1.   I am crocheting The Black Sweater - that would be THE black sweater, the one I throw over everything when I'm cold, and wear with my hair in braids and glasses on when I'm feeling that way.  I love my other one, but it's got MASSIVE holes in the elbows these days, and it's wool, which makes me itch and break out.  I totally just made up the ( Read more... )

Cast on new skein to previously completed row.

Triple-crochet 4 for blanket border.

TC in front stem of next 4.

TC back stem of next 4.

Remove yarn from kitten.

TC front, 4.

Remove kitten from yarn.

TC back 4.

Remove yarn from kitten, move skein farther away from kitten.

TC front 4.

Remove kitten from under blanket; place kitten on top of blanket ( Read more... )

WHAT a fantastic day. I'm bein' all creative n stuff ( Read more... )

( It ar finished. )

So, I'm crocheting a TUBE today. Found this really gorgeous yarn on sale for a dollar a skein the other day (!) - it's this really wonderful mix of wine- and blood-red; very nubbly and scrunchy and soft...and very sexy, I think. It was also a royal bitch to work with at first because it was so lumpy (as evidenced by the fact that I fucked up and ( Read more... )

When my Aunt Nancy had a radical hysterectomy (uterus, cervix, and ovaries) in her early thirties, she was very upset, both about her new inability to bear children, and about the fact that part of her - a very important part - was gone ( Read more... )