tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41454999003901467692024-02-19T17:21:24.858+00:00Sooz JewelsA blog about my crafts: crochet, knitting, gardening Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.comBlogger487125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-89426616609919831512023-05-18T12:49:00.002+01:002023-05-18T12:49:26.723+01:00Cute little stitch marker<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQoxXqeFABdWZm8zrun8GfssdpOAIK0jZP3oL6COJHxjrU2415v9lQpz-xtuiHPVPcvPuGRX0HE1jafS0KY7YHrXb8UcHogd-ljIRIYeNFCVs9blFgrHmcorgsJKowiMHZTZXrA2xt5AGF78pq9ynknej9W_q4SNlr5hnITjkB6GPlEujscTppjgld/s2470/stitchmarkerHD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2470" data-original-width="2470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQoxXqeFABdWZm8zrun8GfssdpOAIK0jZP3oL6COJHxjrU2415v9lQpz-xtuiHPVPcvPuGRX0HE1jafS0KY7YHrXb8UcHogd-ljIRIYeNFCVs9blFgrHmcorgsJKowiMHZTZXrA2xt5AGF78pq9ynknej9W_q4SNlr5hnITjkB6GPlEujscTppjgld/w400-h400/stitchmarkerHD.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I haven't had to use a stitch marker on any projects lately but when I came to need one for this design-in-progress, I was very keen to give this one a go. </p><p>It was sent as a thank you gift by <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/laurettecraftsUK" target="_blank">LauretteCraftsUK</a> when I purchased one of their laser cut hat prop display cards some time ago. I loved it so much, it has been saved in my work box on the coffee table for just the occasion when I would need it. </p><p>It's a lovely little stitch marker, so lightweight (made from laser cut birch), it doesn't weigh your stitches down in the slightest so no stretching the stitch. Its metal pin closes securely so you know it's not going to fall off. </p><p>I have ordered a few more in a lovely tin so I don't run out (I'm going to need a few for this project). You can even get some in a teeny little sock shape! Do go and have a look at the perfect little designs in their shop - any knitter or crocheter would love any of these items as a gift. </p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-58396327236273793612023-03-09T12:32:00.002+00:002023-03-12T07:15:22.020+00:00Binary double crocheting, photo tutorial using UK terms<table>
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When binary crocheting, it is best to start with a binary foundation row to start with. If you haven't already, see my Tutorial <a href="https://soozjewels.blogspot.com/2023/03/how-to-crochet-binary-foundation-double.html" target="_blank">“Making A Binary Foundation Double Crochet Row” </a>for how to do this. <br /><br />For the ear warmer/headband, 68 stitches are required. 272 for the scarf. Any number of stitches can be crocheted using this technique so reduce and increase as you wish.<br /><br />
For binary crocheting, it is recommended that you use a size of hook at least one size up from that recommended for the yarn. Perhaps two sizes up for yarn thicker than 4-ply. The yarn used in this tutorial is DK weight and the hook is 6mm (J/10).<br /><br />Gauge is 14
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<td><b>Step 22</b><br />
In this example, orange is referred to as the “dominant yarn” and red the “supporting yarn”. <br /><br />
After making the binary foundation double crochet row for the necessary number of stitches called for in the pattern, we need a binary turning chain. With supporting yarn, yarn over from below hook going from front to back
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<td><b>Step 23</b><br />
With dominant yarn, yarn over from above hook going from back to front.
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<td><b>Step 24</b><br />
Pull dominant yarn through two loops (one loop remaining on hook).<br /><br />
You have completing a binary turning chain. You need to make one at the start of every new row of binary double crochet. It does not count as a stitch.<br /><br />
Turn.
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<td><b>Step 25</b><br />
Position the binary foundation double crochet row to your left and hook on the right. <br /><br />
Keep the supporting colour parallel to the chain as if you were about to crochet over it.<br /><br />
Insert hook into the two uppermost dominant coloured loops of the first stitch as indicated by the darning needle. <br /><br />
Ensure hook goes under the strand of supporting colour yarn.
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<td><b>Step 26</b><br />
With dominant yarn, yarn over from above hook going from front to back.
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<td><b>Step 27</b><br />
Pull dominant yarn through stitch (two loops on hook).
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<td><b>Step 28</b><br />
Using the supporting colour, yarn over from below hook going from front to back (three loops on hook).
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<td><b>Step 29</b><br />
Using dominant colour, yarn over from above hook going from back to front and pull through all three loops (one loop remaining on hook).
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<td><b>Step 30</b><br />
You have almost completed one binary double crochet stitch.<br /><br />
Before making the next stitch, give the supporting yarn (red) a gentle tug to take up the slack, not too much. Don’t worry about exactly how much for now. I will be giving you some tips on how to achieve the perfect tension for your supporting yarn a little further along.
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<td><b>Step 31</b><br />
Insert hook through both loops of the next stitch (as indicated by the darning needle - it looks like there’s only one but the second is obscured behind the first loop). <br /><br />
Ensure hook also goes <b>under</b> the strand of supporting colour yarn.<br /><br />
To make further binary double crochets, repeat Steps 26 to 31.<br /><br />
Do three or four more stitches and then I want to give you some tips to help neaten your binary crochet.
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<td><b>Too loose?</b><br />
Turn your work over to inspect the other side.<br /><br />
Depending on how tightly you tugged on the supporting yarn at the end of step 9, it could look very different to how we really want it to.<br /><br />
The photo to the right shows we didn’t tug hard enough (or at all) and the tension on the supporting yarn is too loose.<br /><br />
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<td><b>Too tight?</b><br />
This photo shows the tension is too tight, the supporting coloured loops are pinching the dominant colour too much, you can’t see enough of the supporting colour. In extreme cases, the supporting yarn might disappear into the dominant yarn altogether.
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<td><b>Just right</b><br />
This is how we ideally want it to look, the supporting yarn looks like a series of dashes, sitting snugly below the dominant coloured loop above it. Neither too tight nor too loose – this is the goldilocks zone, “just right” is what we’re aiming for. <br /><br />
It takes a few practice rows to get to know how hard to do that little tug on the supporting yarn at the end of making the stitch. <br /><br />
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<td colspan="2">Practice makes perfect. Keep doing this row and frogging it (unravelling) until you’re happy with how it looks. <br /><br />
When you’re proficient and wanting to be able to work faster at binary double crocheting, you may want to do all your tensioning of the supporting yarn before you do the next supporting yarn over (just before step 28 rather than as part of step 30). </td></tr>
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<td><b><br />Rows 4 and 5</b><br />
So far on the ear warmer/headband, we have made two rows using orange as dominant and red as supporting.
For the next two rows, we are going to swap the dominance, making red the dominant colour and orange the supporting colour.
This is achieved very simply. At the end of the second row, move the orange yarn down so it is underneath the red yarn <br /><br /></td>
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<td>Work your binary turning chain (yo with orange first and then red), turn and then continue as you did with the second row. The only difference will be the yarn colours will be swapped over. <br /><br />
Work two rows with red as dominant and orange supporting</td>
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<td colspan="2"><b><br />Rows 5 and 6</b> – Swap back to orange dominant and red supporting for these two rows.<br /><br />
Keep alternating dominance every two rows until 17 rows have been completed<br /><br />
Cut tails, weave in three of the tails, leave one in the corner long enough to sew the open ends of the ear warmer/headband together (approx 18 in /45 cm).</td>
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<td><b>Sewing up</b><br />
Fold the ear warmer/headband in half lengthwise with whichever side you prefer inside the fold. <br /><br />
Shape it into a capital U with the fold on the outside as shown on the photograph.</td>
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<td>Grasp an end with each of your hands, holding between your thumb and two forefingers, interleaf one end into the other end as indicated in the photograph.</td>
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<td>Sew through all four layers of the ends, catch two loops on each layer. Work your way along with the stitches going up and down all along.<br /><br />
Weave in the final end and then carefully cut yarn off close to your work.
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<td>Turn the ear warmer/headband inside out so the stitches are inside and try it on!</td>
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<td colspan="2"><h3>SCARF INSTRUCTIONS</h3>The scarf photographed measures 62 in x 8.5 in (157.5 cm x 22 cm) excluding fringe and requires 272 stitches on your Binary Foundation Double Crochet row. To alter the length of the scarf, you can add or subtract as many sts as you like.<br /><br />
To make the scarf in two colours, follow this tutorial's instructions for the ear warmer/headband, ie 2 rows with orange (say) dominant and red (say) supporting, the following two rows with red dominant and orange supporting. Continue alternating every two rows. <br /><br />
To make a version of the ear warmer/headband or scarf in the rainbow shades of the one photographed, you will need nine different colours. The paid for print-ready PDF pattern in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1419773236/crochet-pattern-ear-warmer-and-scarf-uk?click_key=65e7ef6b61034ba5ac94596e60e28a7494397972%3A1419773236&click_sum=7daf04aa&ref=shop_home_active_4&sts=1" target="_blank">Etsy shop CLICK HERE</a> contains a full list of the colours used and quantities, which rows are dominant and supporting. It also has a tutorial on how to change the supporting yarn colour. The paid for version includes a separate PDF document written entirely in US terms.<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><b>Red dominant colour, orange supporting on every row</b><br />
Both sides are the same</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><b>Red and orange take turns at being dominant, changing on every row</b><br />
Back and front subtly different but both look attractive
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<tr><td colspan="2"><b>Red dominant for two rows, next two rows orange dominant, repeated</b><br />
More pronounced difference between the two sides, both very interesting
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Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-2282258614320901532023-03-09T10:35:00.004+00:002023-03-11T13:32:02.596+00:00How to crochet a Binary Foundation Double Crochet row ... also called a binary cord (bfdc UK terms)<table>
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Allow me to show you to two items I have crocheted using something I'm calling "binary crocheting". I had an "I wonder what happens" moment a few months ago and have been experimenting with the results ever since. I'm not sure whether this has been documented before, someone else must've had the same idea in the past but I've never seen it in crochet magazines, online tutorials or any of the patterns I have used. This ear warmer/headband and long scarf were the result!<br /><br />
It's tricky to define it but here goes .... (UK crochet terminology is used throughout)<br /><br />Binary crocheting is a way of crocheting using two colours in every row. The two colours aren’t used doubled throughout your work but neither are they carried behind. You don’t need bobbins of yarn either. One colour is kind of partially crocheted over, combined with yarn overs.<br /><br />Different effects can be achieved by varying which colour is dominant and the number of rows where one colour is dominant over the other.<br /><br />It sounds complicated but it really isn't, it's easy - and fun - to learn You'll understand more when you actually do it!<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: "Graphik Webfont", -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Droid Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br />
This tutorial shows you how to make a binary foundation double crochet row, step by step with detailed photographs. The binary double crochet foundation row is how both of the above two designs (ear warmers and a scarf) are started. <br /><br />
This technique creates the chain start *and* the first row of double crochet at the same time. There will be another tutorial soon showing how to continue to do your follow on rows.<br /><br />
The yarn used in this tutorial is DK weight and the hook is 6mm (J/10). Ordinarily I would use a 4mm (G/6) hook for DK weight yarn. For binary crocheting, it is recommended that you use a size of hook at least one size up from that recommended for the yarn, perhaps two for yarns thicker than 4-ply. <br /><br />
You will need:<br />
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<li>Two differently coloured yarns which show up well against each other.</li>
<li>Crochet hook at least one size larger than you would normally use for the yarn weight, two sizes for thicker yarn. Here I have gone with a 6mm instead of 4mm.</li>
<li>Blunt darning needle</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tbody><tr><td><b>Step 1:</b><br />
With two colours of yarn held together, make a slip knot. <br /><br />
Don’t make the slip knot too tight, we will be unpicking it at the end of the row.
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<tr><td><b>Step 2:</b><br />
In this example, orange is referred to as the “dominant colour” and red as the “supporting colour”. <br /><br />
Leave the tails of the yarn dangling down, pull the supporting colour (from the red ball of yarn) so the loop shrinks and eventually disappears, leaving only the dominant colour loop remaining
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<tr><td><b>Step 3:</b><br />
Place remaining loop on hook and tighten the dominant colour so it sits on the hook neatly – remember not so tightly that it will be difficult to undo later. Be careful about tugging on the supporting colour, if you pull on it too much, it will come off!<br /><br />
Re-arrange your working yarn (from the balls of yarn) so the dominant colour is on top of the supporting colour and two yarn tails left hanging below.
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<tr><td><b>Step 4:</b><br />
With supporting yarn, yarn over from below hook going from front to back. The supporting yarn should end up in front of the dominant yarn.
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<tr><td><b>Step 5:</b><br />
With dominant colour, yarn over from above hook going from back to front.
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<tr><td><b>Step 6:</b><br />
Pull the dominant coloured loop through two loops. One binary chain completed. (One loop on hook).
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<tr><td><b>Step 7:</b><br />
Repeat steps 4-6 once. Two binary chains completed. (One loop on hook)
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<tr><td><b>Step 8:</b><br />
Insert hook into two loops of the first binary chain (one of each colour). (Three loops on hook)</td>
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<tr><td><b>Step 9:</b><br />
With supporting yarn, yarn over from above hook going from back to front.
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<tr><td><b>Step 10:</b><br />
Pull supporting colour through first two loops only. (Two loops remaining on hook)
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<tr><td><b>Step 11:</b><br />
With supporting colour, yarn over from below hook going from front to back.
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<tr><td><b>Step 12:</b><br />
With dominant colour, yarn over from above hook going from back to front.
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<tr><td><b>Step 13:</b><br />
Pull dominant colour through first two loops only (two loops remaining on hook)
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<tr><td><b>Step 14:</b><br />
With supporting colour, yarn over from below hook going from front to back.
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<tr><td><b>Step 15:</b><br />
With dominant colour, yarn over from above hook going from back to front.
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<tr><td><b>Step 16:</b><br />
Pull dominant colour through all three loops (one loop remaining on hook)
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<tr><td><b>Step 17:</b><br />
Insert hook into two loops (both supporting colour) of the stitch below the current stitch
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<tr><td><b>Step 18:</b><br />
Repeat steps 9 to 17 for as many times necessary to produce the number of stitches desired, ending on Step 16.<br /><br />The photographs will not match on the next run through but follow the written instructions exactly and you will end up with a binary double crochet foundation row like the one in the photograph.<br /><br /></td>
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<tr><td><b>Step 19:</b><br />
To neaten the beginning of the binary foundation double crochet row, we’re going to unpick the slip knot made at the beginning of the row. <br /><br />
Insert a blunt darning needle into the small dominant coloured loop at the tip of the beginning of your work (as indicated in the photograph)
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<tr><td><b>Step 20:</b><br />
Carefully pull on the loop to enlarge it, keep pulling until the end of the yarn runs through the loop.
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<tr><td><b>Step 21:</b><br />
Give both yarn ends a gentle tug to resettle and neaten up.
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<b>Steps 1-17</b><br />
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<b>Steps 19-21</b><br />
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<tbody><tr><td>Please see the following tutorial <a href="https://soozjewels.blogspot.com/2023/03/binary-double-crocheting-photo-tutorial.html" target="_blank">"Binary Double Crocheting" CLICK HERE</a> for instructions on making the follow on rows. Once you've learnt how to do the rows, you will be able to make both the ear warmer/headband and scarf too.<br /><br />Print-friendly and US terms versions of the the patterns are available as downloadable PDFs in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SoozJewels" target="_blank">my Etsy shop, CLICK HERE to visit</a>. <br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-12784927782539578052022-11-15T00:00:00.000+00:002022-11-15T00:00:00.157+00:00Braided Little Squares Scarf - today is the day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5FRwreQQJj7CJSeSQxL6Zr9ZRmN0u2-vn_6c2cimqL1yJDgttkeCWszQZtHJGKMKWVacOd09ltQqtcc2tybx3185Ktdor4Ha8dDmV18RG-abrZqTeHTxvkTZTbu-XVRJQaszArvh2Jjt9lc7ZLhDjPwE1RFv3Y7k6ertMjyrrzUuBVis1qJ8pBvQ/s3264/2022-08-29%2014.14.30.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5FRwreQQJj7CJSeSQxL6Zr9ZRmN0u2-vn_6c2cimqL1yJDgttkeCWszQZtHJGKMKWVacOd09ltQqtcc2tybx3185Ktdor4Ha8dDmV18RG-abrZqTeHTxvkTZTbu-XVRJQaszArvh2Jjt9lc7ZLhDjPwE1RFv3Y7k6ertMjyrrzUuBVis1qJ8pBvQ/w400-h300/2022-08-29%2014.14.30.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Hello to blog readers old and new! I'm so happy to tell you my design was voted to be shown eighth (out of a total of 26 submitted) by the readers of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/668646249929007" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CAL - Crochet A Long Facebook Group CLICK HERE to visit,</a> and today is the day I get to show it off to you!</p><p>As promised - for a short time - the pattern is available to be downloaded for free. This link to it will expire on 23 November so <a href="https://www.soozjewels.co.uk/freedownloads/braidedlittlesquaresFINALFINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click HERE to download my Braided Little Squares Scarf pattern</a> without delay!</p><p>It's written in UK terms, uses the overlay mosaic crochet technique and has photos showing how to construct the special stitches needed and the fringe. A chart is provided for those who prefer to crochet from them.</p><p>The pattern has been thoroughly tested by a super group of volunteers. I was particularly pleased that three of my testers Susan, Mum and Shazia had never worked on an overlay mosaic crochet pattern before so it was great that they all managed to produce beautiful scarves as you can see below.</p><p>I've used Stylecraft Highland Heathers for mine, this is a Double Knitting weight yarn but my testers used lots of different yarns (detailed below). </p><p>After the 23 November, the pattern will be available for a modest fee in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SoozJewels" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Etsy shop click HERE </a>in UK terms. At that time, a US version will also be available. </p><p>The design works well with solid colours as well as self-striping yarns with longer lengths. Variegated yarns (like those used for fair isle effect or having short colour changes) should be avoided for this design. </p><p>Extra special thanks to Laurene Leeseberg Bluder and Silke Karp who were always available with help on the administration and overall organisation of the whole event. This design wouldn't exist without them. They work awfully hard in the background.</p><p>I leave you with photographs from my wonderful testers in no particular order other than how they arrived in my inbox. They said some lovely things about the pattern, which modesty forbids me to repeat here, but you can read what they had to say about the design on the <a href="https://calcrochetalong.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CAL - Crochet A Long blog posting, click HERE.</a></p><p><b>Susan Powell</b></p><p>Used Crafty DK in Deep Lake and Cream purchased from Aldi. Strong contrasts work so well in Susan's gorgeous scarf.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7R8jHX2_5ozi2cd2P5IdG1lKzWsKjgHT1QXwDd3LIYqKOGEhp-xA6GU12f48E18Ql0I81F1aPu__ZxPD0DrsZrkVsXPXmJGgTv6tC8DKAR_duO6GZrAy8OtiJnAnGlVDVnggUXfywiTMOFbnIUemwxmHEY6CVvxS6052soIPSrZ21f1-d_XmrWT9-/s4000/2022-10-04%2015.00.57.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7R8jHX2_5ozi2cd2P5IdG1lKzWsKjgHT1QXwDd3LIYqKOGEhp-xA6GU12f48E18Ql0I81F1aPu__ZxPD0DrsZrkVsXPXmJGgTv6tC8DKAR_duO6GZrAy8OtiJnAnGlVDVnggUXfywiTMOFbnIUemwxmHEY6CVvxS6052soIPSrZ21f1-d_XmrWT9-/w299-h400/2022-10-04%2015.00.57.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Elaine Tuttle Shrock</b></p><p>Used 6 oz of Premier Anti Pilling DK in Meadow, 4.5 oz of Loops & Threads Joy DK in Snow. What an elegant scarf Elaine has created! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFjtcvFs7Gpbrki0Uqnsa5UnzHRurFFeOxW5gvzwvsfHOPA3TzyTT0KerlFiZMSXlItX_rYL-eJMLD-1Fr1leBh5bAcHQhd4LGpstY3NSpY4xxvluZRV-eZiYA-yYskJVRCoji2kv29yn9UWunh5mYgli3tb5no0IB_FRtPREFg_gMHK0T4WJ3FdM/s3748/2022-10-04%2015.02.11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2221" data-original-width="3748" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFjtcvFs7Gpbrki0Uqnsa5UnzHRurFFeOxW5gvzwvsfHOPA3TzyTT0KerlFiZMSXlItX_rYL-eJMLD-1Fr1leBh5bAcHQhd4LGpstY3NSpY4xxvluZRV-eZiYA-yYskJVRCoji2kv29yn9UWunh5mYgli3tb5no0IB_FRtPREFg_gMHK0T4WJ3FdM/w400-h238/2022-10-04%2015.02.11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Karen Dixon</b> </p><p>Used Cygnet DK, a truly gorgeous combination of Candyfloss and Chiffon. I just love pink and grey together! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5KmnIz_hzqimbf3sHEh_MyhPQ_S4InvRN1C7vRc64Q86evYXhJxh8F0UmvKhbS0t2oQ2RKrpub1PNU1W1oTmyHRCaoDTNzDhFftlBvuIHXrnNGtfi8_httamiKdTUOjKGhq2IneacqCGlyr27X8QRpnyVO3Yy1wsIYoaAU5riFIGI6fmN9tjvknM/s1440/2022-10-04%2014.57.35.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5KmnIz_hzqimbf3sHEh_MyhPQ_S4InvRN1C7vRc64Q86evYXhJxh8F0UmvKhbS0t2oQ2RKrpub1PNU1W1oTmyHRCaoDTNzDhFftlBvuIHXrnNGtfi8_httamiKdTUOjKGhq2IneacqCGlyr27X8QRpnyVO3Yy1wsIYoaAU5riFIGI6fmN9tjvknM/w300-h400/2022-10-04%2014.57.35.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Tammy Alexander,</b> unfortunately unable to finish her scarf due to circumstances outside her control but she made some fantastic observations on the pattern which will benefit everyone using the pattern in the future so she deserves big thanks and credit for her contribution.</p><p><b>Jamie Storer</b></p><p>Used Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Bedazzles and part of a Mega Ball DK from Hobbii in black. I think this yarn was made for this design, Jamie's scarf is so striking.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgye0xx26mK6c2s7V3nlSkinpvZNerdcRiQD32A4m3Iy9yBTHk_WS0RyfRxrBMuLX3Sxb7JSaHa2YcoFwDKBtfo1abEhTVNsM_6ITSxdGWLt3MaTQWRjMh6t6h9CvmkVD8QX4sKMYp_QjW9T5AIQGrHiSHKBbcOu0HSf_CGRB9ZV1jeIH0Ncp_J0NQY/s3345/2022-10-04%2015.04.28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3345" data-original-width="2471" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgye0xx26mK6c2s7V3nlSkinpvZNerdcRiQD32A4m3Iy9yBTHk_WS0RyfRxrBMuLX3Sxb7JSaHa2YcoFwDKBtfo1abEhTVNsM_6ITSxdGWLt3MaTQWRjMh6t6h9CvmkVD8QX4sKMYp_QjW9T5AIQGrHiSHKBbcOu0HSf_CGRB9ZV1jeIH0Ncp_J0NQY/w295-h400/2022-10-04%2015.04.28.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Anya Roche </b></p><p>Used Nani’s Yarns 4 ply Mulberry Silk in colourways Peach to soft
green, and 3-ply Merino silk in Black. As these yarns are thinner than DK
recommended in the pattern, she went down to a 3.25mm hook.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p>Anya had her friend, Aleashia, model her creation. Very cleverly, she used fewer repeats and joined it in the round to make this wonderful cowl. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUQPi3jCMEPL1RaWEuSt2nIbEI36OEzDbKPCFd0FgNZ_6vR8ZRCOA4S9kkXsI1F_c2wSpdKwYCpzH5pZCt0Yk5ceEzlVzbaaTlgYBk_wyZj3enBcWGT0XfzTvzFtHtO6Jz5s-6fdFTe-mOTuMmxHhQyFe-p-cFhAuQfvUSLQtcc_2Uv2zKU-lqeAe/s2803/2022-10-13%2014.31.22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2803" data-original-width="1995" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUQPi3jCMEPL1RaWEuSt2nIbEI36OEzDbKPCFd0FgNZ_6vR8ZRCOA4S9kkXsI1F_c2wSpdKwYCpzH5pZCt0Yk5ceEzlVzbaaTlgYBk_wyZj3enBcWGT0XfzTvzFtHtO6Jz5s-6fdFTe-mOTuMmxHhQyFe-p-cFhAuQfvUSLQtcc_2Uv2zKU-lqeAe/w285-h400/2022-10-13%2014.31.22.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><p>It was a little bit big for Barry, the dog :-) Awwww, isn't he beautful though? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNE4lDsUe9kszK3gTfDje5BSbGcwCm5Ggjcv4odIA7VkASnzmMIep4BrG6IAFRFwMYXHod1zKa4Q5ZnRJ987ZZEfAhcFZEhNugLvmHeTbeGUos0RF7wQi45y7HdbOHkuziAwGu1uKSDj3D5ACFLbLpTHS2YoFWqItO7k6JpxpvMBvQK4Q567QfXFK/s2785/2022-10-04%2014.58.21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2785" data-original-width="2714" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNE4lDsUe9kszK3gTfDje5BSbGcwCm5Ggjcv4odIA7VkASnzmMIep4BrG6IAFRFwMYXHod1zKa4Q5ZnRJ987ZZEfAhcFZEhNugLvmHeTbeGUos0RF7wQi45y7HdbOHkuziAwGu1uKSDj3D5ACFLbLpTHS2YoFWqItO7k6JpxpvMBvQK4Q567QfXFK/w390-h400/2022-10-04%2014.58.21.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Malathi Seshandra</b></p><p>Used Premier Luna and Cascade yarn. Another self-striping yarn used to great effect in Malathi's scarf.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBpZnki4oOv2CIk2_f3P8K85kYVdwqo_zL6PYPqyrCyRmMfdBy9ifhbizRSzkfAircQ-2Ke2O4omzyivBCFUQ1g07cGAeov04-aH4u_uI8oPWzieg9G14ystreaRjU9nc58dxVC-1__dvSzIrWjmDKnw1myBtm9IWDcfzSdaeeHLqJy6mP1XX0qDq/s4018/2022-10-04%2015.00.27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4018" data-original-width="2727" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBpZnki4oOv2CIk2_f3P8K85kYVdwqo_zL6PYPqyrCyRmMfdBy9ifhbizRSzkfAircQ-2Ke2O4omzyivBCFUQ1g07cGAeov04-aH4u_uI8oPWzieg9G14ystreaRjU9nc58dxVC-1__dvSzIrWjmDKnw1myBtm9IWDcfzSdaeeHLqJy6mP1XX0qDq/w271-h400/2022-10-04%2015.00.27.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p><b>Mum Taylor</b></p><p>Used Stylecraft Special DK in Teal and White, great contrast here again with bold colour blocks</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDFMkY2pLfrgRiZnaWv1LFUIkUsvAQo_O5SDG8YxrjC9BzVdMr7zDcHBLQ5t1P7lqtMP7Cv7h__RGrdnS3kbjZcZ0a3fjCzsTq3-D0erSXX1ahR_A1j9IfYQJhozre8pdeFawnzJIsVDuzawspa0JXiOOJoLP6AALp4j3ySSW2CgUJUCvpMlFFg0Z/s4000/2022-10-24%2010.34.59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDFMkY2pLfrgRiZnaWv1LFUIkUsvAQo_O5SDG8YxrjC9BzVdMr7zDcHBLQ5t1P7lqtMP7Cv7h__RGrdnS3kbjZcZ0a3fjCzsTq3-D0erSXX1ahR_A1j9IfYQJhozre8pdeFawnzJIsVDuzawspa0JXiOOJoLP6AALp4j3ySSW2CgUJUCvpMlFFg0Z/w299-h400/2022-10-24%2010.34.59.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Shazia Suhail</b></p><p>Sunshine colours will cheer up the greyest of winter days, a bright and fun combination.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI4qxZjK3eRCokwHW72-z3zZSKbM5XaiqcVruhw6BjzRS2Pjvs8sxwRTP_WK0p45R85olRGSPexwbFJxxC5RF_nrO_hlF-hWD9DnhtErYsrWB9Be3n2tO7gfc9CrSTLAjcsMjS9xQ34HBYkhsfljYbYRWOtG4NTECaiMrEahyiBtKtoO2mGbI9Xz2k/s1728/2022-11-13%2012.13.16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1728" data-original-width="1296" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI4qxZjK3eRCokwHW72-z3zZSKbM5XaiqcVruhw6BjzRS2Pjvs8sxwRTP_WK0p45R85olRGSPexwbFJxxC5RF_nrO_hlF-hWD9DnhtErYsrWB9Be3n2tO7gfc9CrSTLAjcsMjS9xQ34HBYkhsfljYbYRWOtG4NTECaiMrEahyiBtKtoO2mGbI9Xz2k/w300-h400/2022-11-13%2012.13.16.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p>Thanks again to <b>all</b> my testers for taking part in this, and the administrators behind the Facebook Group, it was a wonderful experience working with you all! The whole experience has been an utter joy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-29522441464809931332022-10-17T15:26:00.001+01:002022-10-17T15:26:55.950+01:00Voting has opened on the Design-a-Scarf 2022 Challenge!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5JLC2jocDCbyxtov6DNqNfdv7MGpTdcbFEebzCw-4jOMbnh4CaKIBznIepl8CoUxj7FX3ITmNsPRnqbm27NOBKxnHxZdOTtsCI3_0WBjbJ784ADMDjpcbD2ltJvEBbfRWCOKP2veNHLvXcHJo1ODk3haKmAfC77HNVYDG3BmD-4N2hisXnn_6ONxG/s626/Caldesignascarflogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="626" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5JLC2jocDCbyxtov6DNqNfdv7MGpTdcbFEebzCw-4jOMbnh4CaKIBznIepl8CoUxj7FX3ITmNsPRnqbm27NOBKxnHxZdOTtsCI3_0WBjbJ784ADMDjpcbD2ltJvEBbfRWCOKP2veNHLvXcHJo1ODk3haKmAfC77HNVYDG3BmD-4N2hisXnn_6ONxG/w400-h400/Caldesignascarflogo.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>Voting has opened, for the Design-a-Scarf 2022 Challenge!</p><p>There is a <a href="https://calcrochetalong.com/2022/10/13/design-a-scarf-2022-challenge-voting/?fbclid=IwAR2Iv_aDZtJZOS1zrmJ-MNRuJ4p5BdDOq1E562ZNZ6ePock1fxgJaeZSqV0" target="_blank">blog post from the organisers CLICK HERE</a> where the background to the Crochet A Long is outlined and all the scarf designs are featured. Each design has got a number, make a note of your favourites!</p><p>There are two ways to vote for which designs you want to see published first.</p><p>In the <a href="https://m.facebook.com/laurene.leesebergbluder/albums/1124080521807909/" target="_blank">CAL - Crochet A Long album CLICK HERE,</a> you can click "Like" against each of the scarves, there's no upper to limit to the ones you can click Like against, you can vote for them all if you want to! </p><p>In the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/668646249929007/permalink/5313842935409292/" target="_blank">CAL - Crochet A Long Poll CLICK HERE</a>, you vote for only one - your top favourite.</p><p>I'm not allowed to tell you which one is mine. Shortly after voting ends (on Sunday 23rd October), a schedule for the release of the patterns - and the names of the designers - will be issued. Most votes gets released first. My understanding is a few will be released each week. The designs will be free to download for the duration of the Crochet A Long so make a note of the ones you like, not all of them will be free when the CAL ends. </p><p>It's a design challenge, not a competition - everyone is a winner, they are all lovely - so do please go take a look and join in on the voting. </p><p>I feel honoured to be amongst such a great selection of scarves. </p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-46898574129716922252022-10-13T15:58:00.001+01:002022-10-13T16:07:48.044+01:00Scarves galore!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil_ByCwnb2ut5HseVLsapW3Q-YMysgldAlXG_s1xzOdrbsNUmiP5_Rg6VE03-t1eReAMl8E1Su0jgoU5CetCbaiyrElBFyfb6bHPJbsh9axJrzJG7Br2Gzn8YrIvhHFP3eoMr9Y7blZswfRAHw3JSHnLGt_njT9OHy7ZzifBjRjcwlhczqBPCWFpx5/s1080/2-cordCrochetScarfIG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil_ByCwnb2ut5HseVLsapW3Q-YMysgldAlXG_s1xzOdrbsNUmiP5_Rg6VE03-t1eReAMl8E1Su0jgoU5CetCbaiyrElBFyfb6bHPJbsh9axJrzJG7Br2Gzn8YrIvhHFP3eoMr9Y7blZswfRAHw3JSHnLGt_njT9OHy7ZzifBjRjcwlhczqBPCWFpx5/w400-h400/2-cordCrochetScarfIG.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>This week, I have been perfecting this scarf, the stitch is a kind of hybrid between crocheting with two strands of yarn on your hook and 2-cord chaining. I've been working hard on a tutorial on how to do it along with a few variations. </p><p>The pattern and tutorial will be coming (free!) to a blog near here very soon. Print-ready versions will be available <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SoozJewels" target="_blank">in my Etsy shop</a> for my usual modest fee. </p><p>Last week, (and for the three weeks before that actually!) I was working very, very hard on a Facebook Design a Scarf 2022 challenge. Along with several other designers, we were challenged to come up with a new design in a very short period of time! Mine has been accepted and tested and is now ready for the exciting unveiling. </p><p>When the challenge goes live, I will need your help ... there will be a vote, if you like my design and want to see it sooner than everyone else's, you can help the unveiling along by voting for it. To get a head start, you need to first join the Facebook Group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/668646249929007" target="_blank">CAL - Crochet A Long (CLICK THESE WORDS TO VISIT IT)</a>. The scarves will be unveiled there and voting will begin.</p><p>I can't show you my design or say any more about it at the moment but I will be back in a few days with more details!</p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-35691915502198977042022-10-06T12:39:00.000+01:002022-10-06T12:39:47.082+01:00Have a Cool Yule pattern - time to crochet Christmas blankets - Oh Yes It Is!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOlUSk4s3z76JE47HslW_DRMqBNdSEpmTzUhdejworS-4CzZTMcnmB7lFRRf87pW1JJ2CcWLB7p5bXGnd60POpNjn0xqcyDkLU_KKQg81L11Vh2_VWynBdU5yp83OQtofqUB8dNFoj2z3RAgwJL1-0UU2WDNRkoN4LnHBSSI_DySsvlFRfEpeSbpQz/s1080/coverPhotoCorrectedIGcloser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOlUSk4s3z76JE47HslW_DRMqBNdSEpmTzUhdejworS-4CzZTMcnmB7lFRRf87pW1JJ2CcWLB7p5bXGnd60POpNjn0xqcyDkLU_KKQg81L11Vh2_VWynBdU5yp83OQtofqUB8dNFoj2z3RAgwJL1-0UU2WDNRkoN4LnHBSSI_DySsvlFRfEpeSbpQz/w400-h400/coverPhotoCorrectedIGcloser.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I know it's not Christmas yet but bear with me, us crocheters take weeks to make a blanket and so I'm getting in a bit early.<p></p><p>The pattern for my "Have a Cool Yule" Christmas blanket is available <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1303667358/crochet-pattern-have-a-cool-yule?click_key=c495e508c079f2f22580c61a21eb9f36e89813a1%3A1303667358&click_sum=ee753092&ref=shop_home_active_3&sts=1" target="_blank">in my Etsy shop</a> now. It uses the mosaic overlay technique. I've used Stylecraft Special DK to make the one photographed. If you want to make one exactly the same you will need:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>3 x 100g 1123 Claret</li><li>3 x 100g 1001 White</li><li>2 x 100g 1725 Sage</li><li>2 x 100g 1009 Bottle</li><li>1 x 100g 1807 Hint of Silver</li></ul><p></p><p>Happy crocheting!</p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-47664109258998567002022-08-28T14:27:00.000+01:002022-08-28T14:27:03.992+01:00Blast from the past!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4EZs_O9tJXXHy6L9TbYsvksY3BWAzuh4bDcI1OTyZba2b5n6N3-VpQgker357-3Wv16cxjuaGMYqKjtJDEQzRwnhDzblAbKSsmmYyPwT1nKZDT-SHixTzEPunqhv3VdKY7v5XURL6ecqNAE7Gzspgwsne4lD5CwMa4yA42tyFBzxu7E6jFuShXzgh/s1500/Buckminster1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4EZs_O9tJXXHy6L9TbYsvksY3BWAzuh4bDcI1OTyZba2b5n6N3-VpQgker357-3Wv16cxjuaGMYqKjtJDEQzRwnhDzblAbKSsmmYyPwT1nKZDT-SHixTzEPunqhv3VdKY7v5XURL6ecqNAE7Gzspgwsne4lD5CwMa4yA42tyFBzxu7E6jFuShXzgh/s400/Buckminster1.jpg"/></a></div>We first owned her 26 years ago. Purchased brand new when both MTM and I were working at proper jobs rather than mucking about trying to be an artisan. It was the aquisitive, tail-end of Thatcher 1990s, you were what you bought.
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The personalised number plate a birthday gift. The VVC stands for Variable Valve Control, a feature of the model which makes it go faster.
I drove VVC for several years but also had the series of accidents in her that led to me not driving for over a decade. <br /> <br />
In the intervening time, we created many happier memories .... adventures, holidays and weekends away. She drove me to and from Lincoln College for two years when I retrained for one of my many occupational reinventions. <br /> <br />
One stand out evening was driving home from a Del Amitri concert, top down at midnight, singing Here and Now - loudly - to a summer's moon.
Through a chance remark and one extraordinary coincidence, the stars bizarrely aligned to make her ours once again. The one car neither of us will ever forget.<br /> <br />
We will love and cherish you forever, we curse the fate that kept us apart for so long. None of the other cars since we let you go have meant a thing. You have comfortable, fabric seats, balm to even the most aggravating haemorrhoids.
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<h3>Welcome home A15 VVC.</h3>
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If I get up now to try it, I will wake Diesel, our new dog, he will then need to be let out in the garden and then he'll expect his breakfast. He is Mr Impatient when it comes to eating, After that, our usual weekend routine is MTM will shower, get dressed and take him for a walk whilst I prepare breakfast and get showered myself. No crochet time. Arghhh! Driving me mad, I can't bring forward everybody's day just because I'm feeling manic and want to get on with it! Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-4465360507623023542022-01-27T11:32:00.002+00:002022-01-27T11:36:19.725+00:00Big Paws paw print dog blanket<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAqHEkttR7XzQGjgEi_Ry5ijb3jXjepo0Q4WgKJGncFrsSqN4bobyvcSnogfmSp2G2e35qK0LFzKXozngcHlZIEjtbW0FH20ywW7UCI6zKf6E3UB4aGn6PYcJhHK-Vms3Vgt2ckL3A0U20fZjygTdQLkPeGbRqRNJyxwKcRNOJ2AG1OEeSslEca9j3=s1930" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dog blanket with paw prints" border="0" data-original-height="1930" data-original-width="1544" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAqHEkttR7XzQGjgEi_Ry5ijb3jXjepo0Q4WgKJGncFrsSqN4bobyvcSnogfmSp2G2e35qK0LFzKXozngcHlZIEjtbW0FH20ywW7UCI6zKf6E3UB4aGn6PYcJhHK-Vms3Vgt2ckL3A0U20fZjygTdQLkPeGbRqRNJyxwKcRNOJ2AG1OEeSslEca9j3=w320-h400" title="Big Paws paw print dog blanket" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face=""Graphik Webfont", -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Droid Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">My latest crochet blanket design is dedicated to and inspired by Bongo, our lovely Manchester Terrier who died aged thirteen and a half in the Summer of 2021. I named it Big Paws because when we became ready to welcome another dog into our life, there were very Big Paws to fill. RIP Bongo, we will love and miss you always. </span></p><p><span face=""Graphik Webfont", -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Droid Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">It's available now in my </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1146168837/crochet-pattern-big-paws-pet-blanket-for?click_key=aaccdb535c77b3f12f7c471d2f7dd7bd3b879da1%3A1146168837&click_sum=de3c5098&ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1" style="font-family: "Graphik Webfont", -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Droid Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Sooz Jewels Etsy Crochet Patterns shop</a></p><p><span face=""Graphik Webfont", -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Droid Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">Here's my favourite photograph of Bongo, taken on holiday in Budle Bay, Northumberland in 2020.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsNFfMnbcUS78HZo6_2I2bPEqYH1ONnxU9W68OlM5JyNdbItAYd2sP-dsK2HyENnmH8CmFLHltCcu0vnItTvnJwPF0clc3xLJGT0_Q8E5wIf5xDmZlLl0kxOlWbV-0Q6s3pZ1kKthCOgMPQqhYNS3jjDVOaBhlzx00zu7sdo7_BEdftmOMBCjQEFGv=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bongo the Manchester Terrier" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsNFfMnbcUS78HZo6_2I2bPEqYH1ONnxU9W68OlM5JyNdbItAYd2sP-dsK2HyENnmH8CmFLHltCcu0vnItTvnJwPF0clc3xLJGT0_Q8E5wIf5xDmZlLl0kxOlWbV-0Q6s3pZ1kKthCOgMPQqhYNS3jjDVOaBhlzx00zu7sdo7_BEdftmOMBCjQEFGv=w400-h400" title="Bongo the Manchester Terrier" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-26425493802930279172021-12-08T15:19:00.002+00:002021-12-08T15:19:17.519+00:002021 roundup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQhLN-yqQ-iUscYXQ9LzTHp6klInBk7OSO5HPyOz8ZmZJ4Hp8Pv2-vS9daJsfv0rUJnYOcauttO4nL228SimfLqnQ2JMen1BzCQZ4iDVSOMyWxWNv7vjwx7kxOoxB0LNcXtIvs4ixaHDd47JP4xBZIlxq_NxSfMXoTSxfIodaeKpqQY5VMxSusINl1=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQhLN-yqQ-iUscYXQ9LzTHp6klInBk7OSO5HPyOz8ZmZJ4Hp8Pv2-vS9daJsfv0rUJnYOcauttO4nL228SimfLqnQ2JMen1BzCQZ4iDVSOMyWxWNv7vjwx7kxOoxB0LNcXtIvs4ixaHDd47JP4xBZIlxq_NxSfMXoTSxfIodaeKpqQY5VMxSusINl1=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>In the summer, after a short illness, we were heartbroken to lose our wonderful, affectionate, ball-chaser at the age of thirteen and a half. We shared his life for his final four years, he looked after us on our walks and beachcombing, kept me company on the sofa demanding to be fussed. He guarded MTM's office and terrorised the local squirrels and pigeons if they dared stray onto the lawn. We made many a trip to the post box sending out packages of beads. There really was no area of our lives he wasn't folded into in some way. We were very rarely apart from each other. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjo5lhvoWLtBHjuhY3IWq-SJ8hXjuqREtrwqx5dBFElCLqiODcUZdcJLF9EN9-dgsqhvuJprB4GNc9NLPzt1DW0SiK0djLWMlDwSxVSEAQ6zt5awtPjTVjH0oMe8M4LKXI-5769I6H7-zPiGXYdg94cgoVTDuYRmiDe0IH9LzBGf-YIsLAZIyDb-7X1=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjo5lhvoWLtBHjuhY3IWq-SJ8hXjuqREtrwqx5dBFElCLqiODcUZdcJLF9EN9-dgsqhvuJprB4GNc9NLPzt1DW0SiK0djLWMlDwSxVSEAQ6zt5awtPjTVjH0oMe8M4LKXI-5769I6H7-zPiGXYdg94cgoVTDuYRmiDe0IH9LzBGf-YIsLAZIyDb-7X1=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFGcVnHuiIIAJa8VuIP2Dn4ckrZpvlf1MECEfCEOKvpFo1yNkSvryhPFOovUD5jiTflwcRFMKJ6ytWjbWP4DWw5ntJYYdhRXbsl7MZ1KHd7Re2ZOMYuyTkNOmAgyLm5Gj6nRMThxVZWUk2z7yPxe6-bydfoa7sDHwl-97EkJSkonUjbzWUnBRsWRqz=s1350" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFGcVnHuiIIAJa8VuIP2Dn4ckrZpvlf1MECEfCEOKvpFo1yNkSvryhPFOovUD5jiTflwcRFMKJ6ytWjbWP4DWw5ntJYYdhRXbsl7MZ1KHd7Re2ZOMYuyTkNOmAgyLm5Gj6nRMThxVZWUk2z7yPxe6-bydfoa7sDHwl-97EkJSkonUjbzWUnBRsWRqz=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7f4b4R4HmJfPA4nt_briXluYIRr8QPkPu9hIxxam97yiGzvNFMwiJeNQcnQ5ojAKIv_5RSgsF5wpPsq7HRs2YmDUojuo9vRc518a36xqCeGxDdOx4ISAV8NYwv5FNvGzlxHJknGTSXpTx3X36q4JRK93rMQUf5QFG5ZfwhhDAbMgj24XejuHTQwjm=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7f4b4R4HmJfPA4nt_briXluYIRr8QPkPu9hIxxam97yiGzvNFMwiJeNQcnQ5ojAKIv_5RSgsF5wpPsq7HRs2YmDUojuo9vRc518a36xqCeGxDdOx4ISAV8NYwv5FNvGzlxHJknGTSXpTx3X36q4JRK93rMQUf5QFG5ZfwhhDAbMgj24XejuHTQwjm=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>We never got him used to being on the jetty, we finished rebuilding it the summer before last. I include it in this round up because it has been such a sanctuary for us during the most difficult of times. It's very peaceful and quiet down there and you just let the river take your troubles downstream. It's my happy place.</p><p>Typically for Manchester Terriers, he always hated water. He was never even keen to go for a walk in the rain, he would do his business in wet weather and then turn back, insisting we took him home to dry his ears. I think the idea of having a whole river of that nasty wet stuff flowing underneath him felt completely wrong, he was more comfortable sunbathing on a cushion outside the open door of my beadmaking studio, trotting in and out, keeping an eye on me and another looking out for those squirrels! Our time with him went so fast, we can never keep our furry friends for long enough. </p><p>The flowers - photographed above with his name tag - were sent by Bongo's original owners who rehomed him with us when they could no longer take care of him.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh7b0WiEMxEp8BuV6KxclQPxLMBbLW_P2-EcDuAPe2H-pF0fLs9Nf65EU_Keuu4ZswRoAA_1S43HF4Jd73pgssYNjsfX97DmzjmrVvQyauj5o9xFrLmB6CinyLbi17RKKEAjSgVfUY_x1vAf5hj858BbikwvsF1ZwYQ3j5FjmyiQewOf_0SQRz-7KD=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh7b0WiEMxEp8BuV6KxclQPxLMBbLW_P2-EcDuAPe2H-pF0fLs9Nf65EU_Keuu4ZswRoAA_1S43HF4Jd73pgssYNjsfX97DmzjmrVvQyauj5o9xFrLmB6CinyLbi17RKKEAjSgVfUY_x1vAf5hj858BbikwvsF1ZwYQ3j5FjmyiQewOf_0SQRz-7KD=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcdS8m79DS9AFuMln6KfZ9CH-9iIr2d-Ggcy3zaBV8V1NWVcJT0nISm8Atv2mdnNLoaZiL_umvVK9e-iphFcMumPqNgjZ1-zfMxQo-5XIchwCgXa-td595LktwslMn9xaNyzMYb45spqWWWukKIxS3kV8ZItrunZRu5PUH3IJ7q1M5WOpZ7Yym-PdG=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcdS8m79DS9AFuMln6KfZ9CH-9iIr2d-Ggcy3zaBV8V1NWVcJT0nISm8Atv2mdnNLoaZiL_umvVK9e-iphFcMumPqNgjZ1-zfMxQo-5XIchwCgXa-td595LktwslMn9xaNyzMYb45spqWWWukKIxS3kV8ZItrunZRu5PUH3IJ7q1M5WOpZ7Yym-PdG=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVpYIG6kjXyE9eN0hr2Cdt3prZh9hnmx4ZtfOgKsAuPq5PeLQr9zuR7O9xZxQFxbLJSpVDtxFN-zv599CDTOj2_PrIe9rbaz-EHXXJguZeqheM9H5WQ8INeH9pcWpewv5aITciBqv2lq5d4MJtKqpAlcIhy6pT0UkBuwZkKBuWOBbuJ7VKMjtsEgAV=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVpYIG6kjXyE9eN0hr2Cdt3prZh9hnmx4ZtfOgKsAuPq5PeLQr9zuR7O9xZxQFxbLJSpVDtxFN-zv599CDTOj2_PrIe9rbaz-EHXXJguZeqheM9H5WQ8INeH9pcWpewv5aITciBqv2lq5d4MJtKqpAlcIhy6pT0UkBuwZkKBuWOBbuJ7VKMjtsEgAV=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtI7SCF2AdsHMS16H2Gp5s2sRpW4UWWeIEEmUpIdKfETNGTEwrj8_fQunJVMuE453tcUy3ML7KYd_vqyxoWqzl5kpyoZrImr81jOW3vDsES3D4m_R69rO5PACP6J9uvXm5dwex_WgJziQB2bIyLRtR1EFqW1OvGtB49A1pSyQYQMbqrue11uTrsRYi=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtI7SCF2AdsHMS16H2Gp5s2sRpW4UWWeIEEmUpIdKfETNGTEwrj8_fQunJVMuE453tcUy3ML7KYd_vqyxoWqzl5kpyoZrImr81jOW3vDsES3D4m_R69rO5PACP6J9uvXm5dwex_WgJziQB2bIyLRtR1EFqW1OvGtB49A1pSyQYQMbqrue11uTrsRYi=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p>We scattered his ashes on a sunny sand dune overlooking Budle Bay where I took these joyful photographs of him almost exactly a year earlier. Missy and Guinness, our two other Manchester Terriers, are close by on Bamburgh Beach and Stag Rock. They'll keep you company and we'll visit you all often. RIP Bongo, we miss you so much. </p><p>Lost in the pandemic was the fact that Brexit finally happened at the beginning of 2021. All my EU customers now have to pay import VAT at their domestic VAT rate due to the UK leaving the Customs Union. This has made my beads 19-27% more expensive on the continent. </p><p>Once my regulars had all been stung by doorstep demands for money by carriers, 40% of my sales disappeared. Not only were they having to pay VAT, an extortionate handling charge was also being imposed.</p><p>Etsy finally started collecting the VAT in July but paperwork glitches with the electronic handshake the barcode on the postal label - supposed to tell foreign carriers VAT had been paid - meant the very few EU customers who had stuck with me were now being double-VATed and *still* being charged handling fees. It was a very bad time for my business. I had to stop selling to Europe. This may settle down once the systems are properly in sych.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwji5IIkE8t4E_KpsdVuEh3uOuejaEMpgVlDW1QZ7LMWog3fn7-IO37ks-BMBzZHQJG3YTa-5zRXFYmJzmu8hRRN4UEFd5QHmR8YXirz-E0wvHXscklX59aJtF_FYwETNhJLEpqYcbzVAAgOSPqGiH04F-SzTWzh4hjJ3vzURJfQQYhEdpP7vPIHXe=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwji5IIkE8t4E_KpsdVuEh3uOuejaEMpgVlDW1QZ7LMWog3fn7-IO37ks-BMBzZHQJG3YTa-5zRXFYmJzmu8hRRN4UEFd5QHmR8YXirz-E0wvHXscklX59aJtF_FYwETNhJLEpqYcbzVAAgOSPqGiH04F-SzTWzh4hjJ3vzURJfQQYhEdpP7vPIHXe=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I finished my photography course but I haven't done much with it this year. I've spotted things in the garden that were looking good and thought I'll get the camera out when I get a minute. But it always got dropped to the bottom of my to do list and moment by moment, they all just passed me by in a graceless morass of apathy. This is one of the few I managed, this bee is me .... head down .... plough on.<p></p><p>Both of us caught Covid in late summer, the Delta variant we think. MTM picked it up at work from one of the schools his employer was refurbishing and a week later, I also succumbed. It wasn't too bad, no hospitalisation but MTM was very fatigued for weeks and weeks afterwards. Thank goodness we were both double vaccinated (and now boostered up as well).</p><p>After we were better, a routine medication review showed an elevated platelet count on my blood test. I was referred for numerous precautionary cancer investigations. These dominated a couple of the Autumn months. The NHS were stressful in their appointment system cockups but magnificent in their person-to-person treatment and care of me. It was invasive but thorough and the upshot of it all is I'm physically completely well. </p><p>My platelet count has now gone back to normal and the earlier elevation presumed to be a lingering effect of my prior Covid infection. As my GP put it, it wasn't wise to make that assumption at the time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9VioUVAxnlmFGkt99ueJjTyhsE3jq0oa9Xvw2mKDhfmGD_wWcvZ6S6nRMCfFyR8v4ftWAIFEsZiPyNeR-gfn-twU_QQa-9xoGxWkzKYoZ5fV4TaHSR85mofT5JuNBpvIASyR3GdbHNnStHzlceTix5ZOWZoU81bSLEprZdwiqscLPhDb4A54o9BBX=s1890" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1890" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9VioUVAxnlmFGkt99ueJjTyhsE3jq0oa9Xvw2mKDhfmGD_wWcvZ6S6nRMCfFyR8v4ftWAIFEsZiPyNeR-gfn-twU_QQa-9xoGxWkzKYoZ5fV4TaHSR85mofT5JuNBpvIASyR3GdbHNnStHzlceTix5ZOWZoU81bSLEprZdwiqscLPhDb4A54o9BBX=w400-h211" width="400" /></a></div><p>Sisters .... thank goodness for sisters! Both of mine were very supportive during this time. And of course MTM was my rock, as ever, driving me to appointments and listening to my worries. On my nil-by-mouth days (both of them), he even ate a cold dinner on his own so the smell of cooking wouldn't make me feel hungrier, that's love for you! </p><p>He has been asking his employer to take him off schools refurbishments due to the Covid risk they present to a gentleman of relatively advanced years. They have refused. He has resigned. He is currently working his contracted three month notice period. He leaves in the middle of January 2022.</p><p>MTM isn't like me, he doesn't just resign at the drop of a hat. This comes at the end of a long period of estrangement and mismanagement by the company owner. He feels deliberately pushed into early retirement. There's so much more I could say about this concerning constructive dismissal, we have much evidence going back two years to support a claim. We may have to go legal on that yet. It's all very unsettling after 16 years with the same company.</p><p>If you've read this far, well done, and thank you! It *IS* nearly a year's worth of blog posts condensed! It's not been easy to write but I have some brilliant news as a reward!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SoozJewels" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="654" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ9lGVWVS3EXJK7NNUqKB9cRZ2EB3AC6qx_U7e7oWCO-8X1qPl1aecOoSr4CrEPmoArN8kVY1CkE0diLHb-IlzvFCH-g7Pxxo1uCSWF19bYoE8nxPKW4mCEzOd9rVW4OEye7xHR_99HTA2Nn20iQoZynoiaYu1m2U60SV4tp4MaNnbRJHOHZE8mIyk=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>At exactly the time all this craptitude - and some other bad stuff that isn't mine to share - was all threatening to get on top of me, a US company who had seen <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SoozJewels?ref=seller-platform-mcnav" target="_blank">my other Etsy shop</a> (where I sell crochet patterns as a kind of pocket-money sideline), got in touch. There aren't many designs in it but they loved one - a macrame style plant hanger - so much they offered a substantial fee to buy a license to distribute it to their subscribers.</p><p>I have taken this as the universe signalling to me to concentrate on my crochet designs. After a few weeks advance notice to my remaining bead customers, I closed my bead shop last week for an extended period - potentially permanently - whilst I explore this possibility some more.</p><p>I have a stack of designs all in various stages. Some are nearly finished, some just need a few photographs taking as tutorial pics to help people make my designs. I feel this brings several of my talents all together. I have loads of ideas and I'm super-excited about the future.</p><p>I hope to be posting a bit more regularly next year! Looking forward to better times ahead.</p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-36838922211817429462020-12-30T15:39:00.000+00:002020-12-30T15:39:04.618+00:00Crocheted trailing plant pot hanger / holder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37H-zQuIHSjKoFPmAgrgn5ZoLb4P9GWF7MOzbcyvNf9bQPTsfMDIhTFBPT6CPm09RZpP2XiJcirWIqkzTB6KyP83KcYjO_e9_NQbYAnTTt6W2ah8lVQOlZ3xw6ZOuK4CpcFTU76t54XE/s1350/PlantPot3IG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37H-zQuIHSjKoFPmAgrgn5ZoLb4P9GWF7MOzbcyvNf9bQPTsfMDIhTFBPT6CPm09RZpP2XiJcirWIqkzTB6KyP83KcYjO_e9_NQbYAnTTt6W2ah8lVQOlZ3xw6ZOuK4CpcFTU76t54XE/w320-h400/PlantPot3IG.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Here is my latest free crochet pattern, to make a macrame inspired trailing plant hanger/holder. Instructions are written out row by row but for chart readers, two charts are provided towards the end of this blog posting.</p><p>It is quite difficult to print patterns out from my blog. The blog version will always be free and available to consult here but for those who want a print-ready version, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/919729570/pdf-crochet-pattern-macrame-inspired?ref=shop_home_active_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a PDF may be purchased for a modest sum from my Etsy shop</a>.</p><p>Pattern is written in UK crochet terms throughout.</p><p><b>SIZE</b></p><p>To fit a pot with a diameter of 12.5-15cm (5-6 inches) and similar height</p><p>Overall length measures approximately 59cm (23.5 inches) from tip of hanging loop to the bottom of the pot when displaying a 12.5cm (5 inches) potted plant</p><p><b>ABBREVIATIONS</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>rs- right side</li><li>ch(s) - chain(s)</li><li>rs - right side</li><li>ch(s) – chain(s)</li><li>sp - space</li><li>st - stitch</li><li>ss - slip stitch</li><li>dc - double crochet</li><li>tr(s) - treble crochet(s)</li><li>rep - repeat</li><li>beg - beginning</li><li>rem – remaining<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li></ul><p></p><p><b>GAUGE</b></p><p>21 sts and 10 rows, worked in tr = four inches square NB: if your gauge square is larger, you may find you will need a second ball of yarn</p><p><b>MATERIALS</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1 x 50g ball of Scheepjes Catona or equivalent 4-ply weight cotton/cotton blend*</li><li>Size 4mm hook (or whatever size is required to achieve gauge)</li><li>Darning needle to weave in ends</li></ul><p></p><p>*Other suggested yarns: Scheepjes Linen Soft, Drops Safran, Rowan Summerlite</p><p><b>INSTRUCTIONS </b></p><p>If you are familiar with reading charts, Chart 1 (at the end of this document) covers rows 1-9.</p><p><b>Round 1 (rs) </b></p><p>Make a slip knot and place on hook, ch 8, ss into first ch to form a ring, do not turn on this or subsequent rows, the rs faces you throughout the project</p><p><b>Round 2 </b></p><p>ch 1 (does not count as a st), 20 dc into ring, ss into first dc</p><p><b>Round 3</b></p><p>ch 6 (counts as 1 tr, 3 ch), *skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 3, rep from * 8 times, skip 1 st, ss into 3rd ch of beg chs</p><p><b>Round 4</b></p><p>ch 3 (counts as a tr), 3 trs into base of same ch, *skip 3 ch sp, dc in next st, skip 3 ch, (4 tr, 3 ch, 4 tr) in next st, repeat from * 3 times, skip 3 ch, dc in next st, skip 3 ch, 4 trs into same st as initial trs, 3 ch, ss into top of beg 3 ch</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaM4C4VCADEfbH2Tthlm5gVBpW-QBQygxFtpdR9BH1W0oDpnwMvRV5sGz6PKdPU79WRqMwvweQW-N2cSzxdbtSnfTh3KfW6SBDDOgsBMUdyXxgj_NJlFTe1hNnpSNCp0ndXLC8MU0ZEMk/s1000/photo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaM4C4VCADEfbH2Tthlm5gVBpW-QBQygxFtpdR9BH1W0oDpnwMvRV5sGz6PKdPU79WRqMwvweQW-N2cSzxdbtSnfTh3KfW6SBDDOgsBMUdyXxgj_NJlFTe1hNnpSNCp0ndXLC8MU0ZEMk/s320/photo1.jpg" /></a></div><p><b>NB</b> At the end of Round 4, the chs you need to ss into the top of may be partially hidden due to the number of trs worked into the same st. The darning needle in the photograph shows the correct place to work the ss.</p><p><b>Round 5</b></p><p>ch 4 (counts as 1 tr, 1 ch), (skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 1) 4 times, *(tr, 3ch, tr) in 3 ch sp, ch 1, tr in next st, ch 1, (skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 1) 4 times, rep from * 3 times, (tr, 3 ch, tr) in 3 ch sp, ch 1, ss into 3rd ch of beg 4 chs</p><p><b>Round 6</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JBfjP0JKsDyVtD6XOKw2BlS1Xj98eSZ2aUXGXlzB-k75SI-4FL0OG7ivkCbPfP8ftxmfD9BuaC7zrzCNqKHb7bV_bPXc-IkZsmqysG8LfXxnOpMnRoHH2qyJWHsR_zncJ_1Zpgju9qI/s1000/photo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6JBfjP0JKsDyVtD6XOKw2BlS1Xj98eSZ2aUXGXlzB-k75SI-4FL0OG7ivkCbPfP8ftxmfD9BuaC7zrzCNqKHb7bV_bPXc-IkZsmqysG8LfXxnOpMnRoHH2qyJWHsR_zncJ_1Zpgju9qI/s320/photo2.jpg" /></a></div><p><b>NB</b> – in Round 6, and all subsequent rounds, where items are in brackets after the word “skip”, this means there is more than one item to skip, ie, all the stitches listed between the brackets should be skipped.</p><p>The darning needle in the photograph above shows where to place the next tr after skipping for Round 6.</p><p>ch 3 (to count as tr), *ch 5, skip (1 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp), tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st (2 tr, ch 3, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, repeat from * 3 more times, 5 ch, skip (1ch, tr, 1 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp), tr in next st, tr in ch sp, tr in next st, (2 tr, ch 3, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, ss into 3rd ch of beg chs</p><p><b>Round 7</b></p><p>ss into each of next 3 ch, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc into same ch *ch 3, skip (2 ch, 2 sts) tr in next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 1, (tr, ch 3, tr) in 3 ch sp, ch 1, tr in next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 3, dc into 5 ch sp, rep from * 4 times. NB on final repeat, end with ss into beg dc (instead of dc in 5 ch sp)</p><p><b>Round 8</b></p><p>ch 1, dc in same st, *dc in 3 ch sp, ch 4, skip (rest of 3 ch sp, 1 tr, 1 ch sp), tr in next st, tr in ch sp, tr in next st, (2tr, ch 3, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in ch sp, tr in next st, 4 ch, skip (1 ch sp, tr), dc in 3 ch sp, dc in next st, repeat from * 4 times. NB on final repeat, end with ss into beg dc (instead of dc in next st)</p><p><b>Round 9 </b></p><p>ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in same st, *5 ch, skip (dc, 4 ch sp, 2 sts) tr in next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 1, (tr, 3 ch, tr) in 3 ch sp, ch 1, tr in next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, tr in next st, 5 ch, skip (2sts, 4 ch, 1 dc), dc in next st, repeat from * 4 times. NB on final repeat, end with ss into beg dc (instead of dc in next st)</p><p>If you are familiar with reading charts, Chart 2 (at the end of this document) covers rows 10-13 with row 9 included for clarity to indicate to the user where one chart finishes and the other starts.</p><p><b>Round 10</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3V8cwnuxc1YcnqwccpBbRfjAvRVv4aM3u6UW4lUqXa9hXLW9qf0icmjzMdRzb0IOnIU61OMyD0EbNtecQ3Vaqo307EIfbLbsAa1ZVw882U79YkP-XCuHNB2GJHAWi7u-gZTiBkIA07o/s1000/photo3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3V8cwnuxc1YcnqwccpBbRfjAvRVv4aM3u6UW4lUqXa9hXLW9qf0icmjzMdRzb0IOnIU61OMyD0EbNtecQ3Vaqo307EIfbLbsAa1ZVw882U79YkP-XCuHNB2GJHAWi7u-gZTiBkIA07o/s320/photo3.jpg" /></a></div><p><b>NB</b> – in Round 10, as with some previous rounds, there are quite a few stitches to skip. The photograph above shows the correct place to continue. </p><p>ss into each of next 5 ch, ss into next st, ss into 1 ch sp, ss into next st, ch 3 (to count as tr), tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, (2 tr, 3 ch, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st * 9 ch, skip (ch 1 sp, tr, 5 ch, dc, 5 ch, tr, ch 1 sp) tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, (2 tr, 3 ch, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next sp, rep from * 3 times, skip (1 ch sp, tr, 5 ch sp, dc, 5 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp), ch 9, ss in top of beg 3 ch</p><p><b>Round 11</b></p><p>ss into each of next 2 st, ch 4 (to count as tr and ch 1), skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 1 (tr, ch 3, tr) in 3 ch sp, ch 1, tr in next st, ch 1, skip 1 st *ch 4, dc in 9 ch sp, ch 4, skip (rest of 9 ch sp, 2 sts) tr in next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, tr in next st, ch 1 (tr, ch 3, tr) in 3 ch sp, (ch 1, tr in next st) twice, rep from * 3 times, ch 4, dc in 9 ch sp, 4 ch, skip (rest of ch 9 sp, 2 sts), ss in 3rd of beg 4 ch</p><p><b>Round 12</b></p><p>ss in 1 ch sp, ss in next st, ch 3 (to count as tr), tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, *(2 tr, ch 2, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, ch 4, skip (1 ch sp, 1 st), dc in 4 ch sp, dc in next st, dc in 4 ch sp, ch 4, skip (rest of 4 ch, tr, 1 ch sp), tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, repeat from * 3 times, (2 tr, ch 2, 2 tr) in 3 ch sp, tr in next st, tr in 1 ch sp, tr in next st, ch 4, skip (1 ch, 1 tr), dc in 4 ch sp, dc in next st, dc in 4 ch sp, ch 4, skip (rest of 4 ch sp, tr, 1 ch sp), ss into 3rd of beg 3 ch</p><p><b>Round 13</b></p><p>ch 1 (does not count as st), dc in same st, *dc in next st, ch 3, ss into dc just worked to form a picot, dc in each of next 3 sts, ch 75, ss in 5th ch from hook, dc in next ch, htr in next ch, 2 htr in each of rem 68 ch, skip 2 ch sp, dc in each of next 3 sts, ch 3, ss into dc just worked to form a picot, dc in each of next 2 sts, 4 dc in 4 ch sp, dc in next 2 sts, ch 3, ss into dc just worked to form a picot, dc in next st, 4 dc in 4 ch sp, dc in next st, repeat from * 4 times. NB on final repeat, end with ss into dc at beg of round (instead of dc in next st). Leaving a tail long enough to weave in, cut yarn, draw through loop on hook to fasten off. </p><p><b>HANGING LOOP</b></p><p>Turn the hanger upside down and check the twists on the hanging strings are spiralling all in the same direction (I had mine going clockwise). Give it a bit of a shake, check each string has roughly the same number of twists on them. Carefully lay the hanger down with the strings separated from each other. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZtSZZiq_4GYoh3MG6GL1IW37cphYG0rH45kAe2E0B_9Dp6okFL0Yhfxi4kob9TodqmaM4Afs3bn7R33Rc9PUI6f01NWPY4LNcxYWY62R2YU_vtq04SOz5y11I3SmCxPhBSY_E5wQsbU/s1000/photo4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZtSZZiq_4GYoh3MG6GL1IW37cphYG0rH45kAe2E0B_9Dp6okFL0Yhfxi4kob9TodqmaM4Afs3bn7R33Rc9PUI6f01NWPY4LNcxYWY62R2YU_vtq04SOz5y11I3SmCxPhBSY_E5wQsbU/s320/photo4.jpg" /></a></div><p>One at a time, insert your crochet hook through the loops at the top of the hanging strings, in the same order they go around the hanger. </p><p>Make a loose slip knot in your yarn, place it on the end of your hook and draw it through all five loops on the hanging strings. Pull the yarn a little tighter and then ch 1 (this is referred to hereafter as the “initial ch”).</p><p>ch 10, ss into the initial ch, pulling the yarn tight again.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMeqyeBGjeroQGweVUfBJpCK-jAIN94iNoJh3zAI2gOIgGICFofB_fsPR7HocnsCcvXH9FTyEJG2QUXQ4hzYnKhqkz4EBNSYyq5u9s1rESCi2axqV4ZUh8d98wjjfyrBeQR6Q6fjHu304/s1000/photo5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMeqyeBGjeroQGweVUfBJpCK-jAIN94iNoJh3zAI2gOIgGICFofB_fsPR7HocnsCcvXH9FTyEJG2QUXQ4hzYnKhqkz4EBNSYyq5u9s1rESCi2axqV4ZUh8d98wjjfyrBeQR6Q6fjHu304/s320/photo5.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Turn, ch 1 (does not count as a st), 12 dcs into 10 ch ring, ss into initial ch. Leaving a tail long enough to weave in, cut yarn, draw through loop on hook. When weaving in the end on the hanging loop, wrap the yarn around the initial chain a few times to reinforce it. </p><p>Weave in ends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUOMDAvOgOF8H4HzmLmUuSu9CXaznJMZzEIoLT3pavxHESjRzxh2fyzHDY-LoPu_VM-2eFzbx2K9FUMTLIX8pqFmMayJQRgwqHcQ0C0U5ZzjDJUKANK1kFDRI5AjTUybS4IFXB2uNgss/s1665/chart1to9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1665" data-original-width="1493" height="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUOMDAvOgOF8H4HzmLmUuSu9CXaznJMZzEIoLT3pavxHESjRzxh2fyzHDY-LoPu_VM-2eFzbx2K9FUMTLIX8pqFmMayJQRgwqHcQ0C0U5ZzjDJUKANK1kFDRI5AjTUybS4IFXB2uNgss/w417-h465/chart1to9.png" width="417" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqnXhrBl_7p6z2TpGSqWEWFccIH1f6A9rMFVnmHfnq3DqNXJypDTOiBocK5wlP0M1yuGy9LcKsc4Cy4FswceQWWFl3BtlrI5zilUMFTDzQYvuhFZu5_uT3VFcc8gCzvRZcyQ-PnwQay0/s1742/chart9to13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="1742" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqnXhrBl_7p6z2TpGSqWEWFccIH1f6A9rMFVnmHfnq3DqNXJypDTOiBocK5wlP0M1yuGy9LcKsc4Cy4FswceQWWFl3BtlrI5zilUMFTDzQYvuhFZu5_uT3VFcc8gCzvRZcyQ-PnwQay0/w515-h313/chart9to13.png" width="515" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-24203211554162248042020-11-22T11:40:00.005+00:002020-11-23T07:08:46.154+00:00Who IS the VBP man, why does he wear a bowler hat?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeaKmDSo2EvFttsozOsYa0w7offaHlihPd4iILDFghOTA2xBn2JiDZ8Rr2w4KJmcVRu40esAdO03BEfHG2rtMkyb9RIU0HBIiGHnGNohT75JXCstguD5Sao1Wsl3hbvIss1ydQH9KaTg/s1080/VBPman2IG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeaKmDSo2EvFttsozOsYa0w7offaHlihPd4iILDFghOTA2xBn2JiDZ8Rr2w4KJmcVRu40esAdO03BEfHG2rtMkyb9RIU0HBIiGHnGNohT75JXCstguD5Sao1Wsl3hbvIss1ydQH9KaTg/w400-h400/VBPman2IG.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I have just finished listening to a very funny Audiobook "Born to be Mild; Adventures for the Anxious" by Rob Temple. I loved it, it's very entertaining in a spookily accurate way; and also a now melancholy reminder of what ordinary life was like just before the pandemic. I could heap many more plaudits and praise on this book but it would take up more of your valuable time to read so please just take it as a given I'm a huge fan of its brilliance.</p><p>I follow the @verybritishproblemsofficial Instagram feed, I think it's something to do with Rob Temple because he also writes those books too. (I know he's on Twitter but I'm not a Twatterer because it's very bad for me, full of one-sided conversations I can't follow, I don't like myself on it so how can anyone else? Anyway, I've closed two accounts already and have forgotten the password to my third).</p><p>Any minute now, she'll get to the point of this blog posting .... I can hear your brain screaming at me. Right, so I will.</p><p>I don't get one of Rob Temple's references. It's in a section that resonates with me particularly strongly because it's about how seemingly little things can make an anxious person's head virtually explode. I want to fully understand it. </p><p>To set the scene, the author is standing in a "queue" behind a couple with a baby on an adventure to Blackpool Tower, the quasi-sorry-excuse-for-a-queue has already annoyed him. Now this couple are asking daft questions, even the baby is guilty in this; they are holding the line up with pointless enquiries. This is the passage which I took down in shorthand during my second listening of this marvellous book:</p><p>"I am one limp burger away from going Michael Douglas, except without the guns. I tell myself to stop being so angry, stop trying to bend the world to you. Nobody asked you to come here. Maybe I'm doing it on purpose because I think I'm the VBP man with the bowler hat from the book. No, no, I am really like this, unfortunately. I am about to break my own neck by tensing too much. Calm down. By the time I'm paying for my ticket, I have already ruined the experience for myself. Anxiety causes me to get so quietly wound up because I'm constantly trying to communicate my dissatisfaction with a situation by thinking about it really intensely and then getting pissed off because nobody can hear what I'm NOT saying."</p><p>Who is this "VBP man in the book"? I get the Michael Douglas reference (from the film Falling Down) "I'm the bad guy?" Classic line! But "the VBP man" has defeated me. I've also asked Micky Taking Monster and two major search engines but have drawn a blank.</p><p>There are a few possibilities that occur</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>It's a misprint, it should say something else</li><li>It was misread by Mr Baynton, in an otherwise flawless performance, he should in fact have said something else.</li><li>I have misheard Mr Baynton, I should've <i>heard</i> something else.</li><li>I'm perhaps not in the target age demographic, Rob Temple was 39 when he wrote Born to be Mild. Maybe if I ask someone in their 30s, it's a reference they would get immediately. </li><li>This was a test for observant readers/audiobook listeners and prizes are sent to anyone who points it out. (Fingers crossed, eh?)</li><li>The author can't remember writing this paragraph and now has no idea what it means. In which case, I promise I will let him know if I ever find out</li><li>Does this really matter?</li></ul><p></p><p>Yes, I know it doesn't matter, particularly at the moment when there are far bigger things to worry about. B-u-u-t ...one of the things I like most about reading (or listening to) books are the jumping off points they sometimes give you.</p><p>I have now become obsessed with really, really wanting to read the book that the VBP man is in and finally find out why he wears a bowler hat. If anyone can help me out with the title of the book the VBP man is in and the author's name, you'd be really helping me out. </p><p>If anyone can't leave a comment giving me the answer because of the "I am not a Robot" requirements, I'm also asking the same question on Instagram @soozjewels but in a more concise manner.</p><p>Thanks for reading!</p><p>EDITED: at 4:22 next day, a light bulb goes off. VBP stands for Very British Problems. Mr Temple must have a bowler hatted man in one of his VBP books (which I haven't read yet) thank f*ck for that, maybe I can get some sleep now! 🤣 😴</p><p><br /></p>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0Lincolnshire, UK52.9451889 -0.160124624.634955063821153 -35.3163746 81.255422736178843 34.9961254tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-39991558305361930382020-08-16T11:34:00.050+01:002020-08-16T15:55:39.781+01:002020 activities<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
So what have I been doing since my last blog entry so long ago when the tories were elected with a depressingly large majority and an even bigger mandate for Johnson to deliver Brexit? In six months (edited, make that eight months now) the world has been upended, tipped out and stuff that is even more frightening than Brexit has emerged. How I long to get back to fretting about just Brexit as I was feverishly knitting my Cowl against Brexit in protest</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo56XbILVXRX25jj1jekTVLi3L3dBYHQ80K2a8xD15sLGSMHXPyGxLSnREho5MfoVi0sLbVILGruCwd6Ccgevup-JrJKQgFDq_SPSyu_Yj3A3Pair0k59izNCg8UTBLC3JIx8RyMvqIXs/s1100/9275CA8A-DC06-4634-ADBD-826BB49550DA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1100" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo56XbILVXRX25jj1jekTVLi3L3dBYHQ80K2a8xD15sLGSMHXPyGxLSnREho5MfoVi0sLbVILGruCwd6Ccgevup-JrJKQgFDq_SPSyu_Yj3A3Pair0k59izNCg8UTBLC3JIx8RyMvqIXs/w410-h406/9275CA8A-DC06-4634-ADBD-826BB49550DA.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><br />Those appear to be the good old days now.<br /><br />
On the plus side, my business has been doing well. Furloughed persons have still been buying beads to make into jewellery.<br />
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Or maybe the improvement in my photography skills has been making mine stand out a bit more.<br /><br />
Anyway, I've been able to continue working through the pandemic which has given me less time to worry than I might have done, turnover is very healthy compared to last year.<br /><br />
MTM has kept his job, mainly doing estimating and admin work from his regional office just a few miles up the road. He worked there all on his own so ran no risks. Other persons who sometimes hot desk there all worked from home or on NHS sites converting wards for Covid-19 patients. MTM did some backroom work on that, his age (over 60) meant he was forbidden by risk assessments not to physically be present on hospital sites but organising labour and sourcing materials, scheduling deliveries can all be done on the phone. He even managed some Zoom meetings, I've yet to have that dubious pleasure.<br /><br />
Our customary week's Spring break to Northumberland had to be put on hold and is postponed to September, fingers crossed we'll be allowed to go. As I type it's a yes, but the situation changes fast. I was looking back at last year's photographs in order to get some printed (photography course homework) and this one is a netaphor for how not being able to go made us feel but all the time people were dying, it was a very small sacrifice for the greater good.<br />
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These are bluebell bulbs, dug up and transplanted to my own garden shortly before my childhood home was sold, I sent a print to my mum, she loved it.</div>
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Some other photographs of flowers in our garden</div>
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Hoverflies are beginning to be a thing in my photos. There's even one photo bombing the one below, can you spot him?</div>
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Of course, there's been no socialising in person. No going off to meet friends for meals out, family parties, concerts etc but as an introvert who likes being left alone, I've not actually missed it that much. I always enjoy such occasions but I feel with all my various hobbies, crafts, garden etc. I've been training for lockdown all my life.<br /><br />
I've been into town precisely twice since lockdown eased, once to get my hair cut and another time to show support to my local yarn shop. I'm really unhappy with the way other people interpret what social distancing means. In order to avoid confrontation, I just simply shan't be doing that again. Everything I buy is mail order now.<br /><br />
I've got lots of projects on the go, I even finished a few and I am never, ever bored.<br /><br />
This is a work in progress, a safe at home blanket. People were complaining they were stuck at home but this pattern was designed (not by me) to be positive and focus on the fact that you're NOT stuck at home, you're **safe** at home. And that's just how I feel too. If I don't go anywhere there are other people, I'm quite happy. It's fortunate I can work at home.</div>
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There was a big shortage of plaster at the time we needed it. British Gypsom completely shut and furloughed everyone for months. I'll probably tell more about the refurbishments we got done in the future, in the meantime, here is the floor of the other spare bedroom sanded down and awaiting sealing.</div>
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<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; text-align: left;">In common with everyone else, I had a sudden urge to succeed this year in growing some food. I thought maybe by the time I started harvesting, this would probably all be over but after seeing empty shelves in the local Co-Op and being unable to book our usual weekly on-line delivery of groceries, I may have panicked a bit ...</div><br /><br />
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<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; text-align: left;">Fortunately on-line grocery ordering came back after three fraught weeks but we've been eating home grown radishes, cucumbers, blackcurrants, tomatoes and courgettes for quite a while now. I grew lots of kale as well but I'm not quite sure why (I guess I just had some seeds), I don't have any recipes for it so need to look some up, it's doing really really well!<br /><br />
We wouldn't quite have starved but turnips have been a bit of a bust, like beetroots which I adore, my plot doesn't seem to grow root crops well. It's partially shaded so I have to stick with things that don't mind that. I didn't get round to covering the strawberries this year so the squirrel and blackbirds got those.</div>
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<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; text-align: left;">Dad's rhubarb is still going strong. I would've grown more vegetables but getting seeds was problematic after the lockdown started with seed companies quoting weeks for delivery and that's if their website wasn't crashing with the volume of users with the same idea. So I just made do with what was in my seed box from previous years.<br /><br />
I've been typing this blog posting for several weeks, I kept meaning to get round to finishing, just never quite managed to squeeze it in. Overall, I just wanted to say that we're lucky, very lucky. I hope all my readers are safe and well too.<br /><br />
PS I still haven't got a new mobile phone.</div>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-53649783276866078322019-12-13T15:03:00.000+00:002019-12-13T15:15:25.960+00:00Things for Room 101<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">I realise it should only be three things but it’s my blog, my rules. If you have a problem with that, I'll just have to put you in Room 101 as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">I have to have a mobile phone because I'd never go out in my car without the reassurance that I can summon help. I am a very anxious "what-if-what-if" kind of person. I worry about everything, I need props, back-up procedures and detailed planning before doing many things. I've even needed professional help with anxiety which - at times - paralyses me into inaction. So you see, I have to have one. I wish I didn't.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">Anyway, that's the only good thing about a mobile phone, it stops me worrying about breaking down or being in an accident. Reasons to detest and loathe it are multitudinous.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">When its battery is depleted (which is always), I have to wait til it's got 3% power before it will switch back on. Even though it's plugged in, with the entire national grid's electricity supply at its disposal, I cannot get a phone number out of it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">When I'm in poor reception areas, my phone remembers and when I've moved to a place where I know reception is good, I have to turn it off and on again before it realises it can work again.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">When it got lost at a gig, I rang O2 and they deactivated it for me. Thankfully, I got it back from the venue. I expected to have to reactivate it but no, it just worked ...?! </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">It won't fit into the front pocket of my jeans, only the back, I forgot and accidentally sat on it so the screen has had a crack for weeks but it still works (something else in it's favour I grudgingly accept). I need to upgrade but I can't go back to the shop where I got this one. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">Once I finished paying for it and my contract expired, O2 in Stamford have never left me alone. Constant messages, texts and phone calls asking me to ring them as they have "important information about my account" which I ignored.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">Recently, I went for a routine hospital screening appointment with a dangerously low charge (as usual). My lift was picking me up at the point he dropped me off but somehow, after the appointment, I'd come out of the wrong exit in another part of the hospital; I had no idea where I was. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">Panicking a little bit, I got my phone out to ring him to say I'd be a bit longer but as I did, it rang. I answered, thinking it was my rescuer, the knight in shining armour and all round wonderfulness that is my husband. Instead, I got the O2 shop ... I kind of exploded at them about, well everything. How dare they use up my charge, I told them I would never ever spend another penny in their shop, this phone is for my convenience not theirs and to stop hassling me. And I did it in an extremely loud voice. They haven't bothered me since.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">Now I'm very interested in photography, and I know a few people who can take really wonderful photos on their mobile phones, I have been wondering about getting a mobile with a good camera. I've been looking into what settings you can change on a mobile phone and the reviews say the macro settings on the latest models rival a dSLR. I was hoping for a macro lens for my Nikon D700 for Christmas but I'm thinking I might just ask Santa for a new mobile phone instead. Given all my previous rantings about my mobile, Santa will think I've gone mad.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 12pt;">If I do go for a new mobile, all I have to do is find an iPhone shop that will have me, grumpy, negative, middle-aged luddite that I am.</span></div>
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Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-18188826245684457272019-10-30T10:44:00.002+00:002019-10-30T17:31:36.939+00:00I've got photographer's knee!<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text" font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
In early September, I started a weekly on-line photography course called <a href="https://ayearwithmycamera.com/" target="_blank">A Year With My Camera</a> by Emma Davies. I've completed part 1 (6 weeks). I'm thoroughly enjoying the course and I've learnt loads about photography. I highly recommend it to beginners and anyone who wants to fill in any gaps in their photography knowledge.
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Here's one of the shots I took for week 2's homework about aperture priority.<br />
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There's only one problem .... photographer's knee ... investigating different shooting angles in Part 2 has exascerbated it. Fortunately it's a minor condition, symptoms are damp and/or dirty patches mostly on left knee but occasionally the right as well.<br />
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So far the list of things affecting my knee(s) have been:<br />
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<li>Mud</li>
<li>Wet pavement</li>
<li>Loose grass clippings</li>
<li>Sea water</li>
<li>Sand (least problematic, just brushes right off)</li>
<li>Morning dew</li>
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There's no setting on the camera to help and nothing in the Nikon manual.<br />
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Squatting down instead of dropping to one knee alleviates it but then there's the problem of getting back up again ... #mustgetfitter.<br />
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So far, a good wash has solved all flare ups but I am thinking of preventative measures whilst I work on improving my leg muscles. I'm considering taking kneelers out with me like those used by gardeners. Any other tips would be appreciated ;-)</div>
Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-39434267168385795462019-09-05T10:45:00.000+01:002019-09-05T10:45:38.230+01:00Holey Suns crochet jar covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am pleased to publish another free crochet pattern, this one is for a lacy jar cover like the ones in the photograph above.</div>
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The version here on my blog will remain free for as long as the blog exists. For ease of use, <a href="http://www.soozjewels.co.uk/patterns/HoleySunsJarCoversv4.pdf" target="_blank">A print-ready PDF is now also available, free for a limited time!</a> </div>
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The basis of this jar cover is a the holey sun motif, full instructions and chart below. Each motif will come out at around 1.75 inches and needs to be slightly stretched to show itself to best advantage. Measure your jar around the circumference to see if it is appropriate for this design. In the photograph above, the motifs are stretched so they are a little under 2 inches wide. </div>
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From left the circumferences and number of motifs used in the resoective jars illustrated are as follows:</div>
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Olive jar 300g (3 rings of six motifs), 297mm/11.75" circumference</div>
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Marmalade jar (2 rings of 5 motifs), 227mm/9" circumference</div>
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Straight sided high ball glass (3 rings of 5 motifs) 225mm/9" circumference</div>
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Sharwoods Mango chutney jar 360g (3 rings of 4 motifs), 200mm/7.75" circumference</div>
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10-25g Lace weight cotton or linen thread, depending on the size of the jar. I used 3-ply linen on the example here in the tutorial but the ones in the photograph above were made with Scheepjes Sugar Rush or Scheepjes Bon Bon which is a cotton 2-ply. Rico's Creative Melange (Lace Weight) or Rico's Crochet Essentials would also work well.</div>
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yo twice, insert hook into previously worked st, yo, pull through st (4 loops on hook), (yo, pull through 2 loops) twice (2 loops on hook), yo twice, skip 1 st, insert hook in next st, yo, pull through st (5 loops on hook) yo, (pull through 2 loops) twice (3 loops on hook) yo, pull through 3 loops</div>
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yo 3 times, insert hook in top of dtr2tog, yo, pull loop through st, (5 loops on hook), (yo, pull loop through 2 loops) 3 times (2 loops on hook), yo 3 times, insert hook into ss, yo, pull loop through ss, (6 loops on hook), (yo, pull loop through 2 loops) 3 times (3 loops on hook), yo 3 times, insert hook into dtr2 tog, yo, pull loop through st, (7 loops on hook), (yo, pull loop through 2 loops) 3 times, (4 loops on hook), yo, pull loop through 4 loops</div>
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Round 1: Wrap yarn around index finger 5-6 times. Without removing the resultant ring, squeeze hook underneath the yarn wraps, yo, pull the loop down past the wraps, ch 1, pulling it as tight as you can to secure and remove from finger. </div>
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Round 2: ch 3, skip 1 st, dtr in next st (darning needle in the photo below indicates the place)</div>
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*5 ch, dtr2tog (instructions for working this stitch are in special stitches section above), repeat from * all round, working the final “leg” of the dtr2tog into the base of the ch 3 that this round started with, (photograph below indicates where this is)</div>
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ss into next 5 ch string on first motif as indicated in above photograph, 2 ch, *dtr2tog, 5ch repeat from * completing the twelve rays by working the second "leg" of the final dtr2tog into the base of the 3 ch at the beg of the row (see photograph below) </div>
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5ch, ss into top of dtr, cut yarn leaving a long enough tail to weave in later, fasten off, leaving a tail long enough to weave in later.</div>
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Join on more motifs until you have the total needed to go round the girth of the jar minus one (the final motif is joined in more places, see below for instructions). The motifs should be in a straight line, with four 5 ch spaces either side of the joins as below. </div>
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<b>TO COMPLETE THE FIRST RING OF MOTIFS</b></div>
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Make and join another motif, stopping after this motif has ten rays. Fold the line of motifs in half and then identify the two 5ch spaces to join to using the picture below as a guide, there should be four 5ch spaces to the left and right of the two you need. Join in the manner established to the 5ch space on the right first and then the other. Fasten off. </div>
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Try the ring of motifs out on your jar. It should be slightly stretched to give the best effect. Further rings of motifs will enhance the effect.</div>
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Make another motif in the now established manner stopping after you have 4 rays, ch2 and then join the motif in the manner established to four of the 5 ch spaces on the first ring in the order indicated below and then finish the motif. </div>
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For medium sized jars, two rings of motifs may be enough but if you need another, repeat the instructions for the second ring. My 300g olive jar, required three rows.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me set the scene. We're sat in the lounge, MTM is in an armchair on his laptop doing the weekly online grocery shop. I'm on the sofa working on my iPad.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me: "Yes"</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MTM: (holding up the scrap of paper on which I note things we've run out of) </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"What is cinnamon powder? Do you mean GROUND cinnamon?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me: "Ah yes!" (both laugh) "I was in a hurry when I wrote that, we've got cinnamon STICKS but I forgot what the word was. GROUND is what I meant!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MTM closes laptop "Done". He gets up and sits beside me on the sofa, he notices I'm on Etsy. "Whatcha doin'? Isn't that the site of all things calamitous and bedevilled in Sue-World?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It is, my love, but Our Man In Havanna (actually a talented jeweller on the East Coast) is feeding me info about my US Etsy search positions. Intelligence tells me, despite holding up well in the rest of the world, my listings there have indeed fallen off a cliff. Just as thing-of-evil (in Sue-World) Josh Silverman threatened But I think I may be able to beat him at his own game. I have a cunning plan .... mwahhh haaa haaaa!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"So you're staying with Etsy."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Only for the time being ... but I HAVEN'T given in, I'm NOT offering fake free shipping."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Of course, don't let the Bar Stewards powder you down".</span>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-60899306900880477972019-07-25T14:24:00.001+01:002019-07-30T09:37:23.754+01:00I ain't gonna work on Josh's farm no more - Etsy's Fake Free Shipping is a farce<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A waning half moon provides an appropriate time to say that I think my days of selling lampwork bead sets on Etsy may be coming to an end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of July, Etsy management are threatening to prioritise in their search engine only sellers offering free shipping to US customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we don't want to absorb the cost ourselves, we have to roll it into the price of our items which is problematic for a number of reasons that are being pointed out to management and they aren't taking any notice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What it boils down to for my shop is this. If I increase my cost per item to cover "free" shipping, it isn't free and it isn't fair to customers who buy multiple items and customers whose countries are cheaper to ship to than the USA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is FAKE FREE SHIPPING.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CQG1OAMcXHA" target="_blank">Here's a link to a YouTube video</a> which covers the things that have </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">been making me angry for days now and it isn't lessening the more I think about it, I'm gnashing my teeth about being coerced into running my business in a different way by people who I PAY. If I added up all the fees Etsy have charged me over the last eight years I would probably have a heart attack and now they're trying to push ME around! Shouldn't I be the boss of them if I'm paying for the privilege of selling my items on their platform?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The New Moon is on 1 August and as that's the day I will find out if Etsy carry out their threat, this is the Universe telling me it's a good time to start doing something else, I know this seems like I'm cutting my nose off to spite my face because Josh Silverman won't even notice I'm gone but I have to protest. I have told him what I think in the Etsy survey and in the Etsy forums but I'm sure he's still going to do it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to leave right now but MTM has persuaded me to wait and see if it happens first of all and then take time to see what impact it has on my business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But this is a pattern with me, I did it years ago, quit a job I liked that was well paid for a super boss because of an unfairness over bonus payments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the short term I regretted it, it felt reckless, daft and short sighted, but in the end it led me to going back to college. I retrained and had a whole other career in IT for a while that paid even better. But again, I had to leave because things outside of my control dictated who I worked for and I had no respect for my new boss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ultimately, that's how I ended up doing what I do now, leading a creative life which I love (it's unfortunately NOT very well paid!) but that's what I do ...</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I leave things I love behind and I cannot stop myself, I know if Etsy carry out their threat to send my shop into search obscurity, I will do it and there's not a damn thing anyone can say to dissuade me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the pattern continues, it will lead to something even better next and I can't wait to find out what that is!</span><br />
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Crocheted rainbow bunting made in June 2019 to celebrate Pride month. </div>
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I started making it when Ravelry made it's announcement that it was banning conversation about Donald Trump on its website as follows:</div>
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<span 13.2px="" arial="" font-size:="" grande="" helvetica="" lucida="" quot="" sans-serif="" sans="" unicode="" verdana=""><b>"We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump administration is unambiguously support for white supremacy. For more details, read this document: <a href="https://ravelry.com/content/no-trump" target="_blank">https://ravelry.com/content/no-trump</a>"</b></span></div>
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<b>ABBREVIATIONS</b> (using UK terms)<br />
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ch - chain</div>
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tr - treble</div>
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PSM - place stitch marker in previous ch (or st) just worked</div>
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dc - double crochet</div>
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sts - stitches<br />
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2.5mm and 3.00mm crochet hook<br />
I used Rico's Creative Melange one 50g ball was enough for my scarf (65 inches long by two and a half inches wide), if you make yours longer or shorter, you may need to adjust yarn quantities.<br />
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32 st x 20 rows worked in pattern equates to 4 inches though please note, the width of the finished scarf is only two and a half inches. It's a tall and skinny scarf (hence the name!)<br />
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<b>HOW TO WORK THE SPECIAL STITCHES IN THIS PATTERN</b></div>
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<b>dangle ending:</b></div>
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3 tr in 4th chain from hook, 4 tr in next ch, 4 htr in next ch, 1 htr in next ch</div>
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yo twice, insert hook in previously worked st, yo, pull through st (4 loops on hook), (yo, pull through 2 loops) twice (2 loops on hook), yo twice, skip 1 st, insert hook in next st, yo, pull through st (5 sts on hook), (yo, pull through 2 loops) twice (3 loops on hook), yo twice, skip 1 st, insert hook in next st, yo, pull through st (6 loops on hook), (yo, pull through 2 loops) twice, yo, pull through 4 loops on hook, ch 3</div>
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yo twice, skip 1 st, insert hook in next st, yo, pull through st (4 loops on hook), yo, pull through two loops, yo, skip 1 st, insert hook in next st, yo pull through st (5 loops on hook), (yo, pull through 2 loops) 4 times (1 loop on hook), the stitch looks like an upside down lowercase “y”, ch 1, tr in intersection of the “y” to complete an “X” shape</div>
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<b>FOUNDATION ROW</b></div>
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If, like me, your chains tend to be on the tight side, use a 2.5mm hook to ch multiples of 4 (I did 464), change to 2mm hook, ch a further 22, make a dangle ending (see above special stitches), dc in each of next 15ch, PSM, dc in every ch to end, 15 ch, turn</div>
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<b>Row 1:</b></div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 8ch, htr in next st, tr in next st, dtr in next st, ch 1, dtr3tog, *ch 3, dtr3tog, repeat from * until 2 sts before you reach the stitch marker<br />
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ch 1, dtr in previous st (indicated above), tr in next st, htr in next st, ch 18, turn</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 11ch, dc in each of next 3 sts, dc in 1ch sp,<br />
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dc in centre of dtr3tog, PSM, * 3 dc in 3ch sp, dc in centre of dtr3tog, repeat from all along length, ending with dc into the centre of the final dtr3tog, ch 20, turn<br />
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NB do not worry if your work curls a bit like this like mine, it will even out later</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 13 ch, dc in every st up to and including stitch marker, remove stitch marker, ch 29, turn</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 19 ch, htr in next ch, tr in next ch, dtr in next ch, ch 1, PSM, *dtrxst, ch 1, repeat from * all along length, ending with ch 1<br />
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The final repeat should span the final 3ch space of row 1 (as above), skip 1 st, dtr in next st, tr in next st, htr in next st, ch 26, turn</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 19 ch, dc in each of next 3sts, dc in 1ch space, PSM, * dc in next st, dc in 1 ch sp, repeat from * all along length up to and including marker, remove marker, ch 23</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 16 ch, dc in every stitch all along length until stitch just before marker, remove marker, ss into next stitch, fasten off. First half of Long Tall Sally scarf complete.</div>
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Turn scarf upside-down. With the end with three dangles to your right, identify the third ch from the foundation row (see below). Reattach yarn there and then ch 22, turn</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 13 ch, dc in next 3 sts, PSM, dc in every st all along the length up to and including stitch where stitch marker is, remove stitch marker, ch 21, turn</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 11ch, PSM, dc in each of next 2 ch, 1 htr in next ch, 1 tr in next ch, 1 dtr in next st, *ch 1, dtr in next st, repeat from * all along length, ending in dtr in st where stitch marker is, remove stitch marker, tr in next st, htr in next st, ch 24, turn</div>
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make a dangle ending, dc in each of next 10ch, dc in every stitch all along length up to and including stitch marker, remove stitch marker, ss in next st, fasten off.<br />
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Blocking does not make much difference to this scarf's finished appearance but do feel free to block if you have any curling issues as it will straighten this out.<br />
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Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-13223817779113145282019-01-12T12:27:00.001+00:002019-01-14T16:40:34.057+00:00My dishwasher is having a laugh<img id="id_887d_5707_b061_85ee" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiuqVG4SI6vuXV0_OBvETUXX9359R4BtiHreedig4ecHikYA5t3-0zjjid4PcayGHSVPT51kbpG3_0CMKo9GER0mAbTK1i3s2XzyOXTil37eflYp0sV8Od7qNnJByEf5tA9CZxZn3886k/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 509px; height: auto;"><br><br>Your dishwasher packed in ages ago, you've been handwashing the dishes for months. You finally get round to calling the repair shop and they ask "what's the problem?" It's been so long, you've forgotten. You run the machine ... and it works .... perfectly. <div><br></div><div>Gah, pass the Nivea! </div>Sue Doranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253427020750012680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145499900390146769.post-30837645623713770302018-12-17T14:51:00.001+00:002019-08-30T14:20:02.397+01:00Not quite Doctor Who crocheted scarf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are coincidences and then there is serendipity. This story falls under the latter descriptive noun because it's not just a random fluke, the universe has been purposefully whispering to me and the conjunction of two things has produced this scarf.<br />
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Firstly, over three or four visits to the <a href="https://woolzone.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wool Zone in Oakham</a>, I have been collecting one ball of each colour in Stylecraft Yarn's new Bellissima range. It's wonderfully soft; definitely wearable next to the skin, I wanted to make something with it but I wasn't sure what.</div>
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Secondly, I have seen publicity online for the Special episode of Dr Who to be broadcast on New Year's Day. Jodie Whittaker is wearing the most gorgeous scarf, it looks like it's made with some kind of fleece fabric, of course I prefer winter scarfs to be knitted or crocheted. The original was designed by Mark Smith in Nottingham, unsurprisingly, his <a href="https://www.paulsmith.com/uk/womens/accessories/scarves?p=2" id="id_6356_f694_d66b_a91a">on-line shop</a> has sold out already!</div>
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In a perfect universe, there would be a teal in the Stylecraft Bellissima range but when I put my colour cards together, that's when I realised I was meant to crochet this scarf. Sugar Snap stands in magnificently and looks just great. All the same, if Cosmic Santa is reading, he could drop a hint to Stylecraft that the next colour in the Bellissima range should be teal. (And if I'm not being too greedy, orange as well ...)</div>
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If Doctor Who discovers a ball of Bellissima Teal in the future, I hope she will use the Tardis to drop it off at my house about 5 nights ago, that would be much appreciated.</div>
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My new craft room in the loft is nearly ready to move into. It’s been a busy few weeks trying to fit the decorating in amongst having a week’s holiday and keeping my bead shop stocked.<br />
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I hadn’t done any wallpapering for about twenty years but fortunately, I hadn’t forgotten.<br />
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There is a lot of work in the ceiling. It looked a bit like a sauna when the matchboarding was first fitted. I wanted a distressed look ... which takes more doing than you might realise. All the nail holes had to be filled and sanded (I had a power tool for that bit so it went quite quick).a A coat of antique pine wood dye got rid of the new timber colour, then a single coat of watered down emulsion. To make it look like it had naturally weathered off, those layers were then h.a.n.d. sanded. I couldn't use the power tool for that bit as I had to go slow and steady and stop when it looked right. At this point, I was beginning to wish we'd just plastered the lot as it would've been much quicker to just put two coats of emulsion on it but finally it was sealed with two coats of clear satin varnish and I'm delighted with it. All the work removed my fingerprints, for a fortnight my iPad refused to recognise me unless I put my passcode in!<br />
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The bannister is being fitted today by the joiner as I type. We’re having floor to ceiling spindles rather than a short one with a handrail on top, as you can see, the staircase has an integral handrail so doesn’t need another. The tall spindles will be a bit of a design feature as well as stopping anyone falling down the side of the stairwell.<br />
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The contents of the craft room have been collected from storage and are in boxes in the spare bedroom.</div>
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Some self-assembly storage shelving thingees are also arriving next week but there seems to be far more boxes than I remember ... I’m hoping it will all fit!</div>
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