My first mini-quilt for November was this kantha cutter piece, from which I removed half of the quilting stitches, folded each layer out in a fan to show the different fabrics, and restitched. Very meditative. I also started working on an art quilt in November, and to keep my fingers more flexible I began crocheting one-skein projects during my breaks. I made this no pattern scarf out of a skein of self-striping yarn as my first side project. This winter hat only took about two-thirds of a skein of variegated yarn. I tackled making a miniature version of bienenstich kuchen (German bee-sting cake) as a dessert for my guy. A bit of a difficult recipe, but I'm glad I gave it a go. I made this looooong scarf from one jumbo skein of variegated yarn. My second mini-quilt of November was a stitch and beading practice piece. I crocheted a winter hat from dollar store yarn (which was really nice to work with, actually.) I used half of my scrap yarn balls to beg...
With all the crochet projects I've been doing this year my scrap yarn ball basket is full to overflowing. I wanted to try a project I could make out of scraps and that I could add to in the future, so I found Jayda in Stitches' Scrapgahn tutorial and decided to give it a whirl Basically you make rows of half double crochet out of two strands of light and dark yarn held together. Simple, right? Other than knotting in more yarn as I used up each scrap ball I wouldn't even have to pay attention to it. Yes, well. When my first attempt started to slant in at the sides I realized I was being a bit too cocky and assuming I knew everything about crochet again. I ripped out two days of work to fix that. Here's the second attempt. This pattern does make a pretty thick blanket, but it's not quite as sturdy as Jayda's three-strand big beautiful basket. I like the stripy effect that comes from knotting in new colors, too. I could keep going and use up...