Yarnification

I’ve been suffering from Attention Span of a Flea Syndrome with regard to my projects. I keep bouncing from one thing to the next and starting new things almost at random.

I worked on the socks for a while yesterday, and I believe I’m half a sock away from having an entire pair.

Then, since I was still bent out of shape that I couldn’t get the pineapple bookmark to come out right, I started making a pineapple square. Well, no, wait. Let me back up a bit. There’s this cabinet in my bedroom with a glass door that’s divided into two panes. Hanging inside the top pane there’s a beautiful embroidered piece that Sara did (I should get a photo of that sometime and post it here). Don and I were looking at the cabinet yesterday and thinking it would be great if we could find something that would fit in the bottom half, which looks a little bare now that the embroidery piece is in the top half.

And then I had this brainstorm—I’ve been doing all this thread crochet. And I keep drooling over everyone’s gorgeous doilies on the Thread-Along, but I haven’t been making doilies because I wouldn’t quite know what to do with them when I was finished. But what if I made a larger thread piece, maybe the size of a large doily or so, and put it in the bottom half of that cabinet? That would take care of my hankering to make a doily and at the same time give us something to put in there.

So I started looking through my crochet books, and I found some things that looked interesting. One of the things I saw was this pineapple square. Now, I have no idea how big this will be when it’s done, whether it’ll be the piece I put inside the cabinet, or anything like that. But I wanted to make it, dammit, so I started working on it. This is after 6 of 17 rounds—I’ve barely gotten past the center, but I thought I’d post a photo of it anyway since I don’t have any other photos today.

I sincerely hope it stops puckering—that just started during the last round I did—but if not I figure it’ll go away if I block it half to death.

And I have to say I’ve discovered the joys of DMC Baroque thread. Thread in a pull skein! Yay! No ball rolling around all over the place unless I stick it in a ziploc bag!