Crocheted Earrings
(ah yes.. my attempts at being artsy, but really giving you too good of a close up)
Thoughts, projects, and a few yarns from a self taught knitting obsessive and growing crochet enthusiast. (i.e. my escape from the cubical to my happy place)
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Crocheted Earrings
(imperfect yes, definitely making a few changes to the pattern…. but hey first try = not bad)
FYI
The whole ‘glue’ thing really does stiffen up a knit/crochet item quite well! Tried my earrings on after work yesterday… and they are quite cute! Now the downside is - they are most definitely stiff, so you better shape everything exactly how you want it. Also - the colors will get just a teeny bit duller from the glue.
There are other methods to stiffen your work (sugar water solution or starch) but supposedly they have similar side effects.
Anyhow - pictures soon.
More experiments
It was a good weekend for my knit/crochet kinda life - rainy and yucky out… which means I got a lot done. Among finishing a zig zag lace scarf and new graduated moss stitch scarflette, I also made another crochet bracelet (which I haven’t decided yet if I’m ripping out and starting over again) AND a pair of crocheted earrings with pearl beads in them.
The earrings I mentioned that I designed awhile back, and finally got to actually test the final pattern last night. After finishing them up, I decided they were too flimsy and there had to be a way to stiffen them (so they’d hang correctly).
Wa la! Glue. Glue? Yes, GLUE. I read about this technique where you add equal parts of water and glue together…. supposedly it is going to work. Right now they are pinned to a cardboard box lined with wax paper…. We will just have to see how this little experiment turns out. Needless to say it was a lovely weekend.
Fan Ring -
just a little something I toyed around with one night… made with crochet thread :)
Tiered necklace - from the side
(really like how most of the yarns I used for the flowers had a bit of sheen)
