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gerowyn.bsky.social
Gero
@gerowyn.bsky.social
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Crochet stuff, fountain pen stuff, gaming stuff and other assorted random stuff. And stuff.
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Omg!!!! WOHOOOOOOO #Eurovision2025
May 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Also, never gave an update on this project - finished it in December last year, but only managed to block it now. Thankfully gained a few cm! 🧶
A crocheted triangle shawl laid out on blocking mats, going from dark blue to pastel blue. The pattern alternate between airy, flower like stitches, to more solid, tight stitches.
March 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Done, blocked, and ready to be put into a drawer because the sun decided to show up again 😃 (ok so might get a few outings with this before it gets tucked away). Might revisit it one day, still smitten with the grid like structure. 🧶
A crocheted triangle shawl laid out on blocking mats. The pattern resembles a woven grid, and the colours range from yellow-orange to dark brown.
March 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
This shawl is both fun and tedious - lots of repeats but that also makes it easy to crochet (don't have to stare at the pattern to see what the next stitches are), and so far I haven't lost any stitches °knock on wood° But I am very smitten with the grid like pattern. 🧶
A crochet project of a triangle shawl in the making, composed of a grid like structure, laid out over a dark grey pillow. The yarn shifts from yellow and orange to a brown colour.
March 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Current crochet project: Triangular shawl "Merope" by KleinesFeines. Part of project "deplete yarn stash" that works just as well as project "deplete TBR book pile". But I like that crochet streak that's happening. Love to end the day and cleanse my mind by forgetting how to count. 🥰 🧶
First 40 rows of a triangle shawl, crocheted with colour changing yarn - beginning with yellow, followed by yellow orange. The work is made up of what looks like popcorn stitches worked along a grid. The work is laid out on a dark grey pillow.
February 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Honestly and truly, when I knitted a baby blanket for my youngest nephew, I spent almost the entire time repeating silently in my head as I worked, "Safe and loved, safe and loved, safe and loved..."
therotund.bsky.social Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · Feb 14
Last night I was doomscrolling reddit and this post was like… an unexpected poem and also now I want to whisper little love spells over everything I make. For my own good as well as for others.
A screencap of a Reddit post in the r/crochet subreddit by user Ragdoll232. The subject line reads “My MIL tells me Yarn has Memory.” The post reads “I know she means for shape, but I just want to whisper words of love into this sweater I’m making my husband so it remembers and can remind him how loved he is.”
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
New year, new project (... starting. Still have two crochet WIPs running).
Handspun yarns are from Iupiter Yarn on etsy, colourways Ignis#1 and Autumna#6. 🧶
Three yarn cakes stacked on top of each other. The top one features a brown/beige colourway, the middle one is an anthrazite yarn from Hobbii, and the bottom cake features reddish/orange/dark brown colours. To the left of the cakes is a yarn spindle to hold the yarn. Behind the yarn a keyboard and monitor are partially in view.
January 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Turns out I didn't need to worry. Even redid the sc row with the intended dcs. Will block once I'm back home, but I'm very chuffed about how it turned out. 🧶 #crochet
A finished, crocheted triangle shawl laid out on a grey blanket. A small ball of leftover yarn lies on top of it. The shawl goes through the colours blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow and green.
December 29, 2024 at 1:13 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Will I win yarn chicken? Only one row to go but it's the final row of a triangle shawl soo.. 👀 already switched from 4 to 3,5mm hooks and substituted dc with sc stitches the row before 🧶 (at the very least I don't have to worry about not being able to use the whole cake).
A folded up triangle shawl, with the last colour of a colour changig yarn cake sitting on top of it. The shawl changes from blue to rose-pink, orange, yellow and green.
December 28, 2024 at 12:49 AM
gerowyn.bsky.social
A triangle shawl, this time for me. Hopefully I'll end up using most of the cake as it has a beautiful colourway. Yarn: Sultan Deluxe - Chameleon (32)
Pattern: Edlothia by MorbenDesign www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
🧶 #crochet
A crochet triangle shawls - the first 15 or so rows crocheted - using blue yarn, laid out on a grey pillow
December 26, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income.
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December 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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helenmaryme.bsky.social
Spit-laugh rating: 9/10
December 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Project "how to make the best out of purchasing the wrong type of shelf as a bookshelf" moderately successful?
Shelf: IKEA Platsa corpus & inserts
Backrow: IKEA Bekväm spice rack
Middle row: Make up pallet organisers, height 4 cm
Left to do: rearrange all the books once the TBR has gone down a bit
The top shelf of an IKEA Platsa shelf, used as a bookshelf. Three rows of books are stacked, each row raised from the one before.
November 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Finished the lotus flower blanket, currently folded up and sitting on my mum's table as a welcome back present. Might revisit that pattern but with a less scratchy yarn this time. 🧶
Crochet project - a circular Crochet pattern imitating flower petals, the colours changing in a circular pattern from red - olive - beige - rose Crochet project - a circular Crochet pattern imitating flower petals, the colours changing in a circular pattern from red - olive - beige - rose - then back to red and olive
November 14, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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New crochet project I started after I caught The C-Virus. Am well again, and the blanket has grown by now. Might recreate it with less scratchy yarn (it does come with a glitter thread) and try to make it bigger. 🧶
Crochet project - a circular crochet pattern imitating flower petals in a red yarn
October 19, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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The never ending stola might just about, maybe, finally come to an end soon. Hopefully. Idk man I just want to finish it, but that's my punishment for miscalculating 🫠🧶
A rolled up crocheted stola lying next to its yarn cake.
October 6, 2024 at 10:53 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
A quick project to finally use up my hank of Untercover Otter - Chaos yarn. Got this pattern book for mini scarves, will work my way through it Thought it'd run out when I was halfway through but surprisingly, I still have some yarn wound up. 🧶 #crochet
A crocheted kerchief using a multicolored variegated yarn, predominantly using light colours (pinks, purples, yellows, oranges
August 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Finally upgraded my shelves. Slightly underestimated the depth of the Platsa corpus. °coughs° Upside: triple stacking of hardcover /large paperbacks now possible. Also moved my yarn stash closer to the desk.
Two white Ikea shelves with a drawer at the bottom. One of the shelves is filled with various items and boxes, the second shelf is almost empty. One book is in the top shelf row.
August 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Current crochet project: The wild oleander hooded scarf by wickedlyhandmade. A fun project for a friend to distract me from the 3km stola I'm apparently making (reading yarnlength is hard y'all). Love the colour of the yarn but my god this is the squeakiest acrylic yarn I've ever used 🤣🧶
A crochet project using multicolour yarn with bright colours. A crochet project using multicolour yarn with bright colours. A crochet project using multicolour yarn with bright colours.A crochet project using multicolour yarn with bright colours.
July 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Nothing funnier than finishing your work, realising you made a mistake after you've already fastened off and missed a stitch, frog the row, redo it, realising AGAIN you've made a mistake, frog half the row again and finally finish, only to have wlmore leftover yarn than when you originally started 🧶
June 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Current crochet project 🧶: crochet stola, pattern from Gründl:
www.gruendl.com/haekelstola/... #crochet
A stola currently in the process of being crocheted. The yarn cake sits on one corner of the unfinished stola. The crocheted part goes from yellow to dark orange, the remaining yarn cake fades from pink to violet and then purple. The unfinished stola is spread out on a white pillow, the pink crochet hook is hooked into the beginning of a row.
April 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Current crochet project: Love the colouring of the yarn (Gründl Pacific Lace), but it's absolutely unforgiving when it comes to frogging. Had me sweating a lot when I had to frog 5 rows and hoping the yarn wasn't going to rip. 💀🧶
Pattern used: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
An unfinished, crocheted scarf laid out on a grey pillow. The scarf shows diamond shapes in the middle of it. The colourway of it goes purple, light purple, light grey, white, light grey, and dark and light purple. Stitch markers are attached to the tip corners. An unfinished, crocheted scarf laid out on a white background that show off a diamond pattern in the center of the scarf. The colourway of it goes purple to light purple. Stitch markers are attached to the tip corners.
February 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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A quick project done kinda over the weekend. Will experiment with the pattern, maybe I can use all dc instead of the skips to make a closed bag?
A small crocheted bag in a net pattern, in a beige/light brown/dark brown colourway. A small crocheted bag in a net pattern, in a beige/light brown/dark brown colourway.
February 19, 2024 at 10:57 AM
gerowyn.bsky.social
Current crochet project finished! It's being blocked at the moment, I hope the zig zag ends will come through (and I got reminded that I really should have gotten more blocking mats). 🧶
A crocheted shawl laid out on a white blanket, wound up once in a sling to imitated being worn around the neck. Colourway: black to black red mixed A crocheted shawl laid out on a white blanket. Colourway: black to black red mixed
February 11, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Crochet progress report: I hope I'll finish it before the warm weather kicks in. The red has switched to a dark orange-y colour but it doesn't really show up in pictures. Am surprised at how much I've gotten out of the cake so far (and still a bit left to to - planning to use the entire cake) 🧶
An unfinished shawl crocheted, turned into a twist and the used yarn cake in the middle. The colours are predominantly red and black. A crocheted, unfinished shawl laid out on a grey couch, predominantly red colours but getting more black towards one end.
February 4, 2024 at 1:25 PM