At least I did *something*
Aug. 3rd, 2006 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiGetting sick is never a good thing; getting sick the week before a vacation is bad. Not as bad as getting sick during a vacation, but still. My fever continued on into Sunday and finally broke on Monday, meaning I spent most of my weekend and Monday lying in bed, sweating and staring at the ceiling. (I understand that there are situations where this can be entertaining, but this was not one of them.) I went to work for a few hours on Tuesday and managed to get a load of laundry done, but there is still a long list of things that I need to get done before Gencon that I haven't gotten to yet. I gave up cards last night *cry* to get some stuff done, but I've barely made a dent.
BUT ENOUGH MOPING! I did manage to get one thing done while lying around the house: I finished a crochet project! Given a simple enough pattern (and it was a really simple pattern) even feverish people can crochet, so when I wasn't wandering around the internet reading crochet websites I was actually plying my hook.
The project is something I call my Lion-Crane Mane. If you are a L5R player, you will shortly figure out why. If you are not, don't worry about it--it's not that important. Earlier this summer while going through the disco'ed bin at my local Jo Ann's I found a few skeins of a yarn called Radiance. It is a composite yarn that has a strand of fingerling weight worsted-look, a strand of eyelash, and a strand of railroad. The color phase that caught my eye had beige-colored fingerling, champagne-colored eyelash, and light-blue/dark-blue/copper railroad. I had absolutely no use for it and I'm not even that fond of eyelash yarns, but I was smitten by the colors so I grabbed the last three skeins.
About two weeks ago I decided that since I have dresses in the blue family and dresses in the gold family a fashion scarf that had both blue and gold would be, you know, a winner. So I hauled out the yarn and went to it. I didn't bother to find a pattern because yarns like this are all Special Effect--cool stitch patterns are wasted on it, because no one can see them. I pulled out one of my big hooks and did a couple of test swatches to determine if double or treble crochet would be better, and settled on the long, lanky treble crochet.
Two skeins later my scarf was done. It's around two yards long, which I think is about right for my height. It's rather pretty, with its halo of champagne fur and the flecks of blue peeking out--though I credit that to the yarn, and not to any particular skill on my part. If I can find a willing friend with a digital camera I'll post a photo of it sometime. And I think I'll take it to Gencon.
BUT ENOUGH MOPING! I did manage to get one thing done while lying around the house: I finished a crochet project! Given a simple enough pattern (and it was a really simple pattern) even feverish people can crochet, so when I wasn't wandering around the internet reading crochet websites I was actually plying my hook.
The project is something I call my Lion-Crane Mane. If you are a L5R player, you will shortly figure out why. If you are not, don't worry about it--it's not that important. Earlier this summer while going through the disco'ed bin at my local Jo Ann's I found a few skeins of a yarn called Radiance. It is a composite yarn that has a strand of fingerling weight worsted-look, a strand of eyelash, and a strand of railroad. The color phase that caught my eye had beige-colored fingerling, champagne-colored eyelash, and light-blue/dark-blue/copper railroad. I had absolutely no use for it and I'm not even that fond of eyelash yarns, but I was smitten by the colors so I grabbed the last three skeins.
About two weeks ago I decided that since I have dresses in the blue family and dresses in the gold family a fashion scarf that had both blue and gold would be, you know, a winner. So I hauled out the yarn and went to it. I didn't bother to find a pattern because yarns like this are all Special Effect--cool stitch patterns are wasted on it, because no one can see them. I pulled out one of my big hooks and did a couple of test swatches to determine if double or treble crochet would be better, and settled on the long, lanky treble crochet.
Two skeins later my scarf was done. It's around two yards long, which I think is about right for my height. It's rather pretty, with its halo of champagne fur and the flecks of blue peeking out--though I credit that to the yarn, and not to any particular skill on my part. If I can find a willing friend with a digital camera I'll post a photo of it sometime. And I think I'll take it to Gencon.
