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Category: crochet
Purple barn owl
It feels like a long time since I sat down and did a crochet project start to finish, so this weekend I spent some time trying for just that. I went through a bunch of links on Crochet Pattern Central and even printed out two (though one went into the recycling shortly thereafter when I realized it had printed with a significant part of the right end of each line cut off). I sorted through my books of patterns and even began making a dragon, from a pattern I’d used before. I also began an orangutan from one of the new patterns, but it wasn’t calling my name.
Finally, yesterday evening I decided to make an owl. I had been working on an owl for a while, the location of which I could not tell you offhand, but I wanted to make a barn owl and also work in embroidery floss, which I hadn’t in quite a while. This is the result:
His feet are made from a black twist tie that extends up his back under his wings and keeps him upright. He’s hanging out with some stained glass shorebirds my grandfather made.
Crochet with ribbon
I finished my work early one night recently and, taken by surprise by that event, looked around for something to fill a little time before bed. I decided to try crocheting with ribbon, pulled from my stash. I used PlanetJune’s Love Hearts pattern.
The white and gold heart was made with 1/8″ wire-edged ribbon and an E hook. The dark blue heart was made with a J hook and non-wired ribbon that had loops along the edge; without the loops it was a bit over 3/16″ wide, and with the loops it was 3/8″. They both turned out fairly sturdy and I think crocheted ribbon baskets and catch-alls would work quite well. The one difficulty with ribbon, that slows down the stitching, is that it wants to coil up into a nice corkscrew as you go along. I could probably have alleviated that by detaching it from the spool, but even once I did with the blue ribbon it still coiled until the free end was short enough to no longer drag on the floor. Instead I had to smooth it every stitch or three. It still didn’t take too long to make these hearts.