crochet a to z….

I’m crocheting the alphabet!  There is a reason: I didn’t just wake-up and think I’ll crochet the alphabet, all twenty-six letters…

You will have to wait a while before I can tell you what I am crocheting: it is a gift and I like the gift to be given before I share it with you.  Before I crochet the actual gift, I thought I’d better get some practice in, just in case I came across problems.  I took, and adapted, the pattern from Melody Griffiths’ book…

201 crochet motifs, blocks, projects and ideas.  This book is one of my go-to books, if it isn’t already on your bookshelf I would recommend it.  In fact I would recommend any of Melody’s books: the're great.

Once I’d crocheted the letters, I quickly realised that I needed to block them.  I thought about using the same technique that I used for blocking my Starflakes, using pva and water.  But I’d didn’t need the crochet letters to be quite so stiff or quite so shiny.  I opted to starch them…

This worked.  The letters are a little bigger than I was expecting, so next time I’ll be crocheting with a smaller hook.  Ms and Ws were a bit of a pain to crochet – not surprising you follow the same pattern for each and turn one upside-down!  Cs and Gs weren’t much fun either…

…hay-ho I can crochet the alphabet!