Marvie's Crochet Corner

couple of pictures

Here's the hat and scarf set my friend made me for Christmas, along with some black mittens I made myself:



Here's the Light and Lacy stole too =) I apologize for the crappy pic, but I'd already put everything away before I realized how bad it is and I am too damn lazy to pull it all out again right this minute. I'll get my neighbor to get a pic of it on me sometime today, she takes good pics ;)

Specs: RH Symphony in Redwood. I followed the pattern exactly and was right on gauge (which I almost never am with Dot's patterns, I usually have to go up a couple of hook sizes) I didn't even need to add any rows!



Oh, and just to let ya'll know (as if you care lol) but the freakin' snow is still coming down, I don't think it stopped for more than an hour in the past 24 hours. We have a good 6 inches, if not more. I can't imagine what it looks like down at the other bases, they always get a lot more snow than we do up here. Last year when we had about this much on the ground, a lady from one of those bases told me they had snow up to their butts. Needless to say, I have to plans to travel off base any time soon rofl.

It's a good thing I got a late Christmas gift yesterday (of yarn!) from my friend back home =) Now I can sit here today and do the same as yesterday lol. She sent me two balls of RH Symphony in River Blue, which is perfect because I can add to the hooded scarf I made last year, the scarf ended up being much too short and I was super bummed about it, so now I can fix it! I'm a happy girl! She also sent me a big ass ball of Joann Rainbow Boucle in the blue colorway. I wonder if there's enough of it to make a sweater? I think I may have to do some pattern hunting.I doubt there is though... I dunno what I want to use it for though. I don't need another shawl and I already have a poncho in this color. Not enough to make a throw. Hmmmm gonna have to think on this. (I still have the green to figure out too. I made Dot's Monk's hood from the '06 PAD calendar with the green, but there's a whole bunch of it left to do something with.)

I finally got my Herrschner's gift cert. used. I had to call and they had to place the order themselves. I ordered Lacy Snowflakes for Snowflake Mondays (though I plan to also get 99 Snowflakes as soon as my Visa card arrives in the mail, any day now!) I also got three skeins each of RH Soft in Grape, Lavendar and Grass Green which I think I will use to make gifts for the little girls on my list for either bday's or next Christmas. Now that I think of it though I probably should have ordered a bit more of the Grape and green, I'm planning shrugs and I'm now afraid there won't be enough. Maybe if I use an open lacy pattern I can make it work. I got the afghan hook for hubby's ghan from there too, and something else, but I can't remember what. So, in a couple of weeks I will be getting all that stuff. I can't wait!

I have to wait on my Visa to arrive before I can order hubby's yarn too, and it's killing me! I'm so afraid the sale will be over before it gets here! I really hope it arrives today. I may go ahead and order more Homespun just bc it's on sale. I don't have any actual plans that require it, but at $2 cheaper than usual it can't hurt to have a bit on hand. It's even cheaper than Knitting Warehouse, which is the cheapest I have found it onine so far.

Oh, here's a question for ya'll, since pretty much everybody has more experience with yarns I haven't ever touched or worked with. Hubby has requested another skully, he wants it soft (he's one of those sexy blad guys ;) ) and I have no clue what yarn to use that is soft but not girly. My best thought was Simply Soft in black. Anyone have any other ideas?

Well, I am going to get off here, refill my coffee cup and add some length to that hooded scarf. Stay warm everyone!

posted by Marvie at 5:56 AM