New Year New Whine
January 3rd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
A happy new year to any lost wanderers that happen here! It’s going to be a big one for me, hopefully in the best of ways, and I hope next January 3rd finds us all happier, healthier, and a little more satisfied with our lives.
Let’s see, my last post was before Halloween. Some updates: my zombie-nurse costume was pretty awesome, and, I’m told, realistic. Unnerved a friend’s drunken uncle and earned mildly alarmed stares from Walgreens shoppers. The pumpkin was boring and not even original but you win some, you lose some!
As for the foot thing, turns out it’s actually a broken bone that I walked on for two months! Who knew! I have been placed in a soft cast and walking boot, which I will hopefully be getting off soon because I need to take a PE credit this spring if I want to graduate on time, and I really really really want to graduate on time.
I don’t even have school as an excuse for my lack of activity here anymore. What’s eaten up my brain is crocheting. This is my new hobby. My mother began to teach it to me the week of (American) Thanksgiving and since then I have made: two scarves, four hats, one camera case, a pair of slippers, and I’m currently 3/4s of the way through a rather largish blanket. Thing is? I love crochet. I can’t stop. I keep telling myself I’m going to take a break soon and learn knitting, but it’s one project after another – I’m planning a granny square afghan next, and a baby blanket + cap for a friend, and a belated Christmas gift for another friend – I can’t stop.
I’ve had to make new years resolutions so I can try to loosen the stranglehold crocheting has on my brain and free time. I’m trying to turn my attention back to my other creative pursuits, music and fiction. Luckily, music, fiction AND crocheting are all excellent blogging topics… so I should have no excuses this year.
To start, here is my first crocheting project, made with this pattern from Crochetme.com. I made it specifically to go with that jacket (I call it my Makes-Everything-Classy Coat) but, being that both jacket and scarf are rather toasty, that I live in Texas and that this has been an unfairly warm winter, even for here, I have not yet had the chance to wear both together. In fact, the weather’s been so warm and I run so hot to begin with that I’ve worn the scarf only once: in my own house, when I was sick and had chills.
More projects and possibly a pattern to come soon, if I can get myself to stop crocheting long enough to write it.
