Like the Batman Patterns from a previous post I have made pentagram diamond versions. These work up the same way with the same stitches. This one just has a couple more rows so it is a tad bigger.
The finished piece made with DK yarn and a 4mm hook looks like this
Like any other pattern you can use what yarn and hook you like depending on what you want to do with it. Like any granny square you can do so much with these, make a blanket, a dress, or use 100%cotton to make a dish cloth. There's so many ways you can make something unique with these.
The pattern can be found on my Ko-Fi store here https://ko-fi.com/s/dac486eaad
More patterns will be added over time but at the moment I have other projects I want to work on.
I haven't filmed a tutorial for YouTube for a while but I need to start uploading regularly again. I still had footage of a really simple makeover I did ages ago and finally decided to upload it.
The footage was already edited, all I had to do was add sound and intro/outro. It is just a really simple makeover where I took a £1 phone shaped moneybox and painted it like the old school batphone from the 1960s Batman. It's only a couple of minutes long and I just quickly painted it, nothing fancy.
I wasn't overly happy with it, that's why I didn't upload it sooner. I wasn't sure if I was ever going to upload it but as I hadn't uploaded in a while I thought I better upload it so my views don't suddenly slope off because I've been inactive.
I will be getting back to filming proper tutorials soon hopefully but until then you can check out my makeover video
I have produced a new crochet pattern for a Batman logo square. It's beginner friendly as it only uses 2 different stitches, just the chain stitch and double crochet. It's done using the fillet stitch method so I decided to make a chart for the pattern as its the easiest to follow, in my opinion.
The charts I make are pretty basic so hopefully even beginners wont get confused. Here is an example of the chart type.
I brought a new tablet and so I needed a new cover too. All the ones I liked were out of stock so I decided to get a plain black one. I don't like plain accessories so I brought it with the intension of decorating it to make it more unique.
What I eventually want to do is make a granny square cover and sew it on the plain cover but I want to do that using thin thread so it's micro crochet granny squares. This is going to take quite a while so until that is completed I am going to make a simple granny square envelope sleeve. It's a really simple project and works up quick so it's perfect until I complete the proper cover.
I hadn't planned on buying yarn for it so I went though my stash to see what I had. I found a ball of Marriner Mermaid DK yarn so decided to use that. I only have one ball of it so couldn't use it for any big projects and the company that made it has gone out of business therefore it would be harder to find more so it seemed perfect for this project and it looks very pretty.
I decided I was going to create a merch store for my YouTube channel that was going to sell t-shirts with my logo as well as some general crafty t-shirts.
I got designing and came up with a few designs quite quickly others took longer and I have a few ideas still to come. As with my other store I went with Teemill though I am considering other more global companies as most of my views come from abroad so it maybe better to use somewhere with multiple fulfilment centres across the world. For now though my Teemill store will do.
I am planning on making a dress made up of crochet granny squares. I managed to come up with a simple pattern for it and decided to share it and make a tutorial for my YouTube channel.
Hopefully is should be beginner friendly. It only uses 6 different stitches and they are mostly variations of the same stitch so they are pretty easy to remember. You can use any yarn to make this, all it does is change the size of the finished product, if you used a thicker yarn and larger hook it will end up being bigger.
Part 1 shows rows 1-4 making the main part of the spiderweb.
I got some shawl yarn but I don't wear shawls so I was looking to make something different. It's the same yarn I used to make that light weight granny square hexagon cardigan from a previous post.
I didn't want to make another cardigan, I wanted to try something new. I decided I was going to attempt to make a netted dress. I don't have many summer clothes so there's more chance of me actually wearing it.
I want a skater style dress but with long sleeves, I've been looking for one of those for a while and haven't found one I like so even more reason to try this dress. My first problem was deciding on what stitch to use. I don't have a lot of experience in crocheting clothes and only know basic stitches. I am not planning on following a pattern I am just going to wing it and hope for the best.
I felt like getting my paints out and doing a painting in my new A3 sketch book. I hadn't painted for a while and I normally do miniature paintings, 7cm or 5cm canvases or using A7 or A8 sketch books so this is a lot bigger but I thought I'd give it ago.
The only larger canvased I've painted have been pixel art and I wanted to try and paint a more realistic landscape painting. I knew it was never going to be anything special, just a quick painting and I was going to film myself doing it for YouTube and when I have done more hopefully I see an improvement in my work over time.
I went for a late evening sea scene. I added a bit more colour to the sky then what I normally do in that sort of scene. I just kept adding paint till I thought it looked ok which actually never happened and I gave up on the sky and moved on to the sea.
The rest was pretty basic, didn't really have any plan I was just adding paint lol that was probably a mistake and I should actually have an idea of what I want to paint next time before I start.
When I got to the point of getting fed up I just stopped and that's it, I was done with it. I wasn't at all happy with it but felt there was nothing I would be able to do to make it look good so I left it as is. While editing the footage it hit me what was wrong with it. I feel so stupid, it's such a silly mistake. I painted the sea flowing in completely the wrong direction, it's so obvious now I've noticed it and that's why it looks so wrong. I also should have left out the glow round the moon, It would have looked better without it.
Even though I hated the end result I still put the video up on YouTube like said to record my progress. I don't know when my next large painting will be. I feel a lot more comfortable painting on smaller canvases, but I'm sure it wont be that long before I try another.
So here is the video, I sped it up because even though it didn't take long to do it still wouldn't have been boring to watch.
Just a short post to show you the new granny square pattern I made. I am aiming to design a few patterns similar but I wanted to show my first one straight away.
It's pretty much a solid granny square but I use the fillet stitch method to create a pattern in it.
This is my first one and it features 4 Pokeballs.
I used DK yarn and a 3.5mm hook and it came out 33cm tall. This pattern is suitable for any thickness of yarn, just the thicker the yarn the bigger the square will come out.
You could make a nifty blanket using this design and more designs are in the works.
I had a PS2 controller that no longer worked and rather then just chucking it away I thought I would do something with it. It was a clear one so my first thought was to put some lights inside it to create a nice lamp and that's exactly what I did.
The first thing I did was open it up and take out everything that was inside. You need a really small screwdriver for some parts but overall this was very easy to do. The next important thing to do is clean it, you wouldn't believe how much dust hides in these things.
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