• About
    • Instagram
    • Disclaimers
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Newsletter
    • Subscribers Only
A Simple Homestead

Tunisian

  • crafts

FO Friday – Peacock bag, cards and WIPs

Posted on October 23, 2015May 13, 2021by Carmen
ASimpleHomestead.com - Scoreboard cowl

I’ve been reluctant to show one of my Designers Challenge projects. It’s actually from a couple months ago, and I suppose it’s worth showing my failures as well as my successes. The challenge for July / August was to make a bag in either knit or crochet, using mitered squares and it needed to be […]

Read More
No comments yet
  • crafts

FO Friday – Afghan sampler square #8

Posted on September 27, 2013May 30, 2019by Carmen
Afghan Sampler square #8

Are you sensing a theme lately?  All I’ve been able to accomplish are my afghan squares! Stitch Pattern: Tunisian simple stitch (tss), aka the Afghan stitch. Yarn: Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn Colorway: 240 Linen My Rav project page This square curls like the dickens – it’s a hazard when working in Tunisian crochet.  But […]

Read More
4 Comments
  • crafts

FO Friday – Sapphire Wrap

Posted on August 2, 2013August 1, 2013by Carmen
Sapphire Wrap - almost finished

Whew!  I finished this just under the wire.  It was due by midnight on August 1.  You know, when I had to start over I seriously thought about dropping out of the CAL (crochet-a-long), but knew realistically that if I didn’t make it now, I probably wouldn’t ever get to it.  Paying for a pattern […]

Read More
No comments yet
  • crafts

FO Friday – shorts

Posted on July 19, 2013July 18, 2013by Carmen
chambray denim shorts

These shorts were the only thing I completed all week. I spent several hours working on them last weekend … and now I’m disgusted. I’m not going to point you to the pattern because I think it was rather awful. It was a free one off the internet. I printed it making sure my PDF […]

Read More
No comments yet
  • crafts

FO Friday – Snowflake ornament

Posted on July 12, 2013March 26, 2020by Carmen
knit snowflake ornament

Whew! I can finally count this one as finished.  I took a class at yarnology … oh, let’s see, I guess it was last October. One little item only took me 8 months to finish. It was “done” months ago, but the directions suggested gently steaming the ornament before stuffing to relax the stitches. That’s […]

Read More
No comments yet
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • twitter
  • Pinterest
Check out my Knit and Crochet Designs on Ravelry and Love Knitting

Subscribe to updates through the Newsletter

Search the archives:

A graduate of Schultz Photo School.
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • twitter
  • Pinterest
© Copyright 2022 A Simple Homestead. All rights reserved. Theme by Colorlib Powered by WordPress