Giant wool balls

I miss my blog! It's been a really horrible month :(

I have a few blog posts lined up - just need to find a moment to post them. In the meanwhile, one cool thing i have to show:

During our mini trip to Brisbane for a club passing meetup, we found these giant yarn-bombed balls in Brisbane Square outside the City Library :) They were gone a few days later, but congrats to the iknitbrisbane bunch, gave us a lovely surprise

Of course we had crochet hooks in our bag and tried to crochet them ^_^

Mobius Mitts v1

This is my latest slightly geeky creation - Möbius Mitts

Download free pattern PDF

The idea came from the instruction that you see on many crochet patterns: ‘be careful not to twist the chain’ so my thought was… what happens if you do?

The beauty of the möbius loop for knitting and crochet is that you get to work either side of the cast on row/foundation chain, so that you start your work in the middle and go outwards:

This was a bit of a nightmare when trying to write up the pattern for the gloves, but I think it at least provides an interesting creation experience and a nice geeky item of clothing (even if they can be a challenge to work out how to wear).

Any comments or suggests very welcome!

Craft: Crochet
Hook: 5mm
Difficulty: 4/10

Sizes: Small, Medium, Large
Stitches used: Chain, Single crochet, Half-double crochet, Double crochet, Decrease, Increase

Download pattern
View pattern on Ravelry

video help for doing the twists can be found here

see all posts about mobius loops

Plans

So much for finishing my new pattern on the weekend! Turned out to be a lot tricker than expected but it's well on the way.
Here's an in-progress sneak peak:


I also have some weekend plans coming up involving this lovely train

Photo: AndyeMcee - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike

And some club passing fun (not fire this time but should still be good :p)

Autumn Gloves

My blog has been sadly neglected this month :( But I'm hoping to have a new free pattern ready this weekend

In the meanwhile I have been knitting these teal coloured gloves, and have just added them to my shop (made from my ghost train gloves pattern):


and these blue shorter ones as a commission for a friend: