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Skewing Granny Squares

08 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by Bessie V in Crochet Tips n Tricks

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Skewing Granny Squares

Here’s a tip I came across in my Ravelry group for those who have a problem with their crochet blocks going askew.

http://www.edieeckman.com/2015/08/13/skewing-grannies/

If you see the blocks of my Moogly CAL Afghan, especially the first, second and fourth squares, they don’t look like proper squares. The worst was the 2nd block of the CAL series :

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Block 2 : 3D Flower Granny Square (Attempt # 1)

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Block 2 : 3D Flower Granny Square (Attempt # 2)

Now when I look at both together, the second attempt looks even worse than the first.

I had been contemplating on making it again and so, decided to try out the tip in the link and see if it worked.

It didn’t for this block, unfortunately.

I think that is because my block isn’t a traditional granny square as per the instructions given in that link.

So I made some judgment calls and did other changes to my corners. If one round had “2sc-ch2-2sc”, the next round had 3 sc in the corners. I alternated this method for all the stripes round that is seen in my Attempt # 3 and also in the rounds thereafter.

Et voila !

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Block 2 : 3D Flower Granny Square    (Attempt # 3) 

TONS better, isn’t it?? I shall now replace the old picture with this new one for my Block 2  in the Ravelry group.

I am SO, SO pleased now!

But I shall still try out the method in the link whenever my project calls for a traditional granny pattern.

 

 

 

 

Color Combinations

24 Thursday Mar 2016

Posted by Bessie V in Crochet Tips n Tricks

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Color Combinations

I’m lousy with color combinations. My 11 yr old knows her colors better than me and every time she makes something with different colors, they always seem to complement each other. I have never seen her fretting over them. Maybe it isn’t very hard; but every time I try out something, I will always have a million doubts about the colors chosen and I am inclined to ask at least half a dozen people and some more, their opinions. And I still wouldn’t feel completely confident.

Here’s a website I came across that features a color combination sheet (if any of you face the same trouble I have) :

http://brightside.me/article/the-ultimate-color-combinations-cheat-sheet-92405/

The below graphics are taken from the site and they also have a description of these combinations. I shall refer to this from now on.

Color Combos 1Color Combos 2

 

Combinations of individual colors :

  • White: combines with everything, especially blue, red and black.
  • Beige: combines with blue, brown, emerald, black, red, white.
  • Gray: combines with fuchsia, red, violet, pink, blue.
  • Pink: combines with brown, white, mint green, olive, gray, turquoise, light blue.
  • Fuchsia (dark pink): combines with gray, yellow-brown, lime, mint green, brown.
  • Red: combines with yellow, white, green, blue, black.
  • Tomato-red: combines with cyan, mint green, sand, creamy-white, gray.
  • Cherry-red: combines with azure, gray, light-orange, sandy, pale-yellow, beige.
  • Raspberry-red: combines with white, black, damask rose.
  • Brown: combines with bright-cyan, cream, pink, fawn, green, beige.
  • Light-brown: combines with pale-yellow, cream-white, blue, green, purple, red.
  • Dark-brown: combines with lime-yellow, cyan, mint green, purple-pink, lime.
  • Reddish-brown: combines with pink, dark-brown, blue, green, purple.
  • Orange: combines with cyan, blue, lilac, violet, white, black.
  • Light-orange: combines with gray, brown, olive.
  • Dark-orange: combines with pale-yellow, olive, brown, cherry.
  • Yellow: combines with blue, lilac, light-cyan, violet, gray, black.
  • Lemon-yellow: combines with cherry-red, brown, blue, gray.
  • Pale-yellow: combines with fuchsia, gray, brown, shades of red, yellowish brown, blue, purple.
  • Golden yellow: combines with gray, brown, azure, red, black.
  • Olive: combines with orange, light-brown, brown.
  • Green: combines with golden-brown, orange, salad green, yellow, brown, gray, cream, black, creamy-white.
  • Salad green: combines with brown, yellowish-brown, fawn, gray, dark-blue, red, gray.
  • Turquoise: combines with fuchsia, cherry-red, yellow, brown, cream, dark-violet.
  • Electric colors: combines with golden-yellow, brown, light brown, gray, or silver.
  • Cyan: combines with red, gray, brown, orange, pink, white, yellow.
  • Dark-blue: combines with light-lilac, cyan, yellowish-green, brown, gray, pale-yellow, orange, green, red, white.
  • Lilac: combines with orange, pink, dark-violet, olive, gray, yellow, white.
  • Dark-violet: combines with golden-brown, pale-yellow, gray, turquoise, mint green, light-orange.
  • Black is a universal color — it looks elegant in any combination, especially with orange, pink, salad green, white, red, mauve, or yellow.

 

 

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