Gorham's Baxter Library to Offer FREE Hyperbolic Crochet Classes

Gorham's Baxter Library now has a small display of Maine Reef contributions and information to educate and inspire the public about the project and also has some of our free patterns for anyone to pick up.  Folks creating pieces can drop their contributions off anytime during regular library hours.

Baxter is also offering  the following FREE hyperbolic crochet classes with Crochet Artist Jeff Carpenter:
Mondays from 2:00 - 3:00 pm:
July 9th
July 16th
July 23rd

Contact the Library at 207-222-1190 to sign up.

More Maine Reef Contributions!

Yes Sir, Yes Sir, FIVE bags full! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!


Ann got a bunch of great work this week! Lyn Terranova from Chesterville, Maine, Kathy Schulz from Topsham, Maine, and Marcia Duenkle of North Bradford, CT. WOW have the been busy Beavers!

What a day for Ann to find all this stuff in the mail! There was so much that she didn't have time to photograph each piece individually but they look great! Love the purple grouping!

Doesn't it make you want to make something to contribute??

There's still time and we NEED and WANT ANY and ALL work that anyone sends us.

I am SOOOooooooo excited! This really is going to be an amazing exhibit! Be sure to make plans to come and see this DO NOT MISS event!

Enjoy!

Kathy Schulz & Lyn Terranova

Check out the little sea creature!

Love these grassy shapes!

Yummy Purple!

Very organic!

Thanks again for sharing your time and resources for this project! We appreciate it!

Crochet Green Anemone Pattern

Anthopluera Xanthogrammica or the Giant Green Anemone, is a species of intertidal sea anemones, of the family Actiniidae. Go the Wikepedia links above to learn more.

I loved this bright beauty! In the wild it grows over 6" wide and can be as much as a foot tall.

Here is my version which began as a round with randomly added tentacles. I did not create a base for it which would make it look  a bit like a mushroom does but I may do that in the end.

Pattern:

Rnd1:   make a circle with 4 ch sts

Rnd 2:  sc 8-10 in the circle and mark the end of the rnd

Rnd 3:  2 sc in ea sc

Rnd 4:  2sc in nxt sc, sc in nxt sc. repeat around

Rnd 5:  2sc in nxt sc, sc in nxt 2sc. repeat around

Rnd 6:  2sc in nxt sc, sc in nxt 3sc. repeat around

Continue to increase the number of sc between increases until your piece is as large as you want it to be and tie off.

Tentacles:

attach the yarn to the base using a sl st and chain 4, 5 OR 6. Then sl st the second ch from the hook and in ea remaining chain. tie off from the underside of the piece. NOTE that in hindsight, I would make the tentacles longer perhaps as much as double. That would translate to chain of 8, 10 or 12.

The tentacles are placed randomly using various lengths along the way in whatever pattern you prefer.

Enjoy! 

The Maine Reef Got More Mail!

Thanks to Pat Burkard from Bolsters Mills, Maine, Ann got another box of wonderful stuff!

Great job and Thanks Pat! 

Notice to our knitters out there... 

Especially Love the Jelly Fish and Urchins......

Different from anything we have received so far!

The fun fur edge on this one gives it a very natural quality....

WE love all of our contributors!

Keep it coming everyone..........

Scrumble Crochet!

Life never ceases to amaze me with  new information!

I feel I am well informed. Yet, after spending more than a year working on this project and spending many many hours on line searching for inspiration about crochet, I stumbled upon a term and idea that I had only seen glimpses of. I knew it as free form crochet but lo and behold there is an entire movement in the free from crochet world that I had never heard of!

Scrumble or Scrumbling...... That's what it's called.... and when I came across it, I was amazed! Perhaps you are more informed than I am but in any case, check out these links and see how closely many "scrumbles" resemble the crochet reef project satellites in mini form! Maybe there's a scrumble in your future :-)

Although most Scrumbles are one cohesive piece created as one piece a collage of work can also be considered a Scrumble.

So here is a Maine Reef version of a scrumble....

Here are a few more for you to enjoy!

What is a scrumble? Learn the answer here:

http://hookandscumble.blogspot.com/2009/11/scrumbling-or-scumbling.html

http://hookandscumble.blogspot.com/2009/04/seaweed-shingle-scumbles.html

http://www.knotjustknitting.com/gallery-prudence-mapstone.html

More Scrumble photos here.

AND let's not forget to include some SCRUMBLE PATTERNS from Ravelry.com

Gandhi once said, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

So I continue to enjoy new things and know that I am NEVER too old for learning......

New Drop Location for Maine Reef Project Contributions!

The Gorham, Maine, Library is now officially a new drop location for completed pieces of the Maine Reef project! Ann Thompson and Jan Windsor brought a small display of completed pieces so folks can be inspired to create.  We also provided the library with some patterns that anyone can pick up and info about the reef project. Stop by and check it out!

Jan is expected to be teaching some children's classes for us during the library's summer program. A schedule of Maine Reef presentations and classes to be held at the library will be posted here as soon as they are available.

Thanks to the Gorham Art Alliance's Amy Valentine who learned of the project from UNE, and Kathy Stevens of the Gorham Library for helping to make this happen! We appreciate it!

New Pattern Link for Sea Anemone

Here's a new one for you!

A lovely little sea anemone pattern courtesy of takosan.pl. which I found on Ravelry.com.

Try it out! Only 3 months left before contribution deadline!

Get hookin' :-)