The Olympics for Crocheting?

Yes! And for knitting, weaving & dyeing yarn too.

Ravelry is a fab place which I know that I've talked about before, and they are hosting their own 'all for fun' version of the Olympics.  I have entered 4 of the games and am gearing up for tomorrow morning when it's international cast on/hooking time as the Opening Ceremony begins.

I'm crocheting a lacy shawl, a pair of hexagon motif slippers,  a dalek egg cosy and I'm frogging (i.e. undoing - a fab 'technical term'. Named fogging because aapparently if you undo knitting it makes a kind of ribbit sound) a poncho I've fallen out with.

(It never ceases to amaze me about how geeky I can be with my crocheting - it's such a fantastic feeling!)

Enjoy the opening ceremony!  And in the spirit of geekiness, UFOs and my love of The Doctor.  Here is a photo of a lift that is in a building in Wellington that I fell in love with the other weekend :-)

A Make Over

Three years ago I went with my good friend Jo to pick up some material to re-upholster her dining room chairs.  This weekend on a visit to Tauranga and we actually did it!  (It has been a three year project plan.....)  

 

Before

We dismantled the chairs and did the bottoms first with lots of goes at trying to get the corners tidy, lots of little tacks and a good blob of fabric glue. 

We also sanded down the highly varnished table and stained it with a Rimu stain

 

After

Very happy with the result :-)

 

I also heard a new name for WIP's this weekend, UFO (unfinished object) and PHD (projects half done) I like these new names.  I do believe that this one had been a UFO.

Snot

The snot has taken over

It’s fuddeling my head

My eyes and nose are streaming

Used tissues surround my bed

Vicks™ is my perfume

It’s battling with the snot

Along with Nurofen™ Cold and Flu

They’re giving it all they’ve got!

I haven’t even crocheted

That’s how bad it’s been

Which is probably really a good thing

Who would want anything tinged with green?

When is enough, enough?

When we're talking about yarn, that's obvious - it's never enough (cue The Cure)

What about Crochet books? 

I seem to have come across a few fabulous ones lately, and I suppose at some point I'll start to see the same old things. And will that make it enough?  
For example: I found this book in Onehunga today

A present for Lauree White on 1st April 1974 -I wonder how many of the things she made...

What a fantastic coat!

What made up my mind to buy it?  A similar pattern to those socks that were in the Vogue Crochet mag I received in the post just recently. 

Diamond Jubilee Weekend

It's been a few decades now since we left the UK to settle in our new home on the opposite side of the world.  And even though we've been here longer than there, some things can still make us home sick :-)  

Flying the flag(s)

Patriotic Cup Cakes

Waikato weather pretending to be the same as the UK

Wearing Red, White, Blue and the Union Jack

Fab Find!

Pukekohe Salvation Army Shop - only five buckaroos for this fabulous retro bible of stuff to do with yarn!

I like this page in particular because the explanation of how to work it says (and I quote): "can be worked neatly over a large tongue depressor or ruler"  Like we all have tongue depressors at our disposal! 
 

I love this book in a way that words can't describe :-D

Vogue

My pre-ordered Vogue Knitting Crochet 2012 Special Collectors Issue arrived in the post this morning.  Tres excitement!

First was "I'm going to make these fabulous socks!"

Followed a few more pages in by an:

 "OMG what an amazing granny square dress! I have to have it!"

Bet you can't guess what I'm doing for the rest of the weekend?

If you guessed drooling over the magazine and not doing any actual crocheting, you're probably going to be pretty close :-)