Just a quick pic!

See my pretty coaster! Just wanted to show off a bit.

Of course, no one but a member of the Base Honor Guard would want an Honor Guard coaster, but it makes Greg happy. I’m going to stick the pattern up when I have a moment.

Oh, and I’ve plugged my way through my design issues, it looks like smooth sailing ahead – so you should be seeing more from me in the October CrochetMe!

Why do I always run out of days?

No matter what I do, I always seem to chop it down to the wire. Only 4 days left in August after today, and I still need to finish the last – very last! – little bit of my CrochetMe project (unfortunately, this last part is giving me more trouble than all of the previous bits combined. ), then type the whole thing up, photograph the project, and submit it, all before the September 1st deadline.

Who’s going to be frantically typing at 11:30 pm next Wednesday? Probably me…

And yet, despite the slender time I have remaining, I keep doing other things. I took a break the other day to make a coaster. I had planned on making one that was big enough to protect the computer desk from my freezer-mug. (You know, the kind with double-layered walls and water in the middle? You keep it in the freezer, and it keeps your drinks cold like ice cubes, but you don’t dilute whatever you’re drinking. Since I mostly use it to drink water, that doesn’t make much sense.) Anyway, Greg found out I was going to make a coaster, and he asked me to make one with the Honor Guard symbol on it (he’s in the Base Honor Guard out here, and very proud of it).
So I did – and I did a bang-up job of it, too, IMO, it really looks fabulous – and Greg agrees. First thing he said was, “Wow, that looks awesome, sweetie! I’m going to use that at work!”
…What? I made this for the desk here.
I told him that, and he was like, oh…okay…
Oh….all right.
So now I need to make another coaster. He wanted me to make another Honor Guard coaster, but I’m not a big fan of making the same thing twice. I mean, I think the ONLY thing I’ve ever made duplicates of was a pair of baby booties, and by that I mean that I actually made both of them.
I told him he couldn’t take it until I got a picture of it, which, I can’t do that yet because the batteries in our camera died. Which is the reason that I haven’t included any photos in the last post, or this one…but we’re picking up batteries when we go shopping today, so perhaps a photo of and pattern for said coaster will be coming shortly.

Oh – right – after the CrochetMe pattern is finished.

I’ve overcome my block!

Yay! Progress, at last – my CrochetMe project, which has been languishing in the crafts basket for several days, has finally begun moving forward again! Which is good, as the submission deadline is in 10 days. I was really stuck at that point, which led to my discarding it in favor of my polite and uncomplicated gryphon square. I hope I can get it together in time, it would be so happy in the October issue!