Hooraaaay!
It’s a really good issue, too. There is blocking…
and painting…
and lovely crocheting.
This is our largest issue to date, and that’s the way I like it! Thank you so much to everyone who helped this thing get finished in time and on schedule. You’re awesome. 
(“Mommy? Why do I have to wear this?” – Charlie)
Well, I am not on a normal schedule yet. I’ve got moving issues and new house issues and family issues crashing into each other, and add to that the next issue of Crochetvolution (that’s totally going to be ready next Tuesday, you guys! I hope.) and I feel a little bit like I’m drowning. I was going to post an awesome project that our entire family worked on for all of last week, but it went horribly, catastrophically wrong and so you are almost certainly never going to see it.
However, in an effort to keep the cobwebs from covering the blog and also to get you all excited for the next issue (Tuesday, guys! It’s coming on Tuesday!) here are the five most popular patterns published in Crochetvolution so far.
5. Infant Hat in Simple Cables by Julia Schwartz
It’s no surprise that this pattern has been so well received. It’s small. It’s cute. And it’s covered with cables, people!
4. Morpho Shawlette by Cheri McEwen
A gorgeous lace shawl that morphs from a semicircle to a triangle, the Morpho Shawlette has been a huge hit.
3. Take it or Leaf it by Cheri McEwen
Another shawl from Cheri McEwen, Take it or Leaf it has a fantastic leafy border and a row of picots for more flair!
2. Snowdrop Shawl by Anastacia Zittel
The Snowdrop Shawl is an attractive asymmetrical wrap with a simple stitch repeat. It’s irresistible!
1. Geez Louise by Melissa Mall
Hey look! It’s the number one most popular pattern published thus far in Crochetvolution! I’m rather fond of it, myself. (I love that hat.)
I hope you guys are excited, because we have SO MUCH amazing content prepared (or, er… mostly prepared), it should be a real treat. Don’t forget if you have photos of crochet projects you’re proud of, or you have an independently published pattern due to come out in the next week, you can be featured!
When we moved, we ditched our old queen bed that we’ve been using almost our entire marriage and bought a new, king-sized bed. Darn kids keep climbing into bed with us! (We also bought a very heavy bed in celebration of the plan to never, ever, ever move again ever. I like it!) Also, as you may notice in the photograph below, the master bedroom in our new house is painted green. It’s actually a very nice green, not at all like the green in the picture, but what are you going to do? Anyway, our comforter was bright red, quite ratty, and substantially too small for our new bed. With everything that’s going on, we weren’t really in the mood to go shopping for a new bedding set, so we were using the old one until I remembered something I already had that would work better.
When I was getting ready to go off to college, I suddenly realized that I didn’t have my own blanket. I mean, I had blankets that I had been using, but they were family blankets. Since this was about the same time that I was working on this, it seemed only natural that I make myself a quilt.
I planned it out myself, and this thing is HUGE – about eight feet square. I totally cheated on the piecing, though –
I don’t think there’s a piece on here smaller than nine inches (excluding some of the strips, of course). If you’re curious about that block on the left…
It’s a lace inset of the temple where my parents were married. My mom bought several of these decades ago and saved them until her daughters were old enough to use them. Aww. Thanks, Mom. You might possibly recognize some of this fabric, but if you do you must be a blog stalker, since I made those almost six (!) years ago.
I just want to make a note here that my grandmother backed and bound this oversized monstrosity for me (thank you, Grandma!) and also gave me a quilting hoop with which I was supposed to quilt it. (I did quilt some of it, but for the most part it’s only tied.) My grandma also made me write my name on the hoop with a Sharpie so that no one stole it while I was at college.
There’s also a fun little note from myself in the past:
Yup. I always sort of thought that when I grew up and got married I might find a guy with a really cool last name, but you take what you can get, I guess. Haha!