Sunday, February 22, 2015

A New Border for the Square #4 of Moogly 2015 CAL



There is this fun CAL, 2015 Moogly CAL on Ravelry, and I'm glad I joined it. On the fourth square of the CAL, however, I had difficulties making the border as directed on the pattern so I changed it to something I designed.
A few of the fellow crocheters asked if I can give the pattern to how I did the border, but as I designed it instantly while crocheting, it really is hard to write the instructions so everybody can do it. And I also worked on the spaces between posts instead of stitches, so a stitch count is very hard to make.
But, here are close up photos of the border I've made, both front and back, with some weird circles in different colours. Pink circles indicate that they are triple crochets. You can see that they ate actually front post triple crochets, that uses the post of the previous round. The round crocheted with the orange yarn is done with half double crochets, with 2 chains in the corners. If you look closely (which you can, because the photos are big) to the fan shape crocheted with the purple yarn, you'll see that there are 6 posts, it's because I used the spaces between posts and not the stitches to crochet into. So the sc2tog with the orange yarn is to the spaces on either sides of the single crochet with the blue yarn.
I really hope this helps the observer to figure out how to make it. You see, it's very hard for me to instruct an How-To. Please feel free to ask anything either here or at my project page at Ravelry.
:)

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

CHOCOLATEBERRY CAKE


CHOCOLATEBERRY #1
Rnd1: (With Colour A) Ch3, join with slst to 1st ch
Rnd2: Ch3 (1st of 16 posts), treble15, join with slst to 3rd ch of first post
Rnd3: Slst to space 'before post', ch2, dc to space 'after post', ch1,
*yo1, insert hook in space 'before post', yo1, draw yarn through the 2 loops on the hook (2 loops left on hook), yo1, insert hook in 'after post', yo1, draw yarn through the 3 loops on the hook (3 loops left on hook), yo1, draw yarn through the 3 loops on the hook, ch1* Repeat between "**" 15 times, join with slst to 2nd ch of first post. Close, cut yarn, and weave in yarn ends.
Rnd 4: (With Colour B) Standing treble in one of the ch1 spaces, treble2, ch2, treble3, dc3 in next ch1 space, hdc3 in next ch1 sp, dc3 in next ch1 sp
*Treble3 in next ch1 sp, ch2, treble3, dc3 in next ch1 space, hdc3 in next ch1 sp, dc3 in next ch1 sp*
Repeat between "**" 3 times
Join with slst to 3rd ch of first post.
Close, cut yarn, and weave in yarn ends.
CHOCOLATEBERRY #2
Same as Chocolateberry #1, with colours swapped (Start with Colour B and change to Colour A)
FROSTING
(With Colour C, and Chocolateberries' right sides facing each other)
Hdc in first stitch of the closer Chocolateberry, and without turning, hdc in the first stitch of the farther Chocolateberry, continue to the end of one side.
Mehlika Akkaya