French Revolution Cockade

Time for a break from granny squares. This is the French revolution cockade, which you probably saw in Les Misérables.

The pattern came from here and was easy to follow, though next time I'll switch colors right before the slip stitch. 

I'm finding crochet to be more versatile than knitting - I can make cooler things.

So many patterns, so little sucess

Ravelry has let me down. All I wanted was a hexagon granny square (or whatever they are actually called) - a hexagon version of my previous granny squares, for which I used this pattern. I saw hotpads and full fledged blankets and links to Lion Brand that wanted me to register. I don't want to register, I want to crochet.

One pattern turned out like this:

My own version came out in three dimensions:

Another pattern could fit in my hand:

The best pattern so far used UK terminology but doesn't exactly give you a true hexagon:

Maybe blocking would help. 

This project has been using up a lot of extra yarn, so that's a blessing.

I'll keep looking until I find that perfect hexagon pattern.

And there's the second one

Now in tri-color! Switching colors is far easier in crochet than I'm used to in knitting and it uses up a lot of leftover yarn.

I wonder if I can crochet a cockade? Oh look. That seems easy.

What to do with granny squares?

I've graduated from making regular granny squares... to making big granny squares. This one is about twice as wide as my first attempt and was remarkably tedious to make.

I plan on doing another of the same size and use them to hold the steering wheel in my car when it gets too hot. The ones I knitted a few years ago for that purpose seem to have vanished.

Crochet Rediscovered

After two years away, I've finally come back to crochet. This time, I took the Crochet 101 class at JoAnn's because sometimes I need to be told, "Yes, that looks right."

At least those "50% off " coupons are pretty frequent.

This sample was to practice single, double, triple and half-double crochet stitches.

  I then made a granny square.

 When I got home, I made another one.

And another one.

Because the only way to get better is to practice and it's easier to learn when I have a project in mind.

At least I know what a slip stitch is now.