Once I got the hang of switching colours I got to enjoy the simple nature of colourwork. Though I must admit the mess on the underside of this kind of crochet makes me very twitchy indeed! It's just not neat, and I love neat. If you are making colourwork things like these you can expect the back side of your work to look rather like this...
*shudder*
Terrifying isn't it? But just try not to think about it because the other side looks like this...
Of course in order to properly show off these potholders I had to recreate the picture in the book itself, which meant I had to make a pie. I used a recipe from one of the contestants in the first series of the wonderful Great British Bake Off. Remember Ruth's beef pie from series one? Well, no, neither did I until I looked it up. The recipe is here and let me tell you it was yummy scrummy...
One beef pie served up in style with the new skullholders :)
And here's the project lowdown:
By the way do you like my pie dish? Pretty cool right? More on that later this week!
If you want to avoid the messy reverse, rather than dropping the yarn when you change colour, lay it over the top of the stitches of the row below. Crochet as usual, but your stitches should hide the other yarn. It's a bit like when you finish a piece and weave in the ends, but you do it as you go along.
ReplyDeleteDoes any of this make sense? If not, I'll have a crack at blogging it so I can demonstrate with photos xx
You can either stitch right over the not-in-use color as you go, or you can cut the yarn and weave it in every time you change colors to avoid the messy back. :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you got some good stuff done while you had to be laid up!
Yes, both these tips make sense! Thanks girls! For this project it didn't matter as the underside is hidden, but I am about to embark on another colourwork project to I'll give those tips a go!
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