Help me, Iâ€™ve dyedâ€¦

by Melissa // March 14, 2007 // 8 Comments

and it’s GREAT! Oh, do try it. It’s ridiculously easy, even more ridiculously satisfying, and it smells pleasantly of Kool-aid. Remember this?

I took a smidge of it, stuck it in a cup with some water and a pack of Kool-aid (Berry Blue, if you must know) and nuked it for two minutes. Waited, nuked it again. Rinsed, hung, wrapped up – tada!

It’s now a heathery purpley burgundy, with flecks of red where I tied the skein too tightly. Lovely. Goooooorgeous. (Can you tell I’m impressed with myself?) It was only about 20 yards, though, so for a while I kicked around, at a loss as to what to do with it. I tried a headband, and it was awful, so I knit a little bag. It’s really cute, and I designed it myself! I made eyelets, and learned how to do I-cord, and all sorts of stuff. It was really fun to knit again. I’ve been focusing on my crocheting pretty hard lately (new content coming soon, folks!) but I really want to improve my knitting design skills. Start small, right? And it is:

But very satisfying.

This week in mittens

by Melissa // March 5, 2007 // 1 Comment

What have I got to show for myself? Why, nothing less than three more pair of mittens! You know you’re thrilled. We’ve got a green pair with a yellow stripe –

– I think I’ll make the stripe one row narrower next time. Also, a yellow pair with red cuffs and thumbs:

And one more pair. Shield your eyes:

Yeah, I know. This is not the shade of red I had thought I had purchased. I thought I had gotten another skein of Cherry Red, which is a nice, bright, respectable red. As you can see, it is not. I accidentally grabbed a skein of ‘Hot Red,’ a bright, blazing, incandescent shade of red (Wren agrees that incandescent is the correct term). Max likes it, though, and since he’s my test audicence, we’re running with it. We may see a few more pair of plain red mittens in an attempt to go through it quickly. I also worked up two more plush hangers. If you want to see what they look like, please reference the previous post. They look the same.

Here’s your warning, folks. Posts – especially posts with projects – will be sparse for a few weeks. I’m finishing some things up for the spring Crochetme, and then after that I need to prepare the new March content for Inner Child Crochet. See ya!

More from my Hook

by Melissa // February 26, 2007 // 4 Comments

I’ve been doing a lot more actual crocheting of late – which is nice. That’s what I like to do, but it can get shoved to the side with all of the pattern-writing, and web design, and yarn buying, and sweater recycling…all of that stuff is good, but all of those things are for the crocheting. So it’s nice to be doing more of that. Here’s another pair of mittens:

And I’m delighted with them. The first and second pair work, but I wasn’t perfectly happy with them. With this third pair, I’ve gotten it right! Woohoo! So pretty, wonderfully shaped. Now I don’t need to keep tweaking it, I can just crank ’em out. I plan to do many different color combinations and patterns to keep it interesting.

I’ve also worked up some plush hangers. It’s realy fast and easy; I basically just made a chain stitch around some plastic hangers with a really bulky yarn. Red Heart Light and Lofty, I think. I went all IK on the photography and stuck them on a chair:

Sadly, this sort of shot doesn’t really let you see what it looks like. (Here’s a clearer shot.)

I’m going to make one or two more. I like them. I do wish I had some nice, wide pink ribbon, though, to make some bows on them. I don’t have any ribbon to speak of. I keep running into projects that would benefit from some, but I make do without, and then whenever I wander into the ribbon aisle I can’t think what I need it for. I do like ribbon, though. It’s pretty.

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