hello again crafty blog

i've been distracted from crafting, i have no excuse.

i finished my mittens then started to make some squares to use up some acrylic but I've had no printer and couldn't print the pattern. it annoyed me to set up my lap top next to me every time i wanted to crochet. but now thanks to a new job I have a printer and a black berry so my patterns can travel with me. However, I've moved on to attempting bunny slippers. it's slow going as i'm trying very hard to keep myself busy outside of my apartment these days.

But, here are some bad ass skull pot holders i made for candace ever and ever ago. I think they might have been meant as a christmas present but i just go to give them to her when i saw her last (two?) weekends ago.

I like how they came out, changing colors is fun plus there's no weaving in ends til the end. I might make a set for myself... but for now on to pics!

winter crochet!

Back in January I wrote this post about my 2010 yarn stash and how it has grown epically behind closed closet doors. Furthermore, whenever Candace comes to visit, we always go to knit-a-bit and I buy random fancy yarn that I don't need.

Well, after all that, here's what that turned into.



I actually crocheted nearly half of it into blocks thinking using different stitches would make it look neat and random, but fail, it looked awful. So I tried out some granny squares and it's somewhat cool! I bought a sweet purple coat not to long ago and it matches nicely. It's not long enough to be a decent scarf really, but chunky enough to fold in half and wrap around my neck, then tuck through the loop. The wool is a little itchy though... :o( but that's what I get for buying things on sale just for the sake of buying things on sale.

I'm behind on posting winter crochet projects, but there's things to be done with this afternoon, so off I go, and I'll post them later.