Road Trip Rug #4

As you know I like to crochet in the car on 

our road trips as it's too bumpy to stitch.

Road trip rug #4 finished.

Onto road trip rug #5!

 When we were in Cairns, I bought some more wool

 as I knew I would finish the stripey rug along the way.

I did extra crocheting when we were 

relaxing as I had finished the

stitcheries I had taken to work on.

2024 Chookshed Challenge - July and August

  

As you can see, I am a couple of months behind with my 

challenge reports due to our road trip to the Kimberley.

Project # 1 was the July project.

 I changed my project #1 to work on my road trip rugs. 

I originally had making some tea towel aprons on my list 

but that wasn't going to work while I was away.

I am lucky that I can crochet in the car and driving over 

10,000kms gave me a lot of time to work on my rugs.

Although it looks black, it is actually navy.

I was hoping to finish my navy blue and white rug 

but I was one ball of navy wool short.

I had also taken wool to start another rug on the trip. 

A much prettier one this time.

I made a rectangle granny instead of square.

This is more true to the colours.

My project #3 was to work on my much 

neglected Tilda hexagon quilt.

We arrived home from our trip 2 days before 

I was to head off to NOTYQ retreat. 

Just enough time to unpack, 

do the washing and repack for retreat!

When I got back to Victoria I was able to get to Spotlight 

to buy some more wool to finish the navy rug. 

I had also decided to make the rainbow rug a bit bigger 

and needed to get another ball of that as well.

So both rugs were finished at retreat, 

along with stitching more hexagons together.

2023 WA Road Trip Rug

 

On our recent road trip over to Western Australia, 

I found that the roads were just too bumpy

 to stitch in the car. So when we got to Port Lincoln, 

I bought myself some wool and a crochet hook. 

It had been nearly 40 years since I did any crochet. 

I still remembered how to crochet which was amazing. 

I checked out a couple of YouTube videos to refresh 

my memory on how many chain I needed to commence

my granny square and also how to join the squares together. 

I also looked up how to do a scalloped edge. It was so easy.

The colour doesn't really show up very well here. 

You can see I made it a bit like a quilt 

with squares, sashing and borders!

This is the baby rug I made back in 1984. 

When I pulled it out I was surprised to see that 

I had done a scalloped edge on it!

I really enjoyed making my rug.  Pretty sure it's not 

going to be another 40 years before I make another one!

Granny Squares!

About thirty years ago, I made this little Granny Square blanket and put it in my Glory Box.

I eventually got to use it when I had the boys.

You didn't know I could crochet, did you!

Thirty years later, I have made some more Granny Squares! 

I've just got to piece the backing and 

then it's off to be quilted.