First, the still-embryonic Totoro:
This is a slow project. It's all single crochet, and there's a lot of it. (I can see why so many amigurumi are small - it's not just that they're cuter, it's that they're faster to finish). I'm one or two rounds away from starting the body decreases here. I still have to do the "eye circles," the tummy, the arms, ears, and tail.
Still, as I said - I don't want this to be a "project obituary" like one of the other bloggers reported. (I'm nothing if not stubborn). I have to work on it in small doses because my wrists aren't that crazy about crochet.
I also pulled Bloom out of "storage" and started working on it again:
I have 11 of the 18 wedges done here. I think the reason this stalled out is simply BECAUSE I put it in storage - kind of an "out of sight, out of mind" situation.
I see from the notes I was keeping (about where I was in the pattern) that I last worked on this about a year ago...I guess what happened was I had to have people over, or workmen in, and I did my usual freak-out cleaning, where I gather up all kinds of things and shove them in rubbermaid boxes I keep for that very purpose (Samus wound up in the same box as Bloom. As did some yarn - a couple different colors of Berroco's "Keltic" I bought for a pair of heavy-weight ragg type socks and a pair of gloves - at about that time last year.
This is in a different place from my "normal" stash, so it's easy to overlook it.)
It's kind of good to go through and take inventory and see what I have. I don't know that I will do the stash-function on Ravelry (when I get my invitation, that is), because it would take quite a bit of time to enumerate it all ('specially all the two-and-three ball lots bought for gloves or scarves or whatever) and I also have to admit I kind of like the seredipity of "Oh, I knew I had this, but I had kind of forgotten it because I hadn't looked at it in a while."
2 comments:
don't feel bad, i'm not using the stash function on ravelry, either. that would mean i'd have to own up to ALL the yarn i own. not gonna happen. i know, denile is not just a river in egypt. (i know that's spelled wrong, lol)
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I don't use Ravelry much at all. It all looks like so much work to enter everything and besides, I'd really rather just go look.
I did just rearrange my stash (again) and lable each shelf and tub.
I confess, I joined ravelry because I was curious. but I'm egotistical enough to just keep on blogging on my own. On line communities take almost as much time as in the flesh ones and I can really only live one place at a time. Ravelry is more like a favorite tourist spot than a home to me.
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