31st December 09

Just a brief one today, I wanted to show you what I had a go of yesterday.  My wonderful mum and dad got me a brilliant book ‘Freeform Crochet and beyond’ by Renate Kirkpatrick, as well as some new hooks and wool, but more about those later.

I finally got to play a bit yesterday.  The pictures are really good, Istruggled a bit with the explainations though thats probably due to my left handedness – but there are some great idea’s and starting points.  It’s certainly stimulated lots more ideas for me. 

Anyway I had to have a little go

Crochet wings (lazy j stitch)

Bullion Knots

Spiral surface with loops

My sample square.  I worked another lazy j stitch but carried on to make a flower and attached them all to a simple treble background.  I love the raised sections of the lazy j stitch, though I think I ‘ve worked them ‘differently’ and the spiral without the embellishment is gorgeous, but the simple addition of the frill is a great idea.  I have loads more I want to try – but the raised sections have certainly got me excited!

Remember that photo from my last post, the mussels in the sand? 

I’ve been playing…

What do you think?

Putting the photos side by side, its not as delicate.  But then again I wasn’t going for an exact copy, it was the composition of the shells and their graduating size that appealed to me.  Though I also liked the textures and the delicacy.  Initially it was going to be a sort of collar, but I couldn’t get it to work, then I for some reason it made me think of antique misers purses

For the background I went for a simple double crochet, and for the mussel shells I started in an ofset scallop, then gradually worked less trebles till I was just free forming it.

This idea has possibilities, different colour combinations, and I have a better idea how my collar idea mght work.  More experimentation required!