...And then there are days that don't quite work. Do you know the feeling? I think I'm still raw from intense hours with patients' harrowing stories at work this week. And the Toddler Twinnage were a leeeeetle bit relentless in their Mummy-Mummy-Mummy-Mummy-Mummy all day today. And I possibly ate too many of the choc chip cookies that I baked this morning. And my first attempt at crocheting my bag strap in the round went all Mobius on me and had to be ripped out. Yes, yes, I've got these Continue Reading
Archives for March 2015
House!
T'was a beautiful clear night last night. The sort of night where you amble along in the peaceful blackness gazing up at the starry heavens... and then walk slap bang into a wall. Who put that stupid wall there, anyway? It's a ridiculous place for a wall. Only an idiot would build a wall right there. Given the rate at which they're building too many new houses in this village, you do have to watch out for sneaky new walls when you're out and about. Anyway, back to last night. I was on my way Continue Reading
The House Of Crochet.
Hmm, it seems that the house-bag I'm crocheting and the real houses being too numerously built in our village are neck-and-neck in terms of progress. That said, I'm tempted to just whack a roof on what I've hooked so far and call it a bungalow. Would you like to see some progress? (Thank you for your lovely comments on my previous post about it, by the way. :-) ) There's a long way to go. Upstairs, for starters, and that door needs a handle. And those little balls of red/green Rowan Fine Continue Reading
Brick By Brick
How long does it take to construct a house? Roughly the same amount of time regardless of whether the house is built of bricks and mortar or crocheted with yarn, it would appear. There are too many houses going up on the fringes of our village, and their progress pretty much matches that of the house I'm crocheting which is, by the way, going to be a bag. The front of the house will have all the fancy windows and climbing roses and details and neat roof-tiled shenanigans, whereas the back is Continue Reading
The Blog Post Of Many Things
That stranded skirt I'm designing? It's progressing, y'know:- No further progress has been made on the crocheted house, but the yarn for the windows has arrived, so I need to begin swatching some glasswork. Is it obvious that this post will be a tad desultory? Well the past few days have been a bit like that. I have some exciting secrets to reveal soon, but not quite yet. Rest assured, I'll be telling you as soon as I can... But look! I've discovered a quirky new stitch! Nothing Continue Reading
Patching Up The House (With Knitting)
A day's leave from work is a chance for some full-on knitting. I've been working on the stranded skirt that I'm designing:- I also had a temporary craft-swerve into decoupage, but only because I found a way to do so that involved knitting. Allow me to explain. We have a pug-ugly mirror in our house that the Stoic Spouse bought when he was young. The frame is plasticky beech-effect laminate that's so orange, it looks like it over-did the fake tan. It's not even properly trying to look like Continue Reading
Crochet In The Spring
And so I was wandering around our old village with the Toddler Twinnage, in the warm almost-spring sunshine. (There is a crochet point to this post, honest. I'm working up to it.) We noticed many things: the ancient thatched walls... ...and the early spring flowers, pretty much all of which are either yellow or purple, a combination that maintains my belief in nature as genius designer. I mean, look at the colour wheel: yellow is pretty much opposite purple, so we're onto a winner in Continue Reading
Monsieur Frog, We Meet Again (And Again)
Ah, Monsieur Frog, I see you're here yet again. Do you have to visit us so very frequently? Yup, that's - ribbit - the sound of - ribbit - another crocheted swatch being reduced to heaps of wiggly raw yarn. Sigh. Ribbit. Actually, I don't especially mind, because it's fun creating summat from nowt, and I'm relishing the experience of shaping and refining this *new* idea for a crochet project. I want it to be right, more than I want it to be speedy, and assuming it works out, I'll happily Continue Reading
Bricks. And socks.
And look! Bricks! Whaddayerthink? Moderately bricklike, no? I've been muchly busy with my crochet hook, trying out different stitches in search of the perfect masonry. I think we're getting reasonably bricklike, here. (Trust a lass, ya dinnae want ter see my earlier attempts.) I'm working on a new project. Two new projects, actually, one knitted skirt and one crocheted house-like-thing-I'll-tell-you-about-soonish. It's fun to stretch both of these crafting muscles at once. I do love Continue Reading
Yup, It’s A Sock
It was inevitable, really. Having tried pretty much everything else in my knitting career, I've finally succumbed to sock-knitting. And my fear of developing a sock-knitting addiction? Hmm, probably justified, judging by the fact that I'm tempted to phone HR at work to find out whether they've got a special-leave-for-sock-knitting policy. (Surely they must have? They're reasonable people, yeah?) All right I admit it, sock knitters of the world: you were right. There is something Continue Reading