vagueGirl

I think I’ve lost it again.  Perhaps I won’t even try to find it again this time.

Current Works in Progress List:

1. Traveling Scarf 1 – bamboo yarn for Cassady
2. Traveling Scarf 2 – Sock yarn for TelmahQ
3. Fair Isle scarf in Kashmira
4. Bounce In Wool of the Andes Bulky Hand-dye
5. Fetching in Andean Treasure
6. Toria’s Circle Coat in Wool of the Andes
7. Toria’s mini lace scarf (to match her Fresh Picked Color 3/4 Sleeve Cardigan)
8. Random acrylics bath rug in crochet with a mega-huge hook
9. I’m sure that there are one or two I’m forgetting

Current list of wannabe Works in Progress:

1. Bounce – again
2. Hat/mitt set for Chelsea
3. Morgan for my Dad
4. Mini-stocking and sweater ornaments for everyone
5. coffee cup cozies for three co-workers
6. Scarves to match all of the hats I’ve made so I can give them as gifts
7. Baby blocks for the nephew
8. Dr. Who scarf for The Boy
9. Various other Christmas presents I’ve forgotten about

Recycling Projects (need to get ball winder and fix swift):

1. Brown silk – wash and wind
2. Red wool blend – wash and wind
3. Aqua blend – finish frogging, wash, and wind

Current UFOs I want to finish before Christmas:

1. Almost High School Musical Blankets (3!) for nieces
2. Bunny Slippers

Current UFOs I may never finish:

1. Spiderweb blanket – not sure who it’s for!

Okay. i know I’m missing something, but i really needed to take a deep breath and catalog so I can confirm that I’ve lost my mind. 

Okee.  I’m tryin’!

I made this shawlette a while back but didn’t know who would be the recipient.  Found out today (yesterday) who that would be.

Grandma D (boyfriend’s grandma)    I think she really appreciated it (she is a knitter – er, used to knit and has been thinking of getting back into it – perhaps I will turn her on to ravelry!) and will actually use it (shock!).

I suck at images right now.  I’ll figure it out.

Oh, and I used my boyfriend’s phone camera to take these because I can’t find my digital… bad when you’re in the middle of moving!!!!

Free Pattern (may need to sign up with Knitting Daily)

cheers!

Hmmm…

Somehow I don’t think this blog thing will ever work out for me, but as I told my boyfriend before, I do think that if it were my job or a part of my work/job/money-making endeavour, that I’d find the time to do it regularly.  I do know that there are folks out there that are waaaaaaay better at keeping up with their blogs all the while feeding multiple children, keeping hubby happy, working at a j-o-b, knitting/crocheting/scrapping/crafting/spinning/dyeing up a storm, and finding time to eat and sleep.  They’re just better than me!!!  ;P

But I’m-a-gonna do my best.

I’ve joined a group at ravelry called The Traveling Scarves.  I’m so excited about starting that I think I’ve begun my scarf already:

More pics later!  Gotta run.

(eta:  finally fixed the silly pic.  grrr)

(eta – again!:  Link to free pattern for this “Meandering Rib Scarf” Notes: you may need to sign up with Lion Brand Yarn for this and I only used 1 to 1.5 repeats of pattern for what I needed)

Okay.

I said I wouldn’t do it but I did it anyway. I went over to the knit side. So far:

• Socks for my mom using a modified take on this Wavy Ribs pattern*.
• Random Persian and Homespun size 50 needles scarves that I made up a pattern for.
• A lace wrap pattern* from Lion Brand Yarns using black acrylic lt worsted weight yarn.

*You have to have a login to see these patterns. Lion Brand is just an easy-peasy sign up, plus they have loads of other free patterns to look through. The other one is way more complicated, but if you email me, I’ll send you my login email address so you don’t have to deal with signing up for it.

Oh lord. If you’re a first time knitter (or first time in 30 years knitter like me) don’t start with socks knit on size 2 DPNs (double pointed needles) and a lace pattern wrap with multiple ‘yo’s and ‘k3tog’s (when you have to look up what that means) using dark yarn. I seem to have started with the worst, so maybe it will get easier as I go.

Don’t get me wrong – I love how my items look and feel! Just expect to spend a lot of time frogging (ripping out) your work to fix problems or start over until you really get the hang of it.

Cheers!

~vague.Girl

I think I’ve been crocheting too much. I seem to have lost my mind. But here’s a pic of those mittens that I never posted the last time I was here.

Oh me, oh my.
Never done this before.
Am I doing it right?
Is there a right way???
To blog or not to blog… it’s taken me a while to get to it. But I think it fits.

So, I’m obsessed with crochet.
I’m practicing on mittens that I can donate to worthy causes so I don’t freak out if they look a little odd. I think I’m getting better, but everything turns out a smidge (okay, more than a smidge, but who’s looking?) smaller than it should be. And, no, I’m still too lazy to do the swatch sizing test for my gauge. I figure, there’s lots of different sizes of hands and all of the mittens I’m making will fit someone, right?

I already have a beef, I’m afraid to confess:
What’s with the knit-lockdown? For every non-doily, non-washcloth, non-amigurumi, yet still cool crochet pattern I find, there are about 300 knit ones of the like. Talk about frustrating. Well, I’m not switching over to the knit just yet. I like crochet. It’s simple, uncomplicated, and it amazes me what you can make with one little hook and a ball of yarn.

Okee dokee. That’s a good start, eh?
Cheers