"snowflake mondays" a past post i had seen UPDATE WEEK #4

[marikamum]

Thank you for listing the snowflakes so far.

 

Hi, everyone. I have agreed to list the snowflakes and keep the list updated in my first post, which is post 6 on page 1. I have them listed there now and also the post with the starching and blocking instructions. It's not as good as being in the first post, but hopefully it will help with those who join us later. Happy crocheting!

 

YAY! Thanks to you, Linda!

 

I think Kazily's idea of a running tally by the snowflake poster-of-the-week is great, too. If the person who is posting a new snowflake quotes the last week's posting or busy-bee-lmt's post #6 master list that would easily put all of the information in on a weekly basis...

 

Aren't we all great? I am loving this CAL!

 

Cheers,

Marika

(who may try to block some more today... so much to block, so little time )

[missmaxx]

Thank you Linda!

 

[suzidemars]

I am finally catching up!!!!

I tried #1 yesterday. (working out of order) I was completely annoyed with that pattern! Did anyone else have trouble with it, besides tho slst typo..?

I gave up and picked one from my snowflake book.

[marikamum]

I am finally catching up!!!!

I tried #1 yesterday. (working out of order) I was completely annoyed with that pattern! Did anyone else have trouble with it, besides tho slst typo..?

I gave up and picked one from my snowflake book.

 

Congratulations on catching up Hmmm... I actually did #1 first (though I did not catch up in order) so I can't really remember if I encountered difficulties ... I tried one last year from Australian Better Homes and Gardens, though that infuriated me to the point where I just quit (I have mentally marked that as one NOT to share ).

Cheers,

Marika

[CraftyVeganCMP]

Awesome!! With all the links in one post, will be much easier to keep track.

I bought some Cotton thread 10 and 30, and a couple of hooks. Boye hooks, which I'm not a fan of, but it was all that this little store I went ot had.

 

Opionions needed please, Out of the patterns posted, which is the easiest? I've never worked with such a small hooy and thread before. So I want my first experience to be a good one!

 

Keep up the great job with the snowflakes ladies!!

[marikamum]

Awesome!! With all the links in one post, will be much easier to keep track.

I bought some Cotton thread 10 and 30, and a couple of hooks. Boye hooks, which I'm not a fan of, but it was all that this little store I went ot had.

 

Opionions needed please, Out of the patterns posted, which is the easiest? I've never worked with such a small hooy and thread before. So I want my first experience to be a good one!

 

Keep up the great job with the snowflakes ladies!!

 

Hmmm...

I didn't find any of them very difficult (in fact I looked back at my notes on #1 and I marked it as pretty easy...) I think it depends a bit on your experience, not just with thread but with things like - are you used to doing picots? are you more confident if you can see a picture of the finished project before you start (Snowflake 1 does not have a picture with it)...

 

My personal feelings were:

Snowflake 1 was pretty easy, but I am started crocheting from text-only patterns, so I do not depend on a picture for support...

 

Snowflake 2 was another good one

 

Snowflake 3 looked nice when done, but I probably would not start with it unless you have an unusual fondness for picots

 

Snowflake 4 was quite easy, but was probably my least favourite in the finished product department - it was the largest and floppiest (it will probably improve with blocking and stiffening, but I haven't got to that one yet)

 

Snowflake 5 was not difficult but was probably my second least favourite, but that could be because I tried using some pearly embroidery stuff with my thread and had to join several times so ended up with little poky pearly bits fuzzing around the flake...

 

Snowflake 6 was pretty easy and quick - it definitely improves heaps with blocking, but unlike #4 (for me at least) - I could pull it into shape and see the possibilities...

 

Snowflake 7 is, unsurprisingly, my personal favourite but I am probably not an impartial judge on that one. I would think the tricky thing with it would be working the chains for the second and third petals behind the existing petal(s) and fitting all of the petal stitches in the loops. I do like that it looks good before blocking and stiffening, too (good feedback )

 

That said, I'd probably start with week 6, 2 or 1.

 

And DEFINITELY start with the #10 thread, not the 30!!

 

Cheers,

Marika

[missmaxx]

I agree completely with your assessment of the patterns Marika. I'll even add that tomorrow's pattern should prove to be easy with the minimum number of picots - keeping in mind that not many have "an unusual fondness for picots"! You crack me up Marika!

 

I'll have a link up tomorrow before 6:00PM Eastern time . It's been great fun searching the web for patterns. It would be impossible to top last weeks beautiful design by Marika so I didn't even try. Maybe by the next time it's my turn I'll try my hand (or should that be hook?) at an original pattern.

OK enough of a tease for today! See you all tomorrow,

Happy crocheting,

[marikamum]

I agree completely with your assessment of the patterns Marika. I'll even add that tomorrow's pattern should prove to be easy with the minimum number of picots - keeping in mind that not many have "an unusual fondness for picots"! You crack me up Marika!

 

I'll have a link up tomorrow before 6:00PM Eastern time . It's been great fun searching the web for patterns. It would be impossible to top last weeks beautiful design by Marika so I didn't even try. Maybe by the next time it's my turn I'll try my hand (or should that be hook?) at an original pattern.

OK enough of a tease for today! See you all tomorrow,

Happy crocheting,

 

He he he I am glad you appreciate my humour, Nancy

 

The problem is, I really love the way picot-y snowflakes look, but when there are heaps of them, I do find them rather :devilish...

 

Isn't it fun looking around at all the options there are? I do encourage you to try your hook at designing one, it was a blast I think it helped for me to think of a theme that I hadn't seen before and work from there... I mean, you want to make one because you haven't found one that incorporates something you really like, right?

 

I'll try to find the link to the one that broke me and post it for the viewing terror of all...

 

Cheers,

Marika

[marikamum]

Here it is:

 

The snowflake of death!!!! Bwahahahahahahaha

 

http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=27469

 

Pattern #3....

 

Let's just say this was the one that opened my eyes to that concept that maybe unraveling something is not always a tragedy...

 

Marika

[missmaxx]

Hi Everyone,

I couldn't wait any longer. Here is the link for this week's snowflake

 

 

http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=27469 Pattern #3

 

 

He he he ... gotcha Marika!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

No, no, no! Really here it is:

 

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/1187884233661.xml

Star Snowflake - It's the third (last) one on the page.

It's a very easy pattern with the minimum number of the dreaded picot's.

Let's face it though - a snowflake without picots is just a very small doily!

 

There is no picture posted on the page. Here's my sample. If you were hoping for a bigger challenge I'd like to suggest trying a different thread and/or hook size. Or make a blizzard of these.

 

 

Week #1: http://www.angelfire.com/pe/shellangels/Crochet.html

Week #2: http://www.sarahanns.com/crochetworks/snowflakes.html (Snowflake Pattern #3)

Week #3: http://the-crocheted-bookmark.blogspot.com/2006/12/snowflakes.html

Week #4: http://susaninstitches.blogspot.com/...-snowflake.html

Week #5: http://www.sarahanns.com/crochetworks/snowflakes.html (Snowflake Pattern #4)

Week #6: http://karpstyles.com/crochet/snow.html

Week #7: http://marikamum.blogspot.com/2008/0...snoflake.html

Week #8: http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/1187884233661.xml (Star Snowflake - third one)

[marikamum]

Hi Everyone,

I couldn't wait any longer. Here is the link for this week's snowflake

 

 

http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=27469 Pattern #3

 

 

He he he ... gotcha Marika!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

 

 

 

 

You are a cheeky one, Nancy .... I dare you to try it and not end up Although, I must say, I was just a thread newbie at that point, maybe it is not so bad...

 

This one looks nice, I am glad you couldn't wait any longer, neither could I

[Warrior Maiden]

Nancy, thanks for putting up a list of the last weeks' links.

[missmaxx]

Nancy, thanks for putting up a list of the last weeks' links.

You're very welcome Warrior Madien, but the credit really goes to busy-bee-lmt. I just pasted her list into my post and added this week's. So Thank you busy-bee-lmt!

[suzidemars]

I ripped it out now I can't remember my problem with week #1. I'll start over and get back if I have trouble. Maybe I just had more than 1 glass of wine that night w/ dinner....

I know it wasn't the picots, I'm looking at the pattern and I think it was in rnd 3 somewhere, it didn't end up evenly spaced or something? I'll go start it.

[marikamum]

I ripped it out now I can't remember my problem with week #1. I'll start over and get back if I have trouble. Maybe I just had more than 1 glass of wine that night w/ dinner....

I know it wasn't the picots, I'm looking at the pattern and I think it was in rnd 3 somewhere, it didn't end up evenly spaced or something? I'll go start it.

 

One thing I notice that could be confusing is that she writes the pattern in round 1 such that it goes: Beginning combination, pattern combination, repeat pattern combination 10 times - you should end up with the beginning combination plus 11 pattern repeats for a total of 12 ch-1 spaces... if you did a beginning combination and then only repeated the pattern 10 times (which is one interpretation of what is written there, it is a bit ambiguous) - you'd end up with a starting point of 11 spaces which would throw your snowflake off symmetry...

 

(This from me, who finished an entire snowflake before realising it had 7 points!!! OOPS!)

 

Cheers,

Marika

 

PS - I added some notes to the Irish Rose thanks to your feedback - that was the part I debated most about in the pattern anyway... :PM

[kazily]

Are the latest links working for everyone? I can't get half of them to load. I get error msgs.

 

This weeks snowflake link works fine though. I need to get started on that snowflake & get the last few blocked so I can post a pic.

[suzidemars]

OOOOO I bet that's it! It really looks to me like its 11 repeats not 12!

Whew, and thanks for being so fast I have 9 repeats done and was about to stop at 11!

It's so much better when someone ends a round with how many spaces you should have. (Like yours!) You write very well.

I was about to quit the CAL and just work my way thru my new book. I'm so glad I asked my ??'s, now I'm all re-energized!

[suzidemars]

Are the latest links working for everyone? I can't get half of them to load. I get error msgs.

 

This weeks snowflake link works fine though. I need to get started on that snowflake & get the last few blocked so I can post a pic.

 

I haven't tried any others but I'm not able to get to Marika's. She did say she just updated it maybe thats it?

Todays BHG is fine.

[marikamum]

I haven't tried any others but I'm not able to get to Marika's. She did say she just updated it maybe thats it?

Todays BHG is fine.

 

I was updating at around 8 am my time (around 4 pm US EST or 1 pm US West Coast time...), which may have blocked access to my blog...

[marikamum]

OOOOO I bet that's it! It really looks to me like its 11 repeats not 12!

Whew, and thanks for being so fast I have 9 repeats done and was about to stop at 11!

It's so much better when someone ends a round with how many spaces you should have. (Like yours!) You write very well.

I was about to quit the CAL and just work my way thru my new book. I'm so glad I asked my ??'s, now I'm all re-energized!

 

Awww. thanks for those kind words

 

I tried to notice what I liked and did not like about other patterns before writing mine and noticed that a round/row check at the end of the pattern directions saved my bacon more than once, so tried to include it in mine.

 

Thinking back, I may have been tripped up by that in my initial work through of the "mystery pattern", but worked out the need for 12 spaces and then forgot about it in my assessment... it is especially difficult without a diagram or picture to compare to...

 

I'm happy you're re-energized to keep with the CAL patterns... feel free to pick one some week - then you can be the expert

 

Cheers,

Marika

[busy-bee-lmt]

I'm having trouble getting some of the links to work from my list even though I have copied them exactly like where they are first posted some give me error messages from my post and not from the original. I have tried putting in the entire code and that doesn't always make any difference. I'm not sure what, if anything I am doing wrong. I'm very frustrated.

[missmaxx]

It looks like we've got some technical difficulties. I found a typo in one of the links I put up and have corrected it. (Week #5 - sarahann is spelled with an "h" - duh - Sorry!)

I can't get any of the three "blogspot" pages to load. (They all have "blogspot" in the address -Weeks 3, 4, & 7

Does anyone have some internet expertise? Is there somewhere in crochetville we can get help or advice?

[marikamum]

It looks like we've got some technical difficulties. I found a typo in one of the links I put up and have corrected it. (Week #5 - sarahann is spelled with an "h" - duh - Sorry!)

I can't get any of the three "blogspot" pages to load. (They all have "blogspot" in the address -Weeks 3, 4, & 7

Does anyone have some internet expertise? Is there somewhere in crochetville we can get help or advice?

 

HI all,

 

I have gone through and fixed these all up and tested them in preview mode, so they ought to work now. I think what happens sometimes with the copy and paste function is that the addresses that are truncated (like weeks 3,4,7 which have elipses "..." in the middle of them) copy the truncations rather than the original code and therefore try to link to non-existent pages. In addition, there were some typos...

 

If we copy and paste the set of links, we should vet the addresses in preview mode and make sure they work. When I linked to ones that didn't work, usually if I deleted everything but the main address (like http://marikamum.blogspot.com) then I could link to the page, find the snowflake link and copy and paste the fixed address to this post.

 

Good luck all!

 

 

 

Week #1: http://www.angelfire.com/pe/shellangels/Crochet.html

Week #2: http://www.sarahanns.com/crochetworks/snowflakes.html (Snowflake Pattern #3)

Week #3: http://the-crocheted-bookmark.blogspot.com/2006/12/snowflakes.html

Week #4: http://susaninstitches.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-crochet-pattern-southern-snowfake.html

Week #5: http://www.sarahanns.com/crochetworks/snowflakes.html (Snowflake Pattern #4)

Week #6: http://karpstyles.com/crochet/snow.html

Week #7: http://marikamum.blogspot.com/2008/02/irish-rose-snowflake.html

Week #8: http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/1187884233661.xml (Star Snowflake - third one)

 

Cheers,

Marika

[missmaxx]

Thank you Marika! I learned something new.

[kazily]

Thanks Marika, those are working great.

 

Another way would be to quote the post with the links in them. I just checked that & it maintained the original links perfectly. In the quote, the new snowflake link can be added to the bottom of the list.