Moo!

This was so fun to make! I crack up every time I see my baby doll in her hat and hoofies. I need to make her a little outift to match.

Bubbles Baby Blanket

The folks at Crochetville did a Bubbles Crochet-a-long for this Bubbles Baby Blanket, so I thought I'd try my hand at it, too. This is how it turned out. I am amazed at how fast it was to make. Yet it is warm, soft, perfectly rectangular (of UTMOST importance to me!) and by using Caron Simply Soft yarn, light as a feather's kiss to touch. I used Bev's Summer Preemie/Newborn Hat pattern as a basis to create this matching baby hat, but actually used the Baby Bubbles shell pattern and made it bigger.

Knitted Afghan

I had lots of Sierra Homespun left over after the Openweave monstrosity. I still couldn't tell you what made me decide to KNIT an afghan though. I know better than to knit at all, and afghans in particular. Nevertheless, the yarn clearly yelled, "Knit me!" so knit it, I did. This pattern is "Moonlight Throw" out of "Big Needle Knits for the Home" pattern book.

Well, it's sort of the pattern, anyway. Apparently there are many ways to "Yarn Over" in knitting, and the book did not specify which was required. I guess real knitters would know which one to use. The upshot is, my afghan does not look like the pretty and dainty white thing in the book, and I'm told it's because my clusters are elongated due to using the wrong form of Yarn Over.

Whatever. It's still neat looking, though you can't really make out the texture in this picture, and I'm very proud of myself for finishing a knitted afghan.

HUGE thank you to Cindy, who spent hours with me and the afghan, unraveling and re-assembling in a desperate attempt to figure out where I went wrong halfway through. I bow before you, Cindy!

What WIP?

Let's just skip over the ginormous blue and green rippled thing sitting in my closet for a moment, shall we?

Good. This "Homespun Openweave" afghan is 110" by 117", roughly, to fit a King sized bed. Color Sierra. It is folded into quarters in the picture.

The latest Cam craze

The MOST recent, totally brand-newest, hippest, quirkiest internet craze, and I'm inviting YOU to come witness it's growth!

Kzincam!

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(No, it's not MY cam. This is the cam of a guy who lives in Seattle.)

You the public, view public streets in a suburb of Seattle. Sure, it looks boring at first. But keep watching.

Odd things are afoot in the streets of Seattle...

Hysteria

I think I may be just the teensiest bit hysterical. I chose colors for my most ambitious project to date, a King-size afghan. I chose Homespun as the softest and thickest yarn, which limited the colors I could choose from. I wanted Colonial and Country, which would have been navy blue and a nice deep dark green, but of course Country has been disconinued, and Colonial didn't look right with the other greens that were available.

Caron would have been a good choice too, and I could have gotten the dark colors I wanted, but it couldn't have been as thick and non-holey as I wanted, either. In the end, I selected (from left to right in the picture) Black, Williamsburg (grey blue), Windsor (light grey blues and greens), and Regency (grey greens).

I'm still trying to decide whether I want to do a double-strand ripple, or large, 15"-ish squares. I think the squares might be more managable, but a ripple would be very pretty too. If I chose squares, I'd have to decide whether to use single or double crochet.

Since the project will most likely take me quite a while to finish, I wanted to get all the yarn I would need up front, since Homespun colors have that nasty habit of getting discontinued when you least expect. I purchased a grand total of 25 skeins! I became quite intimidated when I saw them laying out on the couch.

The "Crochet Hat," Part Deux

I won't go into all the little problems I had with this piece. I've never had to create a pattern from scratch before, so it was a learning experience in more ways than one! My crowning (pun intended) achievement: the buckle. After a good five or six fabric and thrift stores, I finally found the perfect buckle. Now I know why other women like shopping so much. I felt as though I had won the lottery.

Anyhow! I think this ended up pretty close. Pretty darn close, if I do say so myself. I'm still arguing with the brim about whether it's going to bend or not, but I feel confident in my ability to whip it into line.