About Me Crochet Projects Blog
I am back to crafting once again! I am, also, back to updating my website. I only realized just now that I never actually explained my latch hook project, nor did I upload pictures of anything. Maybe I'll go back and do that. If I feel like it. Which I might not. I supposed we'll see.
I found the latch hook project on the website for a company while I was looking for more yarn. Yes, I did spend a lot of the last blog post talking about how I have too much yarn and need to get rid of it. However, the yarn I want to get rid of is various mysterious acrylics, while the yarn I was looking to get more of was Lily Sugar n Cream 100% cotton. I'd started a shawl for myself with some yarn that I'd picked up as an impulse buy while wandering through the craft aisle of a Meijer store with June (we'd gotten a rental car to go visit my sibling out of town, and decided to spend the day before we needed to leave going to various stores that we normally couldn't feasibly get to on the bus. On our way back from Ikea and Woodman's we ended up at Meijer because craft aisle). Unfortunately, I hadn't gotten myself enough yarn for the shawl so I needed more. Thus I discovered Herrschnerr's.
Apparently they do run an in-person storefront, but from what I can gather their main source of clientelle is through 1) the internet and 2) main order catalogues (we'll get to that). For now, the important thing to note is that they were the cheapest source of the particular shades of Lily Sugar n Cream I was looking for, and their website also has a section of latch hook projects. I picked one up out of nostalgia for my childhood, thinking I would get around to it at some point later.
Later came several months later, when I'd used all my yarn for the shawl, was debating whether I wanted to make the shawl larger and therefore couldn't finish it off, couldn't bring myself to start yet another crochet project, and needed something creative to do while I was getting certain life situations in order. It turned out to be much larger than I'd expected. It took up my "sewing" table for several months, meaning I still haven't actually sewn anything on that table. The latch-hook-ing part is done, but I need to finish the edges of the project so that I can actually hang it up on the wall in my room. I'm very excited for that, but I haven't had the energy to get around to that part yet.
Work continues on the scrap yarn blanket of doom. There honestly isn't much more to be said about it, besides that work is indeed continuing. Later this week the library is having a craft-and-chat event, and I hope to bring it with me to work on. I've never been, so I hope it goes well.
This weekend I went to the library and, despite telling myself that I would only come home with 2 books, ended up carrying off 5. In my defense, I had meant to sit down and go through the books to narrow down which ones I actually wanted to take with me, but I'd forgotten that the library closes earlier on weekends than it does during the week and needed to rush out so the poor workers could go home. And so I rushed out with 5 books. I'm very excited to read them, but also I feel bad for bringing home so many from the library when I've already got a mountain of books at home to read. I'm also nervous about accidentally bringing home even more books after the craft-and-chat. If nothing else, I have plenty of things to do if I get bored!
Not sure what else to say. The weather is gorgeous today, and June is gone on a bike ride. I read part of one of my library books (its about historic quilting!) and once I am done typing this I am going to crochet some more. I'm sitting in a chair near my open front door, so I can hear outside noises and see the sunlight come in. It's very nice, and makes it hard to convince myself to get up and do dishes or laundry since those would take me away from the sunlight. And so, crafting! Back to it for now, and maybe later I'll upload pictures of things.