The wonderful world of Crochet

I have to start this by saying that I love to crochet. It’s my me time where I can ignore everyone with good reason and no one expects me to remember a word they say. Wow, I’m really antisocial, or a prick… probably a healthy combination of both.
Anyway, since picking up lace crochet I have [...]

Obligatory Spats Post

Here’s a tease for you Melanie!

That is the first lace for your spats! I hope you like them. It is actually an easy shell pattern:

ch 4, dc 4 in first ch, turn
sl st in first three dc, ch three and dc twice in same space, turn
sl st in two dc, ch 3 and dc four [...]

Craft List

I am almost half way done the second spat. I’m pretty sure it’s going faster because I actually know what I’m going to end up with. I had a knitting marathon today, I knitted through the televised Santa Clause parade, I put supper on, and went back to knitting. I felt like a cybernetic knitting [...]

Spats… again…

After almost a week of working on the first spat, all of the black work is done. The only thing left to do is sew on the button and decide whether I am going to knit an i-cord or crochet a lace for the back.
If I knit an i-cord, then I will want to do [...]

The Great Spatterdash Adventure

Yes, Melanie, this post is entirely dedicated to your spats. I am proud of my ingenuity and so I must gush at length. First, let me tell you that the pattern I was using (pattern from Arcane Stick Magic) which was meant for size 9-12 is much closer to a size 9 than a size 12. And [...]

Enviro-Knitting

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Yes, the yarns have been around for ages, you’re grandma used to use them, Acrylics, Polyesters, and Cottons. Well there is a whole new batch of vegan fibers to choose from, and the old ones we remember have been totally revamped. We have a choice of corn fiber (pictured,) soy, and bamboo silk. We can go back to [...]

NaCraCreMo

National Craft Creation Month! I’m starting it. I decided it needs to happen, so I am doing it, anyone else who is interested can join. I am thinking that this month is not the best time however, so I am planning it for January. The rules are simple, set a goal for the month and [...]

Crocheted Snow Flakes

I am a huge holiday fan. I admit it freely, I love the winter and Christmas. I love the holiday music, decorating the Tree, baking, everything about the holidays. Anyway, I decided that there are 50 days left until the holiday season starts to end, so I want to get ready. Conveniently enough, prep for [...]

And for my next trick…

For the past two or three days, I have been recruiting my room mate Angie onto the hand-made band wagon. I have toured with her through the wonders of Etsy (including my friend Cheryl’s hand made/painted/bound notebooks,) And she’s started to get really into her own chosen craft of cross stitch. I’m happy, we are [...]

Crocheting and Writing will be the death of me.

I have started this sentence about twelve times now, I’m just not sure where to start. Obviously there is break-neck novelling going on in our household, and there is also a good amount of crocheting that has started to pile up, and I decided that I should change up my blog a smidgen. Since this [...]