Yarnification

It’s turned into fall awfully fast this year; the weather was in the 80s less than a week ago, but these past few days we’ve had highs of 70° and lows in the low 40s.

That means it’s crochet season again for me. I can hardly touch it all summer in the heat, but by this time of year I’m itching to pick it up. And I’ve done what I usually do in the fall: I’ve started half of the projects I spent the summer eyeing.

What I’m doing right now:
Nylon dish scrubbies: One down, a bunch to go. Cutting the netting was the biggest problem. I’ve never done these before, and I just unfolded it and started cutting individual strips. Later I read that I wasn’t supposed to unfold it — oops! Next time I’ll know, anyway!

A scrap yarn rug. This is in the assembly stage right now — with any luck I’ll have it finished up and in residence in front of the kitchen sink within about a week.

And this cotton shawl, but with some modifications. I have a pound of worsted weight cotton yarn that I bought for something else and didn’t use, so I wanted to use that instead of the double strand of fingering weight yarn. I ended up using a single strand of worsted weight with the same size hook, though a normal person probably would’ve had to use an F or a G since I usually need a bigger hook than what a given pattern calls for.

I’m sure it would’ve been more delicate-looking in the yarn the pattern called for, but I’m happy with how it’s working up. It looks really comfy.

I’ll be back with pictures as things get finished!