Thursday, January 8, 2009

Crochet possibilities

I have been crocheting a lot. Today I made a couple 6" squares for my Rockford Crochet January Exchange partner. They are lovely. I experienced glitches with both patterns. I had never made one of the squares before so I had to do some thinking about what I was trying to do which is something that I usually don't care for while crocheting. I had to rip out stitches for the basic granny square a couple times because I didn't have enough double crochets for one cluster and one too many for another. Eventually my hands took over and I was able to let my mind go to other thoughts.
Have been getting annoying static electricity shocks when I touch things in the house especially when turning on light switches. Not enough moisture in the house. I had to take my Vicks Vaporizer apart to clean it out. Had to use an unusual tool meaning that I had to get out of bed and think about what I was doing. Winter creates so many nuisances. Bah!
I finished the Royal Blue scarf that I had been working on. Took several days after the fun for me to finally weave in the few dangling ends. If I were a drinking woman, maybe getting blitzed would make me feel less dreadful about weaving in ends. I crochet a lot of things and that means lots of dangling tails. Bah!
I'm almost done with a scrap blanket that I started with the intention of donating to Sleezer. Will be long enough to cover a person up to their shoulders. Well, it will cover me up to my shoulders. Have collected other things around the house. There's a bottle of aqua/turquoise nail polish that I don't use. It occurred to me when I was looking at it sitting atop my makeshift dresser that I have yarn the same color which means that I can make a hair scrunchie to go with it!
Oh, again I was so excited about crochet possibilities that I didn't want to go to sleep last night. I started making my first wheelchair caddy. I began using a pattern that I found online, but ended up deviating from it. I'm only making one rectangular panel so I won't have as many you-know-whats to weave in. Thinking I'll go on a streak of making them. I want to try different color combinations. The one from last night will be mainly Skipper Blue. A big log of yarn. The label was old. Anyway, the contrast color will be Red Heart Monet.

One night, probably weeks ago now, I impulsive decided to start making rug mugs to sell in the future. I got this colorful bouclé yarn on sale from JoAnn Fabrics some time ago. It has wool content. I also made two and a half rug mugs with Homespun "Wine" using single crochet.
Looking forward to starting another blanket.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

OMG!!! that royal blue scarf is total gorgeous..so poshy, but also soo good to keep your head, ears n neck well covered!! i need one similar to leave my sinusitis away from me =P