New Crochet Skills

Sun Kissed small flower coaster

I decided to tackle a few new concepts in crochet yesterday, as well as some of my yet untouched new colours of cotton yarn. I tried a pretty flower coaster that used treble/triple crochet (tr) and half double crochet (hdc), both new to me. To figure out the stitches, I watched some YouTube videos from KnitWitch. It turned out very nicely, but much smaller than I was thinking. I used my Lily Sugar'n Cream Sun Kissed for it, and love the colours!


But since that coaster pattern, which I'd intended to use for myself in the living room, wouldn't be big enough for most of our glasses, I went on to knit another pattern I'd been looking at. It involves crocheting in a chain space (a little), but otherwise no new skills. For that one I used my Lily Sugar'n Cream Crown Jewels. I like the colours, but for the pattern, I think a less intense ombre would be more suited. 


I'd thought of giving the smaller flower coaster to Junior to play with, but I like the colours so much, I decided to leave it in the living room as a spare coaster. I'll make him one of his own though, since this morning he knocked the nail polish bottle I'd had on the coaster to deter him over, grabbed the little sun kissed coaster, and ran! Little bugger, but my mom got it back and gave him the toy I'd made for him. I think he's got it under the TV cabinet right now though. I'll go fetch it out for him....

Crown Jewels larger flower coaster

Things I learned:

• how to half double crochet (hdc)
• how to triple/treble crochet (tr)
• how to crochet in a chain space