Been two weeks since made grand plans to become crafter par excellence. So. How are things now? Definitely bought a shit load of stuffs. Crochet needles. Knitting needles. And yarn, yarn, yarn. Have discovered the joys of circular knitting needles. Extreme niftiness. Also have nice book with amigurumis. Too much, too cute. Am completely bouncing about like mad person. Me, mad person, who’d ever have thought?
Once enough supplies were gathered happily started with first project. Plan was to make pear house with snail. Or caterpillar. Or butterfly. Anywayz, something buggy. First attempt of at crocheting in over 20 years. Was surprise of most pleasant kind when found out that crocheting not only _seemed_ to be like riding a bicycle. It actually was. Rejoicing galore! However something did go a bit wrong and of course have no idea _what_ that was. And thus pear bottom ended up looking a bit odd in some places. Morning after that happy experience, toddler announced that he wanted the airplane from the book. Toddler asks, mommy gets out the crochet hook. Toddler thinks plane will be done within minutes. Toddler was in for slight disappointment. Grins. Crocheted ass off so plane _was_ finished within reasonable amount of time, especially considering its size. Two days later, toddler had his plane. Bit of pear now serves as bowl for bits of yarn, my needle and/or pieces of other amigurumi.
Was very happy with how plane turned out. Not perfect of course. Am still newbie after all. So, immediately started something new. There is an endless amount of nifty stuff to be found on da interweb. Mind is being blown away by it really. But somewhere among the tons of cuteness being poured over my head there was a dodo. A dodo! Excitement! A dodo! Skip. Skip. Skip. GLEE. And so started on the dodo. Many pieces of dodo were being crocheted. And fairly quickly was able to put them togethet and thus create a dodo.
Went very well until had to attach the beak. Turned it round and round and round, but obstinate beak would not fit. Or would fit, but definitely did _not_ look like picture and thus idea of perfect dodo was completely and utterly ruined. Boo. So put Source of Much Dismay in pear bottom. Was not willing to give up however, so next day we tried again. Turned it round and round and round, but obstinate beak would not fit. Or would fit, but definitely did _not_ look like picture and thus… epiphany! Crocheting Master Mind knew better than pattern and had somehow mixed up colours. Was (un)happily trying to attach point of beak to head of dodo. Very silly of course. Quickly made a new beak in right colours and lo and behold: made myself a dodo. Huzzah!
Have faint idea that flaw of character will complicate more projects. Am very talented at reading half the instructions and then decide that I know how it works. This wonderful thing has caused me to restart many an IKEA project etc. etc. Le sigh. Am a walking example of “assumption is the mother of all fuck ups” . But at least it keeps things interesting.
Now there will be a break in blog. Need to go and express milk. Will think on what to write next while am at it. Yay me. And back. Babygirl will not go hungry tomorrow. Anywayz.
Meanwhile in Knitting Land. Not much happening there. Mainly because of own personal odyssee to acquire the desired circular knitting needles. So, took children to Amsterdam to crafting shop. Big adventure by train and on foot. To get lost or not to get lost. Luckily there we now have an excellent tool for the Somewhat Orientationally Challenged People. Google Maps and then especially the little yellow guy you can drag into the map for wonderful 3D viewing of your surroundings. Had to walk about 750 meters from station to shop. So had yellow guy walk it for me. Looked very closely and memorised surroundings. And got there without a problem. Yay me! Yay Little Yellow Google Maps Guy!
Unfortunately trip to shop was not complete and utter triumph it should’ve been, since shop did not have stuffs I wanted. Boo. Made mental note that maybe should call and ask before heading off. Oh well. And so ordered it on the internet. Waited. Waited some more. Just when patience was running out I received email from webshop saying that webshop would not exist for much longer. More boo. And so ordered it from other webshop. Success at last! Ordered on Tuesday, in possession of stuffs by Thursday afternoon. No yarn though. Happily headed off to local crafting shop. Vacation. Triple boo.
Went to Amsterdam again (different shop, more fun for Little Yellow Google Maps Guy!) and bought some lovely yarn. And some more stuff. Started on most nifty hat in the evening. And following day nifty hat was almost finished. Zomg! Circular knitting needles certainly are epic in every way. Hats for all the family now! Happily forget about fact that still have to knit the flaps and that have no idea how to get started on that particular aspect. But will find out for sure. Awaiting arrival of more yarn now.
Enthusiasm hasn’t dwindled over past few weeks. Au contraire. And then friend found this most wonderful site. Ravelry. Completely lost in Ravelry now. So. Many. Patterns. Have about fifteen projects queued. This is madness for sure. Doobiedoobiedoo. What to do first is becoming a serious issue. Find more nifty stuff every day.
Dress for baby girl. Hat for baby girl. Yoda for whoever wants it. Deathstar for husband. Found entire set of Star Wars amigurumi patterns. Unfortunately not for free. Of maybe fortunately considering the plans I already made. Also have crazy idea to make amigurumis out of my World or Warcraft characters. Need to find some base humanoid forms and then see if I can make WoW stuff out of that. And make them clothes. Also have to make an army of dodos. So if you’ll excuse me…
Bouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebounce.
Weeeeeee!
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