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….and it all went downhill from there. Here I am with my 43 orchids 8 months later 😅. 31 in the pic, the other 12 live outside.

With only one outdoor orchid flowering and a few others in spike, it’s not the most glamorous collection, but I love them. Most are only babies or were purchased on clearance right after blooming, but I’m happy that most of my collection was $0-15 per plant and I can’t wait to see what it looks like a year or two down the road!

Good artists test their work, and Bailey is a good artist!

Not totally done as of the last pic (needs the bottom part finished, but you can get the general idea)

She is now realizing there are a ton of local rescues, and is trying to figure out how to pick which one to donate to.

I don’t ordinarily shop the 2” bag babies because they take so many years to mature, but I couldn't pass this one up! We get a lot of orchids at box stores here in FL, but I think this is by far my favorite find so far. Myc Bordighera ‘Taiwan’

For only $9 I think she’s worth the wait, I looked up the price for myrmeciphilia’s and their hybrids, and mature specimens are quite a bit out of my price range for plants 😅

She’s not sneaky, but she’s cute enough to get away with it anyways 🤣

Hey guys! I’d asked a bit ago on here for your opinions on this solid blue and variegated yarn combo - Im really glad you guys persuaded me to stick with it!

I ended up choosing a totally different pattern and im really loving how it’s working up so far! I actually like the look of the ‘wrong side’ variegated stitches too and may incorporate that into an eventual border.

I’ve had some fancy, thin-gauge gradient yarn I’ve been hanging onto for a while, and decided to see if I could get a nice set of gradient-fading plant hangers out of them. I wasnt sure how they’d turn out, but I’m really pleased with the effect! And now I have so much more space to grow my orchid horde 🤣.

Yarn: wolles cotton in mint

I would like to make a simple destash blanket and keep going back and forth on whether or not the deeper blue looks decent with the variegated yarn, or if it’s too bold a color and washes it out.

i probably won’t stick with the pattern on the swatch, but would like to do a smaller stitch, perhaps just slip stitching, with the variegated yarn to show off the color. I think that pairing it with some kind of solid would help show off the color better, but maybe not this particular blue?

In a phone full of Bailey pics, please enjoy one of my favorites. She’s beauty, she’s grace.

Grumpy caught-at-the-end-of-a-meow face because I was talking at her and not providing sufficient pets

It’s been over a year since I started this crazy project, and it‘s finally done! 14 thrifted 100% cashmere sweaters have finally been converted into a crocheted puff square blanket!

My initial goal was to see if I could create a cashmere blanket for <$100. I believe I spent ballpark of $80 total, and I have leftover cashmere to make nice Christmas gifts and other projects with as well :)

I started this madness about 6 months into starting crochet, when I was basically still a beginner. I learned so much from working on this, and it’ll be so weird not making puffs anymore!

Last two pics are of yarn I’d like to use to make future blankets, if anyone has ideas! I thrift all my yarn so it’s mis-matchy. First pic is all alpaca yarn ranging from 1-3 weight (I may double up the 1 weight for better consistency). #2 is all merino sock yarn (some colors undecided, shown with the question marks and circles - and only using the marked koigu’s)

It’s been over a year since I started this ridiculous project, and it‘s finally done! 14 thrifted 100% cashmere sweaters have finally been transformed into a crocheted puff square blanket (plus a couple of supervision-only kitty toys for my project manager, felted to lock down the fibers and make them more pet safe).

My initial goal was to see if I could create a cashmere blanket for <$100. I believe I spent ballpark of $80 total, and I have leftover cashmere to make gifts and other projects with as well :)

I started this crazy project about 6 months into starting crochet when I was basically still a beginner. I learned so much from working on this, and it’ll be surreal not working on it anymore after so long!

It’s been over a year since I started this ridiculous project, and it‘s finally done! 14 thrifted 100% cashmere sweaters have finally been transformed into a crocheted puff square blanket (plus a couple of supervision-only kitty toys for my project manager, felted to lock down the fibers and make them more pet safe).

My initial goal was to see if I could create a cashmere blanket for <$100. I believe I spent ballpark of $80 total, and I have leftover cashmere to make nice Christmas gifts and other projects with as well :)

I started this crazy project about 6 months into starting crochet when I was basically still a beginner. I learned so much from working on this, and it’ll be surreal not working on it anymore after so long!

I just found this bag of driftwood for $5 at a thrift store, and I’m wondering if it would make for decent orchid mounts? It was originally from pottery barn so I’m doubtful that they were any potentially harmful saltwater.

Bailey-kitty has been working on this blanket made of unraveled cashmere sweaters for over a year now, and wanted to share her work! It still has 4 rows left to seam together, but all progress has ground to a halt since she accidentally fell into a mid-day siesta on it.

(I was hoping she would dislike the poofiness of this blanket so that it would be all mine 😭. Sadly, she appears to love it)

Since getting into orchid keeping, viruses are such an interesting subject. I’ve met people who test every plant, those who only test suspicious ones, people who will never test, those that don’t care, and people who don’t know that viruses are a thing. And of course, the test kits quickly become pricey and don’t test for all viruses either.

Do you test any of your plants for viruses?

Do you use methods to minimize the risk of virus spreading? (tool sanitizing and not sharing water, etc).

Would you get rid of your favorite orchid if it did show virus symptoms or tested positive?

Would you test if the kits were cheaper or more easily accessible?

No right or wrong answers, I’m just curious to hear people‘s opinions since everyone seems to handle the issue differently.

After about 3 months, this old broken dendrobium cane still manages to grow a little keiki! This is the first day I’ve seen the very early stages of a developing root on it :).

This is most, but not all, of what she has blooming right now. Her collection is so stunning!

Somehow it’s already been a full year and >150 puff squares made for this ridiculous project of mine. 14 cashmere sweaters taken apart to crochet up a puff square blanket.

It‘s about time to stuff the squares and finish this whole thing up! Since the get go, my idea has been to put it together in the pictures gradient style, but recently I’ve thought to do it randomly - surprisingly since I’ve been looking at the original style for so long, most people seem to prefer the random one.

Please feel free to give me your thoughts! Random would also have the advantage of being easier to organize and having it be simple to add more squares on if I choose :). However, I also won’t make my decision just based on convenience.

hopefully my next time on r/crochet will be to show a finished project, it’s been so long and I’m so eager to begin new (also ridiculous) works!

I’ve been working on this project to turn cashmere sweaters into a puff square blanket for a year now. It’s been a monster project of finding and unraveling 13 cashmere sweaters of less than fingering thickness, and while I’m only at 154/~300 puff squares, it feel like it’s time to start to wrap things up so that I can move on. I have other nonsense blanket projects I’d like to start on where I can start fresh without all of the beginner mistakes that this one has (I’d been crocheting for 6 months when I started this).

It will not be gigantic, but will at least make a very nice lap blanket at this size, and I figure I have at least enough of each color left to add one more row to each end after the fact.

I had an initial vision on color arrangement but have gotten a few different suggestions, so figured I’d ask opinions here. With either one I’d place the colors more intentionally the final time, but which do you prefer, the first or second layout?

Made by loosely following the free puff square pattern by sass n stitch