Totally spending New Year’s Eve playing with yarn and poking around Ravelry. I’ve been so slow to really use and appreciate that site. Have to take some pics and add projects soon.

I’m also working on a design that’s a rethinking of another design of mine, and it’s looking like it’ll wind up combining knit and crochet. Oooooh, heresy. But really? I think they play well together in this context, make things more interesting. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve done about 12 crocheted versions in the last week and I just wasn’t loving any of them. Heresy! LOL.

Of course, I got the Harmony Stitch Guides for crochet for Christmas, so the needles might be getting mighty lonesome pretty soon here.

Er, back to it. Carry on. Something like that!

Once upon a time, I thought I might recover from my years of schooling.

Apparently, I was wrong. I find it incredibly difficult to do things like “friend” people in Ravelry. I know better, but the social networking part of that particular revolution has been passing me by. I don’t do resolutions, but getting over myself that way is one of the ones I’m not making, lol.

Also? The whole “heart” thing on Etsy? Way too loaded for me. Easier to get over that one, though, since it’s classified in my head as *business* and I’m used to being more straightforward in that sort of situation. Also, I’m far, far better at separating out myself and my work than I used to be, so it doesn’t really bother me when those fluctuate, and I don’t worry when I unheart something.

The otherwise probably doesn’t belong on this particular blog. So I’ll spare ya. Who says I’m a big meanie? LOL.

Wasn’t planning such an extended break, but I have an extended family so I suppose these things are inevitable.

Now I’ve got to pack a week’s worth of housework into, well, today. Wish me luck.

Still finishing gifts, and I only have until Sunday. While this is completely, amazingly ideal because it means no rushing around on Christmas Day, it means that I have to finish things really, really soon now. So I’ll probably be missing until after Sunday at least. If I don’t see you until after Christmas, have a good one, ‘k?

To the folks coming from Crochet Pattern Central! Glad you’re here!

What is the deal with uneven button eyes? Because I was just getting ready to sew uneven button eyes on a doll I’ve been working on, and I realized that half of the stuffie/plushie/whathaveyous that I’ve seen in the last couple of months have uneven button eyes.

I mean, yeah, it looks wicked cool, but whaaaaa? You know? I always wonder how these things get started.

I will never, ever regret moving to New England.

I’m resigned to winter.

But actively liking it? Ain’t gonna happen.

(And I wasn’t even the one who went out and shoveled the slushy muck out of the driveway. I don’t even like it from my nice warm chair. *sigh*)

(And OTOH? Great afghan-making weather!)