Archive for the ‘Crochet’ Category
I know I haven’t posted in the last couple of weeks. I have been super busy enduring a crochet marathon and writing my first pattern. Z had a birthday party the past two weekends and crazy me thought it would be great to make the gifts for both of them. So I did. A little cotton cap-sleeved cardigan of which I have zero pictures of since I finished it up while I was in the hospital and didn’t think to bring the camera with me and an Olivia the Pig which I have tons of pictures of but I am holding out until the pattern is finished. Yes, the pattern I am making is for a crochet version of Olivia the Pig. Haven’t decided yet whether she will be free or whether she will hyave to be purchased. I am still trying to type up all of my chicken scratch and make it into something that is clear and concise. I have had my fill already of patterns that frustrate the hell out of me. The typical pattern starts out great but around the halfway mark starts to go south. I know that is how mine is right now and so I am trying to improve upon it and make the first release good so that I hopefully won’t have to go back and edit it again. I know why it happens too. You start out with good intentions, writing down every step with all of the little details and then the further along you get, the more “in the zone” you get and it is hard to stop and write it down. At some point, you might even get to the point where you just want to be done already. That was how Olivia was for me.
What was it like writing your first pattern? Did any of this happen to you? I want some feed back and also somebody that might be willing to test out this pattern.
So I was sitting at my desk at work eating my lunch and I just happened to look down and what do I see growing where my thumb used to be… a yarn tumor. Don’t ask how that happened. I have no clue but here is a picture for your viewing pleasure.
So this is what I made for my Mom’s birthday present. You can find the pattern at Good Knits for free if you are interested. My mom absolutely loved them and was asking me all kinds of details about how I made them. It was very flattering since she has been hooking for longer than I have. I will definately be making more of these in the future. You can go to my Ravelry page if you want to know all the details about yarn and stuff that I used. I am trying to figure out this Flickr stuff for on here but it doesn’t seem to be cooperating with me today. Maybe it has something to do with the rain or the fact that it is Monday. Who knows?