Well, frogging is not joyful at all, really, and rather frustrating.
I started out on a project - I may have mentioned it in a previous post - using Patons Lacette in a lovely ice blue color. I swatched like a good girl and started making my size. Or, what the pattern told me would be my size. I got the entire back panel done, and I'm looking at it, and it's waaaaay too wide. I measured it with the measuring tape, and it fit what the measurements said it was supposed to (hows the grammar in that sentence!) but fitting it across my back proved it to be at least three inches too wide - and that's if I'm not stretching it, as it is prone to do. I thought about crocheting the front in the size just smaller, but that could make for awkward fit/seaming. So I decided it would be best if I just frogged.
Yeah, no.
As lovely as the Lacette is to look at, it is an absolute PAIN to frog. There are very fine fibres stranding off of the main thread (which creates a pretty "clouding" effect), which constantly get caught on each other, both while working it up and while frogging it. I have frogged about 1/3 of the back and am trying to decide if it's really worth frogging the other 2/3. I bought 9 skeins of it at the local $ store, so I really don't feel like I'd be throwing a whole lot away. What I've frogged so far is about 1/2 a skein, and I have 7 whole skeins left. The debate continues...either way, I doubt I will be keeping all 9 skeins. I'm probably going to try to trade/sell it out of my stash through Ravelry. I'm DONE trying to work with it. I even thought about amigurumi-ing with it, but the stitches would be difficult to see and that's more work than I am willing to try to do right now.
Slowly making progress on the crocheted gifts front (from my "Ain't Nothin But A Thang" post)...and for Christmas I have decided to cross-stitch for each of my siblings their name and the meaning, possibly matted and definitely framed. Each of them will be 5x7. I need to start picking fonts and colors...hmmm...
On the upside of all of this - since this is knd of a whiny post - my new job affords me lots of crafting time on the job. I supervise the swing shift at a girl's transition home, Monday - Friday from 3-11, and my bosses don't mind if I work on 'outside' projects as long as it doesn't prevent me from doing my job. For the most part the girls are pretty well behaved and they don't mind me working on projects either. It's nice.
One last tidbit - I have two new albums I picked up recently, that are going to be fun to crochet to: Imogen Heap's "Ellipse" and Muse's "The Resistance". Both can be found on Amazon.com. I highly recommend both to anyone looking for new music.
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I'm finally using the Patons yarn that I snagged at the dollar store months ago...it's a laceweight, I forget the specific name but it's a light ice blue...I'm making a tunic type thing, and yes I am using a pattern - still not brave enough to try to wing something like that just yet. One day though. One day.
Also still working to finish up that cross-stitch that I never posted pictures of...I'm so lazy sometimes.
AND I'm making two skirts that I bought the fabric and pattern for before I left to go down to TX for the summer. I have them both cut out, and the first nearly done. I need to put in the elastic and the hem. I have to buy the elastic before I can put it in though...I will have to do that tomorrow after my job interview.
Woot.
Also still working to finish up that cross-stitch that I never posted pictures of...I'm so lazy sometimes.
AND I'm making two skirts that I bought the fabric and pattern for before I left to go down to TX for the summer. I have them both cut out, and the first nearly done. I need to put in the elastic and the hem. I have to buy the elastic before I can put it in though...I will have to do that tomorrow after my job interview.
Woot.
I am working to finish a cross-stitch that I have had in progress for the last (almost) 5 years. It's a bigger one, yes, but it's one of those Dimensions Gold Collection ones, which means a LOT of detail, a LOT of shading (which is hard to do in cross-stitch and means a lot of combining strands of similar colors to get the effect), and so a LOT of work. I've made some mean progress over the past week or so though. Which is encouraging. I'm actually probably about 75-80% done. That's an encouraging thought!
I should take a picture and put it up in here. Maybe I will get to that tomorrow.
The projects being lined up are clear back from this post here, and so it is just taking a while to get things moving. I've made some modifications - instead of choosing for the 5 people who got selected, I am letting them choose. I want some challenges of completely customizing a project for someone else; I dislike putting effort into something for someone else that they are not going to appreciate. I want whatever I make to be something that they actually want...hahaha!
I know that for sure I will be making the following:
This last one is a pair of fingerless gloves/armwarmer type dealios.
I'm pretty excited for the two clothing pieces. I have not, as of yet, really made the effort to crochet to someone else's body measurements/shape, so this will be great practice. And, in spite of their somewhat complicated appearance, they're all actually pretty easy pieces. :) Yay!
I should take a picture and put it up in here. Maybe I will get to that tomorrow.
The projects being lined up are clear back from this post here, and so it is just taking a while to get things moving. I've made some modifications - instead of choosing for the 5 people who got selected, I am letting them choose. I want some challenges of completely customizing a project for someone else; I dislike putting effort into something for someone else that they are not going to appreciate. I want whatever I make to be something that they actually want...hahaha!
I know that for sure I will be making the following:
This last one is a pair of fingerless gloves/armwarmer type dealios.I'm pretty excited for the two clothing pieces. I have not, as of yet, really made the effort to crochet to someone else's body measurements/shape, so this will be great practice. And, in spite of their somewhat complicated appearance, they're all actually pretty easy pieces. :) Yay!
