Yesterday I had a really important mission: find a blanket. My aunt is coming to visit us for the holidays, and while we have a comforter, we feel a second blanket for a little extra warmth is a good thing to have. I can’t count on her having arctic/alpine animal… Read More »Irrational Dislikes and a Mini Project
I finised my Ergane cowl, in time to go with fall colors. We’ve had colder nights, bringing out lots of lovely oranges and yellows on the trees. At the same time, it’s been up in the 70s (around 23-24 C) during the day with plenty of sunshine and a fresh… Read More »Fall colors and a small case of “startitis”
I always forget how much I dislike the crab stitch. It, well, it makes me crabby. I don’t do it very often, so I usually forget exactly how it goes, and then I have to look it up and somehow, while I am usually pretty good at following instructions, it… Read More »Going backwards is a pain
Two weeks solid of a parade of guests it turns out is bad for blogging time. If I wasn’t hanging out with friends and family, I was working (it’s a bit too busy at work at the moment for two straight weeks off – and I want some time left… Read More »Guests are bad for blogging
I’ve been working on stage 5 and row 21 of the Ergane cowl for a couple days now. It seemed like it was going on forever. In an effort to buck myself up and prove there was progress, I counted how many of the repeats I’d completed. It was 15.… Read More »It’s not supposed to go on forever…
Last Sunday was not, as you may remember, a good day for fluffies. The entire train ride was consumed with detangling yarn. The week has since been better. On Monday, TheEnabler, his college buddy and I took the local train down from Cologne to Bingen, and from there took a… Read More »Cologne and beyond
We’re on our way to Koln (Cologne) and I was looking forward to a nice 4hrs of crochet on the train. Instead I had a major case of yarn barf from my nice cake. We have 10 min left and I’ve finally untangled it (with some help and moral support… Read More »Well that was frustrating…
Wednesday afternoon I headed for the airport to travel home. It was a crazy realization that “home” meant leaving the US and that I really did feel like I was going home. A first for this trip – I took all of my originally scheduled flights. So of the eight different planes… Read More »Back home and goal setting
This week several projects made it past the half way mark. I finished my second hotpad and started on the third. Doesn’t the teapot look good with them? At the beginning of the year I set myself a challenge of 18 completed projects by the end of the year using… Read More »In Which Progress is Made
Did you know that crochet and knitting use different muscles? Of course you did. So did I. But I also kinda forgot how different. All this single crochet in cotton for my potholders has very much reminded me. If it was wool, or maybe crochet lace… maybe I wouldn’t feel so… Read More »Did you know?
