Update & Ohmywow

I am still working on the afghan.  This thing will never end.  It would’ve been done a while ago, if I’d put in enough time on it, but since I haven’t… it isn’t.  I’m ready to start the final round, though.  Tonight!  I’ve found (my opinion of) the perfect border, in someone else’s photos of […]

The Home Stretch

I’m in the home stretch on the Gypsying afghan.  Just ten more hexagons to join… Then forty ends to weave (because I haven’t yet woven in the ends from the last ten I joined)… Then ten half-hexies to crochet… And all those ends to weave… Then deciding what border I want… And crocheting that… And […]

Temperature vs. Humidity in the Race to Dry

I added some more motifs to the Gypsying afghan, over the weekend, and this afternoon I laid it out on the bed where I could look at it.  Placing the still unattached motifs beside it, I think I’ve worked out how many more rows/columns I need to add.  (Two of each.)  Then I’ll have to […]

Queued Up

One of my resolutions at the beginning of the year was to get my Ravelry queue under control.  This morning I took a couple of steps in the right direction. I deleted a few items from the queue– things I’d either already made or had changed my mind about– but I left most of them […]

More Chit-Chat

I still haven’t taken all the photos I’ve been meaning to, but I snapped a few the other day.  First up, that’s my Thick & Quick Ribbed Cowl. It took pretty much a whole skein of Loops & Threads Charisma and was a super-simple pattern, so long as you know how to purl and knit […]

Chit-Chat

No photos today.  Maybe tomorrow.  :o) I’m still working on the Gypsying afghan.  You may have noticed that it’s taking a while.  (g)  It’s still a joyful project, though, so let it take as long as it will! – – – – – – – Over the weekend, I put in some knitting time on […]

Around the Corner Crochet Borders

Here’s the second of the crochet book reviews I wrote but never published.  It wasn’t finished, so I’ve completed it, now.  (In other words, the opinions expressed are quite up to date. (g)) – – – – – – – Last time I wrote a review, it was for Edie Eckman’s (first) book of crochet […]

Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs

Aha! I found the book reviews I wrote for this blog– only apparently I never hit the “Publish” button, so they’ve just been sitting in limbo all this time.  (“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”… (g)) I’ll go ahead and post them, now, just so […]

Random, Rambly Thoughts

The Swedish word for “pattern” is “mönster”, which for some reason I have a very hard time remembering.  So whenever I happen across a Swedish craft blog with the word “mönster” in the title (or elsewhere), it always makes me do a double-take.  And then I laugh a little to myself… and think about a […]

Checking In

Just popping by briefly, today.  :o) I made as many more of the floral motifs as I could stand.  (I think it was about 44 or so.)  Now (as of yesterday evening) I’m back to joining them up again.  I’ll probably need a few more to even things up– as well as the half-hexies to […]