Free Pattern: Bow

So… this is a variation of this pattern. I wasn’t happy with the way the pattern looked, it was WAY too finicky and the ties were a bit too long for my liking.

The pattern still needs some work but here it is if you are interested:
ch 62
dc in 4th ch, dc 4, hdc 2, sc, sl st 2, sc, hdc 2, dc 12, hdc 2, sc, sl st 2, sc, hdc 2, dc 12, hdc 2, sc, sl st 2, sc, hdc 2, dc 5, ch 3, sl st in last ch, working down other side of ch, ch 3, dc 5, hdc 2, sc, sl st 2, sc, hdc 2, dc 12, hdc 2, sc, sl st 2, sc, hdc 2, dc 12, hdc 2, sc, ch 12, dc in 3rd ch from hook, dc in remaining ch, sk sl st, sl st, sc, hdc 2, dc 5, ch 3, sl st in base of beginning ch 4
finish off
fold bow so the 3 thinner parts layer on top of each other, wrap the extra row of dc around and sew it into place! TADA! An awesome bow!

*pattern has been updated to eliminate the extra ch, I missed a stitch when writing it originally!

Having a "I can't think of a title" moment...

I'm off on Thursday for Dalhousie, NB to spend a few day's in J's hometown and visit his mom! While I'm there, we are also setting up for our first farmer's market! I would lie if I said I was calm about it, but I do have a ton of stock that I'm hoping I can sell off *finger crossed* so I can focus on re-branding YarrHooked! a bit, and trying to focus on a dozen or so items (in varying colours/patterns or whatever) and not having a 100 different items -probably not much of an exaggeration- that I make on a whim...

In other random news, I'm still waiting on my yarn from Turkey to come in, I'm excited for a fingering weight acrylic (it's hard to find thin yarns I can work with because most contain wool)... J's thinks it's probably on a boat over the Atlantic right now... *sigh*

I did find this AWESOME site: Yarnia!!!! YOU CAN DESIGN YOUR OWN YARN!!!! you pick the colors/fibers you want, and depending on how many you combine it can be lace to bulky weight and you buy it by the yard or ounce etc. I designed a pretty pink and yellow marbled acrylic/cotton yarn and a gorgeous peacock shade... and hopefully if the market goes well this weekend, I might actually order something from them!!! Their prices are very reasonable!

Crazy Crocheting World!

I've been pretty busy so far in August! I have two cousins who are pregnant and I've been working away on presents for their soon to be little girls and trying to keep working on other ideas I've had going on in my head, and then this morning I just got 4 new hat commissions! AHH! Slightly overwhelmed, but I'll make it work, I always do!

This past weekend J and I spent most of Saturday getting my craft/storage room organized, we were looking for some camping stuff a few weekends ago and somehow the whole thing just snowballed and it was a disaster!!!!

Ohhh! and I just remembered I might be selling stuff at the market in Dalhousie in a few weeks! Great more things for me to be terrified of!

I'll post a bunch of pictures soon, I just need to wait until the mom's get them, I also have a great set of owls that will hopefully be going up for sale once they get faces, and I have slippers I still need to finish up the design of so I can start selling those!

I think I need to quit my day job or figure out a way to make the most of the 168 hours a week I could be crocheting... well 128 crochetable hours actually (I do have a day job afterall)... well 88... since I would like to sleep every night... *sigh* Good thing I love to crochet!

And last night J bought me a new crochet book! Seamless Crochet by Kristin Omdahl! I'm so excited to eventually get some time to play with this new book! I love motifs and like everyone else, I HATE sewing in ends, so yay! I tested out a pattern last night Blue Skies Chunky Cowl and the swatch worked up really nicely and wasn't as confusing as I expected. I think I would like to turn it into an babyghan eventually.

Mood Scarf - Month 1 - July 2012

So... I will be honest and say this so far, has NOT gone at all as planned... I have been recording my mood/colour every day but I definitely have not been crocheting a row a day, infact most of this scarf got completed this past weekend. *hangs head in shame*

Well shame aside! It does have 31 lovely rows of 30 sc that do coincide to my mood every night at 8pm. I'm happy to report there really are no big trends emerging so far, there were two days in a row where at 8pm all I felt was sick (green), but I'm such an emotional person (sorry J) that thankfully even my angry bouts, or stressed bouts etc tend to really only last an hour or two.

My goal for August is to ACTUALLY crochet a row a day!

Some of you, may notice, this is not the scarf I originally showed  4 weeks ago. There were a few flaws with that plan, the hdc were probably going to make this thing way too long, my math initially said it was going to be 7 feet long, but so does my math on the new sc version... so math somewhere failed me! But the bigger problem with the 1st version was the 730 ends I was going to have to deal with! OMG that's so many little 3" strands to sew in! Thankfully Lion Brand Yarn came to my help! Their blog recently showed an awesome technique for dealing with ends, that still takes a bit of time, but it does cut down a ton on the annoying little ends! Go check it out! So thrilled to learn this! I had heard about the Russian join years ago, but that method involved cutting yarn and handfelting it together, which would only work with wool. This doesn't help me at all, since I can't work with wool, but this one works with acrylic yarn! It's the little things :)

And now back to working on some commissions and presents!