As We Go Stripey Blanket

I finished my latest afghan. It took me the better part of a year. It was something I could pick up and put down frequently between assignments and studying.
The pattern is here. The pattern is fantastic, easy to follow with a lot of pictures to demonstrate stitches.
The only problem I had doing the afghan was the edges where VERY uneven, it was my own fault; for a while I was doing a stitch in the same spot as the turning chain, something I had to learn the hard way you should not do.
The colours I used where very random as not long after starting the blanket I inherited more yarn than I had ever thought possible.

I had a lot of shades of pink, blue and green and a few techni coloured yarns.

I aimed for the blanket to be really big, but did not think it would be bigger than a double mattress.

The reason it was on the mattress was due to the edges being insanely uneven I had to block put the blanket and ask my sister to help me stretch it out.

I simply googled ways to block a blanket and the best method I could find was pinning the sides out on a mattress. 

You would start by pinning the largest parts out first and then stretching the rest of the blanket to meet that long part, then spraying the blanket with water (I used an iron to spray it) then leaving tit o dry,

As you can see the edges are still a bit wobbly but definitely not as bad as what they were. Plus I don't mind the wobbly edging, I think it looks good with the picots.
It's funny because my boyfriend's dad said the blanket would be finished by the time winter was over and its January 1st, in the middle of summer.... he was not wrong.

first post!

My first completed crochet project is probably the best one I have going and most loved. It all started one night when I was browsing pinterest i found a pattern for a boob cushion. Yep a cushion that has crocheted boobies on them the pattern is here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040404050507/http:/home.inreach.com/marthac/crochet6.html

Tbh the pattern is absolutely shocking and the last time that webpage was updated was like 2001. (Whoever did this the pattern really needs to work on it.) 

In creating the boobs and in particular the nipples its like they just threw the most vaguest of instructions without any pictures or anything and saying best of luck:) so in the end the nipples are two different sizes (the boyfriend says it is more life-like) 

I must admit they do look pretty good. But because the instructions are so vague it was easy to warp the cushion by overstuffing it and not attaching the boobs to the cushions properly. 

The boyfriend absolutely loves them. 

Hi

I've started this blog as a way to showcase all my crafty little projects that I've become more interested in than studying lol.
My name is Ruby, I'm 19 and from Newcastle Australia. I'm at uni doing a law/arts degree. Sometimes memorizing cases from 1837 and differentiating the modes of lawyering becomes just a tad dull.
Initially, I started my craft journey when I was 16 and asked for a sewing machine for Christmas. I;ve never been terribly good at sewing and kind of neglected the machine. I then started to embroid, mostly t -shirts. I begun to crochet maybe 2 years ago and have really enjoyed it. I'd like to start quilting and knitting in the future.