The Crochet Pixie: Maybe A Little Too Excited! eeeek!

HIYA :)

Ooooo look what I found! Whilst looking around some crafty blogs, I came across this fantastic competition held by Stocki

Basically everybody submits some little crochet squares by the 31st of January and they all get made in to one massive blanket, for each square you send you get one entry in to the prize draw to win the whole blanket! There are a few rules but basically your squares can be of any pattern/colour or stitch, they have to be 100% cotton and can be any size between 5cm x 5cm and 20cm x 20cm.

As you know I've not been crocheting for very long and have never heard of any such competition! its all very exciting and new to me but I thought I would give it a whirl :)

I have also given myself a challenge...... I have to make my squares using patterns and techniques I have not used before, first up.......

Flower Squares following this little pattern

Circles In To Squares, following Alice's Grandala Square Tutorial I made up this little gem :)

Although I have made Alice's Lotus Mandala Prayer Flags before (blog post coming soon) Which is similar, I have never turned a circle in to a square!

Lace-work & Hexagons, This one took me all day......

The Impossible Hexagon Pattern can be found here I'm so very proud of this one I missed out a round so as it was within the size limit but it still all worked out great :)

The Bobble Stitch, A lovely green square made with single crochet and bobble stitches, I gave myself a bit of a crochet blister on this one, It worked out well in the end but the tight stitches and splitty cotton made it a lot harder than it looks, phew at least I can say I can do a bobble stitch now though :)

The pattern is a free Ravelry download :)

So these are my entries for the Beautiful Blogger Blanket 2012. I used Puppets Lyric 100% cotton with a 4mm hook, The have had to whack the contrast up a little on the photo's so these are not true representations of the colours used, they are a little softer in real life, I am using these colours for another project so when that is ready I'll try and post some photo's in a more natural light :)