Kell's Korner 2011

[tiffstitch]

Wow, that looks much better than my attempts. Washing up cloths would be an easy way to practice different stitches too.

[Nachstenliebe]

Looks great! I should try online tutorials.. my mom said she'd never teach me because I'm left handed
Faith

[kell]

Looks great! I should try online tutorials.. my mom said she'd never teach me because I'm left handed
Faith

But if you sat opposite her, you could learn mirror-fashion!

Here's my second attempt at double crochet which I sat and did whilst watching an episode of Desperate Housewives just now...



If anyone has any tips on how to keep the edges a bit straighter, I'd be very grateful!

[kell]

Looks great! I should try online tutorials.. my mom said she'd never teach me because I'm left handed
Faith

I've found a left-handed crochet tutorial! Thought you might find it useful.
HERE.

[Nachstenliebe]

Thanks Kell!!
Faith

[kell]

OK, here's a second attempt at the single crochet:


And a third attempt at the double crochet:


I think I've solved the problem of the wobbly edges - i only need to chain 2 at the end of the row, not 3, and that makes it a lot neater. I'll still need a bit of proactice, but I think I'll do a washcloth of each (one single crochet and one double crochet) so i really get the hand of doing it neatly before I move on to other patterns. I'm quite pleased with my tension, though - it seems to be quite even at least - phew!

[Mabel Figworthy]

Your sides are getting better and better !

[kell]

I've decided to go ahead and try a couple of wash cloths, starting with the single crochet one to get used to keeping my tension even. then I'll try a double crochet one as well. Hopefully, by the time I've done both of those, I'll have the sides a lot straighter and will feel confident enough to learn some new stitches/patterns...

[agi]

Great work Kell, both on the designs and the crochet

[Juel]

Great work.
Your edge looks quite fine by now, usually you can't do so much about it, just change the chain you make at each end. Some blocking when your done will also help . Or you can crotchet along the finished edge for one row when you are done

[kell]

I think I have double crochet licked now - very pleased with the edges on this attempt!


Now I feel ready to perhaps try something new...

[karen4bells]

Fantastic Kell!! You really have got that down now!!

[tiffstitch]

wow! That looks great! Significant improvement!

[vanessanjf]

Great work

[kell]

OK, now I'm quite proud of myself - I've just whipped up my first attempt at a granny square and it actually looks quite square - LOL! I shall give it another try using different yarn just to practice.

[kell]

And here's my second attempt, which I'm quite pleased with, so I'll try something else next...

[ali-cat]

Oh wow!! They are beautiful!!

I can't believe you went from making a dish cloth to those!!

[karen4bells]

Your granny squares are fantastic!!!

[XandraS]

Beautiful crocheting Kell, I've been tempted to try some myself and yours looks great

[kell]

I'm really gettnig into this now! Decided to give a small pattern a try and found a tutorial on how to do a mesh pattern. This is how it turned out:



That's it for this afternoon though - I'll have to wait til lthis evening to try some more, although I really should be stitching my four seasons band sampler...