Yarnification

I didn’t really intend to post this when I took it, but the result was a little peculiar so here I am posting it:

I just thought that 50/50 result was a little strange.

I haven’t gotten much crochet done since I finished the socks. I got two rounds done on the second pineapple square this afternoon while I was minding the register (it was a slow time of day, so didn’t have too many customers to help), then had to frog round 16 (the second to last one) because I started the round with a ch3 instead of ch5 like I was supposed to.

I could take a little time tonight and work on it, but I just can’t seem to focus on anything. I’m at work, and it’s not like there isn’t plenty to do without taking a break to crochet, but I have the worst cramps ever and am not getting much done anyway. But I’m just really down tonight and not doing well at coping with my problems. We’re talking about declaring bankruptcy. The only reason we haven’t done it yet is that we don’t want to lose the business (which is incorporated, but we own all the stock and who knows how that would come into play since that stock is considered an asset, not that we could just up and liquidate it and come up with a pile of money). Or maybe we should go ahead and try to put the business through a bankruptcy reorganization. I don’t know.

If we lose the business, I don’t know what we’ll do. There isn’t much in the way of work in this area that pays enough to live on, not that we’re really making enough to live on in the first place. We’d probably need to move. (With what money? I don’t know.) Then there’s the issue of my being largely unemployable, what with my lack of education and skills. I mean, yeah, Don claims I’m qualified for any number of jobs with the experience I’ve gotten from us running the business, but this is my pity party here. Any anyway, that stuff aside, I’m pretty much qualified to do data entry or run a cash register, and my assorted physical ailments very probably make me unable to hold a job where I’m not cut an awful lot of slack. (Just as an example, I was totally useless for the first two hours I was here today because of physical problems that you really do not want to hear about, and this particular problem causes that kind of thing on average a few times a week. Sometimes better, but sometimes worse. How many employers will put up with that?) I just don’t know what we’ll do if we lose the business, and I’m tired of having no money, and I’m scared to death.

This is possible the coolest pattern ever: Crochet corset (at Stitch Diva). I’ve seen links to this site before but never actually followed them, and I finally took some time tonight to poke around. I am in awe. This pattern is definitely my favorite one of hers.

I definitely have to make one of these sometime. Since it calls for expensive yarn (and probably wouldn’t look as nice with less-expensive yarn), maybe I’ll hold onto that idea as a treat for when I manage to get skinnier :p

I finished my ankle socks, finally. I used the In Your Shoes Ankle Socks pattern from Crochet Me with Lion Brand Magic Stripes in sea blue. I changed things here and there in the pattern to make up for the fact that I couldn’t quite get the gauge right with any hook size and also to alter them to fit my freaky pointy feet better, with the result that I have a left sock and a right sock (but they fit great!) I might redo the heel on the left sock, since when I did the heel on the right sock last night I tried switching from sc to hdc after the first several rounds, and it made the heel really cushy. I have enough yarn left over, so I may pull out the left heel and redo it the way I did the right one.