Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class – Plaid progress
(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class series. You can find my other posts about woven crochet here and here.)
I don’t have much to report on for my Year of Projects goals this week. As much as it has been fun to be more active on my blog this month, I am very much looking forward to the end of Blogtoberfest, 2011! I plan to take a few days off away from the blog, even though I have a few books to review.
Between all of the blogging, a busy season at work, and the secret swatching I’ve been doing for design submissions, I have only made a wee bit of progress on my plaid pillow project, started during my Tartans & Plaids class with Jenny King at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio.
One panel is finished, but I still have to weave in the ends.
Thanks to my class with Jenny King, my plaid is woven evenly!
I’m still debating whether I should felt the finished project. Opinions?
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Reminders:
- You can enter my giveaway for Knit Local: Celebrating America’s Homegrown Yarns
by Tanis Gray here through October 30. (This giveaway is only open to those with a U.S. mailing address.)
- You can enter my giveaway for Mini Christmas Crochet (Twenty to Make)
by Val Pierce here by October 31.
I think felting it just the slightest bit would look lovely. Too much felting might make the greens and blues blend a little more and take away from some of the lovely detail in it. That panel looks really neat!
Welcome Nicole. Thanks for your tips! I didn’t want to muddy the detail, either
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Oh no .. don’t felt it – that would be a sin as its looking so lovely as it is. You’ve done a great job – I’m sure Jenny would be proud of you. Is there a secret to weaving evenly ?
There are many secrets, Dorothy! And Jenny taught them all to me
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Your tartan is lovely….in my opinion I wouldn’t felt it as I like the crispness of the white….really taken by this project, it’s really clever and so effective, my mum is Scottish and has a family tartan, maybe I should attempt it one day!
Thanks Faith! I think the general consensus seems to be – don’t felt it!