New Projects

The day after I wrote about the felt keychains, I was given this keychain from Moscow. It was a funny coincidence but I still want to make my own.




I'm changing A's project again. He wants a cloak for his larping. We have bought and preshrunk the material. It's the dark stuff under the other material. My apron has about had it. I've been using it for 15 years or so. I went to the charity store today and bought the bits and pieces that are on top of the cloak material. I'm hoping to get 4 aprons out of them but because they have been cut into, I don't know how big they will be.

I've finally got the Xmas squares crocheted together. I'm so pleased. I've almost got the first snowflake done, but I found the pattern confusing and I'm not sure if I will undo it a bit. H's sock is coming along. I've been knitting it also while I'm on the computer.



M: R's crocheted snowflakes (find new patterns, crochet)
T: D's crochet completed!
Next week: apron (wash material, find pattern, draw and cut out pattern, cut out material, sew)
W: H's socks (knit them)
T: Home - A's pjs (find pattern, draw pattern, cut out, sew)
F: Personal (decide what to do about bay pouch, make cord, finish it)
S: A's project (decide on pattern, draw pattern, cut out, sew, wash)
S: Xmas square lapthrow (crochet strips together, find a border pattern, crochet border, sew in ends)

Slowy, Slowly

My 'home' rotation won't be starting until next week. With A being away from home so much, it is difficult to do the things that I was suppose to do with him.

I'm slow with the craft rotation. I have to take doing A's Xmas craft off the list for now because the store where I thought that I might be able to get aida cloth from only had cream and not the count that I wanted. So I'm going to try, once again, to knit him a hat.


M: R's crocheted snowflakes (find new patterns, crochet)
T: D's crochet (crochet bookmark, find suitable ribbon)
W: H's socks (knit them)
T: Home - A's pjs (wash material, find pattern, cut, sew)
F: Personal (decide what to do about bay pouch, make cord, finish it)
S: A's hat (make swatch, decide on number of stitches, decide on style of top, knit)
S: Xmas square lapthrow (sew in ends, crochet strips together, find a border pattern, crochet border, sew in ends)

I found some felt keychains that I would like to try at Karin's site. Not that I need to try a new craft before I finish all of the other ones I've started, but they look cute. I don't want to buy any felt so I'm going to have to be on the lookout for anyone who uses this kind of felt, incase they have scraps that they don't want.

Nothing To See

Not much to report but I did join a web ring for the first time – Snowflake Mondays. I'll have to change my days around! It wasn't easy to make myself do something on each project instead of just berating myself for not doing anything.

M: D's crochet (compare yarn size, choose hook size , crochet bookmark, find suitable ribbon)
T: H's socks (decide on # of stitches and size of needles, knit them)
W: A's Xmas gift (dig out pattern, find what size material needed, get material, get threads, complete, find frame)
T: Home – A's pjs (buy material, wash it, find pattern, cut, sew)
F: Personal (decide what to do about bay pouch, make cord, finish it)
S: R's snowflakes (ask how many she wants, can there be repeats, find enough new patterns, crochet)
S: Xmas square lapthrow (decide how many stitches on chain , sew in ends, crochet strips together, find a border pattern, crochet border, sew in ends)

Seeing that this sort of went OK, I thought I would do a rotation for our apartment (because we haven't decided whether we want to move or not and I should go through all of my things anyway).

M: day off
T: Hall (A's yellow box)
W: Living Room (wash curtains)
T: Kitchen (top shelf of cold cupboard)
F: My room (letter rack)
S: A's room (school papers)
S: Magazine (one that has a lot of stuff I want to read)

A New Start

Not much done this week. My son larps and he needed a new outfit for his new character but as I'm not willing to make clothes that will be worn for just one afternoon, he had to put up with his jerkin from last time, though I changed the buttons from black to silver. I bought a pair of pants from the flea market because they had a cuff and looked like they may be long enough after taking down the cuff. So I took down the cuff and then we decided to try to make them even longer. When I started to undo the stitching I realized that it was not factory sewn. So I was just undoing whatever the previous owner had had done to them.

I've been thinking of why I find it so hard to get my crafts started or completed and I think that it might be because I have so many of them to do, so I just don't bother. (Sound like a good excuse ?) I read about cross stitchers who do rotation and I thought that I might try that. So here's what I was thinking:

M: D's crochet (compare yarn size, choose hook size, crochet bookmark, find suitable ribbon)
T: H's socks (decide on # of stitches and size of needles, knit them)
W: A's Xmas gift (dig out pattern, find what size material needed, get material, get threads, complete, find frame)
T: Home – A's pjs?, cushion covers
F: Personal (decide what to do about bay pouch, make cord, finish it)
S: R's snowflakes (ask how many she wants, can there be repeats, find new patterns, crochet)
S: UFO: Xmas square lapthrow (decide how many stitches on chain, sew in ends, crochet strips together, find a border pattern, crochet border, sew in ends)

If, for some reason, I can't work on something on a certain day, then it will get worked on the next week (I suppose). As each gets finished I'll add something to replace it.

How Do They Do It?

I'm so envious when I read blogs where they show the 500 objects they have finished since yesterday's entry. I know that many knit, crochet, whatever while watching TV or reading. If I do some craft work at the same time I'm watching TV it can only be something that I don't need a pattern to follow. If I'm reading I want to concentrate on what I'm reading, why else read? Maybe if I was doing something repetitive like garter stitch or ribbing I might be able to read on the internet at the same time (so I wouldn't have to juggle the book too).

So that is why this lap throw isn't finished. I hadn't noticed that this little fellow doesn't have a crocheted corner (the upper left one), so I don't know what to do. I'll crochet all of the other squares together and weave in all of the ends before tackling with that problem. Then I'll crochet the strips together. Any suggestions of what kind of border I could do? The squares aren't the same size so it would need to take that into consideration.

HAPPY CANADA DAY

This is a little pouch I made in the spring. It was suppose to be for my phone but it's too big. The bottom is the correct size but I must have picked up too many stitches. I might undo it and make it smaller. I didn't have the same brand of yellow and it is noticable but if it is usually going to be in my bag, who will see?

After arranging the squares yesterday I decided that I would try to crochet 2 squares together a day, but I got carried away and did a whole row. Part was done after I got up in the evening because I couldn't get to sleep. I strung a row together to keep the colors in order (different reds) because I'm going on a short train ride tomorrow and I thought that I could work on it then.