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Christmas Angels
This is not the post I was going to write today. I was going to post up a scarf pattern. But then something happened that I wanted to share.
A couple of nights ago there was a posting on Freecycle for assorted knitting and crochet supplies. Having been broke for a while now, and With Christmas fast approaching, I thought I'd see what she had and ( Read more... ) -
I don't wanna (but it's still a long post)
You probably won't notice because my timestamps are in the Pacific time zone, but I put off starting this post until 0100 hours. I still maintain steadfastly that it's still today if I haven't been to bed. I just don't feel like writing tonight. I feel like chatting with people on the other side of the world and shopping for project bags. (I'm ( Read more... ) -
I see crochet things...
I see them when I close my eyes at night, I see them when I'm watching football (that's soccer for us Americans) on the telly, I see them when I'm attempting to read my novel. I am in the midst of trying to adapt a ridiculously complicated knitted lace shawl to crochet and my mind is happily off in another world designing other pieces.
One of these ( Read more... ) -
New stuff
In honor of my November blogging project I have finally gotten a "real" blog. Please join me for virtual champagne at:
http://fixergirl.blogspot.com/
I will continue to post both there and here for at least the entire month of November.
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This counts for yesterday, right?
It's 0200 hours and I haven't written a blog post yet. I haven't been to bed yet, either, so this totally counts.
Uh, the highlights of today:- Determined that I am indeed allergic to crab. No other shellfish, no other seafood in fact. Just crab. I'm ready for the dam blisters to go away now.
- Discovered thanks to a post on Ravelry that Le Petit Prince ( Read more... )
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Not crazy yet
I am through Round 24 of Shipwreck. This means I have conquered the first pattern section! My Strawberries are, as expected, in double crochet filet and look, well, quite a bit like the knit version.
The knit pattern has a row of solid knit stitches between the pattern rows. Originally I tried to replicate this by doing a row of single crochet ( Read more... ) -
Mental arithmetic and other tortures
I got through round 10 of my prototype Shipwreck Shawl last night. I will not tell you how many times I frogged back to row 2 for various reasons, the most common being that the stitch pattern didn't look right or the piece wouldn't lie flat.
I have learned something about knitting. The reason the pieces have to be blocked so severely after ( Read more... ) -
Commitment
Fixer is no longer allowed to read The Yarn Harlot. Even though she doesn't knit at all Steph gives her ideas. Wicked, awful ideas.
I want a Shipwreck Shawl. Really, really want. And don't get me wrong, I want to learn to knit and K. has promised to teach me. but I want to start now.
So I got the brilliant idea to convert it to crochet. After all, ( Read more... ) -
I've finally lost it
I'm ready for my next tattoo.
This is clearly insane, because I'm miserably sick with endometriosis, probably looking down the barrel of another surgery, certainly going to be poked, prodded, and CT scanned to within an inch of my life...
...and I want to feel the artist's needle on my lower back. I want that ink.
I'm off to look for flash I can adapt ( Read more... )