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.

valentines coasters

blogging on a wednesday morning!!! wwooooooo! snowy day here in jerz.

i made these about a month ago. got the pattern in my crochet today magazine. i made a set of 4 to use up some of my variegated worsted weight yarn.

more in the crochet adventures set.

my next mission, which will be ongoing, to use up some random worsted is attempting a blanket out of these squares. looks awesome, but i attempted to give one a whirl late last night and failed around round 4, not a good start. :o\ i wish it told me the number of stitches in a round. hmph...

2010 yarn stash

here it is.



a few months ago i moved all of my yarn from my closet to the book shelf so i would see it and crochet it all into things. i was inspired by candace's book shelf yarn stash.

i have plans for a lot of it...but its slow going... any good left over yarn crochet projects are welcome...

more pictures of new fancy yarn on my flikr page.