Monthly Archives: April 2008

A drive-by blogging.

I think I just developed a total blog crush on Fleegle.

Thatisall.

I should have taken pictures.

So I got home from my interview yesterday to find that my two older children had destroyed…tangled, stomped, and partially soaked…most of the yarn I’d left sitting on my desk. I was planning to make more dishcloths to restock the shop a bit. Um, plan B?

I think I have another set of the same colors, but I’ll need to dig. And order sooner than I would otherwise. And it’s so not a good time for them to destroy supplies! For the love of love, I was off interviewing in the first place because there’s no money to keep things going! *headdesk* The business would be paying for itself rather neatly by now if I weren’t diverting every. cent. to paying outside bills. And those are about to hopelessly swamp us anyway.

*sigh* They’re 3 and 2. What do they know? But it still makes me sad. And today, instead of making, I’ll be de-tangling and seeing if I can save some of it for my own little projects, at least. So not what I had wanted to do, but the longer I put it off, the worse it will be. So here goes…

I wonder how many times I can call my lack of updates “ridiculous” and get away with it…

Silly life.

I finished my piece for the freeform crochet challenge I referenced earlier…no sharing until the show is up but if you’d like to see some incredible freeform go poke around this site: http://freeformcrochet.com/ Amazing stuff. (Note to self…that should be in the sidebar.)

I’m scrambling to get the shop restocked, so it’s dishcloths, dishcloths, dishcloths for now, which is fine because I love doing them. I’ve got a job interview tomorrow, so with any luck I’ll be even busier before too long. Bad for blogging, good for eating. Food is good. Full stop. LOL.

More as soon as I can manage it.

Pure Genius.

This is.

Very, very, VERY cool.

I am no longer waffling about making another granny ‘ghan. Not with this little tool in my arsenal…

Freeform Weekend

I’m more than half-finished with my piece for the 2008 International Freeform Crochet Challenge, which is wonderful not just because it needs to be done Real Soon Now but also because it’s starting to come together and I did not, as I had feared, produce some unworkable *thing* that would have to be tossed out the window and run over repeatedly for the good of humanity. I’m actually rather pleased with it so far. We’ll have to see if it turns out the way I’m picturing it. I may not be so pleased by the end of the day, lol. Unfortunately, I can’t show this one to you right now. Fortunately, that means that once the show is up I’ll have tons of freeform-y goodness to link you to.

And that’s pretty much been my weekend. The weather has been unexpectedly lovely, so we did some work out in the yard and let the kids run around like kids out there yesterday, which was awesome for everyone involved. Not what I had planned to do, but it worked! So I guess the rest of my weekend has been a bit freeform, too. Heh.

Off to a fine start!

I got a few things photographed that needed to be mailed off, I finished a package of charity square-lets I’d been working on, and I finished/photographed a few new dishcloth sets for the store. I also started the spring cleaning in earnest today, since it finally feels like spring here. I heard it’s supposed to last a whole day, ROFL. Have I mentioned lately that I love New England?

Next up: a pair of freeform projects that have been hanging over my head. And I’ll probably work on the magic scarf while we watch the Idol results, since that’s official goof-off time.

After those three things are finished, we’ll see what’s next. I have a couple of bigger things hanging around, too…

I have got a serious case of the starts.

That sounds as awful as it is, doesn’t it? LOL. Seriously, I’m looking around my workspace and figuring that it’s time to damned well finish a thing or seven. I’m holding out a project or three that I desperately want to start right now as rewards.

Y’all, it’s so bad I’m not even sure what’s there. At least the girls pulled the needles out of my Squidge for me today, and since I was maybe a quarter done at the most I just frogged the thing. One down! ROFL!

I’m going to start at one corner of my desk and go until I hit the end. Wish me luck…I could get lost in here. 🙂

Yay!

The new Crochet Insider is up! 🙂

A Practically Hyperbolic Dishcloth

Remember these?

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The pattern is now available! It’s up on Ravelry right now, and I’m in the process of getting it a page set up here and listing it at Etsy, too. Yay!

ETA: OK, it’s everywhere. 😀

Catching up.

Well then. I certainly wasn’t expecting to take quite that much of a break. Silly life, always getting in the way of my better intentions!

I’ve been absolutely blasting through my pile of UFOs, so there ought to be some yummy stuff in the shop in the next week or so. Mostly dishcloths of one variety or another, and at least one pattern that should be ready to list at Etsy and on Ravelry tomorrow. So it’s going to be quite an exciting week that way.

I’ve also been managing to finish off some little side projects of my own, mostly of the knitting-is-fun variety. Eventually I’ll have FO pics to share, but I’ve got to clean off the camera first.

Also? Tracie from Shade Tree Crochet has been pattern testing for me and I have to tell you all that she is absolutely the most fantastic person to work with! I almost don’t want to tell you how awesome she is because I want to keep her awesomeness all to myself, lol. Seriously, though, thank you, Tracie! You’re incredible. 🙂

And I think that’s about it for the moment. If you don’t hear from me for another little while, I’ve jumped on the looking-for-a-day-job wagon, so things are a little busy that way, too. If anybody needs an admin type virtually or in SE Mass, let me know!

See you soon.