Day job out of control, trying to get the pattern that just got out of testing into final shape to release, and summer vacation just got underway. And it doesn’t help at all that Michael finally badgered me into reading George R. R. Martin. Page-turners, but long when you read in half-hour chunks.
Coming soon: pattern release, finally a Peaches & Creme review, and more. Stay tuned…
I’d have more to offer on the finished project front if I weren’t so totally wrapped up in working on gifties for the new nephew who will be arriving sometime around the first of September. I don’t know if my brother reads my blog, so I’m not going to post a thing.
I’ve also got about 7 other things going on in the background, at least one of which will be seen soon. So I’ll have some, you know, actual content. LOL.
Have to work today, which is always a joy. I think half the world will be at the parade. Bad for sales, good for my sanity. Fingers crossed.
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Here we have the old Peaches & Creme, the new Peaches & Creme, and Sugar ‘n’ Cream:
Which one is which?
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Posted in Yarn
Totally new yarn that has been released under the Peaches & Creme name. The mill was closed and the name was bought and now I’m seeing the new version at my local Walmart and decided to give it a try. Any excuse for more dishcloths!
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Slow and steady, right?
Work continues to be a bit of a living nightmare. Home Office keeps adding things to the must-do list while cutting payroll. I know that a lot of folks are in the same boat with this right now, because employers are well aware that they’ve got us trapped. They’ll no doubt be surprised when their best people leave as soon as things pick up. It’s part of the cycle of corporate life.
I have a pattern ready to go to testing. It’s been a 5-minutes-here, 5-minutes-there thing, with the day job having to take precedence, so I’m wicked excited about the possibility of finally getting another pattern released. Hopefully that will happen in the next couple of weeks.
Spent last weekend in Maine, trying to relax and pretty much failing. It was gorgeous, though, and the company was good. We went to see X-Men First Class at the drive-in…I don’t think I’ve been to a drive-in since high school, and the movie was fantastic. Crazy fun!
I made an addition or three to my growing stack of dishcloths this weekend. School is inching closer to getting out, and the summertime is adding a level of chaos to the kids’ behavior that’s just a tad exhausting. It was 90-odd degrees today, so they’re even nuttier than summer normal. Lovely New England weather, lol.
And that is, I think, about it for the moment. 🙂
Via a post in the Ravelry forums today, I found this artist, who works in crochet that is absolutely stunning. Just wow.
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A few years ago, as I was tumbling through the crochet corner of the blog world, I stumbled upon a pair of tutorials (here and here) on chainless foundation stitches and I fell in love. Hard. And suddenly everything was chainless, and it was good. Well, until I discovered that I still liked a good old-fashioned starting chain for some edges, but that’s another story, and it doesn’t detract one whit from how crazy brilliant these foundation stitches are.
Anyway, these things still seem to cause a good bit of confusion–hell, they confuse me sometimes, if I go a long time without using them–and apparently that carries over into the professional crochet world. Doris Chan just had an experience illustrating that Foundation Single Crochet is not standardized just yet. And she not only posted about that, she posted a link to the best tutorial/explanation/sheer expression of awesomeness I’ve seen on the subject.
Definitely worth a visit. If you crochet at all, it’s fascinating stuff.