My, how two weeks fly when you are under the gun to get something done!
A co-worker of mine is getting married in Greece in a couple of months, so quite naturally the office threw her an engagement party (last night), and quite naturally (two weeks ago) I got the brilliant idea to make something in a technique I had never used before. Quite unnaturally, I need to start rethinking some of these brilliant ideas.
The lifesaver (or potential iceberg) was Donna Kooler’s Encyclopedia of Crochet from which the pattern came. This invaluable book has been like a hand on my shoulder in a storm. Oh sure, I’ve hit my head on a low-hanging branch from time to time, but the hand was still there guiding me back to the proper row and stitches (except for that one row that the hand had no idea what I was doing, gave up and went to the local Stitches-n-Shots bar, got totally wasted, tried to pickup someone else’s project, got slapped and finally stumbled back to mine only to find me in a fetal position crying, “Where did this extra row of a hundred stitches come from!”
But the agony quickly evaporated away once the gift was opened and there was a broad smile on the receiver’s face. With reactions like that, I swear we crafters are some of the luckiest people on earth.
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3 comments
Chris says:
March 28, 2009 at 11:45 am (UTC -8 )
Purdy!
Susan says:
March 28, 2009 at 2:42 pm (UTC -8 )
This is just stunning! Beautiful job.
Leslie says:
March 29, 2009 at 11:40 am (UTC -8 )
Fab. U. Lous!!
Trouble isn’t getting married for at least another 20 years (30 if Daddy has his way!). Does that give you enough time?