Crocheters Thread

[ella2025]

Oh my goodness!! Do you think you will still make a baby blanket out of these? Do you have a picture or link to the pattern? It looks like it has the potential to be amazing!

So I have a granny square project I started 22 years ago. I recently got it out to work on. I just never wove in the ends so there’s a lot of that to do before I can start assembling it. (I posted a picture of the bag not long ago.) It’s very daunting.

I decided to split all the squares up into 5 different bags and only worry about 1 bag at a time. Tonight I finished up the first bag!

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About half of them didn’t have the 4th row of black added on yet, either, so it was a little bit more fun than just weaving in ends.

I love those colors! What are you making with the squares?

 

[Love Donkeys]

Wow! How does 25 year old yarn feel? And were you intending to connect ALL those magic circles? My patience could never, lol.

25 y/o yarn feels, works up and washes the same as todays yarn. I think it may have different materials in the yarn. Anytime we go to an estate auction I always bid on the old yarn. One time I got a 55gal drum filled with yarn, also some hooks and knitting needles for $10.

I'm using this yarn in the afghan I'm working on. I don't know how old it is but it sold for 79 cents.

 

[Finnie]

I love those colors! What are you making with the squares?

It will be an afghan. Somewhere around here we have the one my husband’s grandmother made for him when he was little. This will have different colors, but be similar.

Anytime we go to an estate auction I always bid on the old yarn. One time I got a 55gal drum filled with yarn, also some hooks and knitting needles for $10.

I went to an estate sale one time, because the online photos had shown some Premier Anti Pilling yarn, among lots of other yarns. When I got there (a Saturday and the front yard was packed with people waiting to be allowed in 12 at a time) and finally found the yarn in the basement, I was pretty disappointed with how little there was. The picture hadn’t had anything for scale, and the Premier skeins turned out to be very small ones that had come in a kit. Most of which was missing, or else I just didn’t see where the rest of their yarn was.

Most of the stuff was not priced. You had to stand in a long line to check out and find out the prices there. Well as I was standing in line with my couple skeins of yarn, another couple came by to set their items down while they kept shopping. And they had the rest of the kit!

Well I hadn’t really been keen to stand so long in the line, and from seeing what they wanted for the things that did have tags on them, I had a good idea the prices were over inflated. So I got the woman’s attention and asked her if she wanted the ones I was holding. She was so thrilled to get the missing parts to her kit! Made me feel like I did a good deed, and also I was glad to get out of the line and not buy anything there.

 

[Finnie]

New project I started today! I spent the first 3 hours doing 3 swatches to get the gauge right. I frogged the first two swatches and used them to make the third swatch big enough for a blanket for my granddaughter’s Labubu doll.

Having settled on a hook 2 sizes smaller than the pattern suggested, I started from the beginning and have the first 5 rows completed:

I think this blue is my favorite color part!