Crochet beckons ...
Yesterday morning I actually said outloud here in the office, "I feel like just going home to do craft today", and everybody burst out laughing. Seriously though, it might be the arrival of Autumn, together with the cooler, rainy weather, but I hear crochet calling me. I'm actually making a scarf I started the other weekend out of some leftover wool for my sister who has moved to Melbourne, but I need something bigger.
I bought a pile of wool on a really good special a while back, when I had those grand schemes of making toys for my littler niece and nephew, but I don't know if I will go through with those beyond the turtle as my sister thinks they have enough stuffed toys. (And little kids are weird about which toys they decide they like and don't like. Apparently the last few days they have been fighting over a pull-along Jemima Puddleduck I bought when my niece was a baby. That will last so long before it's something else. I like the idea of a crochet doll (except perhaps for making it), but if my niece never plays with it I don't know if there is a point.)
So anyway, yesterday at lunch time all blogs were eclipsed in my momentary crochet obssession as I went googling for inspiration. Then in between work and bible study I had to drag that pile of wool down from the top of the wardrobe just to look at it and reassess, and I am now thinking that the kids might get little blankets instead. I like crocheting blankets - you don't have to do so much fiddly little counting and pattern following and what have you.
In my obssession yesterday I went back to this pattern (I'm pretty sure I've linked it on this blog before but I can't check just now) and downloaded it (it probably wouldn't be hard to make it up, but when you can download a pattern for a few dollars why bother). Only scroll down further for different colours. As with all crochet, it's all about the colours - that's the difference between nice crochet, and really horrid, tacky crochet (see this flickr photo pool for some gorgeous variations). I'm thinking of making smaller versions with less colours for the kids - mainly pink and green for Annie and red and blue for Eli.
Now I'm excited, because blankets will be so much easier than doll bodies and clothes and hats ...