Nearly Finished, two down and two to go!

I have had four projects on the go for some time now, one I cannot mention yet, hand embroidery, machine embroidery and a crocheted throw.  My Sister-In-Law, Janette taught me how to crochet on 1st Jan this year and this is my first real project following a pattern for beginners.

I personally think it was a bit more than a beginner level, but I conquered it in the end (I hate pattern jargon).  I had to crochet 30 of these and I have finished the squares, just crocheting them together now and then a border around the edge and finished, I added my own little touch, which is the bead in the middle of each square.  It is far from perfect, but it has been a good lesson.  Now looking forward to my next project.

Learned To Crochet!

 

I have been hibernating a little bit, since we had the bad weather and a couple of illnesses over Christmas and New Year, but have really enjoyed watching TV (which is not like me) and sitting and crocheting, yes I said crocheting.  I like most of you readers have done some sort of craft all your life, learning a little bit of this and a little bit of that.  Knitting and crocheting was never something I really mastered and although an Italian lady that I worked with taught me to crochet many moons ago when I was a teenager I couldn't remember how to until my Sister-In-Law showed me once again on New Year's weekend, well I had a cushion that my Mother-In-Law bought me last Christmas, which is lovely, but it is a cushion, tapestry style with a Christmas scene on it, so this is it's new cover for 11months of the year!  I learned how to make the rose on youtube and worked out how to make some leaves, the buttons I found in the bottom of my sewing box (probably from some old garment) and the wool cost me £2.38, oh and I bought a selection of crochet needles from the charity shop, which I cleaned with some surgical spirit.......WHAT A BARGAIN EH!  I am quite pleased with my efforts and already have a design for cushion number two.  I haven't stopped paper crafting, just had a break really and really enjoyed doing something different and something that is a bit more sociable!

  

Again, the scalloped edging was a tuturial I found on youtube.

For those people who have already left a message saying how impressed they are I want to assure you that I am no expert and this was so easy and that the scalloped edge and the rose was so simple, so don't be afraid to give it a try because you WILL be able to do it. Inspiration can be sought out at Attic24 and recommend that you hop over and have a look at her blog.