SnarCraft

I finished it! I just want to start by saying that, despite it being two weeks since I last posted (more on this below), I finished that infernal blanket about that long ago, too. I wove in the ends and sewed on the accents and practically chucked it at The Pirates. I also warned Claire that if anything on the blanket broke I wasn’t fixing it for at least 12 months. She understands, she has these feelings sometimes too. It’s why we jiive so well. ;o) Here’s the finished product. It looks more like an albino toucan than a narwahl, in my opinion, but pirates also have birds so it’s still on brand. I’m calling it a win. Remember, I’m not a crocheter, the fact that it looks remotely like an animal, let alone one that I can reasonably argue would fit logically into a pirate family, is a win for me! I think that crochet project zapped me of any knitting mojo I might have had for anyone else. I have a theory that trying to bend yarn in ways that feel very unintuitive for me  (I s...

Dear Yarn Stash, Please don’t hate me. I promise I haven’t been intentionally neglecting you for the yarn I met while on holiday in Melbourne . I’m sure you can agree that new relationships come with a little bit of new relationship euphoria, but that doesn't mean you still don’t have a special place in my heart. I think the fact that I have not supplanted any of you guys from the Shelf of Showing Off, is testament that the new yarns have not replaced you in my eyes. Yes everything I have cast on since returning from my holiday has been from the yarn I brought home, but I have not frogged a single pre-existing project to poach needles or cables. These new projects are merely experiments with new techniques, that I’m perfecting before I try them on your beautiful skeins. The lattice work sock that I just completed? It means nothing! Like I explained when I got home, I cast-on that project while away because I needed something to work on during the Stitch Nights in Melbourne....

Happy Monday everyone! I hope those of you starting your week with the rest of us had a lovely weekend and those of you still on weekend time - well... I suppose that's ok and you should just keep on enjoying that. (I'm not bitter at all!) Honestly this weekend wasn't bad at all as far as weekends go. It didn't start off so great - Youngling was being twelve from the moment she got home from school until we sent her to bed. Saturday fared much better than Friday night, though. We just queued up a bunch of tv episodes, staked out a place on the lounge room floor for each of us to break out a hobby, and had a family chill-out bonding day. I spent most of my time loving on my Rockefeller Wrap . I am rapidly developing a love-hate relationship with this project. The design is stunning, it's art-deco and steampunk and gives me daydreams of clockwork and robots and spaceships all at once. The finished piece is so right up my alley that I knew I had to knit it as soo...