YAY!

I attended a wonderful concert on tuesday at which i saw my favorite band and third favorite band, got recognized by a fan of my radio show, and met the lead singer and bassist of my favorite band.

also, i have officially been added as a designer on Ravelry.com :) now i can post pictures and such when i put up a design. i must get busy! i think the next post will be my winter earflap hat.

in other news i had a very productive crochet day today. i went from being on row 9 to row 17 on the poncho that i am making for my mom for her birthday. it is really pretty homespun yarn, and though u got mad at it as soon as i switched to the second skein (the yarn wasnt as tightly...spun) it all worked out in the end. this has been good work for my sore body (yay concerts).

now i'm looking for a new pattern to start on when i finish my mom's poncho. perhaps a new scarf, or cowl, or pillow. im up for anything. i'd love to work with homespun again but i dont have the money, perhaps i'll just try out some new patterns or write some :) i do have a bunch of Patons Wool that needs crocheting. And i have a small pile of WIPs to finish, a sweater, scarf and cowl.

happy crafting

Just a thought...

Everytime I enter a shop that i know has yarn, i have to stop and look around. It has gotten to the point now that i'll spend endless amounts of time pacing back and forth in front of the yarn trying to decide on somehting that i'd love to buy. of course if i could i'd buy all the yarn there is but i dont have the money to do that so instead i stand and stare dreaming of projects i'd love to make someday.

at the moment my current yarn obsession is Homspun by lion brand. i got a giftcard to michaels for christmas and decided since homespun was on sale i would buy some and make a shawl or somehting with it. instead i got around to making my Martha Stewart's Coming Home Poncho that i'd dreamed of making since before i could crochet. it's glorious, i love it and i want to make more. now usually when i do a large project i need time to relax before diving into the next one but since homespun works up so quickly and the colors are so entertaining i went out to the store and bought three more skeins to make a poncho for my mom for her birthday. she's been going on about how much she loves my poncho and how much she wants one, so i decided what better than to make her one of her own :)

that brings me to another point. i love birthdays and holidays. i can go out and buy yarn without feeling bad about it (even though most of the yarn i buy is cheep, it's still hard to get buy on a college student budget :P). i can get some yarn that i might never have worked with since the colors arent my thing but they work for someone else and make something new and exciting...or make a bunch of scarves like i did for christmas. all in all, i am addicted to yarn, and crochet, and yes even knitting...though i havent knit anything since the two scarves i made in the summer.

i need to find a nice pattern to ease me back into knitting.

i think i'll work on a few more rows before i head off to bed...

Happy Crafting :)

Calorimetry

This is my first posted pattern.

Calorimetry Pattern

Yarn: Worsted Weight (I Love This Yarn Solids)

Size I hook

Stitches: Chain, HDC

Note: Try to do the increases and decreases in the middle of the row.

Chain 3

Row 1: HDC across doing one increase (4 hdc)

Row 2: HDC across doing one increase (5 hdc)

Row 3: HDC across doing one increase (6 hdc)

Row 4: HDC across (6 hdc)

Row 5: HDC across doing one increase (7 hdc)

Row 6: HDC across (7 hdc)

Row 7: HDC across doing one increase (8 hdc)

Row 8: HDC across doing one increase (9 hdc)

Row 9: HDC across (9 hdc)

Row 10: HDC across doing one increase (10 hdc)

Row 11: HDC across doing one increase (11 hdc)

Row 12: HDC across (11 hdc)

Row 13: HDC across (11 hdc)

Row 14: HDC across doing one increase (12 hdc)

Row 15: HDC across (12 hdc)

Row 16: HDC across doing one increase (13 hdc)

Row 17: HDC across (13 hdc)

Row 18: HDC across doing one increase (14 hdc)

Rows 19-30: HDC across (14 hdc)

Row 31: HDC across doing one decrease (13 hdc)

Row 32: HDC across (13 hdc)

Row 33: HDC across doing one decrease (12 hdc)

Row 34: HDC across (12 hdc)

Row 35: HDC across doing one decrease (11 hdc)

Row 36: HDC across (11 hdc)

Row 37: HDC across (11 hdc)

Row 38: HDC across doing one decrease (10 hdc)

Row 39: HDC across doing one decrease (9 hdc)

Row 40: HDC across (9 hdc)

Row 41: HDC across doing one decrease (8 hdc)

Row 42: HDC across doing one decrease (7 hdc)

Row 43: HDC across (7 hdc)

Row 44: HDC across doing one decrease (6 hdc)

Row 45: HDC across (6 hdc)

Row 46: HDC across doing one decrease (5 hdc)

Row 47: HDC across doing one decrease (4hdc)

Row 48: HDC across doing one decrease (3hdc)

Row 49: 1 HDC, Skip 1 Stitch, 1 HDC (This will make the button hole)

Fasten off.

Sew in ends and sew on a button on the starting end.

Pattern by Melanie Matos Designs

Happy Crafting!