It's been a while since I posted. I was staying with my parents for a while (a long while!) and my mind slipped into a rut with several pattern designs while I was there. I tried and tried and tried but couldn't reproduce what I had previously done in knitting with crochet. When you crochet in the round, each new round is set slightly off from the previous row. This is self-correcting when a row is turned, but amplified with additional crocheted rounds. Put in increases and decreases and sometimes you've got a big ugly mess of something twisty! And not quite the desired product. That is the dilemma pattern designers face - we've got the finished design in our head but getting there can be a marathon of stitching and frogging until we kind of give in to defeat... take a break and come back at it from a whole new perspective. That's usually how I work. I think it's the challenge that I love and yet, when I'm finished, no one usually knows the lengths I went through to make it look just so.
And yay! Spring is here and it's great to be on the internet on my own computer again.
Love to you all! ; )
