Showing posts with label acrylic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acrylic. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Still hooked

I'm sort of in shock at the moment. Came on to make a new post and saw that I needed to moderate a comment written by the author of Hooked On Murder, Betty Hechtman, which is a book that I mentioned in my last post. (You can read the comment in the previous post.) I was reading more it in the bathroom earlier this morning! Due to my curiosity, I had to skip ahead to find out who the killer is. That won't ruin the story for me. I'm more interested in the gripping crochet parts than anything else. I love reading about crochet almost as much as I like actually doing it. I still have to read about how the group's blanket turns out in the story. I feel like starting another blanket myself.

Here are pics of the slippers I made. As you can see, they start off as rectangles that are gathered at the toe. Whip-stitched the back seams then single crocheted a cuff around.











They're half wool and half acrylic. I put them through a hot water laundering with a few other clothing articles, then dried them in the dryer. I applied puff paint to the bottoms to prevent the slippers from slippin' on the floor while I wear them. Has worked so far. I've worn them a lot since they were ready to be worn. I'm wearing them right now.











I'm almost done with an off-white scarf that I've been crocheting. I've also have started knitting one in thick yarn, but that will take me longer to accomplish.