Do you see what happens when boredom strikes at work and you can't surf? Office programs being abused as platforms for art. God bless Excel.
Here they are, ready to be incorporated into some devilishly good crochet pattern. Hmm. How remiss of me to not attempt a devil!
Of course I had to make sure my graphs were not faulty so I churned out a few bookmarks.
I do love my skeleton, even if the teeny-tiny stitches were agonizing!
But of course I have other projects in the works as well... I'm actually (finally) making some progress with a Tunisian stitch tunic I've been putting together and so far my pattern notes are pretty clear. It's a remake of a store bought tunic I love. Scoop neck, empire waist, and long enough to cover the bum. So many good things about it. If this thing turns out there might be another pattern for sale!
But a girl can't have just one crochet project going at a time, can she? I was craftily seduced by the Szechuan Sweater pattern from Interweave Crochet's Fall 2009 issue the last time I chanced on the magazine in a yarn store. Suddenly a trip for a couple skeins of cotton yarn turned into a credit-card-blowout as I snatched up the magazine, a dozen skeins of delightfully soft Merino yarn and (just because I was on a roll) a new, more comfortable hook. Never mind that I've got a dozen things in the works at any given moment, but how can you resist a Robin Chachula pattern as awesome as this?
Then there's the skirt that's been sitting in my crochet bag for at least a couple months. (Okay, so it's not actually in skirt form yet. Right now it's just a bunch of skeins of red cotton yarn and a pattern, but you got to see the potential.) Well, I got a little too excited the first time the thermometer got over 40 degrees and decided I needed a summer skirt. So now that it's blustery and soggy outside I'm shelving it until the thermometer gets above 60, but I still love this pattern and I know it will be back on my hook in a month or two.
And finally, my new love...
I really am enjoying spinning. Especially now since I got myself some Merino fiber. It's so much nicer to work with and I'm finally spinning a lot more evenly- at a consistent fingering weight (I'm guessing.) So the new plan is to spin up enough fiber to make myself yet another triangle scarf. I want to spin the fiber, dye the yarn, create a pattern and crochet the finished piece. I can't think of anything more satisfying than following the whole process. I think the sheep shearing will have to come later. Much later.-Lyzard
