I haven't been feeling too well, lately. Always tired and sad, always exhausted, always on the edge of tearing up, with a dash of "leave me alone" and "go fuck yourself ( Read more... )

Making baby blankets and scarves is fun, really. But after making about a gazillion blankies I needed a new challenge.
Hats! Lots and lots of hats! For kids, since I don't like wearing hats ;-)

I started with a very simple pattern and decorated the hats with crochet flowers and occhi butterflies.


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What happened to Livejournal? I was just getting familiar again with it, and it changes? Noooo! Change is bad! Sometimes ( Read more... )

I kid you not :)

While browsing ravelry.com, I found out that there is a difference between a wip (work in progress) and a ufo (unfinished object ( Read more... )

I did it again and ordered yarn online ;)


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Granny squares are charming in an old-fashioned way. They make for cute blankets and pillows, and I've seen crochet books with clothing entirely made of granny squares. They are cute little projects you can put in your purse and crochet on the bus, for example. Or you can make them with scraps of yarn. Yes, but there's always the downside: there ( Read more... )

When I was six or seven years old, my mother taught me how to crochet. I made chains until I ran out of yarn and lost interest. I haven't touched a hook in more than thirty years (yes, I'm that old^^)

When I started again, I did it with a classic pattern - the potholder.


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A couple of months ago I went through a very difficult phase in my life. I was very nervous and anxious and needed to find something to keep my mind off my personal problems. I discovered my passion for crochet ( Read more... )