Needleworkmonday: Guess The WIP

in NeedleWorkMonday4 years ago

Happy Monday fellow needleworkers! Happy Monday everyone! A few days ago, I was able to score a chunk of beautiful yarns from a very nice seller. And because of that, I'm feeling so happy, I decided to share the excitement with you guys. Instead of just sharing my current WIP, I decided on making a contest out of it.

The Yarn

According to the very beautiful and accommodating seller, Roxas Leatherette Base, this yarn is recycled cotton yarn. Although she advised that this could not be used for wearables. (There goes your first clue) It's really colorful and is really easy on the eyes. It is however, not very easy on the hook. Probably because I decided to double-pull the yarn. It's a 5 ply yarn. And doing puff stitch on it is really challenging since it doesn't slip easily into the hook. Oh, by the way, this yarn is only Php25 per cake, each cake weighs 150-200 gms. I bought 10 cakes. Hoarder alert!

The Hook

So far, I have 3 sets of hook. One is the metal hook I bought from Gantsilyo Guru Selections back in 2016. I bought the hooks because I thought of crocheting while I was on my maternity leave. I know. I should have known better. That was my first childbirth and I did not know babies take up all the time. I just assumed they'd sleep all the time and that I'd have the time and energy for crocheting. LOL

The second set is the bamboo hook I bought from Shopee. IT was a Christmas gift for myself, along with 3 cakes of ombre yarns from my favorite seller from Baguio.

The hook I'm using now though is from Lazada. It has an easy grip handle that eased the bump I was starting to have because of prolonged use of the metal hooks. I'm using a 4.00mm hook for this project.

The Stitches

Granny Square

This project is going to be made up of the granny square design. As I go along the project, I couldn't make the pointy edges pointy. I guess I'm going to have to block my finished product.

Double Crochet

The entirety of the project will be utilizing double crochet. If you're a newbie and don't know what a double crochet is, all you need to do is to yarn over, insert the hook into the next stitch, pull through two loops, yarn over and then pull through the remaining two loops.

Puff Stitch

The corners of the square will consist of puff stitches. It'll make a beautiful alignment of diagonal puff stitches when the project is finished. To make a puff stitch, it's like compounding a couple of double crochets into one full stitch.

Yarn over, insert the hook into the chain space. Pull the yarn until they are the same height as the previous stitch. Yarn over again, then insert the hook into the chain space. Yarn over one more time, insert the hook into the same chain space. This time, pull through all the loops in your hook. It's not gonna be easy especially if the yarn doesn't slip through easily.

I remembered a friend asking me if I think crocheting is difficult. I can sense she's curious. Whenever I see a chance to encourage someone to try out a new hobby, I go ahead and do so. I said "It's actually fun." She nodded. "I suppose it's not too difficult. It's just pulling and turning, afterall." In my mind, she's already dead. But then I thought, well I need to forgive her. She know not what she says.

The Challenge

I have already stated the challenges I am going through with the project. Now, it's your turn. I need you to guess the WIP project I'm working on right now. The first three commenters to guess the project correctly will receive 1 SBI shares each. To know more about SBI, head on to this post.

This challenge will run for one week. Don't worry if you did not guess it correctly or if you weren't the first three correct guessers. Everyone that will try to guess in the comments section will share the liquid earnings of this post. Everyone's a winner!

I have disclosed my project to two beautiful ladies for validation purposes. @czera and @neumannsalva. I trust they won't turn against me. lol. Thank you ladies for helping me out. :) They will vouch for me when I finally reveal the final product after 7 days.

Feel free to reblog this post for more visibility. Please do upvote in order to increase the prize pot. And most importantly, I hope you enjoy trying to guess and if you're not yet into crocheting, I hope this challenge piques your interest. :)

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@romeskie I learnt needlework while in school but I am not a professional. I always admire those who make use of this to make bags, purses and so on.
Regards

 4 years ago  

My mom taught me hown to crochet when I was a kid. Never really paid attention until now. Haha

That's a good one. No knowledge is a waste.

Wow! That is a good buy, really cheap yarn. I guess your wip is...ahh...hmm - Throw Pillow

 4 years ago  

Thank you for participating Mommy Jurich. Good guess. But let's wait and see if you got it right. :)

Let me guess a a furniture coaster or basket

 4 years ago  

Salamat sa pag join. :)

I love the colors! I would make that into a shawl.

 4 years ago  

Thanks! Would that be your official guess?:)

Yes, a shawl!

 4 years ago  

Alrighty! Thanks for joining. :)

I guess this is a sling bag. 😄

 4 years ago  

Hmm. Pede. Pere depende. Charot! Haha. Salamat sa pagjoin.

Yarn Bonnet yan. :P

 4 years ago  

Haha. Salamat sa pagjoin.

Flower base maybe?
Nice meeting you here, someone from Visayas.

 4 years ago  

Nics to meet you too. :) salamat sa pagjoin

Let's go with the classic: an afghan. Should be nice and soft :)

 4 years ago  

We'll find out next week. Haha. Thanks for joining. :)

cute i like the color momshie, hook available pala sa Lazada no need pumunta ng Bluebird at National Book Store.

 4 years ago  

Meron pala hook sa NBS. Wla ako nkita dito sa malapit sa min eh.

 4 years ago  

The yarn is amazing!!! I love the color combination and I applaud your self-control that you didn’t t bought it in every available color (you did not or?) And it also nice to learn more about your crafty tools. YOu have different brands but the look is similar to the ones I have in Germany. I prefer metal hooks with a rubber grip (I guess very similar to the one you use). Wood is lovely to look at and I like the touch of it at my skin, but I find it hard to work with. It’s not as smooth as metal.
Your contest is a wonderful idea, we should make more of these!!! <3

 4 years ago  

No, I did not buy it in every color. Lol. So proud of myself. Haha.

The bamboos aren't really that smoth. Can't use in on my indophil yarns. But I heard that if you smoothen it with a nail file, it could be much easier to use. The ones with the rubber handles are my new favorite now.

I thought it would be fun to let everyone join in on my WIP. It would push me to finish the project right away. And it would somehow get people curious about crocheting.

 4 years ago  

Love the yarn colours! 😍 My guess - a bag.

 4 years ago  

Thanks for joining. :)

My response couldn't be even more canned, could it? Haha. I'm too scared my blabber mouth would give me away. Hahahaha