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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?