Showing posts with label G hook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label G hook. Show all posts

Sunday, July 22, 2007

An Apple A Day...

...keeps the doctor away, as long as it is not in an appletini.

My mother recently bought a set of stemless martini glasses as a gift for an aunt of mine. Here's what they look like:

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By yarnmonkie

They are for drinking Appletinis. Just reading the ingredient list makes me shudder. The drink is made with a slice of a granny smith apple in it. *shudder, again* I offered to make a coaster set to go with the gift.

After some flailing about with the yarn and teaching myself a new-to-me stitch, I got what sort of resembles an apple slice. I ended up making a set of 4 of them. Here are come pictures.

Made with Red Heart (lime green color, not sure of the exact color name), aran and Red Heart Softs brown (for the stems). on an acrylic g hook using trc, dc, hdc and sc.

One coaster:
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By yarnmonkie,

One with the glass:
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By yarnmonkie

For the record, an appletini is that exact color. Eww, eww, eww!

Sunday, May 20, 2007

It's not so bad after all.

After working up an entire skein of the Red Heart Multi in Aspen Print, I'm ready to say:

It's not that bad.

On the skein, it's *shudder*. Worked up, it's nice. I spent several hours at my parents house hooking away on it and the colors match the room perfectly.

One skein of the Red Heart Multi (5oz skein), DC on a G (6-4.25MM) hook= 34" X 9.5" piece.

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Looks like I'll need 2 more skeins to finish the project.