tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29807791580171020172024-03-05T18:07:24.506-08:00A Scrumble a WeekPrudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-13064017197107433582018-01-08T15:11:00.001-08:002018-01-08T15:14:16.070-08:00not my usual colours!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some freeform flowers for this week...not colours I usually work with, but I like them ;-)</span><br />
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Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-15440045129676554452018-01-01T14:34:00.004-08:002018-01-06T14:44:28.248-08:00hope you all have a good one!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-31502245753284722842017-11-07T11:26:00.001-08:002017-11-07T11:26:24.102-08:00whoops...I missed Monday!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a 'thingy' for this week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like to use slip stitches as a kind of exoskeleton for firming up small, random, sculptural crochet pieces like this one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of these days I plan on doing a whole series of them, but for the moment.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-31154862971187585172017-10-29T13:23:00.001-07:002017-10-29T13:23:22.046-07:00Monday again already....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seems that it's Monday again already...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and so here, as promised, is a scrumble for this week. It's rather an old one, I'm afraid (from 2003), but still nice and vibrant, don't you think? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The yarns used for crocheting the 'flowers' were loopy/boucle mohair blends, and they had been hand dyed...plus there's some Noro yarn used in the background, and also for knitting the leafy shape shown below in the photo of the larger piece:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span> </span>Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-4912775092362693202017-10-22T16:14:00.002-07:002017-10-23T00:42:10.691-07:00not exactly a scrumble...<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My photo today is not exactly a 'normal' scrumble, but it is freeform crochet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started by using a fairly thick synthetic (nylon?) m</span><span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">acramé cord to create the central spiral, then extended it by adding other stitches using fine mercerised cottons and glittery threads. </span></span><br />
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<span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The </span></span><span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">m</span><span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">acramé cord was also used to</span></span> needle-wrap some of the bars that hold the central crocheted piece in place, and also for finger wrapping around the recycled embroidery hoop into which the crochet has been suspended. </span></span><br />
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<span class="_Tgc"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To complete the piece I added 3 lengths of i-cord...and some large crystal pendants (only one of which is obvious in the photo, but there are others at the end of each the 'dangles').</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This piece was created last year, for an exhibit titled 'Dare to Dream'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me know if you ever decide to make your own freeform dreamcatcher. Would love to see photos! :-) </span><br />
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Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-76564680204563526732017-10-21T17:39:00.003-07:002017-10-21T20:03:57.732-07:00today's scrumble is ruffled<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, taking a quick break from what I am currently working on, so here is a photo of another one :-)</span><br />
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Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-55799631378909367882017-10-20T14:31:00.002-07:002017-10-20T15:56:23.157-07:00a creamy scrumble<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wool...mohair...silk...cotton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This freeform piece was worked using odds and ends of many different creamy-coloured yarns that I had in my stash, plus a little bit of brown, grey and yellow mixed in for contrast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is mostly crochet, but also includes a couple of areas in knitted linen stitch. These sections were worked using 3 colours, alternating 1 colour per row. I like the little spots of colour and the textured effect that linen stitch gives when it is worked this way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the bullions, I chose a lovely single-ply pure silk yarn that has plenty of body ('spaghetti' from The Loom in Bangkok). It was originally created as a weaving yarn, but it crochets and knits up fabulously too.</span>Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-50058159423023237842017-10-16T13:59:00.001-07:002017-10-20T15:54:53.878-07:00a crochet spiral that grew into a necklace<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is another one from a couple of years ago</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...made by me, for me</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...I have worn it quite a lot</span><br />
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Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-90088303378260880192017-10-15T13:03:00.002-07:002017-10-20T15:50:35.839-07:00still scrumbling :-)<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been absolutely ages since I posted anything on this blog, so I figured it was probably about time to add another scrumble or two ;-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a closeup of a section of one (with lots of crochet bullions and a little bit of embroidery) that I did last year (or maybe it was the year before!). If anyone is still reading here, let me know, and I will aim to post a few more photos periodically. I can't promise it will actually be weekly, but for the moment I'll aim for a new addition on Monday mornings, and I'll see how I go.</span><br />
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Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-60876082614534190362015-01-31T12:28:00.001-08:002015-01-31T12:28:33.679-08:00New blog for collaborative artworkJust popping in to let you know about an artwork that I am coordinating at the moment, with the theme of '50 years of Flower Power'.<br />
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You can read all about it on my other new blog at http://50yearsofflowerpower.blogspot.com.au<br />
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Perhaps you might like to make psychedelic scrumble and send it off too, to become part of the large wall piece that will soon be assembled and exhibited. <br />
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The first contribution has just been received, and I know of very many more that are already in the mail, or are almost completed, or are currently in the pipeline. I have a feeling that the completed wall piece is going to be huge!<br />
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The deadline for mailing is just over a month away, so if you want to join in now is the time to start creating.<br />
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I will be adding photos to the new blog as each piece is received; it will be way more active than this one for a while, so I hope you will enjoy checking in there occasionally too. <br />
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...but just to keep things a bit interesting here as well, I present you with a photo of a nice bright cotton scrumble that I created recently........<br />
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-83136610319250154332014-11-22T16:28:00.003-08:002014-11-22T17:11:07.341-08:004 swap scrumblesA little while back I was involved in a 'scrumble swap' on Ravelry.<br />
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Here are the 4 that I made and sent, each in the recipient's choice of colours.<br />
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Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-32554757179713842272014-11-09T13:43:00.001-08:002014-11-09T13:43:16.440-08:00spiral pendanti enjoy creating small jewellery pieces; since most of my projects take months to complete, sometimes i really like to make something that can be finished at a single sitting ;-)<br />
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-5288145834052135212014-09-20T12:24:00.002-07:002014-09-20T13:00:20.883-07:00old scrumbles - revampedA couple of weeks ago I discovered 2 scrumbles that had been hiding in a box of yarns. They were originally made as workshop samples, years ago.<br />
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I joined them up and revamped them a bit, and figured they were now worthy of a blog post ;-)<br />
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-46248283199886964372014-07-30T18:47:00.001-07:002014-07-30T22:50:25.662-07:00a new, non-weekly scrumble ;-)i thought i would share a few photos of the piece that i made for the latest challenge by the International Freeform Fiberarts Guild.<br />
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the theme for the challenge this year was 'one colour', and as you can see, my chosen colour was green. i would have loved to have had time to create an entire garment, but for the moment my piece remains just a scrumble, but you never know, it might grow into something else one day. a photo of the entire piece, plus a couple of detail shots, are below. <br />
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54 freeformers from around the world took up the challenge this time, and as in previous years, a book containing all of the challenge pieces has been put together, and it has just gone on sale. every year we donate the profit from the sale of the book to a different charity.<br />
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Cyra Lewis has done a fantastic job of putting the collection together, and you can see a preview of the book at<br />
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if you are looking for inspiration for your freeform creations take a look through all the preview pages there, but if you like what you see you might also think about buying yourself a hard copy, to help with the fund raising.<br />
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enjoy!<br />
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-67995074353005432402014-06-13T15:26:00.003-07:002014-06-13T15:27:54.255-07:00#52...the last one?<br />
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Here, at last, is scrumble #52...a rather seaweed-ish one, even if it is rather blue.<br />
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I know that I didn't manage to make them very 'weekly', but had I done so, this would have brought us up to the end of the year.<br />
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So now a question...do you want me to intermittently keep them going? or have you had enough ;-)<br />
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-61790776275053164562014-05-11T13:14:00.003-07:002014-05-11T13:16:38.916-07:00finally...Scrumble # 51Well, I guess you may have noticed that I didn't actually get the last 2 'far-from-weekly' scrumbles done nearly as quickly as I had hoped.<br />
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I see that I promised them nearly a year ago. Ooops! ...sorry about that...where does the time get to?<br />
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I did finally finish both a couple of weeks ago, and took photos while I was travelling down south, but am only now getting around to posting the first of the pictures.<br />
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Not much of a blogger, am I?<br />
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Anyway, here is the first, and a bit about how it was done: <br />
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All crochet. Mostly wool, or wool blend yarns; some smooth, some <span class="st">bouclé.<i> </i></span><br />
Vaguely circular in construction, but changing the height of the stitches in each 'round' created lots of peaks and troughs around the edges.<br />
Most of the stitches were worked into the back loops only of the stitches in the previous rounds, so that the front loops could be used later for a bit of surface embellishment. A few ruffles were added at the centre; some raised crab stitch (reverse single crochet) helped to add definition around the outside.<br />
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Many thanks to everyone who is still hanging in there and following this rather quiet blog.<br />
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Don't want to spoil you, though, so I won't add the other photo for a day or two ;-)Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-60710300741965576802013-05-14T13:35:00.001-07:002013-05-14T13:35:43.906-07:00Week # 50 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At last, here is another new scrumble for the blog.<br />
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A bit of random lacy knitting with lots of roundish and oval crochet shapes. <br />
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This time I just used some leftover bits and pieces that I unearthed the other day. They had all been put away together in a bag, but they certainly hadn't been from a single project originally. Mostly there was just a metre or two of any particular yarn. Nearly all appeared to be either wool or a wool blend. <br />
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The colours were all rather bright, and I decided that I would just go with the combination of scraps that was already in the bag, using them all up and trying to arrange them in a reasonably pleasing way without leaving any out or resorting to adding any extras.<br />
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To give a bit of extra dimension to the piece, crab stitch was added to the edges of many of the curved crochet sections. Sometimes this was done before the smaller pieces were joined on to the scrumble, but sometimes after.<br />
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My original intention when I started this blog had been to do a year's worth of scrumbles, adding a new one every week! Obviously I didn't quite keep things on track that way...but since I am now finally up to #50, I plan to get the next 2 done fairly soon. That will at least give me all 52 'weeks', even if it has taken me quite a few years to finally get there ;-)Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-77243698415847636732013-01-10T14:49:00.000-08:002013-01-10T14:49:17.572-08:00Scrumble # 49First off, a very happy and creative 2013 to everyone reading here. I have to say I am rather proud of myself for getting around to posting a scrumble so early in the year. Hope you like it. <br />
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As you can probably see, this one is all crochet. Lots of different yellow-toned yarns in cottons, wools, silks, rayons and a weird synthetic blend. This last yarn would have been just awful if used in an entire garment. It had absolutely no stretch, and went from being a really thin thread to having thick, oddly fuzzy and almost matted sections. It was just great for freeforming!<br />
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I started the piece by wrapping a sunny yellow rayon yarn around the tip of my finger a couple of times to create a ring-like shape, then slipped it off my finger and worked over this 'padding' to create the initial motif. Once this circle had been filled with a round of short stitches (UK:dc/US:sc) I continued on, creating more loops, filling them as I went. The first few were made with the same yarn, but then I changed yarns periodically, using up other yellow bits and pieces from my stash. <br />
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For each new loop I made 5 or 6 chain, then, after missing a stitch or three, I added a couple of slip stitches to attach the end of the chain firmly back onto the work. Then I turned the piece to the other side, and filled the gap with as many short stitches as it took to completely cover the chain. <br />
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There are also a couple of small crochet domes, and a few bullion clusters. Sometimes I worked into the tops of previously made stitches, but sometimes behind other stitches, to create little ridges on the surface. <br />
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When the piece measured about 6 inches across, I was sort of feeling that the scrumble was finished, and I went looking for the camera...and that was when I spotted a packet of printed wooden beads and the small ball of the funny synthetic yarn mentioned above. Both said 'add me, add me', so I did. The beads were strung onto the yarn, and I randomly pulled them up and crocheted them in place as I added a small and then a larger triangular shape on opposite sides of the piece, which elongated the original roundish scrumble into the more oval shape that you see above.<br />
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<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-81080836455703035412012-12-27T16:07:00.001-08:002012-12-27T16:11:31.478-08:00#48Figured that I'd better get another scrumble posted to the blog pretty soon, seeing that it is almost the end of the year already. Where does the time get to? <br />
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I suddenly realized that the last one was posted here back in March, so my resolution to post photos reasonably often throughout the year didn't quite work! Perhaps I will manage to update on a more regular basis in 2013...you never know ;-)<br />
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Apparently I am still in red-and-orange-mode, by the look of it; this
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This piece was actually the trial scrumble that I recently made when I was trying to decide on which yarns to use in a new freeform vest I am currently creating. Most of the threads that I have used here are going into the actual garment...but not the one that was used for the slightly lighter, soft and bubbly section just under the bullion stitches towards the top right. That yarn turned out to be a bit too soft, and it felt as though it might be likely to snag, and also the colour looked lighter and had a much more pinkish tone when viewed in daylight (although at night it definitely seemed to go well enough with all of the other oranges)...but I wasn't intending to keep the vest for evening wear only, so unfortunately that particular yarn will just have to bide its time in the stash for a little longer.<br />
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Most of the yarns used are 100% cotton, and some are handpainted, but I have also included a little bit of angora in a fabulously bright mix of oranges with hot pink undertones, plus an interesting synthetic, tape-like one that I bought in San Francisco about 10 years ago (that's the dark bit on the left) and another bright orange rayon mixture that I found in the marketplace at the CGOA conference in Reno a few months ago.<br />
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This scrumble is nearly all crochet, but I am adding a bit more knitting to most of the others that I am creating for the vest. Doing that, along with keeping things fairly 'open' by using lots of lacy crochet stitches, will help keep the weight down a bit, and make it more suitable for our summertime in our sub-tropical climate. It will be one I know I will wear a lot, but it is also being done to help illustrate another book, which I hope to get done in the not too distant future.<br />
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Once again my new year's resolution will be to update the blog a little bit more often. I hope that everyone reading here has managed to fit some creative fibrearts into their lives this year, and fingers crossed that we will all have time for even more in 2013.<br />
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and as a PS, and because I guess it's OK for me to do bit of self-advertising here...since I have almost run out of reprints of 2 of my books, and because I have decided that I won't be printing hard copies of either of them again, then I'm going to add that we have just made 'Freeform: serendipitous design techniques for knitting & crochet' and 'never too many Handbags' available as e-books...both can now be purchased in PDF form through http://www.knotjustknitting.com/freeform-tutorials ;-)<br />
<br />Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-53709302449823666402012-03-04T17:23:00.004-08:002012-12-27T16:09:38.164-08:00Scrumble #47<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HBdrCjGZAH0VhD4lC2zV7vQWpgQTO8oWSRwHHr3n1FMPPuSQmra94ispSESXeG4wWuHx_Ur4bDQKJwCuMkeG7wpmT1drKBWtPD3703xp8Ngwt70I814tWRRrHLXoLuy1wYcNtxa9x3k/s1600/%252347web.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716218216064356098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HBdrCjGZAH0VhD4lC2zV7vQWpgQTO8oWSRwHHr3n1FMPPuSQmra94ispSESXeG4wWuHx_Ur4bDQKJwCuMkeG7wpmT1drKBWtPD3703xp8Ngwt70I814tWRRrHLXoLuy1wYcNtxa9x3k/s320/%252347web.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 293px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
here is a scrumble for March<br />
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...so much for my original idea of weekly scrumbles!<br />
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Maybe I will get another done before April, but at least I am aiming for a minimum of one a month this year...and since this is the 5th for 2012, I have already done way better than last year ;-)<br />
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I always seem to have a problem photographing oranges and reds, so in the picture the centre of the scrumble has lost a little bit of definition. The piece started with a small knitted section behind the ruffle (just above and right of centre), and then I crocheted on the raggy-looking orange bit (Indian recycled silk). Much richer in real life than in the photo.<br />
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I then continued outwards with little areas of both knitting and crochet, working multi-coloured stripes for most of the knitting and back post stitches and slip stitches for a lot of the crochet, with the aim of avoiding too much of a stripey effect. The tw0 little crochet flowers were made separately and attached onto the surface.<br />
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Lots of stash yarns, both new and very old, were used in the making of this scrumble; they include wool, silk, cotton, rayon and a few blends, plus a bit of man-made stuff for added sparkle (which probably doesn't show up much in the little thumbnail, but should be apparent if you click for the larger photo)Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-53343823282867056722012-02-05T23:27:00.000-08:002012-02-06T00:06:04.972-08:00Scrumble #46<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bKNqDtSmhys/Ty-BatN5EQI/AAAAAAAABDw/aIMdbZuXCvg/s1600/%252346web.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bKNqDtSmhys/Ty-BatN5EQI/AAAAAAAABDw/aIMdbZuXCvg/s320/%252346web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705921548716151042" border="0" /></a><br />My latest scrumble has been made from quite a variety of different yarns, nearly all of which were man-made!...but there is a little wool, mohair and a soy/wool mix in there as well, to add a bit of stability between the synthetic fibres.<br /><br />This one has plenty sparkle and soft texture in purples, pinks and greens....worked mostly as crochet circles (or part circles), plus a few sections of knitting, some done in stripes. <br /><br />I crocheted from the wrong side and around the posts of the stitches when working the outside rounds of the double circles. This was because I wanted the centre rounds to stand out on the surface.<br /><br />A lot of the crocheting was intentionally done from the wrong side of the patch, so that the fluffy and textured yarns could 'bloom' naturally towards the front of the piece.<br /><br />As usual, the entire scrumble was made without any sewing. Each area was either worked directly onto an edge, or (in the case of the full circles and the spiral), were slip-stitched into place once the motif was finished (using a crochet hook and working the slip stitches from the wrong side). A few areas that were looking a little plain or flat were further embellished with crochet slip stitches on the surface, to complete the piece.<br /><br />I just noticed that the number of followers here had passed the 500 mark - hope you are all getting the chance to experiment too, and having fun with your crochet and knitting!! Let me know what you have been up to ;-)Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-83756277170780923462012-01-22T17:56:00.000-08:002012-01-22T18:44:52.568-08:00Scrumble #45<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXvf3QcMAFamPVkEnSPqYRm4JgxGqPNtthg5E8LGXosQ6GsknbGcLq9l-henD9gf_FR5ZaV5QIWTLflr6RrtO9yn8CipfykHgr_T6s1qjGiPrQejKJIeK-YIhpH8krmXjhdA_GtIT07w/s1600/%252345web.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXvf3QcMAFamPVkEnSPqYRm4JgxGqPNtthg5E8LGXosQ6GsknbGcLq9l-henD9gf_FR5ZaV5QIWTLflr6RrtO9yn8CipfykHgr_T6s1qjGiPrQejKJIeK-YIhpH8krmXjhdA_GtIT07w/s320/%252345web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700644140895075490" border="0" /></a><br />Here is my latest scrumble, finished last night. <br /><br />It started with the strip of crochet bullions in the centre, which I had just unearthed at the bottom of a suitcase I was repacking. I didn't have any other grey yarn on hand, so decided to create a purple scrumble around them....but in the light of day I'm not altogether sure if that was a particularly good idea!<br /><br />This morning the grey doesn't tone with the purple nearly as well as it did in the night light...so I may need to add a few other grey bits to the surface sometime, when I come across some more yarn in that tone.<br /><br />The bullions had originally been worked in a straight line, using a smooth cotton yarn. To give them a better 'flow' I intentionally skipped stitches in some places, and added extras in other spots, as I worked the other yarns along the sides. There are a few knitted sections done moss (seed) stitch using a bamboo yarn, but the rest is all crochet, mainly in wools and mohairs, plus a few little areas in silk and angora. To add dimension to the piece some of the crochet stitches were worked 'around the post', and slip stitches were occasionally worked on the surface, too, for the same reason.<br /><br />The scrumble was made in one piece, by picking up and joining on the stitches each time a new yarn was added (i.e. no sewing was involved). To give it a 'completed' look I finished off with a couple of rounds of short crochet stitches, being careful to increase or decrease wherever it was needed so that the piece remained flat. <br /><br />As I think I may have mentioned on the blog before, bordering a piece like this is something that I rarely do for scrumbles that are going to become part of a garment, but I don't mind doing it to 'frame' a smaller artwork. <br /><br />This is because putting a 'fence' around a lot of different fibres is often asking for trouble further down the track...even if the stitch count appears to be perfect when the piece is newly completed, if it contains a lot of different yarns you could find that some are likely to relax and expand a bit whilst others might shrink and contract slightly (even just in normal wear, let alone when being laundered), and this could cause the fabric of the garment to distort and go out of shape.Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-66659613645452046102012-01-14T11:32:00.001-08:002012-01-14T12:25:02.256-08:00Scrumble # 44<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCq2g2Q7MDFG9XrePS49cJEmSVgmqCQFbBhCL60jZ7zJOYiGbZDI9AeDxkXhqgaRtv_-2GwS0VGclxkhkk_kLZWFFndfdQIoD1VlL_qJqJFp-bknzpaE6bY3ZkGknuCgU1nqYZpLDqIk/s1600/%252344web.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCq2g2Q7MDFG9XrePS49cJEmSVgmqCQFbBhCL60jZ7zJOYiGbZDI9AeDxkXhqgaRtv_-2GwS0VGclxkhkk_kLZWFFndfdQIoD1VlL_qJqJFp-bknzpaE6bY3ZkGknuCgU1nqYZpLDqIk/s320/%252344web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697572944619590754" border="0" /></a> This scrumble is perhaps not quite as unusual as the last one, but still it was interesting to make.<br /><br />I used lots of leftovers in pinks, oranges and greens, and most of these bits were totally used up in the process, as I only had a tiny amount of each of the yarns when I started it. <br /><br />In real life, even though I have used both orange and pink yarns, the colours tone in much better than they appear to do in the photograph. For some reason the orange area on the right appears to have more yellow in the picture, and therefore looks more harsh than it actually is!<br /><br />There are some natural fibres (wool, mohair, cotton and mulberry silk), some recycled Indian yarns (these were rayon, not silk), plus some synthetic chenille, a glittery eyelash and 2 types of man-made ribbon.<br /><br />Some of the yarns were fairly new, but others had probably been in my stash for at least 20 years; a couple were the leftover bits from yarns I had received in an online group exchange a few years back.<br /><br />There are 4 small areas of knitting, and the rest is crocheted. Even though both of the mohairs were bouclés, the chenille was softly textured, the eyelash and recycled silks were 'fringy', the wools were either slubby or hand dyed, and I used the smoother mercerised cottons for fancy bullions stitches, the scrumble seemed to still be lacking something until I added a few areas of surface crochet at the end, to give it a little more life.<br /><br />As usual, I welcome your comments.<span class="st"><em></em></span>Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-72861036937514314582012-01-05T05:31:00.000-08:002012-01-05T06:06:05.230-08:00Scrumble # 43<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQ-ubNhIjXB7Naiei6Ddy-XbmsGSDEUgo-ZkasqjoSZZvuDZhuw42X1TBOzhr8pPvPI8AHL-4ZZIxPaftg-yMuy5FgjjrL8RajVweROc18RWsoUH3Dlm-k5st_2sYwT8yLN6faR7YfKs/s1600/%252343web.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQ-ubNhIjXB7Naiei6Ddy-XbmsGSDEUgo-ZkasqjoSZZvuDZhuw42X1TBOzhr8pPvPI8AHL-4ZZIxPaftg-yMuy5FgjjrL8RajVweROc18RWsoUH3Dlm-k5st_2sYwT8yLN6faR7YfKs/s320/%252343web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694140361945736610" border="0" /></a><br />This scrumble was really interesting to make, and quite a departure from any of the previous pieces I have done for the blog.<br /><br />I started by using a variegated yarn and crocheting the small central circular motif. Then I worked another circle around it, using the same yarn, doubling the number of stitches and making the second round of stitches into the back loops only of the previous round.<br /><br />After I finished off the crochet I then knitted the area with the pink radiating bars of garter stitch. Working short rows in each of the brown/gold sections of stocking stitch, I shaped this knitted piece so that it would fit neatly around the crochet circle.<br /><br />I intentionally cast the knitting off before it was long enough to totally surrounded the centre, and then I stitched it in place. The sewing was done into the back loops only of the crochet stitches, so that each of the circles now had a round front loops visible on the surface, and into these raised stitches I next worked the two rounds of crochet crab stitch.<br /><br />Using a bulky multi-colour yarn I then knitted the 'tail' area, increasing and decreasing occasionally at the beginning or end of some of the rows, to shape it organically. Once it was finished off it was stitched into the gap between the beginning and end of the round section of knitting, and a row of crab stitch was worked onto the surface, lengthways down its centre.<br /><br />Three little crochet domes attached to the edge, and a round of crab stitch right around the knitting, completed the piece.<br /><br />All of the yarns used were either wool or blends with a high wool content, and were worked at a fairly tight tension, so the finished piece is quite firm and stable, and holds it shape surprisingly well.Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980779158017102017.post-22590907043368523042011-12-26T22:56:00.000-08:002011-12-26T23:27:14.678-08:00Scrumble #42 - it's been a long time coming!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqL3xH5eoLb161EedjG2RD9qdxw0kX_5tyOlKtl_R3hh7XASfKGcEVJyEw1HVjmoU0CWgv8pXA7jUA02jQPre4hTQek626vGGEN-Dhiqmdd3fz1TOhULpYMf-H8hSGvawZGUp84DsVr6Y/s1600/scrumble%252342.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqL3xH5eoLb161EedjG2RD9qdxw0kX_5tyOlKtl_R3hh7XASfKGcEVJyEw1HVjmoU0CWgv8pXA7jUA02jQPre4hTQek626vGGEN-Dhiqmdd3fz1TOhULpYMf-H8hSGvawZGUp84DsVr6Y/s320/scrumble%252342.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690699511622952450" border="0" /></a><br />Where did the year get to? <br /><br />Last night I decided that it was definitely about time I added another scrumble to my blog...but on looking I discovered that I have only posted here once all year! <br /><br />So much for the initial idea of blogging about a scrumble weekly!!<br /><br />Oh well, at least I am back again with a new creation...and sincere hopes that I will get a few more done over the next few weeks (and hopefully months).<br /><br />This scrumble started with a few tiny bits and pieces that had been kicking around in a bag in the cupboard, literally for years. There were five small sections, each with one or more areas of knitting, each with a couple of segments of crochet added directly onto their sides. I imagine that they had been samples that I had made during a workshop or display long ago, as I was demonstrating a few basic stitches to class participants or exhibition onlookers - but for the life of me I honestly can't remember exactly where or when...<br /><br />Because they weren't necessarily the sorts of colours that I would have chosen to combine, I decided to draw the whole thing together using some oddments of black and blackish yarns. I didn't want the dark colours to totally outline or overpower the other colours, so I used short sections of random chain stitches to connect the pieces. <br /><br />Once the pieces had been joined, a bit more crochet (including a few bullion scallops made with a variegated single-ply green yarn) helped to complete the design.<br /><br />Hopefully you'll see me back with another new scrumble very soon...I'd cross my fingers, but it's rather hard to crochet or knit with them twisted up like that ;- )Prudence Mapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758547314737293440noreply@blogger.com9