Snowflakes On Their Way

Just as I had tied off the last knot after sewing the snowflakes to the piece of cardboard, I realized that I hadn't remembered to take a picture of all of the snowflakes once they were stiffened. So I took them all off and took a picture.

I had to soak the pins to soften the glue so that I could clean it off them.



The pins were needed so that I could finally wash and block the ”somebody else's UFO”. I wanted to wash it first because I don't know how old the squares were before I got them and they were in my cupboard a few years before I worked on them. The throw isn't much bigger than this – only one row missing on each side so it's only about 55 cm by 110 cm.

Finished the Snowflakes

I've wanted to knit myself a scarf out of cotton yarn for those days when I need something around my neck but with the sun shining it would be too sweaty for wool or acrylic. I liked the simple look of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's scarf and thought that I would make it from that. I don't know if it is the cotton yarn or the size of my needles but it doesn't look the same. So I've taken two other patterns from the internet and will try them.

The last 2 snowflakes are finished and waiting to be stiffened. I forgot to take a picture of the seventh snowflake before blocking it. While I was pinning it I noticed a mistake on the second row. Too late to fix it now! I'm not surprised to find a mistake though. I struggled so much with it. The pattern is actually quite easy but I kept doing mistakes and mostly the same ones over and over. I couldn't understand it.

Snowflake number eight seems to have one more row in the picture than called for in the pattern. It was big enough without the extra row. I followed the pattern until the last row where I only chained 7 between instead of 10 and 10 where it called for 12.

Blocking Snowflakes

Snowflake #6 was suppose to have beads but as I don't have any, I didn't add any. It might be interesting to try sometime. I changed the outer points because, maybe because of the lack of beads, it just looked like a blob. I only did one b-picot.


I suddenly realized that I should start blocking the snowflakes so that when they are all crocheted they will be dry enough to send immediately. I used a blocking pattern that I found and now that I have rustproof pins I don't have to worry about rust marks. Last time I used a mixture of white glue and water and painted it on. I had read somewhere that you shouldn't use sugar because bugs, etc. might want to eat it and so I'll probably use glue again. When I blocked them last Christmas I put some cling wrap over the pattern but before starting this set I saw that someone had used wax paper and I'm trying that. I put the snowflakes face down so the glue goes on the back.

T's Socks Are Ready

T's socks are finally done. The color pattern isn't the same on both the socks but the pooling is close enough not to bother me too much. The yarn is Novita's Nalle Colori. I liked working with such colorful yarn but it will also be nice to go back to a solid colour for a while.

I used the pattern on the back of the label with a few changes (of course). The toe was one change and I don't think that I really like it after all. I'll have to keep looking.

Fifth Apron All Done

I found this material in my stash and thought that the colours would be OK for a fall apron.

Not wanting to use the winter ones yet, I'll use this until December. I won't make my new winter one until the end of this month. Then next month I'll probably make an apron for a gift. I have the material for it but it might not get done until the last minute!

As there are only 49 days until Christmas I thought that I should get some gifts done so I could mail them off before Christmas. For a decoration I combined mini mittens and a mini hat.

I found four more snowflake patterns, so I'm hoping to get them done soon.