Month: April 2017

A bit of catching up to do…

crochet, knitting, shows, yarn

I’ve been meaning to write a new post for ages now. April marks the anniversary of starting KnackeredPsycho as a proper part of my life, and it’s exceeded my expectations.  I checked Ravelry the other week, and over 650 patterns have been downloaded from my site.  That might not sound much, but it’s exceeded my expectations for something that has sat at the edge of what I do.  It does make me wonder what it might be if I really concentrated on it properly.  To that end, this year is all about testing new waters.  So I am busy getting my show stuff together for next month, and I can start to show you my goodies.

First up, the yarn! All the yarns I have commissioned have a psychology theme.  These beauties are ‘split personality’ by Lollipop Guild Yarns, and they are just stunning…


The next yarns are by Dye Candy – ‘psychosis’ and ‘learned helplessness’.  Hutch has absolutely done me proud with these…

And today I had the pleasure of finally meeting Hutch in the flesh.  I can confirm that: 

  1. She is real, and three-dimensional 
  2. Her dog is a great kisser
  3. She is one of the nicest people ever


And I have the best stitch markers on their way from Yarnistry, example shown at top of post.  I love a glittery brain!  And talking of brains, I also have a rather fabulous friend helping me out by running up some project bags and hook cases in the brain themed fabric I showed you in an earlier post.  

So there is more to come and more to share with you very soon, but thank you all for your support! 

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Sundae Shawl

crochet, patterns, Shawls, yarn

So I can finally show you the first shawl of Shawl Club Season 2 -the Sundae Shawl.

sundae

As you know, I am pretty rubbish at coming up with names for my shawls.  This one is called the Sundae Shawl because it looks like one of those wafers that you stick in your ice cream when you are having a treat.  And it also looks great in ice-cream colours. The yarn I used here is by Fleabubs.

sundae flat

It works really well with bamboo / merino mixes, although any yarn would work well with it.  Plus it is one of those patterns where it will keep on growing if you have the yarn and follow the pattern of the rows, but the examples shown are post blocking and used just 400m of yarn.

sundae swirl

It looks pretty great in grads too.  This one is by Hooking Marvelous and it reminds me of a sunrise or sunset.

sundae sunset

My next shawl will be revealed fairly soon as I did a special one-off pattern for one of the collaboration yarn boxes produced by Unbelievawool, Truly Hooked and Dye Candy.  It uses three different skeins of yarn and is a bit of a departure for me but I am quite pleased with how it has come out!