I’m going for an African flower square, tutorial and pattern by Made in K-town. I ordered some Red Heart Miami cotton on loveknitting.com, here’s to hoping it’ll arrive today!
I did a little trial square this morning in bed with the cheap acrylic I have in my stash! I just love this pattern.
Good news everyone! Stomach ulcer never looked so cute, I tell ya!
As you can tell, I’m on a bit of a roll here with bacteria 😀 and rightly so, they’re my favourite living organisms, beside dogs of course 😛
I’m trying to design a bacteriophage T4 because it has an awesome shape, it looks like an alien. Also HIV is pretty weird-looking, so that’s a good candidate and don’t get me started on Candida albicans (candidate, candida… ah ah 😀 )
I’m working on designing a cow for my neighbour’s child who loves cows, so much fun! The only thing is trying to work on white yarn while trying to keep the stove running (with coal and timber) and not get dirt all over my yarn…. #crochetproblems 😀
Anyway, enough procrastination, better get to work!!
And well, yes, you can find H. pylori and E. coli on sale on my Etsy shop!
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So I went and crocheted me some E. coli!! I must obviously thank Giant Microbes for the inspiration, the pattern is my own.
Life is OK, my mum has gone back to Italy today, so we’ve got lots of room on the couch for broken limbs and comatose dogs…. Â But we miss her very much because she spoils *us* (me and the dogs) a lot!
I was a bit meh yesterday so I wanted something easy to crochet… And after watching Dr. Who episode Partners in Crime, I got some white DK and picked up the pattern from Ravelry .
Hands and feet are a bit tricky but great practice!
Merry Christmas!!!
I’ve just given this as a present to a lovely girl I know… I really hope she likes it! It’s an owl crochet bag and I got the pattern on Etsy, it’s a-maaaazing and Zoom Yummy is a really talented designer, I just drool looking at her stuff.
Also, I knew spending all those hours on Pininterest would prove itself a good idea, because I just found the coolest amigurumi owl EVER!! I can’t wait to finish my Christmas presents (the shame!) and start it.
Also, if you’re a more experienced crocheter, you might want to go for this amazing owl pattern, it’s saved in my favourites already! I’m sort of aware that owl are over-used in most crafts cause they’re relatively easy to make and they’re damn cute!! So I guess I’m a real basic bitch in that 😀
Hope everyone had a lovely day filled with family, friends and food 🙂
Francesca
My boss and dear friend has a restaurant called Il Porcetto, which means piggy, and has lots of little pig around the place, so I decided to buy me some Lily’s Sugar and Cream (and if you never used this yarn, do it. The name says it all… I heart it) in pink and I tried my first amigurumi thanks to the wonderful tutorial by amigurumitogo.com. It’s perfect because you can go along the written pattern and there’s also a full length video for crochet-along!
So here he is, just missing arms and legs…. because silly me bought only one skein of yarn 😡
I’ve ordered more so fingers crossed it arrives soon!
These are fingerless mittens I made for a friend who was stuck with a Christmas present and asked me to whip up something cute.
The main colour is Hayfield Bonus Aran with Wool, a huge 400g skein which is great value! The accent colours are acrylic DK I picked up in the yarn shop 🙂
A 5mm hook will do nicely for these.
The main stitch is  Granite Stitch: it’s very simple and looks great! I found it and used for the first time thanks to Loopy Sue Designs, in her Man’s Scarf (which is also a brilliant Christmas present).
The stitch used with accent colour yarn is a very simple Puff Stitch (Yarn over hook, insert hook into stitch, yarn over and pull through. You should have 3 loops on the hook, yarn over hook, insert hook into stitch, yarn over and pull through. You should now have 5 loops on the hook. Yarn over again, insert hook into stitch, yarn over pull through. You should now have 7 loops on the hook: yarn over and pull through all loops on the hook. Don’t worry I linked a great tutorial for puff stitch in the pattern)
Abbreviations:
Sc single crochet
Sl st slip stitch
Ch chain
St stitch
Ch sp chain space
Pattern
Using colour A, begin with a chainless foundation single crochet row of 28 stitches and join with a slip stitch.
1st round: ch2, (1 sc in the next st, ch1 sk1) repeat till end of round, sl st to join.
Alternatively you can do a foundation chain and work in the “butt” of the chain… this leaves a really nice edging too. Chain 28 and slip stitch the last and first stitch to make a circle. If you’re doing the foundation chain start your 1st round by chaining 2 (counts as 1sc and 1ch space), insert hook in the “back-bump” of  your first chain and do 1 sc. Then ch 1, sk 1, and 1sc in the next st. Repeat till the end of the round, ch 2, turn.Â
2nd round: this is the same as the first round, only you won’t be working in the stitch but in the chain 1 space of the previous round. 1 sc, ch 1, sk 1, 1 sc till end of round, sl st, ch 2, turn.
Repeat 2nd round for 3rd and 4th rounds.
This pic isn’t relevant to the pattern but it shows the stitch 🙂
5th round: With colour B chain 2 in the first ch 1 of previous round and do a puff stitch in the same ch sp. (Ch 1 and Puff stitch), repeat till end of round.
From now on, repeat the 2nd round four times, and always remember to work in the chain space, not the stitch. After 4 rounds of Granite Stitch with colour A switch to colour C and do a round of puff stitch. So you can do them as long as you want them!
To end just do a final round using one of your accent colours (I inverted mine for left hand and right hand!) and simply do a sl st instead of sc in your ch sp.
Well it appears my science blog is currently being neglected for YARN. I’m going to use this as interface between myself and the world, seeing I’ve only got a very small amount of interactions with other humans lately. Which suits me fine, really.
Like a Galway hooker 