I’ve been on a bit of a streak, as of late… I’ve made quite a few pairs of socks. I whipped up lit­tle cro­chet bags for my girls to carry their projects in. I’ve been cov­et­ing many pat­terns in my Rav­elry Queue, too. Since the weather here is so fickle, I’m not sure whether to […]

Ok, so you know that crazy post I did about not buy­ing any­more yarn. Yeah, that was a good one, wasn’t it? Any­way, today, I received my email con­fir­ma­tion that my Knit Picks order is on its’ way! Yahoo! Then I shared that news with my yarn-loving cro­chet son. He then, inno­cently asked, how much […]

I found this while loi­ter­ing around the ‘net — Do you have trou­ble with stitch mark­ers? My prob­lem with them has mainly been with them snag­ging my yarn (plus, I don’t like the idea of hav­ing to move them each round. Well, if you’re like me, you’re gonna love this idea!!!

So, I started my third pair of socks Thurs­day! For two rea­sons: 1) New Yarn — I got some Patons Kroy Sox yarn through a friend, who picked them up for me on sale for $2.49 at Michaels! 2) I wanted to make DH a pair. 3) I was get­ting a bit frus­trated with the sock […]

I can’t believe it — I’ve been a cro­cheter for over 20 years, and now, for some rea­son, I can’t kick the notion that knit­ting may make me, *gasp*, hap­pier. I don’t knit that well. I’ve only ever made dish­cloths and scarves, so I have a large learn­ing curve to over­come. I think — well, […]

After scour­ing the inter­net for the PERFECT sock pat­tern, adding a TON of them to my Rav­elry queue, and attempt­ing 90% of them, I have finally expe­ri­enced the suc­cess and JOY that comes with mak­ing a pair of socks! That’s right — I cro­cheted my socks, using this pat­tern. I’ve just ordered more sock yarn, […]

So, I decided to peruse an old Cro­chet World mag­a­zine that’s been col­lect­ing dust in my pat­tern stash. I haven’t read the pat­tern yet, but it’s from Octo­ber 1987. I really like the girl’s Vest on the front cover. It looks to be made side-to-side, with a rib­bing waist­band added after­ward. Now, as a mem­ber of […]

For the past few weeks, it’s felt like every­thing I touch, relat­ing to yarn, was turn­ing to carp! I went to Hobby Lobby the other day, bound and deter­mined to make some­thing for myself! I think I was hit with severe sticker shock! I can’t remem­ber the last time I had gone ‘gen­eral’ yarn shop­ping. 6 […]

I’ve been work­ing on this pat­tern (Rav­elry link) for a few days now, and it’s going well. I haven’t had any huge frog­gings to deal with, which is always nice. This is the largest item I’ve ever made! I’ve fin­ished the first three sec­tions — right front, back, and left front. Now I’m work­ing all three […]

Been hit­ting Star Trek reruns pretty hard lately, but, alas I’m here. AND, I have hook in hand! I’ve been cro­chet­ing quite a bit lately. I made a pair of slip­pers for myself, and the three kid­dies, some scarves for friends (as a means to eat up some stash, too!), and a few pair of fingerless […]