Anyway, much inspired by Sue I tracked down Beth's Little Star Afghan pattern and set to with some of the baby nasty yarn from the basement.
It's looking a little more like a star fish than I anticipated but once the temperature drops below 5hundredmillion degrees, I'll attack it with the steam iron. Steaming incidentally takes away some of the roughness of the yarn, maybe because I'm melting it? I dunno, I'm not really that invested in the health of my acrylic.Then since I ran out of cutesy baby yarn to add the the starfish blankie, I decided to try my hand at making a log-cabin-esque crocheted thing from all the scraps also found in the garbage. It's a little wobbly but again I'm sure the steam will sort that out.
So there you have it, my weekend adventures in petroleum based products and the reason why my back is yet again killing me. Crochet and I do not mix well. It's like a drug, just one more row then I can change colours...
Your stuff looks good. I always give a little tug and pull to get it into shape...LOL Still very nice.
ReplyDeleteVery nice! I like you color combination, looks great! I'm always amazed at how much progress you make in seemingly little time!
ReplyDeleteAhh yes, it's called not having a life while having OCD. That's how I get so much stuuf done :)
ReplyDeleteThank you both for the compliments. I'll be sending these blankets along to either project linus or to here: http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/baby-project.html
nice idea with the log cabin. vis a vis getting pain... i sort of work the pieces with both hands now. instead of holding the work steady with one hand and only moving my hook hand, i move the owrk around the hook at the same time.
ReplyDeletethis really lessens pain. but i get more wrist/forearm pain!