Friday night was a meeting of the shawl ministry. I brought along the two shawls I crocheted last week, along with the Wailea shawl and 1600 yards of heaven. We only had six people at the meeting, though other members had dropped their shawls off earlier in the day. In total, we had 16 shawls, so a quarter of them were from me! One of the members ( Read more... )

Several weeks back birds_sing told me about NaKniSweMo, a challenge to knit a sweater during the month of November. I don't think my knitting skills are that up to par yet, but I'm pretty decent with crochet (when I'm not confusing tr for dc, that is *grins*) so I set about looking for a good pattern ( Read more... )

xnera: so i've been crocheting an afghan for my mom
xnera: and i love the colors and the pattern
xnera: but it's coming out wavy o_O okay, yes, it's a ripple pattern so there's supposed to be ripples but it's not laying flat
xnera: i thought maybe it would flatten when I block it
xnera: and so I just continued on
xnera: in the bathroom today. need something to read, so I ( Read more... )

ymmat crocheted a hat recently. I expressed enthusiasm about it, so she told me the pattern. So ( I made one too. )