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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.
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.
