Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Crochet class!


The crochet class at the community center started last Wednesday! Yippee! I've been bugging the woman who started the whole thing about it since July. It took a while for her to get the teachers together but it's finally started and I love it. I taught myself Tunisian crochet (which I am still learning everyday) but this is a regular crochet class which I knew very little about. It's exciting!

There are a few more women in the class now but this is the picture from the first class. I'm the one in the faded Jerry Garcia tie-dye.

If I can get my offspring fed and bathed and my mountains of laundry put away in decent time, I'll post pictures of what I've made so far from what I've learned in class. For now my Tunisian projects are kind of on the back burner while I try to get the hang of traditional crochet. I don't get confused going back and forth between projects, but I do hold my hook in a knitting position for Tunisian and that's doesn't work in traditional. So right now, I'm just trying to get the hang of getting comfortable holding my hook the "normal" way. Being slightly abnormal has always been my specialty, though!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Yep, I am a blog slacker.

I admit it. I'm also wondering why this layout is so very light pinkish. Wth? I'm changing it, pronto. I fixed my camera settings so my pictures won't be so blurry...I kept thinking it was the lighting.

I've probably made 5 or 6 things and given them away since I last posted without taking pictures, but that's OK, I'm always making new stuff. Current WIPs: a pillow that's almost finished, 2 cowls that still need buttons sewn on them, and a scarf that's inspired by a Pink Floyd album (you'll see), and another pillow that's about 3/4ths of the way complete.

Finished projects that I still have and may just keep for myself: A wool cowl and a scrap scarf.

Ideas: Bikini. I know it sounds weird but I found this hippie crocheted bikini in a catalog and I know I can make one myself (maybe not for me but for someone) only in my own design. Maybe in rainbow colors. I'm going to give it a shot.

I look forward to the sunshine and warmth that Tom Clark promised us for the end of the week. :-D