Today was the first day of school for the 2008-2009 school year. Davey is in the 5th grade. His teacher is Mrs. Pike as he wanted. Dusty is in the 4th grade. His teacher is Mrs. Hostetter as he wanted. Jeremy is in the 1st grade and going all day long now. His teacher is Mrs. Whitmore. They where all very nervous. We got to the school at 6:45p.m. and I walked around with the boys until 7:20 when Davey & Dustys friends showed up and Jeremys teacher opened up her classroom door. The shocker of today is that Davey got up at 5:20 a.m. A whole 40 mins before the alarm. And no fights to get up from him. This may turn out to be a good year yet!
Round Ripple, started August 8th, 2008, finished August 14th, 2008
Pattern: Aggie May’s Round Ripple Blanket
Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver in white & varigated
Hooks Used: J or 6.5 mm
Pattern Notes: Instead of using the tips in the pattern I made squares and sewed them on. The points otherwise where not symetrical & I had issues about that.
Would I make it again? I do not know. Depends if it called me again.
Other Notes: The points have tassels on them. It is 37 inches from tip to tip. It was made for the Crochet Games of Ancient Greece at Crochetville. I am on Team Sissie44’s Seniors.
Over at Crochetville there is the 2008 Crochet Games of Ancient Greece. I am lucky enough to participate in Team Sissie45’s Seniors. Sissie is online friend who I have been making twelve inch squares for and even blankets (or lapghans/afghans whatever you want to call them). I have even got hunting at thrift stores & yard sales for these to send to her. I live in California. She lives in West Virginia. It takes up to $20 to mail a box of afghans to her each month. She needs 100 afghans by Christmas for the Senior Center where she lives. She also puts together comfortghans for others that are having hard times and need to know that they are being thought of. She does this all without asking for anything but people to donate enough squares to make the comfortghan. A bunch of us have joined the team to make her comfortghans for her seniors. Most of us signed ourselves up for 2 comfortghans while some are just making squares, 1 comfortghan or whatever else is needed. I am one of the ones that offered to make 2 comfortghans. Here is the first one I have made….
The first picture was taken on the 10th of August and the second one just today. We are on a deadline as what we signed up to make must be done by the end of the Olympics. I hope to be getting a gold medal & making some people very happy. 
Soon I’ll post pictures of the scrap granny I am almost done with too. When I start working on it which will be when I am done with the other comfortghan.
P.S. The secret project from the previous post is nothing any of you would be interested in unless you crochet. In that case you want more info use the contact form.
Brown Afghan, started July 7th, 2008, finished August 1st, 2008
Pattern: Just 12 random twelve inch squares.
Yarn: Simply Soft, Red Heart Super Saver, and Lion Brand Pound of Love.
Hooks Used: G, H, J
Pattern Notes: This was to be just twelve squares as I granted one of Sissies wishes. But I decided to do something nice for her & whip stitch the squares together & put a border around it. Voila an afghan!
Would I make it again? I probably will as it is an afghan.
Elegant Goth Bag, started July 23rd, 2008, finished July 25th, 2008
Pattern: Inga’s Haekelbeutel
Yarn: Simply Soft in black and Simply Soft Heathers in dark teal
Hooks Used: H or 5.0mm
Pattern Notes: As with the first one it isn9t recomennded to use without lining if planning to use for a purse. Instead of using the squares in the pattern I designed a square called No Holes Granny Square.
Would I make it again? I do not know unless I find some square pattern where I will not have to line it.
Other Notes: This is the second haekelbeutel I have made. I lined it with skull fabric bought at JoAnns. The closure is velcro.
I sit here at midnight to tell you all I am to stressed to blog. So why am I blogging? Dunno why exactly except to tell you all I am too stressed to do so. Which I have said twice already. I am trying to get back in the swing of things & I have not traded with any bees. I feel bad. But damnit I am just too stressed to do anything online right now. I even dropped out of all my swaps on swap-bot.com. I have never done that. Nighty night sleep tight because I won’t. My period started after not having one for 3 months & I am about to die here.
P.S. I have a new crocheted square pattern to write up. A No Holes Granny Square! It is written up here!
WIP Tote, started July 10th, 2008, finished August 12th, 2008
Pattern: Ingas Haekelbeutel
Yarn: Peaches & Cream Cotton Yarn in Pink Lilacs (5 balls) & White (1 ball).
Hooks Used: J or 6.5mm
Pattern Notes: It is best to line this bag if you intend to use it as a purse. Pens and small things may slip through the stitches if you do not. It would work great as a word in progress bag or a tote to take to the beach.
Would I make it again? Yes but with less squares as it is too ‘deep’ with 16 squares.
Other Notes: If you do line the bag make sure the bobbin will match the outside of the bag. Otherwise you may have to cover up your ‘boo boo’.
I am sitting here watching VH1’s I Love The New Millenium. They brought up guyliner. They discussed how it is a fad only for emo bands and those who think the world is falling apart such as the emo people do. Yes you hinted sarcasim there. All you emo people who whine about nothing need to grow up. Anyhow incase you have never heard of the ‘fad’ here is a few definitions for you.
From Urban Dictionary…
1. Eyeliner for guys.
4.Eyeliner applied on a man. Once formerly the territory of only homosexuals,punk rockers and showmen, well-applied guyliner is slowly but surely becoming more socially acceptable for heterosexual men who ascribe to metrosexualism, glamour, and general fabulousness.
Wikipedia has no definition or entry for guyliner sadly.
I have a correction for the dear people at VH1. Guyliner, or rather eyeliner, has been around for many many years. It started in the rock/metal scene (the late 60s & early 70s) as a way for the performers eyes to been seen more clearly as eye contact is important. For people like me to really grasp the meaning of some songs I must look into the performers eyes. The first man I saw wearing eyeliner was Ozzy Osbourne in 1986. Doing more research he was wearing eyeliner before I was born (I was born in 1980). The next guy I saw wearing eyeliner was Alice Cooper. Then there was pretty much every punk band wearing eyeliner as well as Axl Rose, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, Kirk Hammet, David Draiman (Disturbed), & Jonathan Davis. Guyliner was important for a lot of performers before the emo scene came about.
Guyliner is NOT an emo fad. The emo genre has taken it to new heights and sadly (in my view) has made it harder for men to wear eyeliner. They already had issues being labeled homosexual for wearing eyeliner but now they must also have to deal with being labeled an emo and homosexual. Really now come on. How many men do you see wear eyeliner that is homosexual? Not that many if any at all I am sure. No I am not a fan of the emo genre. I hate the fact that the fad of men wearing eyeliner is all ‘new’ when in fact I grew up idolizing men (performers of heavy metal & rock music) wearing eyeliner and make up. Carlos Mencia has made his view on the emo genre public on one of his shows a few weeks ago and I invite you all to watch that skit. It is called I Can’t Go On.
With all this being said…. Jared Leto looks much better without eyeliner while eyeliner makes most men look 100% better. I guess this turned into a rant about the emo genre. Talking about the emo genre cutting yourself IS NOT an emo fad either. But that is for another post when I am willing to let you in on part of one of my most dark secrets.
P.S. Thanks Rachael & Lisa. I will try those suggestions to fix the images on my site.
Primary Ripple, started June 23rd, 2008, finished July 5th, 2008
Pattern: Easy To Stitch Scatter Rug: Crochet
Yarn: Simply Soft Ombres in Embroidery Print and Red Heart Super Saver in red & purple.
Hooks Used: k or 6.5mm
Pattern Notes: This was originally a rug pattern. I read through it and found it easier to do then some of the ripple afghan patterns.
Would I make it again? Probably as it is easy to whip up in a short amount of time.
Other Notes: This blanket was sent to a lady over at Crochetville to help give preemies blankets for Christmas this year in NICU.
