Idle hands and crochet hooks

makes Cecinatrix go ... something something.

Crazy?

Don't mind if I do!

Hooky McGee & friend
(& my thumb)

With apologies to "The Shinning" and everyone at the Simpsons factory.


Hook On!
C

2011 - Yay!

One year closer...

mwa ha ha

Huh?

I don't know. Just felt like acknowledging the new year.

Happy New Year!

really

Hook On
C

Aha! Another Banner.

See? I have been up to no good with my hook. Another pennant banner made before summer that has, until recently, been languishing away in my hermitage awaiting its day in front of the camera. OK, so the picture doesn't do the details of the stitches any kind of justice. I do believe the gist can be gathered - maybe if you squint?

Anyway, now available at my little hunk of Ravelry:

Pennant Banner - Mixed

Six different stitches each featured on its own pennant flag all lined up in a row as a bright and colorful banner.

And for free, too.

All 12 pages.

Enjoy.

Hook On
C

Trendy Me

Hey, a girl can dream. I was so pleased with myself earlier this year when I noticed that colorful banners made of pennant flags were popping up everywhere in the home-deco/craft-happy world. I usually don't notice a trend until it has appeared everywhere first. But not this time. No, I was right there when the paper versions started making the rounds. I even managed to notice that there weren't any crochet versions popping up yet.

Woo hoo!

So I hopped on the boat and came up with this nifty little thread crochet banner with a slogan that just snarks "me". Even came up with a second, more complicated version that I'll post later this week. (I may actually have finally learned to space out my publishing efforts.) There I was, mid-April 2010 with the banners done and both looking kind of cute, even if I did say so myself. I say a lot myself. Anyway...

May = Getting too hot outside to think properly.
June = Hotter!
July = Hotter!
August = Oh dear Lord!
September = Ooo, I can think again.
October = Hey, I need to write those patterns.
November = Oh yeah, and the charts.
December = Where's my camera?

And now, only a few short months later - I present to one and to all, the Wahoo Pennant Banner:



Pattern available at Ravelry.

I'd post it here, but it's kind of long - 5 pages. Big charts, lots of words. What can I say?

Hope you enjoy this little offering.

Come experience the wonders at the trailing end of a trend with me.

Hook On!
C

Halloween 2010

Trick-or-treating was light this year at the ole apartment complex. Only two small visitors:

Kitty Corn & Ghostie Puss

...but they didn't seem to want any candy.



Two more feline fiends to add to my collection.

bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ... ahh, yada yada yada - meow

;-)

Hook on!
C

Elephant pattern update

Finally posted at Ravelry an update for the Republican Elephant from my "Political Animal Appliques" set of motifs . The instructions have been expanded into somewhat more complete sentences, the text/stitches color-matching has been revised in hopes of more clearly delineating the individual steps and the pattern itself has been reworked to make the features stronger.

Pattern is still free, of course. How could I in good conscience set a price on fridgie motif animal icons of the land of the Free ?

;-)
Hook On.
C

Donkey pattern update

Finally posted at Ravelry an update on the Democratic Donkey from my "Political Animal Appliques" set of motifs. The instructions have been expanded into somewhat more complete sentences and the text/stitches color-matching has been revised in hopes of more clearly delineating the individual steps. Pattern is still free, of course. How could I in good conscience set a price on fridgie motif animal icons of the land of the Free ?

;-)
Hook On.
C