Since finding out, I’ve decided that I’m going to do my best for the next year to finish all unfinished projects and ideas, and use up all that yarn I have kicking around so that I don’t start the new life still procrastinating or worse, gettting bored half way through and giving up. I have successfully finished a pair of socks (hard for me since it involves duplicating something) and I have picked up and am finishing the beautiful (how could I have put this down) cashmere shawl. Hopefully this means that I won’t buy new yarn for the next while, the plan is to whittle away at the stash.

Also, now that Chris and I are going to be moving, I will have a house, which means a basement, which means Angoras. MMmmmmmm. Angora. No sheep for me, but I’ll live with the alternative. Especially since it will make Chris Happier. Anything for that. God I love that guy.

Once upon a weekend, there was a cottage. And in that cottage, there were three stitch n’ bitchers.

One stitch n’ bitcher brought a string bikini with her. One brought a bikini top she had crocheted.

The third stitch n’ bitcher didn’t own a bikini. However, she was enticed to try on the string bikini and was pleased. She also saw the clever pattern of the crocheted bikini, which was unlike any bikini top pattern she had ever seen.

This percolated in the back of her mind for two weeks. Then, one evening, the third stitch n’ bitcher looked at her yarn stash and her collection of crochet hooks and It All Clicked.

This is the end result. Hooray for figuring out how to access Photo Booth! I finished it this afternoon, after a day of hard, hard labour:

It’s made out of DK-weight Patons Grace, with a 3.5mm hook. I eyeballed it for the size, which in this case turned out to be 32 foundation single crochet on the base row. I did 20 rows of single crochet, then stopped row 21 at stitch 16 and did another 18 half-width rows for a total of 39. The final piece was seamed to make a cupped equilateral triangle. I joined the two pieces on the edging row, chaining out 80 stitches at the top and sides and coming back on the butt side of the chain to make a sturdy string and continue on with the next side.

If it weren’t so persistently icky today (two thunderstorms, enough rain to drench my garden and one funnel cloud warning), I’d have worn it outside already.

Ah, well, there’s always tomorrow…

I finished it at Stitch n Bitch, for those of you who did not notice It’s quite cute

I am endeavoring to re-program my brain to work leftly.

This awesome bag is what I will begin with in my new ways.

Saturday. Remedy? 1300hrs

Well, I made CAT COATS TODAY!!!

And by cat coats, I mean Dog coats, because no self-respecting cat will wear a coat, but nonetheless, they are rather cute.

I will post photos, but not now, as my camera cord has dissapeared into the void that is my sewing room.

But, here are some good links I was sent for crochet patterns:

Yarnstandards
Softmemories
Martha’s Patterns
Craftbits
Crochethop
About’s Crochet Patterns
Freepaterns.com
Talking Crochet
Wovenspun
TNCrochetlady
Crochetpoet
Vintage
Bev’s Country Cottage
PlanetJune
CrochetCabana
Yarncat

Just as an example, this year, I bought some girlfriends Goats for Christmas. You know, the ones you buy for villages in the developing world. Anyway, I attatched a handmade, crocheted stuffed goat head so they had something to “show for it”.  I’ll bring in the patterns for the next one. And I was thinking that, really, it wouldn’t be so bad to meet on Saturday afternoon at around 1, would it? Just an idea, ladies    

I loved the location! Thanks out to Mel on that one *best* *chai* *evar*!