I've been scrumbling at intervals, adding to my original piece, and this is where I stop. What I love about scrumbling is that you go wherever you please -- although my stitches are fairly basic (I need to learn more intricate ones)--combining shapes and colours and textures, ending up with something organic. This piece reminds me of a flowering garden. It makes me happy.

Crochet, knitting, needle lace

Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown

Weekend update

Well, I thought it was Sunday. It felt like Sunday. Turns out it's Saturday. At times like these, all you can do is sit back and have some chocolate.

Anyway, thanks to a tutorial by Rebecca, I learned how to loop things like these antique buttons onto a plain crochet "chain." My crochet skills are elementary, so things like this have to be explained to me! You may know by now that I like to try new things -- if they attract me.

Weekend update

So -- what do you do on a wet and windy weekend? You go to work, then run over to the grocery store and go home. Settle down and practise doing something new. I've been wanting to crochet little flower shapes. I had some hemp string (a little unwieldy, but I like it) and looked up the how-to on the Internet. A little wonky, but I'm getting there. That's because I'm not very good at written instructions, especially when they're mysterious and known only to crocheters, so I have to figure it out myself. My friend Joy made me a bookmark that was perfect; now, if I could watch her work I would pick it up much faster....

Simple crochet

Credit goes to the handspun yarn, not my crocheting, which is very basic and which I make up as I go along. I made this collar/necklace thingie that you slip on over your head, and since my friend Ramona was visiting, I perched it on her head. She thought it made her look like a Roman. I thought she was very gracious!