Projects
Last night it hit me how many things I plan to crochet before the holidays and how totally next-to-nothing I’ve done about any of those things. Granted, they’re mostly small things, but they’re small thread things, so there’s blocking and all that, not to mention mailing.
I did start my mother-in-law’s doily. Then I decided not to use that pattern because it was working up too big. She’s looking for an itty-bitty doily, and the one I started wasn’t quite itty-bitty enough. The other day we were in the city and I picked up a copy of Patricia Kristoffersen’s The Big Book of Little Doilies for something like $4.77 with a 40% off coupon, and I think I’ve settled on #23 for this project.
It needs to come out seriously small, so I’m using the recommended hook size, which should make it come out the size I need it to rather than the size the pattern says it’ll be. The pattern calls for a size 7 hook, and ordinarily I’d automatically pick up a size 5 to get the right size, but I want little here.
Ooh, I definitely need to felt my #7 hook now. The one I already felted was the #5, and it’s all soft and nice to hold.
I also plan on sending a flurry of snowflakes (ha! I made a funny!) to my family members, so I really need to get cracking on that. I haven’t made any snowflakes in a while, what with the wrist issue, but that really does seem much better now, and having tried out the felted hook I think that’ll solve most of my troubles.
I haven’t finished my shawl yet, either, and I’d like to before it gets truly cold here—I have already finished one warm shawl this fall but would like to finish this one before the cold, too—but I want to get some of my gift projects taken care of first. Once I see progress there I’ll take a break from the teeny tiny stuff and work on the shawl some more. It is working up pretty quickly when I take the time for it. I was about ready to bang my head against a wall with the Seraphina pattern for the first few rows, but once the pattern repeat was set up it got really easy and quick to do. I think my four balls of RH Symphony (and let me repeat, $2.12 a ball! I love Hobby Lobby!) will actually be way more than I need since I’ve gotten probably halfway done and only about a ball and a quarter so far, so there’ll be plenty left to make something else with, too. Maybe a hat and scarf. That yarn would make a nice soft, squishy hat and scarf…
