Taking Charge » Crocheting

UFOs

tyralyn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:08:09 +0000

I see UFO’s! Oh No! Hellllllllllp!

UFO 1: Blue Starghan

UFO 2: Baby Starghan

UFO 3: Purple Stripes

Holy Gawd

tyralyn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:52:12 +0000

Today was… not horrible. I really can’t even complain about getting up at 6am, since I actually had coffee waiting for me when I got up. I was actually awake before we left the house. Usually it takes me at least half of the morning to wake up when it’s that damn early. Why was I awake that early? Rob had a dental appointment at 8:30am and was nearly an hour away. Yeah, not fun, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected, since it was somewhere I’d never been. Now he’s done til February.

After his appointment, we went to see a friend so that I could drop off her gift. I couldn’t stay, since Rob was in complete misery and we had to get back home so Mom could go to her appointment. I also had to make a stop at the grocery store to pick up a prime rib roast for Christmas dinner. Rare indulgence, but it’ll be so good. We got home with about an hour for Rob to relax before having to leave again.

Me, I stayed home. I was waiting for a package in the mail. Of course, she didn’t come with the mail while I was sitting in the living room. No, that’d be too freaking easy. Mom brought the package in when they came in, so she must have shown up with the mail while I was in the bathroom. Go figure! Oh well, I’m not the proud owner of a knitting loom. We’ll see if I can get the hang of it and make anything with it. AFTER I finish my crocheting. I’m still not done with the two blankets that I wanted to get shipped before Christmas.

Anyway, I started this post hours ago, so I’m going to bed. Clickie my eggs?

Pretty, right?

tyralyn — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:55:26 +0000

I think so, at least. *giggle*

Crocheting

tyralyn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:45:05 +0000

So, I started a new project. I have a bunch of them to finish. I need to finish the pink blanket soon, but it’s still too warm to work on a big, heavy blanket like that. I am working on another gift that’s much lighter weight so it’s not so hot when I’m working on it.

I can’t wait until it cools off so I can crochet without dying from the heat. *gigglebounces*

I was going to post more but I got distracted… lol tomorrow maybe

Crochet Post.

tyralyn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:18:55 +0000

This is the progress I’ve made on the baby blanket. I need to work more on it. I’m about 68% of the way done, further if I don’t do the full ruffly trim on it. I haven’t decided yet if I will or not, since I don’t want it to detract from how gorgeous the blanket itself is. Today was the first time I actually laid it out to see it from the viewing perspective since I started adding length to it. It’s definitely a different perspective and it’s just stunning to look at. My mother is working on a blanket with the same base pattern, only longer and in a beautiful veragated red color. I have a couple pictures of that on my flickr account if you want to go look.

Writing and Rambles

tyralyn — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:00:29 +0000

So, I have a story that’s itching to be written, but when I sat down to write it, it wouldn’t come. I got the first 15 or so words and then it was gone. I haven’t been able to write anything more than a half-assed poem since November. It’s frustrating me so much right now. I don’t know what happened to my muse and my normal writing music isn’t even working, so I changed that up and went with something else. That’s not even helping me.

I also have this blanket I want to get finished, but I haven’t done anything on it in a few days. Usually, I crochet during the race on Sunday, but that was a crazy-ass mess this week and wasn’t held until Monday afternoon and I ended up reading my Carrie Vaughn novel instead. I’m about a little over halfway through it. It seems to be a bit slower progressing than her last three were, but it’s still good. I’m enjoying it.

I’ve been out and about quite a bit the last week, so that’s kept me from doing a whole lot on the computer and at home. It’s definitely been a good thing, though. I just can’t wait until it gets warmer and I can be out of the house more. I have plans to be detached from the computer more. I need to be. I need to work on my health more.

Anyway, I thought I had more to post about, but I don’t. So, hope ya’ll are having a fabulous week.

YAY!

tyralyn — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:43:18 +0000

Your item was delivered at 2:07 PM on February 22, 2008 in *place removed for privacy reasons*.

Now I wait to hear whether she likes the blanket! *bounces some*

I have 20″ done on the pink baby blanket. 15″ to go. Then trim it off. Whee.

More Yarn Babble

tyralyn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:37:00 +0000

48 / 48 centers are completed. The rest of the afghan is going to be done in two shades of green. I have a paddy green and I want to do it with an emerald green as well.

I still haven’t decided on when yarn shopping will happen. It’s a bit of an annoyance, since it means going to the city. I should likely wait until after my birthday but I don’t want to. I do intend to go to Walmart first and see what they have and pick up more white to go with the princess blanket.

Anyway. Enough yarn babble for the day. I should work on the second part of the Lapghan squares. All 48 of them. Ugh.

Yarn Babbles.

tyralyn — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:15:00 +0000

I have finished 30/48 of the Lapghan centers. The rest will be finished today sometime if it kills me. This means that I need to figure out the other colors I want to use for it. I haven’t decided if I want to do multiple colors using yarn I have left over from other stuff or if I want to buy yarn specifically for it. I don’t really have enough shades to do it with what I have, since it’s lighter, then darker of the same color. I have 2 shades of green that I could use. A forest green and a paddy green. I was also considering lavender and purple as well, which means I have to yarn shop for those. I have 18 more centers before I really need to make the decision on that. *laugh*

I finally decided on the pattern for the princess blanket. It’ll be done with two shades of pink and white. The center and trim will be white with the shades of pink in between. I did a sample square with the pink in the center and white for the trim and really didn’t care for the way it worked out. It was too much of the light pink. But it’s also the wrong shade and weight, so it might look different when I get the right ones. That’ll teach me to send Rob to pick up yarn for me without a specific color name! *grumble*

I’ll likely go yarn shopping Friday after Rob gets paid. I haven’t decided yet. I really don’t have any major bills to pay this week, auto-debits are deducted too, so.. Hmm.. maybe.

Lazy Sunday

tyralyn — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:01:00 +0000

Today is going to be spent blogging, relaxing, watching football (yeah.. football) and maybe crocheting. So far, I’ve gotten dinner in the marinade and salad is made. I’m making honey dijon chicken and potato salad. It smells fantastic. It’s not really a true marinade, it’s just a bottle of Wegmans honey dijon salad dressing. I always use toss salad dressing for marinades, they seem to have a better flavor, especially the thicker dressings.

I’ve weeded through some of my lj icons and uploaded some new ones, deleted some old ones and redone the keywords on them. I need to get more new ones. I’ve not been making cuz I suck. I don’t like my own icons much. I also need to put up a couple offerings in blinkie_store & juicy_grapes, but I have no idea what blinkies to offer. I could offer my rose again or one of the new ones I made the other day. I’m kinda meh, though, because the boxes on the one look like something another maker has and I really do not feel like getting accused of stealing when I sat and hand animated them pixel by pixel. I’m bored with my old boxes and have no idea what to make that either hasn’t been done or doesn’t look like I’m stealing. In case you’re curious, the boxes on the blinkie at the bottom of the post are the ones I am talking about.

Right now, I’m watching the Colts game. I want to see them win today. I also want to see the Giants win (sorry trillsie) too. I was hoping the Patriots would lose last night, but that wasn’t meant to be, I guess. I couldn’t help but laugh at the game yesterday afternoon. They weren’t playing football, that was more like snowball. It was amusing to watch.

I still haven’t found the pattern I was looking for and I still haven’t decided on the pink princess afghan pattern either. I have some ideas that I like, and I’m leaning towards doing the one pictured to the left, with variations of pink instead of blue. I like the way it looks, the pattern makes you look at it to figure out just how it was made. It looks complicated and difficult, but the reality is that it’s simple. It’s just a matter of keeping track of your yarns on each square. The hardest part is going to be the color changing, but the directions give a few good tips for keeping it from being too much of a pain.

Yeah, I’m babbling about crocheting and yarn again. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. I’ve found that I spend more time away from the computer lately. This isn’t such a bad thing, really. It keeps me from wanting to strangle people. Crocheting keeps my hands busy and I can watch TV or listen to an audio book while I do it too. But anyway, this is enough babble out of me. I’m off to figure out what I want to do with the rest of the day. I should try to write some fiction of some sort, since I haven’t since NaNoWriMo.

I have a few more blog posts to write later today, but those are not livejournal posts, those are for the crafting blog I’m working on. Most of the stuff there is already here, but some of it will be new. Anyway, I’m going to go curl up on the couch, watch football and crochet square centers for the lapghan.

Have a happy Sunday, folks.