Now I've got No Excuse!

I thought that I could blog (ack! I hate it when nouns are used as verbs! I hate it even more when I'm the offending verbifier) more often once school was out for the summer, which happened June 25. Funny, I don't see a blog post dated June 26. I had Saturday and Sunday off work, yet still no blog post. I've just received a call from work to say that I have tonight off. Yay! So, (cue the fanfare) here's the overdue post:

I've made precious little progress on the "Pull Mystère". Partly, I've been putting it off in favour of quick, fun projects, and partly, there were Teacher Presents that were a higher priority.











These crocheted violets became another bookmark. The pattern for the violets is here. I had difficulty making nice-looking flower centres! VBG
There were several other bookmarks, but I seem not to have taken photos of them.

There have been a series of flowers since then.


These 2 turned out not as nicely as I had hoped.









My favourite flowers are pansies, so I've been looking for every possible pansy pattern. The 2 large pansies in the photo are from the book, "Floral Doilies", which is from 1949. Then I decided to try a pansy from an on-line pattern, which turned out to be the same pattern, word-for-word, as the pattern in "Floral Doilies"! I found that pretty humourous.














The flowers in the next photo are also from "Floral Doilies", minus the doily, of course! I'm not sure what I'm making out of them. I started out thinking that my DD might like them sewn on a T-shirt, say, at the neckline, but she declined. So, who knows!









This next flower was a custom colour combo for DD. When it was done, she said, "Could it have a yellow centre that covers that stuff in the middle?"

The Monstrosity

Without further ado, I present, in all its glory:The Monstrosity
I crocheted this thing 28 years ago, at the age of 16. It was supposed to turn out 12 inches in diameter, but it's 18 inches instead, because my tension was terrible. I ran out of crochet cotton, so bought another cone in a different set of purples, and blithely crocheted on. What a hoot! I get this thing out every now and then to have a good laugh.CIC Sweater for Big Kids ChallengeHere's the finished sweater, knit in the round with Moda Dea Cache, on 5.5mm needles. I hadn't expected to like this yarn as much as I did. Back to knitting! :D