Granny Spiral. Author PKOlson Introduction Spiraling Granny Square Pattern.
Materials List Yarn - any, appropriate sized hook for chosen yarn. Finished Size Varies based on yarn & hook size chosen. Gauge Notes This motif begins with a four-color spiral. Colors A, B, C, D (each color is used, in turn, on each round) Magic Circle (adjustable) loop. Make a large loop by putting the yarn tail behind the working yarn (the yarn coming from the skein). The Pattern Begin with color A and a Magic Circle (adjustable) loop.
Rnd 1: * [1ch, 1sc, 1hdc, 2dc] in ring, remove hook, joining colors B, C, & D in ring in turn, repeat from *. Rnd 2: Continuing with color A, * [2dc in next sc, 1 dc in next hdc, 2dc in nex dc, 1 dc in next dc], repeat from * with colors B, C & D. Rnd 3: Continuing with color A, * [ch 2, 1 dc in next dc, sk 1dc, 2dc in each next 2 dc, sk 1dc, 1dc], repeat from * with colors B, C, & D. Rnd 4: Continuing with color A, *{in ch2 sp (2dc, ch2, 2dc), [sk 1dc, ch1, 2dc in next End off. Souled Objects. Seeing photographs of Souled Objects creative process makes me giddy with anticipation to see their fully loaded website (COMING SOON!
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Click here for more info. Have questions about the giganto-blanket? Check out the FAQ! Giganto-blanket is finished! It’s squishy and huge and pretty amazing, if I do say so myself. If you read my previous post about giganto-blanket, you may notice that the gauge is much different from how it started. But the broomsticks proved to be just too small for this project. The cats really love it. A friend of mine asked for a video of the knitting process, so I recorded a (low-quality) video of this madness. Like this: Like Loading... Crochet Dragon - Smaug from The Hobbit. I'm pretty excited about the upcoming movie The Hobbit, but it's still a few months away.
So in the meantime, I crocheted my own Smaug. He is known as Smaug The Magnificent, Smaug the Golden, the Dragon of Erebor, and Bilbo also calls him Smaug the Tremendous. Unfortunately, I don't know yet what he will look like in Peter Jackson's movie so I based my crochet Smaug on J.R..R Tolkien's watercolour Conversations with Smaug. While I was crocheting my dragon, I noticed that he started to look too cute, and Smaug the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities is not cute. To make him look more fearsome I added some extreme elements (well extreme as far as crochet goes).