Yarns

[jacey]

It must be all the talk of crochet, wool, yarn and spinning from heleninwales and another couple of friends... that and my mum who has just started kntting again after about twenty years...

So last week I popped into the wool shop in Denby Dale to pick up something for Mum and spotted some big balls of chunky acrylic yarn in deep purples and dark, inky blues. I haven't crocheted for forty years, but it was just like riding a bike, my fingers found the stitches automatically. So in one night I crocheted a shawl with a large star set into a roundel. I didn't have a pattern but made it up as i went along. With the bit in my teeth I went and got some more yarn (same colour) and in three nights crocheted myself a long waistcoat. Again no pattern but I took the measurements from a waistcoat I bought about fifteen years ago in Calgary.

The added bonus was that I also got to listen to the audiobook of Curse of Chalion while I was doing it.

I have Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrrell on audiobook, so now all I need is another crochet project and I might actually get round to listening to it.

Comments

[julesjones]

I do cross-stitch while listening to audiobooks -- I find that (unless I'm very tired) I can't keep my attention on the audiobook if I'm doing nothing else, but I'm fine if I'm doing something with my hands. I keep meaning to re-learn knitting -- the massive RSI episode earlier this year put paid to the last bout of serious intention, but I might be able to hold a pair of knitting needles for more than a few seconds now, so might have another crack at it.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have problems listening to audiobooks if I'm just sitting - which is why I've never made it past the first hour of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell yet, but I managed all of Curse of Chalion (about 18 hours) while my hands were busy.