Crochet content

I bet y'all thought I'd forgotten how to crochet. Nope.

I made a bunch of flower brooches for one of my sisters-in-law for Christmas.

I did take a knitting class last month, and I'll be taking another in January. Knitting's OK, but it's awfully complicated. Crochet is much simpler. That'll still be my primary yarn craft, but it's been interesting learning how to knit.

Medusa!

Medusa stopped by the office today to do a little training development.

Oh wait, that was me!

Yes, I crocheted myself a Medusa hat. No pattern. The snakes have wire in them to make them poseable. The eyes are black beads and the tongues are red leaf-shaped beads. I used two different colorways of the new Debbie Mumm yarn from JoAnn's. While it worked fine for this project, I wouldn't recommend it at all. It's a wrapped yarn, and the base yarn is black, which doesn't work for these colors. Also, it has a tendency to bunch while you're working with it, which is a complete pain. And it doesn't feel all that nice worked up; in the skein, it's fine, but not when you're working with it or in the finished product. But, like I said, it worked just fine for this.

Amazingly enough, most people in my office got who I was right off (though several people called me "Medea" until I reminded them Medea was the one who killed her children). At the end of the day, I gave it to a coworker who had really admired it. She was thrilled and planned to scare children with it this evening.

Squares

I've finally decided to use up some of my ever-expanding yarn stash and make myself that blanket I've been promising myself.

Yes, it's a little small now, but it'll grow. :)

I'm using up my unexplained giant stash of sportweight mercerized cotton. And while it's giant, I still won't have enough to make a blankie for myself. I've got about 8-10 skeins in kind of this range of colors, and I'm thinking of edging each square with white, then edging the whole thing in white. Or maybe cream. Or tan. Or whatever I can get in enough quantity at a low price when the time comes. :)

If you happen to have any sportweight mercerized cotton you'd like to donate to the cause, I'd love to have it. So far, I've got Reynolds' Saucy Sport (hard on the fingers and the hand, but just fine for looks), and Schachenmayr Catania (absolutely lovely to work with, but perhaps not produced anymore, sadly).

I hope I will be posting updates on this. If I don't, please ask me to make me feel guilty. :)