Witchy Stitchy

was bored today...

i went through one of my boxes of junk (i have several piled up in the family room from when we got new floors put in... everything that didn't have a spot got thrown in a box). I found some of my knitting needles, which is great. and i felt particularly crafty today... i was more in the mood to crochet today, but i can't for the life of me figure out anything to make... so i decided to make a baby blanket for Daphne. i have a huge skein of blue cotton worsted weight yarn, which is perfect... so i'm knitting the main part of the blanket with the light blue, and then i'm going to crochet a border with black cotton yarn, and i'm going to crochet a black flower and sew it onto the bottom left corner of the blanket. then daphne will have something to chew on...
seriously, that mutt has no appreciation for what i do... its a miracle that she's not barking at me right now because i'm paying more attention to my computer than i am to her. i swear, she's jealous of this thing... tough, i've had it for longer, and spent at least twice the amount of money on it than i did on her. so she'll just have to deal with being in second place.
anyways, if i can ever find my camera again (i know its around here somewhere...), then i will post pictures of the blanket, it should be cute, although i'm still trying to figure out a cute edging pattern for it... anyways, the blue section is about 1/3 of the way done, its about 6 inches, maybe more... (i know i have a ruler around here someplace, too...). I figure i'll give it 18 inches, and then the border should add at least 3 inches width and length total, depending on what i pick... 21 inches seems like a good height... oh, i'm just working in garter stitch, for those who are wondering, and i attempted a crochet cast-on, not exactly knowing what that is, but guessing as best as i could... it was so much faster than casting on normally... i hate casting on and binding off, i guess i need more practice, but those parts aren't the parts that get used as often. you only cast on and bind off once per piece... i'm rambling again. i think its my schizophrenia... lol, long story...
tomorrow i have a busy day ahead of me, so i might not get much else done on the blanket for a few days. i promise, i will finish it! same goes for the IHS... oh, i found a second cable needle, so expect progress on that in the next week or so... i have to wash it when i'm done though, because stupid daphne decided that it was her pee-pad, and peed on it, so its stinky and gross... at least dog pee doesn't linger like cat pee does... i'm being gross again, sorry...
anyways, i need to put my blog out there, i haven't posted in it much yet, but i do intend to keep it fairly updated, unlike my other umpteen thousand blogs... who knows, maybe i'll start up crochet challenge again, after i get more readers here... i wonder, is there a way to see how many people look at this blog? so far i'm relying on comments, which i don't get many of, but i have no idea if anybody is actually reading this or if i'm just typing all this for no reason...

posted by Brittany @ 9:58 PM