You know this isn’t fun really. I’m already considered a snob by a good chink of my friends for sending my daughter to Price Lab School. Now I’m a snob for fighting to keep it open. Soon, I’ll prove them right by sending her to an out of town school in a different district. Cuz I totally want to drive 10 miles one way just to get her into a school. It’s all about me.
Gag.
So this project was mostly taken from the Groovyghan pattern. I was working towards using up the tons and tons (and tons!) of stash yarn I have lying around the house. I didn’t come close to using it all up. I think that, while it’s got some issues (the stitching mostly) considering it didn’t get made with yarns that match at all and not all of the yarns are the same weight, it turned out pretty well. It’ll make a very good cozy afghan to sit under on a chilly day.
Oh, and now I’m going to try to use up more stash yarn with another afghan. Bulky yarn log cabin style afghan. One with completely mismatched colors!
A pretty crazycool afghan
I’m about to go over to a good friends house and teach her how to crochet in the round.
I mostly taught myself to crochet. My grandma taught me, sort of, when I was a teenager. I was a teenager, so I didn’t really try that hard to work at getting it down well, and I became frustrated after finishing my first project, a scarf I made for my boyfriend. It didn’t look that good, and he never wore it. When I last saw it, as I recall, it was in a dresser drawer of his at his Dad’s house. He probably burned it. But that’s another story.
Later I decided to try to crochet again, so I got myself a Crochet-for-Dummies-type book and relearned the whole process. I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it, and it seems others think I’m good enough at it to ask me to teach them.
I suppose the next thing would be writing down some patterns for some of the projects I’ve made up. But I rather like the idea that I figured something out as I went, without pattern, and that the product will be the only one like that.
I didn't make this, but it is awesome.
As I sit here, about to write a little something-something about how relaxing it is to be making an afghan in the wintertime, getting all prepared to be all zen with my observations, the goddamned UNI Alert System starts whistling and talking to me from the large speakers located all over campus and the city tornado sirens start wailing. After all, it is 11am on the last Wednesday of the….
Wait. It’s the LAST Wednesday of the month, isn’t it? >> checking my calendar >> Bah. I’m a day behind. I was all prepared to be indignant about everyone else getting the date wrong. Oh well. I’m sure I will find something else to direct my bile at later today.
Anywho, I have this crazy afghan here. I’m sitting underneath it, feet up, crocheting away. It is patchwork, to say the least. And it keeps getting larger since I keep adding things on.
The point, originally, was to use up stash yarn. Apparently I have way more stash yarn lying around than I thought I did. I could make several more of these. If I do, I’ll want to do it while it’s still winter (barely, around these parts this year!).
To keep my feet warm.
I can’t help but see rows of 80s style video game aliens in this basic shell pattern. Either that or rows upon rows of colorful bats.
Or spiders. Maybe it’s spiders. I like spiders. Most of the time anyway.
This will be part of an afghan I’m making from stash yarn. I’ve got so much I’ll probably have to make another when I’m done with it.
