Here’s a proper pic of that crochet shrug I made. What the photo doesn’t show you is that, although crocheted in black cotton, the cardigan is also part-Milo. Although Milo doesn’t have much hair compared to normal cats, and doesn’t usually leave hairs about the place, this black cotton just couldn’t get enough of his grey fuzz and seemed to latch onto every last smokey strand in the vicinity.
My Black Shrug
It’s a crap picture, but I wanted to post something up (it’s been too long). I’ll post a better photo just as soon as I get my backside into gear. It was a bit of an undertaking making this thing really. Doubling up the stitches was more taxing on my tiny brain than I’d anticipated, and even doubled it wasn’t coming out at the right stitch height. So I was sticking in rows of Half Trebles(or Half Double Crochets, if you prefer) and having to keep track of when and where so that I could duplicate it on both sides. Using a knitting row counter made life a lot easier – otherwise I’d never be able to watch House and crochet at the same time.
Still, the agony is over now, and I’ve moved on to something that’s just as tricky. I’m beginning to regret this whole move away from granny square-based blanket making…
Amigurumi
I’ve nearly finished my shrug – just one little teensy tie to do. Really, I don’t know what’s taking me so long. It’s shameful. But I just seem to have lost the drive at the moment. Not that I don’t still grab my crochet as soon as I sit down in front of the TV, but recently I seem to simply hold it whilst gawking at the goggle box. Progress is pathetically slow. I suppose I did go through a period of not watching TV at all and only crocheting, so maybe it’s time to redress the balance with some proper square-eyed behaviour.
Anyway, enough of my excuses, this is just a short post to say that I’m planning on jumping on that Amigurumi band wagon very soon. Crochet Me has a special on the little blighters and I really just can’t get enough of them. Just as with the whole crochet clothes business (and how I got sucked into it against my will) I’ve never had any desire at all to make crocheted toys – since they remind me of receiving crap presents at Christmas from my Grandmother (along with the thermal underwear, which funnily enough I’d probably rather like now). However, as with so much in life, the Japanese know how to make things that are a whole lot cuter than our western woolly ways.
Leigh, of Knit-Errant fame, did this lovely one from a pattern she got here; Amy from the Hook & I has hers well on the way and – OH MY HEAVENLY LORD – just look at what Google brings up: A whole blog of Amigurumis. I feel like everyone’s been having a party without me. 🙁
More Amigurumi blog stuff:
Amigurumi Girl
Gourmet Amigurumi
Amigurumi Crochet
And look at these! It’s Amigurumi The Dogs!
Dear me. I’m off for a lie down – this is all far too exciting.
Do you speak American?
So then:
UK Past Participle: Got
US Past Participle: Gotten
UK Past Participle: Knitted
US Past Participle: Knit (“Name three places you’ve knit”)
UK Past Participle: Spat
US Past Participle: Spit
I’m not about to launch off into some rant or start picking apart the different grammatical reasons why one nation does it one way and one does it another (after all, not only do I have lots of extremely attractive and intelligent US readers, I also know that we’ll all be speaking American in 50 years so it doesn’t really matter), it’s merely something that I’ve wanted to note down for a while – ever since I started this blog, in fact, and kept reading blogs where someone has “knit” something. Not only does that sound entirely bizarre to me, it also leaves me puzzled as to why you American readers out there are happy to leave some past participles in the present tense (knit, spit, shit etc), but feel overwhelmed by the urge to make “got” look more past tensey. What’s all that about?
Probably there’s some logical explanation, something to do with the great vowel shift, or the state of the language when those religious extremists hopped on a boat to the new world, but really I just felt the urge to note it down.
I’ve also been known to sit down and list the entire weasel genus (ferret, stoat, pole cat, pine martin, otter, I could go on), the complete set of Greek gods along with their Roman equivalents, and all my best friends in order. It’s only a matter of time before I start naming nuts.
Crochet Necklace
Just pottering about the internet looking for gadgets for girls stories when I came across this Crochet Necklace on Sensory Impact. I haven’t really got anything to say about it, but for some reason I just can’t help getting over-excited when I see something that’s been crocheted. Not a great time for me when shopping right now, as you can probably imagine. Everything seems to be crocheted, so I spend my time flitting excitably about each shop, prattling like a fool about how I could probably make something similar given a year or so, while my friends slowly back away towards the door in the hope of making a run for it.
By the way, the reason I haven’t been blogging lately is because I haven’t made anything new for a while. But I’ve got a shrug on the go at the moment, so hopefully I’ll get a chance to finish it off this weekend.
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