That's me. While my head is busy being in a not good place, my crafting skilz are taking the fore.
Currently on hook - pink lace shawl (at 12 inches) and red sock (at one cuff). Both good portable projects, at least at this stage.
Finally a plan - I'm 'posed to make my sis a blanket/afghan type thing. I was going to use this log cabin square pattern but it requires having three colors active at once, in amounts to large to bobble. And the pattern is a little daunting. But today (finally) a light bulb went off. If you peek over at the sidebar you can see I'm supposedly in the 63 Squares CAL. I've had the book for a long while now (9 months probably) but haven't started because I needed to pick yarn and colors and had too many other projects pending. So it languished. Until I realized I have both yarn (in complementary colors) and the need for a blanket. So, tada, sis is getting the 63 squares blanket (i.e. 2 birds, 1 stone). I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier.
Then last night I finished the bag part of the felted rose bag.
It was felted today. I'm still working on the roses and the leaves and I think I'm going to use some plastic bamboo handles I have, instead of the yarn ones.
I've also had 4 hanks of KnitPicks dyable sock yarn taunting me for too long. I finally picked a pattern (Anika from Cool Crochet) and a color scheme and today the kool-aid commenced flowing.
First batch
Second batch
Final products (dyed yarn and bag all drying happily in the bathtub)
Obviously I used the sun tea method of dying and it worked great. One hank was all lemon-lime, 2 were mostly lemon-lime with one or two packs of berry blue and the last was mostly berry blue with one or two lemon-limes. Oddly enough, the green and little bit of blue hanks turned out a brighter green then the green alone.
I've also been busy dissolving blood clots.
Remember the painful toe-bashing incident. Yeah, so does the toe.
Lucy is just wondering when I'm going to stop stepping over her with bowls of yarn soup.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Busy little bee
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4 comments:
Where's you get the pattern for the bag? I've seen it in knit, but I can crochet it faster.
I guess you'd better go over to Heather's and repo the swift so you can wind your dyed yarn!
oh man, I was SO SURE by the end of your post I would see a picture of a koolaid-dyed Lucy!!
Very nice bag. I can't wait to see the finished product.
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