The crochet eyes have it!
When I pressed publish on my last blog post, I was in a hurry to get my dog walked before it got dark, and to do that, I had to set aside the mummy head I had been working on. It was almost all done,...
View ArticleTwo more crochet sugar skulls
Long ago, when I was much younger than I am now, I stumbled onto a job working at what was then the Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery in Davis, California. The job entailed answering the phone, taking...
View ArticleSo many crochet skeletons and skulls; so little time!
With Halloween just thirteen days away, and the Day of the Dead right after that, there is a lot of crochet yet to be done, not the least of which are two crochet skeletons I would like to have in the...
View ArticleLearning from my crochet mistakes
It is great to be able to work with a crochet wind at your back, or if not a crochet wind, then a good stiff crochet breeze, but sometimes you find yourself crocheting into a headwind, and if you’re...
View ArticleMoving forward on three of four crochet projects
I’m not sure how I ended up with four crochet projects that all have a deadline within days of each other, but at this point, how is not important. What is important is that I keep moving forward so...
View ArticleI get into a crochet groove
I have finally gotten into a crochet groove. It’s not that I don’t make any mistakes (I do), it’s not that everything goes right (it doesn’t), but whatever bumps I encounter along the way, I am now...
View ArticleAn October snowpocalypse in the Near North Valley!
Just three days ago it was a balmy 76º F, and I was enjoying a breezy and pleasantly warm afternoon. Fast forward just 60 hours, and instead of balmy breezes, I was greeted by an October snowpocalypse...
View ArticleSuddenly Almost November
It wasn’t until I had woven in the last end on my two very recently completed crochet skeletons that I noticed something had eaten October and it was almost November. What that means in practical terms...
View ArticleFour crochet sugar skulls all in a row
Before I got out of bed this morning, the days had already been getting shorter. Then the hour that was taken from the world last spring was restores in the middle of the night while I slept I awoke...
View ArticleA Peter Max inspired palette for a granny square cardigan
With the five crochet sugar skull yarn bombs in the rear view mirror, I woke up this morning wondering “what next?” As I searched my closet for just the right outer garment to put between me and the...
View ArticleThe joy of making a multicolor granny square cardigan
After I finished my last blog post, I continued working on the sixteen-round granny square that forms the central motif of the back of the multicolor granny square cardigan I am making. I had already...
View ArticleThe pieces of a boho granny square cardigan
Until I came across the pattern for this boho granny square cardigan, I didn’t know that I needed one so badly. But now that I’ve seen it, and now that sweater weather is upon me, I have to have...
View ArticleA gazillion color changes done, a gazillion more to go
Inspired by a cold snap in late October that seemed to have sent summer packing, I have been working on a granny square cardigan every moment that I have. The future sweater has at least a gazillion...
View ArticleWorking past a crochet impasse
With winter just around the corner, I have been working diligently to finish a granny square cardigan so that I can experience the joy of wearing it while the warmth it provides matches the cold of the...
View ArticleIt all starts with a chain
In crochet, it’s easy to know where to begin. As my mentor, Edith Proctor, taught me: it all starts with a chain. But where to end a crochet project is vastly more complicated. One of the best examples...
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