Monday 12 April 2010

Late to the granny square party (and other crochet bits)

Image above from Emma Lamb's blog, here.


In the last few years, crochet seems to have really taken off again, and in particular granny squares. I've seen some gorgeous things on various blogs, Etsy and in the Cath Kidston catalogue, but the person whose work I have really fallen in love with is Emma Lamb. There is nothing in her Etsy shop that I wouldn't like to own, and it's traditional and contemporary at the same time which really appeals to me.

Anyway, back in September when we first moved to this house, I bought some cushion pads with the intention of knitting some covers for them. Of course that never happened and they've been languishing in the spare bedroom ever since. So the other day when I came across some sparkly wine and gold yarn that I'd bought in Lidl, I thought I'd add some cream yarn and turn it into some granny square cushions for a previously cushion-less chair in our living room.


One is just a giant granny square, and the other is four squares joined with double crochet. They're lined and backed with beige linen because I couldn't be bothered to crochet the backs - yes I know I'm lazy. And I hadn't used my sewing machine for so long that it took me a while to remember how to sew in a zip, which is shameful. You can't see in the photo (and my camera battery died right after I snapped this so I couldn't take another shot) but the wine and gold yarns are actually sparkly.


Next I have to replace the cushion on my computer chair, which I've had to throw away because Elvis threw up the world's biggest hairball all over my Chinese satin cushion. I discovered this when, having just woken up and being not quite awake, I stumbled into my computer room and sat on the chair and got a big streak of wet hairball right across my backside. I was not pleased, I can tell you. I've started a purple and cream chevron pattern cushion, inspired by one in Erika Knight's Simple Crochet. If you're in London and fancy learning to do something similar, my fabulous crochet teacher Bee is running a chevron cushion workshop as part of her new venture Make Do Mend. Sigh... I do miss the vast array of classes in London.

Image above from makedomend here.

Finally here are some flowers from 100 Flowers to Knit and Crochet, which my mum in law bought me for Christmas. The pattern for the pansy didn't seem to work out, as the back petals came out with big gaps between the stitches, so I just sort of made them up as I went along rather than sticking to the pattern. The one with the pom pom wasn't supposed to have a pom pom (I think it was a dahlia) but I was in a pom pom kind of mood.


10 comments:

JenRocks said...
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Meg@MegaCrafty said...

Oh Lovely! The colors are very nice.

I wish I knew how to crochet... sadly I can only knit. I seem to have a mental block when it comes to crochet.

These are all gorgeous projects- and spring is nice a time to do a little sprucing up and changing a few things around.

Your pictures are great too!

Siobhan said...

The flowers are so lovely! And your granny squares look fab too. That's my next project to try I think...Try the first crochet flower pattern in the book 'The Hellebore' as it turns out really well.

Unknown said...

hi Aveen... :)

thank you so much for your lovely wee comment on my blog, i too am so thrilled that we have picnic weather again!

and thank you so much for including wee 'greta' in this lovely post, i'm honoured that you're inspired by my 'granny' designs... :)

wishing you the most wonderful day!
emma
x

jacqueline said...

Yipee! It's so good to see you posting again ~ i've been missing you. :) Your crochet projects are just gorgeous and i truely adore those wonderful colors. I too wish i know how to crochet. Oh yes i do agree with others that these photos are just fabulous! Have a lovely merry happy week and love to you!

skirmishofwit said...

Oh, I'm so impressed by all your brilliant crochet! The cushions for your chair look lovely - the colours match perfectly. I'm sure the next cushion will be equally pretty, and your flowers are adorable :)

Jordan said...

Like the crochet flowers im just starting to crochet, check outmy blog and tell me what you think
http://iitki.blogspot.com/ !:)

Rachel M. Dolph said...

Looking excellent . Like your a lot .

Robert Smith said...

Nice article as well as the whole site.Thanks for sharing.

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