The library has a new crochet book called Crochet Compendium: The Ultimate Collection of Crochet Techniques by Connie Ellison. This book has a few pages describing each of 17 types of crochet from basic to fancy to "alternate" such as broomstick lace, tunisian, and double-ended crochet. There's a bit on felting and crocheting socks.
For crocheting with a regular hook, you'll find out how to do slip-stich crochet which looks like weaving, intarsia and mosaic crochet, filet crochet, beading, doilies, waffle-weave, and wiggly crochet.
There are lots of colorful pictures to go along with the descriptions so you can see how it's all done.
Be sure to look for it when you stop in.
Happy crafting,
Kathi
Showing posts with label mosaic crochet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mosaic crochet. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
More Mosaic Crochet
Some time back, I wrote a post about mosaic crochet. The informatio I had available to me came mostly from Lily Chin's book Mosaic Magic: Afghans Made Easy. Lily Chin's book had a fairly simple technique to make a rick textured pattern by attaching long stitches to lower rows. They could simply drop down for a more suare pattern or angle to the sides for another look.
After doing a little more research, I found another type of mosaic crochet. It probably takes more concentration and a lot of counting. You work with two colors of yarn at once. When the pattern calls for one of the colors, that is the one on the hook. You hold the unused yarn along the upper edge of the row below and work over it so it does not show.
When the pattern calls for the color to change, you switch the yarn you are hooking and lay the previous color on the row below, trading off as the pattern requires. The patterns are beautiful and can be quite intricate.
To look at this type of crochet, look for patterns more like the ones Annie's Attic puts out. There is a distinct difference. To each her own.
Happy crafting,
Kathi
After doing a little more research, I found another type of mosaic crochet. It probably takes more concentration and a lot of counting. You work with two colors of yarn at once. When the pattern calls for one of the colors, that is the one on the hook. You hold the unused yarn along the upper edge of the row below and work over it so it does not show.
When the pattern calls for the color to change, you switch the yarn you are hooking and lay the previous color on the row below, trading off as the pattern requires. The patterns are beautiful and can be quite intricate.
To look at this type of crochet, look for patterns more like the ones Annie's Attic puts out. There is a distinct difference. To each her own.
Happy crafting,
Kathi
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Mosaic Crochet
'Tis the season to not only make a one-piece afghan, but something that will keep you toasty as you work.
Here's something just a little different that is warm and beautiful. Mosaic Magic by Lily Chin shows you how to make gorgeous, rich designs using nothing more fancy than single and double crochet - stretched out a bit. She shows you how to do a long single crochet stitch and a long double crochet which give your afghan a richly textured look.
If you don't catch the library's copy in, we'll put on hold one of several other copies available through Evergreen Indiana.
Happy crafting,
Kathi
Here's something just a little different that is warm and beautiful. Mosaic Magic by Lily Chin shows you how to make gorgeous, rich designs using nothing more fancy than single and double crochet - stretched out a bit. She shows you how to do a long single crochet stitch and a long double crochet which give your afghan a richly textured look.
If you don't catch the library's copy in, we'll put on hold one of several other copies available through Evergreen Indiana.
Happy crafting,
Kathi
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