I've been doing a bit of crochet recently...nothing much that I would want to advertise, but a couple of half done things, that might be worth a post later on.
I was have a little sort out over the weekend, and came across a long stitch tapestry kit which was absolutely never going to get done, but as I was looking at it it struck me that the all the wool colours were a gorgeous palette, and I wondered how much you could crochet from a skein of tapestry wool? Well I can reveal it here...
You can do three rounds of a granny square!
Once I'd done one...I had to continue until I'd used up all the wool from the kit except the white and ecru....
Ha ha, I just noticed that the ones on the top row are all wrong side up! Great colours though, although the one in the middle that looks very red, is actually a more subdued rusty coral colour.
Where to go from here though...the wools are just that...100% wool...they crocheted up really nicely, and I love the stitch definition, but it's not very soft. I'm going to see if I can get some reasonably priced pure wool to add borders to the squares and stitch them together, and see what size it comes out. Might be too big for a cushion cover, and too small for a throw, but I will see if I can add some extra borders to extend it.
One last photo for the cat lovers out there...as you know you can't put anything down without a cat coming and sitting on it....this is Shadow coming onto the scene just as I pressed the button...
