Fin ( a two for one kind of a day)

Yes, two for one. I finished the butterfly discloth in time for mother's day with time to spare. and i started and finished a crocheted hat yesterday

zee butterfly, shee eez fineeshed!

Butterfly Dish Cloth

Free pattern from the knitlist http://www.knitlist.com

Materials: Lily's Sugar and cream

Modifications: needles (it called for 7's. i preferre 8's)

Inteded recipient: my mom

uh oh, another quick crochet project that snuck up on me...

"boy beanie" from stitch and bitch 'happy hooker'

Materials: All red heart (i'm trying to get rid of all the plastic stuff...)

Modifications: I only loosely followed the pattern.

Start date: May 11 around 3-ish

Finish: May 11 around 6-ish

i'm in love with the flower. I'm also done with all my project spectrum projects for this part of the CAL (craft along!!!)

To go along with the hat i'm thinking of knitting some mittens and then giving this as a christmas present. one can never start too early. I thought i had a jump on it last year. i was wrong. so wrong.

Today was also the Shepherd's Harvest on the fair grounds and i went with my mom. It was pretty cool, i saw parts of a sheep shearing demonstration but left because people kept standing in front of me. The food smelled pretty good but i didn't eat any because it was really expensive.

I did buy yarn. I got one skein of a very soft wool with the color name of 'sour apple' it's a very, very, very bright green, but you've probably noticed already that i like bright colors.

The other yarn i bought was a very pretty pink from a new line called 'shepherd's wool' http://www.stonehedgefibermill.com from those lovely people. It's very soft. Incredibly soft.

I also bought some roving that i intend to make thrummed mittens with. I've been wanting to make them for a long time, but never could find roving.

Flutter by, butterfly

The butterfly lace cloth is just flying by (hehe)... right now i'm on the 8 repeat of butterflies of 12, so i should finish either later today or tomorrow and then i'll be able to start on another one. This is a really simple lace pattern. 2 repeats is only 4 rows. wow. well, here she is














want a closer look?

See the butterfly?

the most frustrating thing is that i keep screwing up at the BEGINNING of the rows, and since this is a gift and lace, i have to rip back and fix it!!!! grrr!



but it's a score for me because

1) i'm using up yarn that i have

2) it's another project spectrum color (i still need yellow!!!!)

3) i'm learning more lace!!!!



I should probably check up on when the next phase of project spectrum starts... i think the next set has metallics in there. how is one going to find metallic yarn? (a metallic bead purse project??? i could make a cool bag with black yarn and metallic pony beads (lack of money, woe is me!!!)) i can see it now....

for the other wash cloth i'm thinking a multi colored ball band warsh rag... i don't want to buy more yarn, but it gets harder and harder every day not to...

do needles count?

New projects!

Because of the job interview, i decided i didn't have enough complicated crochet, thus the hat, and now i've started a little clutch from lion brand that says it's 'intermediate advanced' (i don't think any free sites ever put 'advanced' as a rating, they just want people to buy their yarn, and lots of it...) but so far it's pretty easy, but I am also only on the long rectangle. I should probably mention that contrary to the blogs title, i do crochet! And since i have only done a long pink rectangle, i won't post a picture until i get some lace done (and seeing that crochet goes by quick quick quick, that'll probably be tomorrow, after the interview.)

Because the clutch will be pink, i think i'll join project spectrum and count it for that project. But considering that The others colors are orange and yellow ( i don't really remember to correct me if i'm wrong) i'll still make something for those ('carrot purse' any one? maybe a nice yellow cotton something or other? some one said something to me about cotton the other day... so much yarn, so little time...)
well this is taking away from my valuable crochet time...


in other news, i still need to do another strap for the 'carrot' purse. I did the first one using the cabling with out a cable needle method (it's sweet) and i just need to do a three needle bind off with the other side of the first strap and then i'll start on the other. i think that i'll have just enough yarn to finish the purse.