Monthly Archives: August 2007

Pattern progress.

The new pattern for the little alien critters is coming along nicely, even with the baby helping me. 😀 The one I made to use as illustration for the pattern turned out really wonderfully. I’m thinking to make one more and photograph it as well, just to help show the variation that is possible. Besides, they’re fun to make.

My mind is absolutely bursting with ideas right now, and I’m not sleeping nearly as much as I should be as a result. I’m feeling happy and productive, though, and isn’t that what counts?

Things are slowly returning to normal.

I’m working on a pattern for one of my favorite aliens, and on some washcloths that I think are turning out rather nicely. It’s a struggle to carve out the time, and I should probably be sleeping instead of crocheting, but it makes me saner than I would be otherwise, so it’s going down in my book as officially a Good Thing.

It helps immeasurably to be blessed with a calm baby. Well, at least he’s calm so far. Can you hear me knocking on wood? LOL.

Two items: first, this sounds so much like our house lately that I wound up reading it to my husband and my mother, both of whom laughed even harder than I did. And second, this is an absolutely brilliant way to do amigurumi hair, and a really good explanation of how her method works, and I don’t know any better way to thank a blogger than with a link. 😀 Thanks, Owly. You rock.

…And we’re back.

For very busy values of back, so forgive the spotty posting for the meanwhile. I’m still working, but it’s incredibly slow.

More when I’ve had a bit longer to adjust…

Back Next Week.

Off to have a baby…

Yay!!!

Sold my first pattern this morning.

God, I hope she likes it.

Progress.

Pattern? Finished. Another project, too. Trying to figure what to do next. Hard to get photos tomorrow, I’ll be gone during the good light. Maybe just dishcloths. I don’t have to concentrate so hard to make dishcloths. I wish I had time to work on more pattern-y stuff right now…I really enjoyed refining and finishing that first one. Ah, well. The work will be slowing, not stopping, for a while, but I’ll sure as anything get back to it.

Off to bed, before I make any less sense.

Exhausted.

Between all of the car drama this week and a couple of good nights of sleep, I’ve got all I can do to stay awake today. You know how when you’ve been sleeping badly for a while and you get a night of really deep sleep it makes you feel really, really tired all over again? Oh, yeah. It cooled off quite a bit here and it’s just been awesome. I’m so ready for summer-summer to be over. I love summer-fall, and I think it’s here. Been able to feel it in the air for a few days now…the heat comes back, on and off, but you can tell it just came over for coffee and has no intention of spending the night.

Sheesh. What a mangled metaphor.

Work-wise, I just finished a custom order (which I really, really hope she likes), I’m within some computer tricks of having my first pattern complete and ready to sell, and I’ve got another item or two or so that can go up, and a couple of things to re-photograph for relisting later. I’d like to have a few things ready for when I go back to the shop after the birth. There’s another potential custom job pending, too. I can’t believe how busy I’ve become with all of this or how happy it’s making me. I am really, truly loving what I’m doing. And that might just be one of the best feelings there is.

Housework-wise, I need to abandon this post and go mop the kitchen floor before it gets any warmer today. Oh, yay. The living room is trashed at this point,too since we’ve been eating in here. The kitchen table has become a computer lab of sorts. Which is fine and dandy. I actually rather expected it…the husband’s got way, way more computer equipment than is going to fit even in a reconfigured version of his office. It’s just inconvenient. But inconvenient can move in if it pays the bills…

Midwife tomorrow. I always get nervous for these because I feel like they’re just looking for an excuse to evict the little one. Luckily, I’m seeing the calmest gal in the whole group. Then Friday morning it’s pre-op at the hospital, and Monday morning we’re having a baby.

So I’m off, I guess, to start blasting through the list of things that have to be done before then…

As much as I hate assembling amigurumi…

I love that moment when you start to work on a face and as soon as you make that first stitch they start to develop this personality that’s so remarkably strong for what they are, you know?

10 days to go.

Must be time for a WIP/to do list. I don’t want to forget anything before my hands become too busy holding the baby to pick up a hook. 😀 I don’t think it’s going to be an overly long break, but so much will depend on the temperament of the little one…the first I held constantly for months, the second couldn’t wait to be put down. So who really knows what I’m getting myself into here? LOL. Anyway, to be finished:

green/white cloth in progress
–pattern in progress
–photograph rest of finished projects
daisy square Going in the mail in the morning! (Note to self, K, RHSS.)
–possibly make more cloths…I have lovely cotton for them already…
–custom order! Yay!

Hmm…I feel like I’m forgetting something. I suspect I’ll be adding to the list…but at least it’s here. Because my brain is like a steel, er, sieve right now…

It’s been a huge day here. Huge!

I made my first sale on Etsy.

And I finally got my first 5 squares in the mail for this project:

Share a Square

I’m hoping to be able to contribute a few more here and there over the coming months. I just can’t promise a thing with the baby on the way. I think it’s a great project, though, and the more people she can get squares from, the better, so if you’re out there and squarely inclined at all, you might want to drop a few in the mail.

The other project I’ve got going on outside the shop is to get at least one square made for Krystal as promised. I’ve just got to get the size right…