Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Delightful Day!
Three cheers to the Washington Cricketeers! Simply GORGEOUS, despite the mix up on the ordering. What was in that Cranberry juice? And .... murky chocolate? Hmmmm. Well, it seemed to have worked wonderfully. Love to all from the Lazy Idaho Chapter.
Second Afghan Done!! Woo-hoo!!!
This past Saturday, the Washington Division of Cricket's Club gathered together all their crafty stuff in laundry baskets, backpacks, and tragically ugly fabric bags and schlepped it all to the Roarks' beautiful home for some serious crafting. And Woo-hoo, did we get a lot done! Here's a play-by-play:
Mom shows her Too-Cool-For-School crafty hipness as she uses the high-tech light box to trace designs onto quilt squares in permanent marker for Alan's quilt. Other Crickets such as Britney and Polly decided to stay on the somewhat safer side and wield crayons instead.
All this crafting being serious business needing complete and utter concentration and delicate fine motor control, the troops decided they needed a little reinforcement. You know, cranberry juice. I guess it helps a lot. (Umm, I don't know what all that other stuff is.) ;)
But apparently it works! Look at the beautiful squares they made! Color Crayons Rock.
After an hour or two of coloring, we decided to work on Uncle Monte's afghan. Here Pol is joining squares into a row:
And Shan as well, sporting an awesome new tattoo she got for her birthday, proving definitively that you can, folks, crochet and be a BadAss at the same time.
The coloring was too much for Jodi and Britney, who retired to the love seat when the needles came out, and watched the boys play video games. Poor Brit, it seems like whenever we get together the excitement of it all just overwhelms her and she passes out. (NO, she didn't have any cranberry juice!)
I think maybe the dogs did though. Or else they are confused and think they're cats sunning themselves.
I think there's something about video games that diffuses the relaxing effect of lots of yarn and crochet and knitting being in the room, because the boys seem just fine.
Sunday was so warm and sunny outside that Val took the rest of the afghan outside and parked on Mom and Dad's front lawn, and finished piecing it together.
Let's call this shot "The Plan." See all those little sticky notes? On each of them is a column letter and row number denoting the row and column for correct placement of the block. "A2." E5." D7."
Somehow between Val and Pol and insomnia and cranberry juice, these little sticky notes became horribly undecipherable. I don't know if you can see in this photo, but somehow, in the row that Pol joined, row D, the numbers went 2,1,3,4,6,5. And when Val was done joining the columns together, the alphabet went A, B, C, E, D.
Hmmm. We have no idea how that happened. It's a complete and total mystery. (Val would like to point out that she did NOT have any cranberry juice, thankyouverymuch, and that she only messed up two letters and not like, 6 numbers. Pol would like to point out that she did NOT have that much cranberry juice, anyway, and whose dumb "Plan" was it in the first place, Miss SmartyPants? Sheesh!)
Shortly after the above photo was taken (while Val and Pol alternate between pondering the confusing "Plan" mystery, petting the blanket, and discussing baby blanket projects), Val waited until Mom and Pol started sipping on some murky stuff from stemmed glasses that they swore was chocolate (Mmm-hmmm, yeah right), waited until they got a little giggly, then sneakily planted the suggestion that they should take these cool little blue needles and weave in the eleventy-hundred yarn ends on the back of the afghan (which I HATE!). It worked, I didn't have to do a single one, and was entertained at the same time.
Then I did the border on Monday. Wa-La! Woo-hoo! Whoopie! It's Done! Here are some very professionally arranged photos (aka "throw it on this. Now throw it on that") for your viewing pleasure.
The final throw was over Dad, who tested it out and said that it works just great.
Ahhhh..... there's nothing like a beautiful completed project. Let's just bask in this moment for awhile.
Ok. Basking over. Let's get Alan's quilt done!
Mom shows her Too-Cool-For-School crafty hipness as she uses the high-tech light box to trace designs onto quilt squares in permanent marker for Alan's quilt. Other Crickets such as Britney and Polly decided to stay on the somewhat safer side and wield crayons instead.
All this crafting being serious business needing complete and utter concentration and delicate fine motor control, the troops decided they needed a little reinforcement. You know, cranberry juice. I guess it helps a lot. (Umm, I don't know what all that other stuff is.) ;)
But apparently it works! Look at the beautiful squares they made! Color Crayons Rock.
After an hour or two of coloring, we decided to work on Uncle Monte's afghan. Here Pol is joining squares into a row:
And Shan as well, sporting an awesome new tattoo she got for her birthday, proving definitively that you can, folks, crochet and be a BadAss at the same time.
The coloring was too much for Jodi and Britney, who retired to the love seat when the needles came out, and watched the boys play video games. Poor Brit, it seems like whenever we get together the excitement of it all just overwhelms her and she passes out. (NO, she didn't have any cranberry juice!)
I think maybe the dogs did though. Or else they are confused and think they're cats sunning themselves.
I think there's something about video games that diffuses the relaxing effect of lots of yarn and crochet and knitting being in the room, because the boys seem just fine.
Sunday was so warm and sunny outside that Val took the rest of the afghan outside and parked on Mom and Dad's front lawn, and finished piecing it together.
Let's call this shot "The Plan." See all those little sticky notes? On each of them is a column letter and row number denoting the row and column for correct placement of the block. "A2." E5." D7."
Somehow between Val and Pol and insomnia and cranberry juice, these little sticky notes became horribly undecipherable. I don't know if you can see in this photo, but somehow, in the row that Pol joined, row D, the numbers went 2,1,3,4,6,5. And when Val was done joining the columns together, the alphabet went A, B, C, E, D.
Hmmm. We have no idea how that happened. It's a complete and total mystery. (Val would like to point out that she did NOT have any cranberry juice, thankyouverymuch, and that she only messed up two letters and not like, 6 numbers. Pol would like to point out that she did NOT have that much cranberry juice, anyway, and whose dumb "Plan" was it in the first place, Miss SmartyPants? Sheesh!)
Shortly after the above photo was taken (while Val and Pol alternate between pondering the confusing "Plan" mystery, petting the blanket, and discussing baby blanket projects), Val waited until Mom and Pol started sipping on some murky stuff from stemmed glasses that they swore was chocolate (Mmm-hmmm, yeah right), waited until they got a little giggly, then sneakily planted the suggestion that they should take these cool little blue needles and weave in the eleventy-hundred yarn ends on the back of the afghan (which I HATE!). It worked, I didn't have to do a single one, and was entertained at the same time.
Then I did the border on Monday. Wa-La! Woo-hoo! Whoopie! It's Done! Here are some very professionally arranged photos (aka "throw it on this. Now throw it on that") for your viewing pleasure.
The final throw was over Dad, who tested it out and said that it works just great.
Ahhhh..... there's nothing like a beautiful completed project. Let's just bask in this moment for awhile.Ok. Basking over. Let's get Alan's quilt done!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Uncle Monte's Blocks!
Take a look at this gorgeous rainbow on my living room floor! I have all the blocks for Uncle Monte's afghan- and then some! The afghan will be 5 blocks by 6 blocks, and as you can see, we have 7 extra! Great Job, everybody! And they are beautiful, you can see how everyone's skill has improved so much.
I'll set aside 7 of the blocks to go in Chuck's or Fred's afghan, start whipstitching the blocks together, and post more pics when it starts coming together.
Thank you everyone!
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