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[oyceter]

I learned how to crochet today! It's so interesting and strange and round! And it only uses one needle! Very odd. It's hard to get used to how it only goes one way, so you have to go back and forth, unlike knitting where you flip the needles around. But it's so cute and small and round! I'm making a flower ^_^. Maybe I'll make little hair things or something and give them to people.

Speaking of giving, I got the skein of yarn, chi_zu! Thank you so much! That was such a nice surprise to get in the mail, and it's all gorgeous and fuzzy ^_^. I'm trying to decide on what kind of scarf I'm going to make with it... maybe I will tinker with drop stitch or something so you can see the fuzziness more.

So despite trying to keep to just one project at a time, now I am knitting my hooded sweater, this scarf and crocheting a flower. I've finished the back and two front pieces of the sweater and now I only have two sleeves and the hood to go. And I seamed the shoulders together, and it feels all real and clothing-like now, instead of funny shaped pieces of cloth! How cool! It's so nifty that I can make all these random patterns of loops in yarn and actually make a piece of cloth and then clothing from that. I continue to believe that knitting (and now crocheting) somehow appeal to the small, mathy bit in me that likes puzzles and Trivial Pursuit and Cranium and logic puzzles and brain teasers. It's all so nice and orderly, and everything lines up well, and if it doesn't, I can go back through the pattern and try to figure out what I did wrong. Not that it isn't annoying to drop a stitch and discover it after you've knitted fourteen rows on top of it, but I like the feeling of things falling into place and I like that something very physical and substantial and tactile is made just from my fingers and some sticks looping yarn together.

Pictures to come!

ETA: Have now finished first crocheted flower! Am happy! Am entranced by cute hats in the free patterns section of Lion Brand Yarn. So this means I shall hie myself to the nearest bookstore to look for books on crochet! I want books for mini-projects, since knitting is still reserved for larger sweater type things. Although a crocheted top would be really cute....

Er. Right. Have I mentioned the burgeoning obsession with yarn? Is there a site out there for crochet like Knitty?

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[chi-zu.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad! I wasn't sure how to address the envelope in such a way that it would get to you, but not give away your online name in case you are particular about keeping life and online life separate. A dropped stitch scarf would be lovely in that yarn. Or something fringed.

And yay for crochet! And the branching scarf! I finishd mine yesterday and am in fact wearing it at work right now. I think I might give it to my friend however and make myself another one. She gave me a hat she made and is always giving away her knitting so I thought she should get something for herself. I do love this scarf though, it's very difficult. I will tell myself that I can have the fun of making the scarf all over again if I give this one away.

[oyceter]

I sent you an email too, to the address listed at your website, because I wasn't sure where else to send it, but I had the suspicion that you probably didn't check that account too often.

And eeee, crochet is so neat! I am now digging up crochet afghan patterns, just because. I think I'm going to end up knitting several versions of this scarf in various colors and yarns, because it seems like such a nice gift scarf! Maybe I'll give the one I'm making now to my sister or something...

[chi-zu.livejournal.com]

I did get your email! And hey thanks, because I didn't realize my little site was still up. ^_^ That was kind of a nice surprise.

I did end up giving my scarf away and now I'm itching to make another. I think it was worth it though, she really seemed into it and says it has inspired her to learn to do stitchwork, so it was for a good cause! Plus she gave me the oddest, coolest, weirdest caterpillar hat ever that she made. So I'm glad I made that decision. It knits up so quickly too. You're right, it's a great gift scarf.

[oyceter]

Oo, glad you got it!

I keep messing up on my branching scarf! I think it's because I keep knitting it while I'm talking to other people, so I must accidentally knit 3 together when I should only knit 2 or something like that. Alas, the yarn I'm using is a real pain to unknit. Ah well.