Crochet Along News

Good Morning

We have had a really good response to the Crochet Along and hope that you are all enjoying the first instalment.

There are some photos on Ravelry on the group section, of the colours that some of you have used instead of mine I have to say that I think they are going to be lovely.

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/ali-crafts-cal-2016


I am still printing,  bagging and hoping that all the wool will fit in the car next week, for the Sewing for Pleasure show at the NEC Birmingham. I will be having some kits there ready to start with yarn and 1st instalment of pattern for £12.50..



Just to prove  to you that I am a crochet addict I look for anything crochet related wherever I happen to be.....

Not quite sure where these are from

A mat from a hotel in Majorca

Magazines in Polish from Gdansk

A beautiful window in Gdansk

I have beading books in Russian and Magazines from Spain


Its not that I am clever at all I can only read English I just love to see new and different things

Hope you are all having a lovely crochet day.....

Ali xxx

Trip to Poland

Hello

Lots to tell you about today

We have just had a lovely weekend away in Poland, we flew from Leeds/Bradford airport to Gdansk.
A super 2 hour 15 mins of crochet time, I managed to get the centre of a shawl worked.

Its a lovely city they have rebuilt a lot of the historical quayside which was destroyed in the 2nd world war, there are still lots of buildings to be replaced.

There are shops which sell amber jewellery and glass items, trips on boats down the river and lots of restaurants we liked the Elephant bar and Billys but there were more, we stayed at the Hilton which is at the end of the quayside so very handy for all the interesting places to see.

Cal News

The first instalment of the crochet along is up and ready to go on my website and Ravelry

If you have any problems there are videos on my website  or drop me a text ali.crafts@ntlworld.com

Next I have a new free flower pattern available

http://www.alicraftsdesigns.co.uk/free-patterns/

Materials Required

Oddments of Double Knitting Yarn in 2 colours

4.00 hook

1. Ch.4, work 11tr. in 4th ch. from hook, ss. to join in 3rd ch. at beg.  (12sts)
2. 3ch., 1tr. in same place as ss., 2tr. in each tr., ss. to join in 3rd ch. at beg. Fasten off.
3. Join colour 2 to any tr., 3ch., 4tr. in same place, 1dbtr. worked around the stalk of the tr. below on round 1. not round 2., * miss 1 st. on round 2. work 5tr. in next st., 1dbtr. round stalk of next st. on round 1, rep. from * to end, ss. to join in 3rd ch. at beg. Fasten off.

Abbreviations

beg.	beginning
ch.	chain
dbtr.	double treble
rep.	repeat
ss.	slip stitch
st.	stitches
tr.	treble

©Ali Crafts Designs 
February 2016

This pattern is the property of A Walker and is an original design

Please do not copy the patterns for friends, or use for teaching or post on any website on the internet, this infringes copyright laws. Thank you. You may link to my site via www.alicraftsdesigns.co.uk