Peacock tails

 Whew, I'm on fire. A second pattern only after a week? Unseen in the history of Thimblewubble crochet! Write it in the history books!
But then again, hats work up fast and are fairly easy to make and write patterns for. Fairly easy. The patternwriting part still is quite tricky for me.

And Octobre is the perfect time for hat-making! Right in time to store up on all kinds of warm hats before winter is coming. Because, of course, we need to brace ourselves for the pending winter. Keep our tiny, cute little ears warm. We don't want an infection, now do we?
So, for today a (slouchy) beanie! I put slouchy between brackets because you can choose how you wear this hat. Slouchy or not. Or something in between. It's called the peacock tails hat, because... to be honest, this variation on the shell stitch really just looks like the behinds of a horde of peacocks. Don't believe me? Take a look yourself! Have a peacock's behind for comparison right here.
Similarly to the previous hat I posted, this one is also for free in my Ravelry Library. I'm so generous lately. Hehe.

This time, a bit making up for what I did last time, I once again used my old love Wibra Saskia. I had a lot of scraps in these purple and greens, so it was a perfect way of using up these scraps I still had.
There's both a written pattern and a chart in the pdf you can download from my ravelry.
I hope you enjoy the pattern, and if you find any mistakes or difficulties, never hesitate to contact me!

Thimblewubble

Boyfriend in a basket

After a series of complaints by my significant other about me not making him cool, manly or fitting hats, I was finally able to produce a hat that satisfied his need. Big enough, cool enough and manly enough. So I proudly present to you: the boyfriend in a basket hat! *proud stance*

Made with Hema Medium (I know, I'm cheating on my long love wibra, but I now temporarily reside in Antwerp and they don't have a wibra up here, which I find rather disturbing.) yarn and a 4mm hook, this hat works up pretty fast, only counting about 30 rows.
It has been a while since I wrote a pattern for anything, so it took me a while (circular reasoning, that one). Though the instructions are pretty clear, or so I hope, if they're not, never hesitate to adress me either on this blog, ravelry or on thimblewuddlecrochet@gmail.com. (wuddle, not wubble, I know).
The pattern is as usually found in my ravelry library. 
Today I also saw that some of my patterns on Ravelry are still downloaded quite regularly, ravelry only notifies me whenever a pattern is downloaded that required payment. Of course I also have multiple free ones. (Like this hat), and from those I never got any e-mails, so I was pleasantly surprised that my peacock collar, published June 2014, had its last download October 19th 2015, and October 16th before that...

I talked about a possible La Maison Victor internship last time, sadly, my solicitation was declined. My entries didn't fit in with their usual topics, or so they said. But no worries, no sadness, nor no grudge, new opportunities are coming along!
All y'all just keep on downloading my patterns regularly and I'm a very happy woman.
And then I have a happy boyfriend, of course :p

Thimblewubbe

La maison Victor

Trying to get attention. Something this society seems to be based upon. So not even I escape from it. Of course not. In this that desire of ever more attention and ever more praise of what you make this blog came to be. And I sent in a photo to be on the coverphoto of La Maison Victor's facebookpage. Which, by surprise, was selected. As it is a design I have not yet featured here on the blog, this gives me the opportunity to talk about it a bit.


I never published any pattern for this little cardigan, because, let's face it: I just make up things on the go. And writing a pattern afterwards is rather difficult. Especially with such an intricate pattern.
Yet again I was inspired by art nouveau (see My post about the peacock collar for more information about my infatuation with the art nouveau movement) which is clearly visible in this picture I made for whenever I would write the pattern. The ornaments are slightly stolen from Alphonse Mucha's Répos de la nuit, of which I've got a print in my room. Ok, back to the cardi. It's made with Wibra Mona yarn, which is quite a thin yarn in Wibra's range, and also incredulously soft. The front features a 6-strand simple cable, and the back features exactly the same but with 12 strands.It sports 3/4 sleeves for I intended it to be a summer-jacket/cardi. Can't wear long sleeves in summer, of course.




The feature on La Maison Victor's facebookpage gives me somehow the incentive to write a pattern for it. So maybe one day I will, I'll keep you updated on that matter. A second incentive the feature gave me was to pursue my ambition to be do my internship with them. That would signify a major boost to my carreer, not only as craftswoman but as a journalist as well.

That was it for today. Just a bunch of overwhelming excitement about being featured on La Maison Victor's facebookpage. Under my personal name, of course, not as Thimblewubble.

cheers!