Pepperberry Crochet

Sunday WIPs

2009-11-15T10:44:21-05:00

Up early working on the consignment restock I mentioned the other day. Having some fun with leftover wool from other projects creating some woodland creatures. I think I want to make some bugs, too, I'm not sure.

Also, how did I miss Pretty Little Things' (Lori Marie) blog? Her work is just incredibly cool, as is her blog! Reader it! She has all kinds of mushroom/woodland related stuff, amazing sewing and embroidery, and a super cool etsy shop. I'm ordering this:

to add to my collection of plush mushrooms. And I lust after this:

Crochet News This Week 11/12/09

2009-11-14T19:51:33-05:00

John Paul Flintoff is working with activist Vijay Mehta for charity Kids Company to supply crochet hooks to disaffected youth and teach them to crochet items out of plastic bags. I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with this, maybe there's a way for US crocheters to help out, too.

Via Craftzine: The fantastic Sarah London is working on her mystery Christmas Crochet project, check it out!

Person on People of Public Transit blog dressed in a crocheted jumpsuit. Um, there are actually a lot of people on this site dressed in head to toe crochet. Am I missing something? Would this be an effective way of dressing when riding the T?

This isn't major crochet news, but I've added Crocheting My Worsted (Molly Wilson) to the crochet blogs list-- check out this awesome Spider Man afghan she made:

WIPs and Excuses

2009-11-11T20:38:01-05:00

Totally not good excuses, though. I've been, er, busy (playing Dragon Age) and not too motivated (because I've been playing Dragon Age) to work on the Turkey. I actually have completed it and done basic notes on the pattern, I just haven't done the full editing, etc on the damn thing. I assure you, it will be a free pattern once it's finished.

To assist with my procrastinating, I've started another project, because that will seriously help me complete the turkey pattern! Between the video game, Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood, and a consignment restock that I really, really need to finish, I'm slowly self destructing, priority-wise.

Even my amigurumi stare at me with disapproval.

Ah, well. At least I'm happy. :)

Pepperberry FAIL, but at least I have Doritos...

2009-11-09T18:15:00-05:00

One of the mushrooms I've mentioned I'm working on.

Being the careful, well thought, painstaking person I am, I neglected to check the links on the list of Crochet blogs. I've fixed the links, so everything should be working now. Apologies. I've also added Sarah London, who I missed on the first go-round, and Margaret Hubert, a freeform crocheter (love freeform!).

I was thinking of maybe organizing the list by topic rather than alphabetical order--something like "Blogs about Crocheting", "Amigurumi", "Designers", "Traditional", etc, since I realize that not all of us are interested in the same stuff. Thoughts?

If you're looking at the title of this post and thinking it was about the Crochet Blog List, not quite. I broke down and bought acrylic yarn today-- I had been doing really well on my Vow to Use Only Wool. Ah, well, it's RH Designer Sport, and it's for a personal amigurumi project. I also bought some to reattempt the turkey pattern, as I'm using obscene amounts of wool (which I can't rip back terribly well) to try to work out this project. I think it's going to end up being a free pattern as I've taken so long to make it.

At any rate, working on the turkey, and a personal project. Keep sending me crochet blogs!