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More craft, that is. Today I managed to do the finishing touches on the corkscrew-spiral crochet necklace I've been working on for a while. There was a point when it felt like it would never get finished, because there were a LOT of stitches to do, and the yarn was really thin and the crochet hook was really small (1.25mm), and I would sometimes get cramps in my hands because of that. But it is now DONE.
( more stuff, and a picture )
(edited to point to different offsite album)

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/936677.html

At last, I have FINISHED the blue crochet bag that I've been working on for the last six months.
( Find out more. With pictures! )
(edited to point to different offline album)

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/935983.html

I have accomplished crochet!
Using the largest crochet hook I have (19mm) and chunky yarn, this scarf worked up pretty quickly. And it is fluffy and soft...

It's actually two kinds of yarn which happened to have the same colour schemes; the yarn at the edges is an odd mix of "bobble" yarn and eyelash yarn, while the yarn in the centre is "Chenille" yarn (very soft and furry).

I think I should go back to where I bought this yarn and see if they have any left in a different colour.

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/926728.html

I have now done my first actual bead crochet!
I finished this last week, but didn't scan it until today:

I wouldn't have made a necklace from that particular string, but I was using (another ball of) it on a bag, and I noticed how silky smooth it was, as well as a lovely colour, so I thought I'd give it a go, using pony-beads and Thai silver beads, since smaller beads wouldn't fit. It seems to have worked.

Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/838263.html

I have just realized another reason why I have fallen so fast and so hard for crochet. Unlike most of my other crafts, I am enjoying the process just as much as the end result. There is something soothing and relaxing about the interaction of fingers, hook and yarn. One doesn't have to concentrate hard while doing it, one doesn't have to peer at tiny beads looking for the holes, or worry about not poking one's fingers with sharp pointed objects. Even Getting Things Wrong is less stressful with crochet, because it's quite easy to undo one's work back to before the mistake; no undoing of impossible knots, or dropping beads on the floor, or getting out the seam ripper. Just pull gently.

With beading, I do enjoy the designing part, but the stringing-the-beads-on is fussy.
With sewing... I hate the process of sewing. I love the end result, but the process is fiddly and time-consuming and tiring.
Macramé is nice, but crochet is nicer.

This makes me wonder whether I should just toss out my cloth stash and give away my sewing machine, but I balk at the idea.
Anybody got some good ideas about how to make sewing less fussy and more fun?

Current Mood: thoughtful
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/815491.html

Now that the nice electricity men have fixed my electricity, I can post. No, I haven't seen Doctor Who yet, did I mention I had a problem with my electricity? The lights were flicking on and off, the server was rebooting, the microwave didn't have enough power. This was happening since yesterday, though not constantly. I thought it had something to do with the high winds we had yesterday, so I didn't call the electricity people until this morning, when I couldn't cook my breakfast.

Anyway, one of the other things I've done is test-drive my soap saver. Soap savers, actually. I made another one. Hence the Goldilocks Moment - neither one is much good.

The first one, made of 100% cotton multi-stranded twine, is too stiff and thick to let the soap through. One could use it as a scrubbing mitt with liquid soap, but not as an actual soap saver.

So I made another one, out of a bamboo/cotton blend 5-ply yarn (70% bamboo, 30% cotton). This one let the soap through, but it was so stretchy and flimsy that it stretched to twice its length as soon as I started using it. Since it does let the soap through, it is marginally more useful than the first one, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. (The yarn is lovely and soft and I'd happily use it to make something else, but not a soap saver).

So it looks like I need to make that "crochet experiment" tag after all.
I think the next thing I will try is two strands of mercerized cotton.

Current Mood: frustrated
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/800152.html

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