Category Archives: Crochet

So I finally got up the guts to see if any of the folks at the ‘ville would test my last pattern for me.

These guys:

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I may go a little nutty waiting to see. But I’m a little nutty anyway.

My mother is leaving in about half an hour, and I think I’m hiding over here a bit. Of course, at the moment she’s outside smoking like a madwoman, since it’ll be a long trip without cigarettes, lol. I’m not good with big ol’ emotional scenes.

Got a little bit of sleep last night and I feel some better than I did. I think this baby is going to be one I’ll have to co-sleep with, because he’s just too cuddly and fond of eating all night for me to get enough sleep otherwise. He takes his time about his meals, and with the lack of napping potential with the older two around I’m going to need to sleep through that as much as I can.

I’m shocked at how productive I’ve been the last couple of weeks, but I’m definitely wearing down a bit. It’s hard every time to adapt to how much more time it takes me to do things under new-baby conditions.

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.

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…

Sorry I’ve been so quiet…

I just haven’t had a lot to say.

It’s been hot…like hide in our single air-conditioned room hot. And when it isn’t, I’ve been frantically trying to catch up with the housework. I’ve got a maximum of two weeks before this baby gets here and I’m getting a little stressed.

I made my first sale last week…a custom order that I think turned out pretty well. The person who bought it seemed thrilled, too, and I hope she still likes it as well after having a chance to use it.

I’m still stuck in dishcloth-making mode, though I’ve got a couple of other things brewing, too. It’s frustrating because my head is just full of ideas and I just don’t have the time to execute them. I should make detailed notes so that I can pick this back up in a couple of months. It’s going to be slow of necessity around here for a bit, given that newborns are cuddly things. (And it’s wonderful that they are! It’s just that I need two hands to crochet…lol).

Anyway, more when I get a chance. It’s bearable today, so I’m working through the laundry backlog. Fun stuff. 😀

I didn’t think I crocheted *that* tightly.

But I guess I do.

I decided to sit down and make one of Krystal’s squares today, so that I could get it finished and sent before Baby Boy makes his appearance. I bumped the hook up a size and still came up with the square being an inch too small across. Time to go after it with an even bigger hook, I’d guess. And maybe RHSS instead of Simply Soft…the soft yarns seem to be a bit lighter-weight…hmmm. We’ll see. I’ll have to try it again next naptime. Can’t do a thing with the little one helping. 😀