Oops, and a new WIP
My last post, well, I thought is was a little dumb, so I was going to modify it-something I have never done before. I kind of look at this blog things as the closest thing to a journal that I keep and I feel like changing things (other than a spelling error!) is a little like erasing the past. A dumb post is a little like that stupid drunk thing you yelled at your friend last night that woke you up at 3 in the morning wondering if they'll talk to you again. Or maybe that tells you too much about how my brain works. Anyway, I was going to change it-add to it actually, and instead I erased the whole bleeding thing.
Figures.
Moving on, a few years ago I picked up a scarf at Anthropolgie. A Sophie Digard scarf.
Amazing. Stunning. Gorgeous. $390.00.
I couldn't do it. Today, I probably would because it really is worth $400-It's crochet! There is no way to crochet by machine-it's all hand done. But at the time I couldn't do it. I did think to myself-I can make that! (it was the top one by the way). I didn't know who the designer was, or even take that close a look at the block design. But it's lived with me ever since. Well recently, she has re-emerged in my field of vision. Sophie is featured in the new Selvage magazine, and I have a friend who walked into school one day wearing one of her flower necklaces. And now the scarves go for $240 bucks, which is now completely worth it-but it's been living in my head as something I should make for myself for so long that instead of buying it, I bought $20 of lace weight yarn and a size 1.4 mm hook and I'm crocheting again for the first time in ages.
The yarn is knit picks shadow in all 8 colors, though I eliminated the beige and am using the darker purple as a base color-the last round on each of the hexagons.
The block is from the Kaleidoscope blanket in the Blue Ribbon Afghans from America's State Fairs book-one of the ugliest a very interesting collections of blankets-all beautifully stitched-and the hexagon I am using is on the cover.
Even with a mere 6 colors and 3 rounds (the last one is dark purple on all of them), there are 120 combinations possible, which meant a little chart was born:
To help me keep track.
And to add even more verbage and a whole new direction to this massive post, you'll never guess who walked into the craft center the other day! Monster Crochet and her friend Jenna! And they found me completely by accident! How's that for the crafty blogosphere effect?? It was so great to meet them both and reminded me that this craft center thing is really, really, really fun. I can't wait to see who comes in next!
:)
