Category Archives: Crochet

Freeform Weekend

Posted on April 13, 2008 by deb | Comments Off

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.

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Off to a fine start!

Posted on April 10, 2008 by deb | Comments Off

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…

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I have got a serious case of the starts.

Posted on April 9, 2008 by deb | 1 comment

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. 🙂

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Yay!

Posted on April 9, 2008 by deb | Comments Off

The new Crochet Insider is up! 🙂

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A Practically Hyperbolic Dishcloth

Posted on April 7, 2008 by deb | 4 comments

Remember these?

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. 😀

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I just keep getting behinderer.

Posted on March 23, 2008 by deb | 1 comment

Thanks for your patience. My seven-month-old son had a weird allergic reaction a little over a week ago, so we’ve been running around in even more frantic circles than usual here trying to get him sorted out. We’ve got enough of a handle on things now to get back to normal (whatever that is, anyway!) so here’s an update on the crochet front:

First off, the pattern that I’ve been vaguely talking about since time began: almost done. I’ve been working on it so long I’m not sure how I feel about it any more, quite honestly, so when I’ve got the (hopefully) final version made all the way up, I’ll be getting in touch with folks who expressed an interest in testing. It’s a couple-few hours worth of work with RHSS, so if there’s anyone else out there who’s curious, let me know. If we can all stay reasonably healthy, this should be happening this week.

Secondly…oh, goodness, I know there was a secondly. I’ve been interrupted 5-ish times in the last paragraph, so I’m not sure what else I was going to write about. This is why folks sometimes get e-mail from me at 2 in the morning. It’s the only time I have the peace and quiet to get anything done! LOL.

More when I catch up with myself a bit more…

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Too exciting! (Updated!)

Posted on March 13, 2008 by deb | Comments Off

My patterns are now available for sale as Ravelry downloads! Yay!

If you’re on Ravelry, you can grab them there, I’m neatlytangled and the store is ‘Neatly Tangled Designs.’ If you’re not, I’m hoping to get buttons up here by the end of the day. I’ll update when I’ve managed to get it done. I’d hold off announcing it all if I weren’t so excited! LOL.

Updated: They’re up! You can find them using the patterns tab above, or here:

Bird of a Color
Little Birds in Their Nests

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It’s been a silly week.

Posted on March 9, 2008 by deb | 1 comment

So not much crocheting going on here. Working on some dishcloths for the shop, and another pattern that needs tidying-up and testing (any would-be testers in the audience?).

How ’bout you?

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Here’s a little pattern you might like.

Posted on March 4, 2008 by deb | 1 comment

I was playing around the other night and got such a big reaction from the kids over these that I went ahead and wrote it up: the Bring Spring! Bunnies: