*Sigh* Once again, it is Sunday morning and I am only just now finding the time/peace/quiet to get a post written. This is I think the 3rd week in a row, so it's starting to turn into a pattern. I really wanted to post several different things this week, but just haven't had a chance to sit down and type it all out. So this is actually going to cover about 3-4 different posts of things I wanted to share this week. Oh well, better than never posting at all, I suppose, and at least this week I managed to get photos taken during the week so I wasn't scrambling to do that yesterday afternoon.
So anyway, first things first - isn't my little guy up there just adorable? That's his very own yarn and crochet hook, by the way. The idea being that if he has his own to play with, he will stay out of mine. It even kind of works, sometimes. LOL. I joke that it's easy to tell what his parent's hobbies are, just by looking at what his favorite toys are. Guitars are definitely number 1, he loves to play Rock Band with Daddy. He has his own little toy guitar of course, but he also plays the RB controllers, a little 3 inch Christmas ornament guitar, and if none of those are around, he'll happily substitute anything vaguely guitar shaped, such as the baby monitor - which is guitar shaped only in that it has a larger "body" and a long "neck" (the antenna). LOL. Anyway, yarn is also pretty high on his list of fabulous toys. I have to be careful taking him to a store, as he wants to squish and dig his fingers into every single skein. And it's kind of a relief to have him so focused on guitars now, because for a long time there was absolutely no way I could crochet at all if he was around and awake. Unless I wanted to stop after every other stitch to chase him out of my yarn or untangle him, or take away the scissors... you get the idea. ; )
So, on to the Lucy bag. I was going to share with you R2 and R3, but I realized that I didn't actually take those photos. Oops. Well, you can see that I got the base done, and it's not so round as I might like, but... oh well, it's going to be full of yarn when it's finished, so whatever. It does make me a little anxious how the lining is going to work out, though. I've made quite a bit of progress since this photo, I just started the first yellow stripe last night. I've made a couple little variations on the original Lucy bag, which I'll reveal this week with the last 2 R's and will explain why I'm calling it my 3Rs bag, but it means that each color stripe is 3 rounds instead of 1. I think it's turning out quite well, I'm excited to see it taking place. The fabric there on the right is going to be the lining, and it's flannel, so it's soft and sturdy. I do love flannel. The pink fat quarter is going to be for pockets, because I have to have pockets, and to line a little bag I made from this makeup case pattern. The zipper is for the little bag, which I just realized I need to get pictures of that too. Doh. I guess I know my assignment for this week!
Another little thing making me happy - besides that pretty pretty flannel - I got this book this week for 30% off! I've flipped through it before, and dithered about buying it, (buy it? or just get it from the library as needed? hmmm... ) but just couldn't afford it at the time - then when I had the money and decided I did want to go ahead and actually buy it to have it on hand because there are just so many FABULOUS flower patterns in it... well by then, I couldn't find it anywhere! :( So it was a very nice surprise to see it in the pattern racks at JoAnns this week and during a rare sale on books and patterns AND I happened to have the money to spare for it.... Oh happy! I've been so involved in the bag project, I haven't actually even looked through it again yet, but I'm happy just to know that it's in my drawer with my other patterns and books, waiting patiently for me to need whatever sort of flowers I can imagine. Which will be soon - I am really wanting some new hair clips, and I'm sure there will be the perfect flower(s) here just waiting for me to steal a few minutes to make them. Happy sigh. : )
And to wrap things up... I promised to reveal the finished project of those little flowers and leaves once it had been delivered to the person I made it for. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. The card with the writing on it is slipped into clear photo corners rather than fastened down, so the text can be rotated to face any direction and the whole thing can hang vertical or horizontal. It took me AGES to decide what to make for this friend - I had the quote and a color palette and a concept of flowers to work with and pretty much free reign beyond that - but once I saw Alice's patterns for the flowers and leaves, I knew they were exactly what I needed, and everything fell into place pretty quickly after that. I was extremely pleased to have it finished and mailed off, since it had been on the list to do for over a year. And my friend tells me she loves it too, so that's quite a relief! I don't think it's likely I'll be making much in the way of more wall art any time soon, the painting is too time/space intensive, but I'm happy with how this turned out to know that crocheting small bits is a good/fast alternative to the painting, and certainly unique, not something you see every day. It's something to keep in the back of my head for an option for projects, you know?
All right, loveys, I need to wrap up, I've got another trip to JoAnns planned for this morning (glee!) and work this afternoon and Jimi has stuff he needs to take care of... the weekends are never long enough. I will try to post again before next week, but if I don't manage it... have a good week!
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