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This post should've been made two weeks ago. Alas, the tab where I started to compose the entry got buried amongst other tabs, and I forgot about it until I unearthed it today. It's possible that I should go through my open tags more frequently.

Anyway! My first weaving project ended up being a placemat for my snack tray/dinner table. Overall, it's not bad, but my suspicions were proved correct: beginning weaving projects and beginning knitting projects have a lot in common.

( Details and two more photos under the cut )

Project #2 was a scarf made from Noro Kureyon sock yarn that I had in my stash. More on that once it's actually finished. Right now, it's off the loom, but I'm waiting for a fringe twister to arrive so that I can do that before I wash it. I'm afraid it'll felt to itself if I don't.

Last week at this time, the Ravelympics were just winding up. I ended up finishing three of my four projects.

( Project #1: Frogging )

( Project #2: Time Lord Socks )

( Project #3: Throw pillow )

Project #4 would have been to finish weaving in ends and crocheting the border of a throw blanket. New goal: get it done before the blanket's second birthday in August. Two years is too long for a WIP.

I think that one of my goals for 2008 is going to be to update here more than once a year. These aren't the first or the only things I've made this year, but they are the first photos I took.

This year, anyone who got homemade Christmas presents got crocheted washcloths. The pattern I'm using is this dishcloth pattern from The Dishcloth Botique. The yarn is Sugar&Cream, in solid green and a green/purple, and in blue and blue/brown/cream. I think I used a H hook, but I might be remembering wrong.

( Pictures behind the cut! )

This was a pattern I had made before, sans ruffle around the edge, so I knew what to expect from it. It's easy and fairly mindless, which means good tv-watching. If I make these again, I need to figure out how to make the point in the circle where I start new rows stand out less. It looks okay on the blue ones, but it's obvious in the other photos exactly where it happens. I also need to make the original chain more loosely so that I spend less time fighting with the first row.

Fall has definitely arrived. I'm sitting in my bedroom wearing a hoodie and seriously considering making my next project a pair of fingerless gloves to keep up here.

I took a crochet class last week at my LYS. It feels like I should know the basics even if I have no intention of taking it up as a main hobby. I started a granny square while I was there and promptly ripped it out when I got home. I have better uses for a full skein of yarn. I got the rest of my practice with the remains of a ball of some sort of kitchen cotton, and pawned the result off on my grandmother. She likes it.

( Doily-ish thing )

It's inexpertly made, but I have the general idea now.

I finished the tree square that I mentioned last time. Weaving in the ends can wait until after it's blocked. Astute viewers will notice the mistake in the cable in the upper right. That was on purpose. It was not on purpose when I did the same thing on the lower left. I figure that symmetry should count for something.

( Tree square x2 )

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