Only by Hand?

I was just reading something about the crochet hats worn by Sweden’s athletes at the Winter Olympics (which I’ve written about before, in the blog entry linked), when this statement caught my eye: “Crochet cannot be done by machine.” Is this really, truly true? In my quick googling, I’ve found several people saying the same […]

***Procrastination Afghan Update*** ;o)

I’m happy to report that the little mistake I made– and the simple fix I came up with for it– seem to have worked out perfectly fine.  It didn’t set in motion a horrible chain event of problems.  In fact, I doubt I could even find it now, without counting many, many stitches. I think […]

Still Crocheting Away!

I just realized that I haven’t updated on my progress on the Procrastination Afghan. Well, I’m still crocheting away at it at least a little almost every day. I like doing a little in bed at night to unwind before going to sleep (with the TV going in the background or the mp3-player providing a […]

What’s Wrong with Doilies?

I know they aren’t for everyone, but then again, hardly anything is.   I just finished reading something somewhere (we won’t go into specifics, because they don’t really matter) that seemed to contain a bit of a jab against granny squares, ripple afghans, and doilies– which are apparently “old lady projects” that make crochet less than […]

National Month of Annoyance Over National Months ;o)

Apparently, March is National Crochet Month and National Craft Month. Busy month! P.S.  I kind of hate all that “National This ‘n’ That Month” stuff.  It just seems so pointless.  It might have made sense once upon a time, when few things had “national months”, but these days, everything has an official national month, it […]

Sweden, the Olympics, & . . . Crochet?

You’ve probably already heard about this, if you follow any crochet blogs, but I want to document it on my own little blog, since it’s the kind of thing that might be fun to remember in ten or twenty years (assuming I back up my entries and they even exist that far into the future).  […]