Finished Projects!

This week I decided to actually crochet something! It has been a while since I crocheted a project. And actually, about a year or so ago, I crocheted something and both of my daughters were in shock about it! LOL! They had seen me knitting and crocheting when they were younger, but when I learned how to spin, I decided to mainly knit items. Why? you ask. Welllll......., mainly because I am lazy or I guess we could say smart. Heehee. I had read that it takes more yarn to crochet an item, than to knit it. Since I was planning to use primarily my handspun yarns to make items, I didn't want to have to spin more yarn. The girls apparently took this as a sign, that Mom doesn't crochet anymore. Here you go, a crocheted shawl. I just love it. The pattern came off the Knitting Daily website, as a free pattern from Interweave Press. I had seen some finished pictures of it when I was visiting Ravelry last Sunday. (Ravelry is a large website, of sorts, that knitters and crocheters belong to and can list projects etc, and leave tips.) Ok, back to my story. The gal that had listed the finished shawl picture did leave a hint, "Go and get the corrections, from them when you download the pattern from them." So, I did. It is a good thing I did too, because when I hit print an ENTIRE page of corrections came out for this one shawl. I am serious. I sure am glad that I wasn't the first one making this shawl, I would've probably been in tears and really frustrated. I am glad, though, that the corrections page was there and available. Thank you, Interweave! This pattern was first published by Interweave in their Wrap Style book. If you have that book, there are other corrections listed for it. I know first hand that it is hard to get patterns worded just right and sometimes the directions get messed up. So, it is nice when mistakes happen, that the publishers offer the corrections on their websites. In a perfect world we would never need those pages, but we are not perfect.

My next picture is the great felted mobius basket. I have pictured it before, when showing you the knitting in the magic loop process. It truly was knitted in one piece and notice the twist in the handle. A single twist. When I first saw this basket, at Kate's home, I was truly intrigued. I thought and thought, how could Cat Bordhi have accomplished this? Liking math and being pretty good at it, that is why I like tech editing patterns, I finally bought her book and made one. It was fun to do and now I know. Normally, this basket sits by my computer with my glasses in it. I have a small assignment pad and an old mechanical pencil in the basket, so you can see the size of it. Oh, and so you know, there weren't any corrections needed for this pattern. :)