Month: October 2018

Casa Gorordo’s Ganchillo at the Azotea: The Titas Crochet-lla

Upcoming Crochet Workshop Event: Ganchillo at the Azotea (Christmas Edition), Nov. 10, 17, 24, 2018 >>

 

If you could feel an aliveness of the crochet scene in Cebu, I guess it’s just right to give credit to Casa Gorordo Museum. It’s nice to see that there’s an organization, Casa Gorordo Museum, in Cebu who is supporting the local artisans (you can find a lot of items made by local artisans in their souvenir cafe / shop), as well as working on preserving the handcrafting skills… of the Titas.

Cebu Crochet Group kind of started in Casa Gorordo Museum, last February, 2018, when they invited Sarah Palmares to facilitate a crochet workshop. (The Cebu Crochet Group has been created during the workshops for us and the participants to connect.)

Since then on, Casa Gorordo Museum has been like the “meeting place” for the Titas. It’s like the go-to place if you want to find someone who can relate to your kind of happiness, crochet.

So when Casa Gorordo organized a series of workshop last October, it’s like Coachella to the crochet addict in me.

Here are some photos from the last Ganchillo at the Azotea as organized by Casa Gorordo Museum.

Jasper Dayola of Casa Gorordo Museum giving an introduction on the very first session.

Sep. 22, 2018 Session

Sep. 29, 2018 Session

I’m so happy to see a friend from running community, Liberty. =)

For the next series of crochet workshop at Casa Gorordo Museum, Cebu, see details below. You can register here >>.

My Go-To Beanie / Hat Crochet Pattern

Crochet Striped Slouchy Beanie from Corn on the Monkey has became my go-to beanie pattern if I want to make something quick for a gift. The alternating rows of HDC, and HDC around HDC makes it less boring to make. The all straight similar stitches pattern for a beanie can really make me cry of boredom.

But I made modifications to make it more faster to make. I use DC (double crochet) instead of HDC (Half-Double Crochet). So here’s my own crochet pattern recipe:

For yarns that are suitable for 6mm crochet hook size, I start with 8 single crochet on the magic ring. Then increase each row until I get to 60 stitches, which is around 8 rows. From there, I’ll stop increasing, and I’ll maintain the number of stitches each rows until Row 21. From Row 9-21, it will be alternate of a row of DCs, and row of DC around DC. When I reached row 21, that’s when I’d create a “band” for the beanie by doing an alternate of 4 FPDC (front post double crochet) and 4 BPDC (back post double crochet), which will form the “band” of the beanie. I usually do up to 4 rows for the “band” part.

The beanies I made based on this pattern:

A colorful version…

Photo from IG: ca_yoga_mo_si_firestarter

With a pompom…

Photo from IG: karya1981

This is quite a flexible crochet hat pattern. You can just add rows to make it slouchy, or have a lesser number of rows if you want something more fitting. For the original crochet pattern, find it here.

BLUE…

…Blue Bell Hill Scarf
Pattern by: Jocelyn J. Tunney
Source: o-wool.com

A lot of friends are traveling out of the country, and a few of them are staying there for good. And, they definitely kept my hands busy crocheting (and lately knitting) that the motivation to update this blog (and my other random blogs) has gone nil. Aside from crochet, coffee drowning, and a bit of running, I think “writing” is another thing that is a part of my life. It’s not really “writing,” but I do talk a lot (mostly in my head); they said this habit is an only-child thing (I’m an only child.). And, I tend to write a lot when I have a hard trying to make sense of things; I’m confused; or simply, I’m just that.

So on to this post… A friend is leaving for Europe for good. And every time a friend migrate for good, I always cannot make sense of my feelings. There’s happiness, and there’s melancholy. And, there’s that “is there something we could have done to make people stay instead? But then why would you want them to stay?”

Too many things in my head about this, and thus this post. I’m torn between should I be happy that I’ll be making a lot of crochet/knitting stuff because there are a lot of friends leaving or should I be melancholic about it? =)

But first let me #bloggerpose. And, I’m thankful that friends are just happy to accept my “labor of love.”

This is my very first knitting project that has a bit of pattern; I’m referring to the “chevron-ish” pattern of this scarf. Knitting the knockers in the past weeks made me more confident with my knitting skills. And, thankfully, the Blue Bell Hill pattern scarf is a perfect beginner scarf knitting pattern. The o-wool.com has a lot of beautiful free patterns that are perfect for beginners. So if you have been knitting for awhile, and wanted to get adventurous, check the patterns from o-wool.com.

Notes on my version of this project:
Knitting needle: 7mm
Yarn: Value Ball from Spotlight (I wish I had a fancier yarn but they’re the only available to me.)
Dimension of finished project: 12″x75″ up to 10 repeats of the pattern.