What's on your hook?

[Bende - Forum Admin]

Been kind of quiet around here so I'm wondering what everyone is working on lately!  I'm working on a "french provential" afghan.  Working on the last strip and then need to border the strips and join them all.......and for my breaks at work, I'm working on a baby onesie.  So...what are you all working on ?

[Carol Ann]

   sounds like some nice projects to me.  Looking forward to the pics.  Nothing on my hooks  and I'm trying to figure out what to line up for hooks and needles (if anything) since we will soon be gypsies living on the road for goodness knows how long...while we search for a new home.   Presently in the midst of packing up this big old house in anticipation of leaving MI in a couple of weeks.  All in all it is pretty frantic around here and any hooking in the near future is questionable.

[Threadhooker]

right now I am working on the baby monkey that I ordered from Etsy. 

[mimimia]

Bende I'm looking forward to seeing your afghan and baby onesie.
Ann are you making your baby monkey in thread?? I don't know why I asked LOL    I'm sure it'll be adorable can't wait to see it!

I've been making a thread Victorian Schoolgirl & dolly. I have all of the crochet parts done. I have to get the embroidery thread to make the hair on both. That's the part I find the hardest. Hopefully I'll get it done soon and I'll show you.
I made the thread 20's doll & doggy awhile back...I'll pull it out of hiding and show you both dolls at the same time. 

[tweed]

I've just settled on a doily pattern and may start it today.

[Nutty4crafts]

doing couple round ripples, of course  LOL

Think I am stuck in a round ripple rut.

[Threadhooker]

Bende I'm looking forward to seeing your afghan and baby onesie.
Ann are you making your baby monkey in thread?? I don't know why I asked LOL    I'm sure it'll be adorable can't wait to see it!

I've been making a thread Victorian Schoolgirl & dolly. I have all of the crochet parts done. I have to get the embroidery thread to make the hair on both. That's the part I find the hardest. Hopefully I'll get it done soon and I'll show you.
I made the thread 20's doll & doggy awhile back...I'll pull it out of hiding and show you both dolls at the same time. 

Yes Maria I am making it in thread  
AND the dolls you are making I have made them yrs ago. I love them! I have about 5 or 6 of the doll patterns.
It is easier than you think to fix the hair on them...Can't wait to see pics!

[crpstx]

I'm working on scarves for our wonderful troops in Afghanistan and Iraq for Christmas.  Send them via Operation Gratitude.  See the wonderful work and letters from the troops at OperationGratitude.com  Well worth a look.

[goldwinger]

sounds like everyone is busy
i've not been doing much crochet since i finished all the pretty sachets for ann,
i've been on holiday and i started a jacket for 'me' but i was having trouble with decreases at front and i frogged it so many times i got fed up with it, i've done fronts and back up to the decrease part but need a bit of peace and quiet to study the pattern for the rest and thats not easy come by in this house.
we also bought a motorhome a few weeks ago and we have been busy cleaning and making our mark on it and hope to be 'on the road' with it next week and looking forward to spending many hours exploring parts of this country we haven't seen yet and of course there will be a bag of crochet in front with me while D/H drives
lookng forward to seeing everyones works

[Lisa]

I made one Halloween bag shaped like candy corn, have 3 more to go, then I started experiencing elbow pain up my arm and into my shoulder   . So crocheting is on hold for awhile

[crochetdreamer]

im still stuck working on an aran afghan for my sisters wedding. it called for 10 sets... but I think I need to do 12. Im on set 8... so Im almost there!!! i want to be finished by this week for sure. i will post pics when im done.

[Cabela]

My hook is actually clear for a moment! I just finished up a few necklaces and I'm trying to decide what to pick up next

[debsydoo]

i am busy making pet blankets for PACT animal sanctuary which is where we got Honey from 2 weeks ago

[dlfoxy]

Since I've lost the pattern to the doily that I have posted (I haven't given up on finding it or maybe someone else having the pattern), I started to crochet another doily with pineapples in it for my mother.  I'll have to make her two for a matching set for her end tables.  If I don't find the pattern I have posted that I lost, I might just attempt to create my own ending closure on it.  That will be a new experience for me. 

I just purchased another pound of cotton thread to make more doilies and a heavier cotten thread to make some dish clothes or wash clothes out of.    I'm anxious to make the wash/dish clothes and see how they turn out.  I've never made them before.  They'll be light blue and dark blue in color.  When you have a boy in the family, pink just doesn't cut it.

I really like the Round Ripple Afghan's that everyone made.  I'm new the to forum and missed out on the pattern.  I can get the jist of the pattern from the pictures, but I'm not sure how many double crochets it takes to start in the the center two rounds. Then it looks like you did a double crochet and chain "2" or so, around the third row.  From there it looks like you worked a two or three double crochet shell in every other chain space.  Then on the following rows you would work a shell in each shell chain two space and double crochet in each doulbe crochet around causing it to increase in size.  If there's a pattern for this, I would appreciate.  It looks like something I would like to eventually make.  They are really pretty and would make great gifts.

Happy crocheting!

Doreen
North Wales, PA

[annmc]

Hooks are empty at the moment ... been busy sewing the quilting group i belomg to are having a quilt show at the end of August so i have been busy getting ready for that ... after the show i will get back into crochet ,,,,,