Pretty Flubs

I wanted to make myself some fingerless gloves. My friend purchased them from Kohl's but I thought  I should go ahead and try and make them myself. I found a very easy pattern on youtube and gave it a go. 

I personally have always had a problem with decreasing rows. No idea why but there it is. The first glove I made was on the left and it took me forever because I was always double checking my rows. I figured out what I was doing. I was not crocheting the last stitch into the end. That's how it was for me and that solved the problem. 

The easy pattern from Yarn Obsession can be found at this link.

I was not pleased with the thumb hole instructions. The original pattern said to take new yarn and start from there. I decided to go around the hole, almost like you would a hat. Now, on the left side I did two rows and later decided to do a row of black yarn to finish it off as I did the top. 

Slacker Crocheter decided or rather ignored this fact and crochet more rows on the thumb for a total of five rows on the thumb. You can see the difference on the right side. Normal people would fix it. I won't. These are for me so I don't care. Also I seem to have some tendonitis pain in my left thumb area so I will use the longer one for the left side. It's still cute enough to wear out. Very pleased with the results.

I used Caron Simply Soft yarn worsted weight and a size I/ UK 5/ Metric 5.5 hook.

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You can find the pattern at this link. It is Lion
Brand Yarn Pattern # 80934AD

Years ago when I was first beginning to crochet, I decided to make a sweater for my dog. We live in Chicago and it's cold for everyone, right? So I got this ugly yarn and tried the pattern. I had a hard time with this pattern because I have trouble reading them, especially when I was just starting out. I put it away because I could not figure out how to do the bottom part. My brain was not seeing it and I could find no videos to help me.

In January I decided to take a look at it again and laughed at younger me. It calls for chunky yarn and I used a worsted weight. And I didn't measure very well. I now knew enough about patterns to finish the bottom and piece it together.

So the bottom was not as tricky as I thought.

The one good thing that I did early on was to make a little hole for the leash. We walk our dog with a harness and I wanted a little space in the body of the sweater so it would not bunch up. It is between the two hearts which you cannot see unless the sweater is on my white dog.

I used a Red Heart Saver Yarn worsted weight and used a size I/ UK 5/ Metric 5.5 hook. This is the wrong type of yarn.

You can find the original heart pattern
and easy instructions here.

The Slacker Crocheter doesn't like what everyone else does. I didn't care for the flowers so I decided to do hearts instead. They are flat and if Precious Pup decides to lay down, I wanted her to be comfortable and not spoiled at all.

The problem for me was that I wanted something a little bigger so I put another row of yellow around the pink heart. But then the bottom wasn't pointy enough. I started the third row of purple and thought I would try to make it pointier myself. I got to the bottom and added a double crochet. Then a triple. Then a quadruple and then I had a problem. So I just chained ten and attached it. It turned out pretty good except that it looks like eggs to me. Oh well. The Slacker Crocheter is leaving it now.

I disturbed her from her beauty sleep
to take this picture. Sorry, Kiwi.
She's a Jack Russell/Rat Terrier mix or
so we were told. She's a lot of dog.

And here is what it looks like on my dog. You will note that the sweater is actually too big. Don't care. She's going to wear it and she's gonna like it.

Note the little hole for the leash.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below with your email.

ps Jimmy likes Elaine.