I’ve been on a headband spree. Here’s a photo that shows all four of them, with a little better detail than the pics I came up with for the the first two. It’s pretty wide, so I’m just putting up a thumbnail. Click to see the full-size version on the gallery page:
(I promise the full-size version is not as horribly dark as this thumbnail is.)
I made another one of those headbands last night. This time I managed to get a photo where it wasn’t on my head already.
It is so nice not to have my bangs hanging in my eyes!
I guess I haven’t posted much at all this past month or so. I’m doing ok now. I was having a hard time for a while there, feeling pretty depressed and having some difficult things going on in my life as well as being pretty busy, and between those things I just didn’t have the energy to do much crocheting.
But I’m feeling a lot better this week. I had a good weekend, and it’s kinda rubbed off on the rest of my week. I’m trying to cope better with my personal stuff. And I really don’t mean to be all vague and cryptic, just not sure how much of what’s going on is wise to go into in public. But I am okay, nobody’s sick or anything like that. I’ll probably post about it before long.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I’ve been having a bad hair day since approximately January, when I decided I was going to grow my bangs out once and for all. I’ve tried to grow them out at least once a year for probably the past fifteen years; I got bangs cut maybe sixteen years ago and immediately regretted it. But I get to the point where they start to annoy me, then I chop them off.
This time I’ve stuck it out for four months, and I’m determined to stick with it until they’re grown out. I am sick and tired of having bangs. I have curly hair, and my bangs don’t curl the same as the rest of my hair, which means that half the time (even after taking a large-barrel curling iron to them to make them straight-ish and curl under a tiny bit) I end up looking like I let a chimp, or maybe a toddler, do my hair that morning.
Growing them out it’s gotten even worse. The bangs are now at the point where they hang in front of my eyes—that oh-so-fashionable sheepdog look—and it is highly irritating. Curling them under doesn’t work, they’re too short to push off to the side with the rest of my hair, and they curl at weird angles, and I just generally hate, hate, hate them.
So I made a headband. The pattern is from volume 2, issue 3 of the Crochet Me newsletter, but I couldn’t find it on the web site anywhere. If anyone wants a copy, I still have the newsletter, so I can forward it if anyone’s interested.
It’s on my head today, which complicated taking a photo of it (and I didn’t have the camera at home last night when I made it). I may take another photo later when I’m not wearing it. But here’s me, wearing my happy headband:
Lookie what I found! 25¢ apiece at a flea market somewhere off US 50 in West Virginia…
All old tatting thread, DMC, J&P Coats, and Star. There was a box that had probably four times as much as that, all for a quarter a ball, but I managed to show some restraint and only bought three dollars’ worth.
Now I just need a shuttle; I’m holding off for the next Joann’s flyer since it’ll cost next to nothing with a coupon.
I haven’t been crocheting a lot the past week or two. I’ve worked some on the cuff of that sock, but it’s still not past the cuff stage yet.
Just to show that I haven’t forgotten how, though, here’s a coaster I made. I’ve made two so far and will probably make four of them all told.
(The shadow across the coaster is on purpose, believe it or not. The lighting in here was making the color look screaming neon yellow even without the flash, so for once my bad photography is intentional…)
The pattern is Janelle’s star coaster, and the yarn is leftover Peaches ’n’ Creme in yellow. I think I’m doing something slightly wrong because of the weird loopy bits in one round, but I’m not all that bothered by it. This one came out better than the first one, so maybe by the time I’ve done a few more and used up the last of the yellow Peaches ’n’ Creme I’ll have gotten it right.
First, I finally have a photo of the afghan. It’s a little big, so just a thumbnail here—click for the full-size version.
Lena is supervising there in the corner of the picture, and Don is being very kind and standing on the stairs holding the afghan while I take a bunch of pictures (some with the flash on, some with it off, because you can never really tell with this camera).
Yesterday I found the perfect curtain fabric on sale for 40% off. I was deeply terrified that I’d end up screwing up $20 worth of fabric, but I got the first set of curtains done and I don’t think they look too bad. (I got them to drape much better after I took the picture, so I may come back later and replace this one with a new one.)
Not too awful considering I’m pretty much a novice at sewing. Just one more set to go for the other window.
And of course instead of finishing up any of my WIPs I just had to go and start something new. I had some sock yarn just begging to be made into socks, so I got started on a new pair of socks the other day. So far I’ve got about a third of a sock done. I’m using the In Your Shoes Ankles Socks pattern from Crochet Me again, but this time I made the cuff a bit wider (and also didn’t make it too loose this time!) and I’m doing the rest of the sock in hdc and it’s working up pretty quickly. I meant to take a picture of the partial sock to show off the colors in it, but I forgot to bring it with me today, so maybe tomorrow…
