know if the Scottish lace has a name (?)
There is a great satisfaction that comes with fashioning items with just a hook and thread or yarn.
 
I have some crochet thread at home, but I use it to sew up things that need repaired with heavier thread or use it for tying tags on. I should sit down & see how far I can get with a doily.
 

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