Critical Mass

My stash has officially reached critical mass. I am embarrassed to say that it may now be considered a self-sustaining entity. I say this because as I packed it all away, it tried to escape from what will have to be its old storage place ( a plastic thing that a queen-sized comforter came in). As we were packing up my things, one of my best friends tried to zip the bag and it burst at top seam. The sad and possibly dangerous part was the fact that we continued to find skeins/balls of yarn as we packed up the rest of my small bedroom. I mean I actually found yarn that I didn't know that I had. I don't remember buying it or anything. This leads me to suspect that my yarn stash has actually found a way to reproduce and may be plotting to take over Music City U.S.A. The sad sad part of this situation is that all of the aforementioned yarn is acrylic/acrylic blend and wool. This means that I'm seeking lighter/summer-safe yarns. I'm also looking to expand the types of yarns I use as I'm thinking that acrylic is great, cheap, and good for a lot of things, but not always appropriate. I've been scoping out some cotton/linen/silks and reading up on them to see what I might be getting myself into. The stash is big, but at this rate it might be out of control soon.

Rheatheylia's Cable Hat better known as Copper Cables

So, I've finished another item, yay me. It is Rheatheylia's now infamous crochet cables hat. I made mine from a coppery (looks straight up orange), 100% Peruvian wool, once again from the LYS. I took me about a week to finish and this is with random on and off working mostly on the bus. On Sunday, some random ass dude came up and asked if I was making a kufi.... I just gave him the stink eye and kept it moving. Now without further ado, Copper Cables

House Slippers

Ok so what the slippers are two different shades of blue lol I like them that way. I'm also like super ashy in this picture (I'm sick and it's cold lemme lone) I followed (loosely) a pattern from a forum on craftster. These suckers are warm and toasty, I used one strand of Lion Brand Homespun and a strand of worsted weight wool from my LYS (it's like multiple shades of blue same yarn as the wrist warmers). The pattern was supper easy and the only problem is I crocheted the darker slipper with an N hook (started ) and finished with a K so it's not as stiff as the light blue one which I worked completely with the K. Oh well Newbie-ness strikes again. What do ya think?

Lux the Neckwarmer

This is my neckwarmer, his name is Lux (you should feel this yarn)...

He is my friend on days like today when Music City is cool, rainy, and pretending that it knows that the seasons have changed. I know I know he doesn't look like he belongs to a woman, but that's because his lovely wool/angora blend yarn was purchased to make a scarf for my ex-boyfriend (last November). He's wonderful really, made up from my own mind with a mesh stitch done in double crochet. His gray trim is done in single and half double crochet. I just kind of came up with the button and tab, creating as I went. Once again the yarn is something whose name I can't recall because I purchased it last year at the LYS. I even have a picture of Lux lovingly embracing my cold neck...

See don't we look happy :) . Lux has a sister in the making her name is Blaze (started out as the back from the blazer in the Happy Hooker book) she will be appearing shortly. Lux and Blaze will also be getting a cousin who will go to live with one of the wonderful ladies that works in my school's dining hall (the cousin has no gender or name yet). I think this is the beginning of Nappy Threadz Custom Crochet... What do you think?

Back... Again

So I have yet to finish the purple wrap top from Afya's book, I get disgusted with the sleeves and end up putting it down. It's an easy pattern, but I keep having to adjust the sleeves to fit my big ol' arms, now the first sleeve went fine because I went into it knowing I had to make it bigger, but the second sleeve, weeeeelll I didn't go to work on it until like June and got about halfway down before I realized I'd forgotten to make it bigger. Due to annoyance I put it back in the W.I.P. bag and that's where it is now... in October. I'm clearly not a pro. I did however finish a pair of fingerless gloves

The yarn is a multi-tonal blue wool I got from my LYS, and I can't remember the name since I got the two skeins I have of it like last year sometime. I'm currently working on two neck warmers that I'm going to post pictures of sometime in the next few days.. I know I'm a bad blogger cause I'm so frequently absent, but lordy if you knew how seldom I get to crochet , I swear you'd understand :)