Get well

I was missing Jen at work today while she was at home taking care of Miss Kitty, who wasn’t feeling well. Wasn’t feeling well at all. The above message is for poor, sweet little Miss Kitty. I hope you’re back to eating and drinking and playing soon.

And here’s a translation, in case the rest of you can’t read Kitty-speak.

A VERY IMPORTANT milestone

It took only a few weeks of diligence, patience and unbridled determination.

I FINISHED CROCHETING MY FIRST HUMAN ADULT-SIZED BLANKET.

Do you fully understand the magnitude of this achievement?!

(And is it not beautiful!?)

(However it’s not really my personal taste, what with the lacy border, although I do like the textured herringbone pattern. It *is* my mother-in-law’s taste, though, because it’s a gift for her birthday, which has since passed, but that’s okay because I think she will be elated.)

I have grown as a person because of it.

Perhaps now I will have the fortitude to eventually finish these other projects.

CrADD

While color will always be, in my heart, the numero uno design element, texture runs a tight second. And that is precisely the reason I’m loving crochet. It’s been a loooooong time since I picked it up, but I’ve started, I’ve fallen deeply in love, and I can’t stop. It’s like some highly addictive fiber arts frenzy. Crafty crack.

The catch, however, is an affliction I call Creative-ADD (CrADD), similar to Cleaning-ADD (ClADD); both involve starting a project and working feverishly on it…until I think of another project to work on (or notice something else to clean), and I may at any one time have several projects or chores underway. I’m currently working on (1, 2, 3, 4) 5 crochet projects (and was thinking of starting another, oh and I’ve promised to start another blanket for my mother-in-law), and 1 knitting project (by the way, I’m teaching myself to knit, too).

ALTHOUGH–to my own credit–the reason I haven’t continued working on two of the projects is that I ran out of the yarn for them.

ALTHOUGH–against my credit–instead of buying the yarn to complete the projects, I bought the yarn to start new projects, but WHATEVER. I need VARIETY (another element of design, thank you very much). And I *will* finish. Someday.

So here are just a few of the projects I am working on (and one that I’ve finished!).

This is the afghan that started it all. It’s about 6 1/2 feet long, currently ~2 feet wide and has used $100 worth of yarn, which is funny because that’s the exact price Keith said he would pay me for finishing it…

A baby bootie (just one so far):

An egg cozy, also lonely:

Look! A finished piece! It’s a bookmark crocheted with red thread. Or a runner for a miniature table. I didn’t know I had the patience in me to do work so tiny, but lo and behold, I do, and here is the FINISHED product in all of its book marking glory. Now that I know I can work with this stuff and not jab my eyes out with the miniscule crochet hook, I can try making pretty little crocheted trims! You know, to embellish stuff.

I WANT EVERYONE TO SEE THE TINY-ASS HOOK I USED FOR THE BOOKMARK (it’s the shiny thing in front of the pencil) and marvel and go “OOOOHHHH!” and “AAAAHHHHH!” and “Sarah! You are AMAZING!”:

And finally, four completed motifs for another blanket. J’ADORE the colors. (And the texture too.)