Exciting news in the crochet world - today is the first day of the Back to School Sweater CAL blog hop, organised by Tamara of Crafty Escapism and Helen of Making at Number 14. These experienced crocheters decided that more people need to discover the joy of crocheting garments and they've set up this CAL and blog hop to help them on their way.
Each week there will be an article about some aspect of garment making technique, so there will be lots of help, advice and inspiration to get started. Each of the contributors to the hop has experience in crocheting garments, so if you have any questions, ask away. This blog is part of the hop too, and on 23rd September 2017, I'll be sharing a post on making alterations to a pattern. If you have any questions about alterations, leave them in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them in the blog post.
Fay of The Crochet Circle Podcast is hosting the chatter thread in the Ravelry group, so join in there for lots more help and inspiration. The full schedule for the blog hop and other details of the CAL can be found there, but as the blog hop progresses, each blog post will link to the next one on the hop, so you can easily jump backwards and forwards between articles.
There is also a hashtag for Instagram #backtoschoolsweatercal if you prefer to join in there.
Tamara is kicking us off today with 5 Reasons to Make a Crochet Garment, (I like number 3, for very similar reasons!) so go and have a read and hopefully you'll be joining in when the CAL starts on 16th September 2017.
In the meantime, as a pre-CAL warm up, I shall get back to my Kos top, which has been hibernating for a few years and has finally seen the light of day again. I've already made quite a few alterations to the pattern, so I shall have plenty of examples to share! Who knows if they'll be successful? It's all about experimenting and each time I rip some stitching back, I've learned something new.
Thanks for reading.
