Twas the Tuesday Before Christmas

 

Twas the Tues before Xmas and all through the blog...

Not a Casual was settled

Many projects were Frogged.

The photos were stored on the Drive and the phone

As the blogger was stitching upstairs, all alone

Except I'm really terrible at remembering poetry I've heard a thousand times, so that format's just not gonna work for me lol.

If it weren't already quarter past 8 I'd sink more time into it, but instead, here's what I've been up to:

I've been making Christmas presents nonstop for several days. A couple are finished/delivered - a stuffed wombat for my partner, some snowflakes for my friends, a pair of filet crocheted doilies for my grandmothers (one with deer, the other is a snowflake) - but I still have a major project each for my sister and my dad to work on!

Now, while I don't think either one of them reads my blog (and if you do, please feel free to object ;) ) but I'm still not sharing what I made until after the holidays lol.

I will say this, however:

My sister's gift? It has necessitated a great deal of invention.

I love the patterns from WitchWolf, and I especially love how they look when worked up (I've had a few small successes, after all!). I took one of their patterns and altered it in paint.net so that it was the "right" colors and maybe changed a few lines for clarity, but the really exciting thing (besides trying tapestry crochet and succeeding so well) is that I have been struggling to make up the back of this project properly because it's boring. I'm not one for boredom, so I came up with a solution:

Teach myself Tunisian Crochet.

Problem: I don't have any Tunisian hooks

Solution:

I made one

Okay, FC, I hear you say to yourselves, How?

Well, way back in college over a decade ago (ouch), I made a really cool art project that was called "Electrical Spaghetti". It was a bowl made from coiled and sewn ethernet cable filled with "pasta" made from phone cords and other white wires, "meatballs" made of tiny wire balls, and "sauce" made of some red wires. I actually wound up unsheathing a bunch of smaller wires to make those meatballs and they came out of a red casing. I never threw the split, abandoned casing out because I'm probably a hoarder and while trying to figure out how to do TC without the right equipment, I looked over and saw it dangling off of my desk, trying to escape.

So I snagged it and the hook I was gonna use anyway and ran downstairs to grab some electrical tape and married the split plastic tube to my hook. I'm about to try it out!

...

I tried it out and... it doesn't 100% work, but it works enough for the first few rows. We'll see if I can get all the way up :)

Regardless, I've been very busy and I'll be glad when Christmas is over. I need to start working on gifts in freaking September next year lol.

So that's all from me!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC