The Best Time to Wear a Striped Sweater Is All the Time is coming along, slowly but surely. I have committed to the location of pocket holes. (The first sweater I made had no pockets, and every time I wear it, I regret this oversight. Never again!) I’ve resolved to crochet some every day. If […]
According to a previous post, I frogged the first 40 rows of Holey Sweater in February, but it’s finished at last. I usually rely on colorful yarn for visual interest, but I switched things up with muted tonal hues and used a variety of stitches for texture. It’s full of mistakes no one will ever
Currently watching: Pushing Daisies, which is remarkably sweet and charming for a show with murders and corpses in every episode. For a change of craft pace, I borrowed a sewing machine.
Remember that patchwork coat it took me 3 years to finish? Approximately 300 million miles of all half double crochet stitches? Near the end of the interior patch pockets for Millstone Cardigan, I accidentally learned I’ve been doing hdc wrong the entire time I’ve been doing crochet.
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ETA: Neflix put Nimona up on YouTube until February 26. Now everybody can watch the Oscar-nominee that Disney tried to kill because it’s full of graphic sex—wait, sources on the ground are telling me there’s zero porn and bigots just don’t like movies overtly about compassion and acceptance in the setting of religious zealotry to
I took a moment this morning to appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature. And then I got down to the beauty and wonder of sweeping/shoveling paths to lessen the chance that the resident elderly people and delivery drivers will break their necks.
The blanket is finished, washed, and delivered. Now that it’s out of the house, we’ll see if my sneezing fits were an alpaca allergy or something in the air ducts that gets feisty when heated.
Periodic reminder that keyboards with sticking keys, more often than not, need cleaning rather than tossing. I never eat at the keyboard lest I summon the ghost of my sixth grade touch typing teacher, and yet there are definite crumbs in addition to the dust, cat hair, people hair, yarn fibers (so… much… alpaca), bits
I got a taker on the blanket! Two of my three hopes have been realized (plaid and pleasing colors; no yarn that puts on airs). Here’s an approximation of the plan: I grabbed the colors from the swatches online. I would have been happy with that blue-leaning teal, but remember when I said greens don’t