I am spending the next week or so at my parents' home dog/house sitting, this is not new news. I brought one duffel bag full of clothing. I also brought about 4 duffel bags, in addition to other such bags, of knitting and crochet supplies, tools, and yarns. This is nothing new for me. I always bring four or more times the amount of knitting and crochet items than I do clothing when I come here. I try to decide which projects I am likely to want to work on or start, which tools and yarns I might want to use on these projects, a choice of yarns for these projects, and a choice of patterns in case I might need them. If I do not bring these options I end up wishing that I had! This isn't true of everywhere I go, just when coming over to my parents' home for a stay. I may NOT want to figure out why, I may just want to live with it.
Back to creativity.
I am working on a selfish crochet project, "Petals" , from "Crochet So Fine" by Kristin Omdahl. (It;s the project on the book's cover.) I am making some progress, finally, after crocheting a gauge swatch. Now if this had been a knit project I would have done a gauge swatch right off the bat without thinking. With this being a crochet project I went immediately into to it without swatching or thinking. After wasting a bit of yarn, time, and frustration, I decided to do a gauge swatch. Since I am rather huge I need every bit of sizing in this cardigan that I can get. The swatch, according to pattern, is to be 3.5 inches blocked. To squeeze out a little larger of a size I went for an unblocked swatch of 3.5 inches, and this took going up a size in hook. Once I did this I restarted yesturday and went "gangbusters" making more progress in one day than I had managed in all the time before! I post a photo tomorrow when the lighting is better to get a good one.
While getting ready to come over here, I found a bag of Baby Yarn in soft pastel colors. I bought it nearly two years ago to make a baby gift for someone who then miscarried. She has since then successfully carried a beautiful baby boy to full term. (He's nearly 6 months old now!) I need to get busy and create something for this beautiful baby boy using this yarn, but what? Probably a baby afghan, but deciding on which pattern to do will take almost as much work as actually making it will! Any suggestions of what patterns to do? Knitting and/or crochet? I'll entertain all ideas.
Well that's it for now. Stay safe and remember, Keep it in stitches!
Back to creativity.
I am working on a selfish crochet project, "Petals" , from "Crochet So Fine" by Kristin Omdahl. (It;s the project on the book's cover.) I am making some progress, finally, after crocheting a gauge swatch. Now if this had been a knit project I would have done a gauge swatch right off the bat without thinking. With this being a crochet project I went immediately into to it without swatching or thinking. After wasting a bit of yarn, time, and frustration, I decided to do a gauge swatch. Since I am rather huge I need every bit of sizing in this cardigan that I can get. The swatch, according to pattern, is to be 3.5 inches blocked. To squeeze out a little larger of a size I went for an unblocked swatch of 3.5 inches, and this took going up a size in hook. Once I did this I restarted yesturday and went "gangbusters" making more progress in one day than I had managed in all the time before! I post a photo tomorrow when the lighting is better to get a good one.
While getting ready to come over here, I found a bag of Baby Yarn in soft pastel colors. I bought it nearly two years ago to make a baby gift for someone who then miscarried. She has since then successfully carried a beautiful baby boy to full term. (He's nearly 6 months old now!) I need to get busy and create something for this beautiful baby boy using this yarn, but what? Probably a baby afghan, but deciding on which pattern to do will take almost as much work as actually making it will! Any suggestions of what patterns to do? Knitting and/or crochet? I'll entertain all ideas.
Well that's it for now. Stay safe and remember, Keep it in stitches!
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