Still Here! and my End of the Year Holiday Sale is Coming up!
Sorry for the inactivity this year. I had a lot going on with dealing with my health issues, home, kids, finishing the slipper socks for my sister in-law, and a huge project for my Uncle (which I will be making a separate post about at a later date. With pictures!).
While working on the project for my Uncle, I had an idea for a bag that I have been working on on and off for awhile when I needed a break. I haven’t decided yet if I am going to write a pattern for it yet though. I’m still working on figuring out how I want the bag to be. I made 2 already, but there are elements to it that I want to change and have 3 different colors already started. 1 is a solid color in Lime Aide (nice bright springy green), the 2nd is a 2 color in black and dark grey heather, and the 3rd is a 2 color in brown and sky blue. The ones that I already finished, a 3 color cross-body shoulder bag, and then a 2 color backpack that I’m sending to my mom. I’ve been using the 3 color one and it’s helped me see what I would like to change in the construction of some parts of it.
The Knee-High Slipper Socks I made for my sister in-law I did write a pattern for that was was thinking about selling, but I don’t have any good photos for it. I really should get it tested some more, but I haven’t had any luck with reliable testers (except for 1 friend of mine, who was great). The slipper socks are knitted in worsted weight yarn and was made to fit up to a 20 inch calf, a wider foot width, and the foot length is customizable.
My End of the Year Holiday Sale is coming up very, very soon! It will be starting on the 1st of November, 12am EST, this year! Ending on December 31, 11:59pm EST! 2 months long! 25% off of All Patterns! The sale includes everything in my Patterns for Purchase page.
I hope everyone had a good 2017 and a very Happy Holiday Season coming up! Keep an eye out for my upcoming blog post on the huge project that I have been working on this year!
A Quick Update and an “It’s 2017!” Sale
I know I haven’t been active for pretty much almost the entire year. I really didn’t do very much crocheting at all, the projects I had started in 2015 I wasn’t very happy with any longer and the one special order I had was a bit discouraging for me, plus my health had been on a major roller-coaster also. Both physically and mentally. At that point, just looking at yarn caused me stress, so I just really needed a break. Badly.
Well, my break is over. It started when a friend “hired” me to crochet a gift for his fiance and even paid me upfront for it, then my mother asked for something knitted for my Sister In-law, which is something I am now working on since I finished and delivered my friends gift. Thanks to my friend and my mother, I am out of my “yarnie slump” and back into the “fiber groove”. I think I really needed someone to give me a nudge to get back motivated. It was also helpful that the requested projects were/are very simple ones. I do have to admit that my love for playing Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls Online really didn’t help to get me back playing with yarn for a little while either. LOL
I do not know when I will be producing new patterns again yet. I think I need to go back through all of my UFO’s, re-evaluate them and decide which I will finish and which I will frog. I also really need to go back though my yarn stash and reorganize it.
About that sale. I realized that I missed my annual Holiday Sale, so I decided to have a New Year Sale. Starting on January 3, 2017 at 12am EST all of my Crochet Patterns for Purchase will all be 25% off until January 31, 2017, 11:59pm EST. This sale will be valid only through my Ravelry Store. Purchase can be made through the Patterns for Purchase Tab on my WordPress site also, since the”Buy Now” buttons will take you to the Ravelry Shopping Cart.
Not Happy with the Changes, Crochet Me.
Well, this is disappointing. I haven’t been on the Crochet Me website in awhile, in maybe almost a year, and I don’t like the changes it’s gone through. I’m not sure how long it’s been since the website revamp, but it wasn’t like this when I last visited. My entire profile, including my bio, was wiped, plus I can’t even view my public profile to see what others see, if there is even one anymore. All it had left was my user pic and my user name. I couldn’t even find my patterns that I had posted there very easily. I had joined the site way back in 2007, long before Interweave Press took over, and I liked it much better back then, it was a nice little crochet community with forums and pattern sharing for the amateur designers and crocheters, now it’s all commercial, not a much of a community anymore, in my opinion. I did a search for one of my patterns and I did find it, so through that and clicking on my user name in the post, I found the list of my patterns there. but they can not be found in the “Free Members Patterns” index. I also looked to try to edit one of my pattern pages because I noticed something funky in the text in the summary, but there isn’t any edit button I can see. I would visit to check on my CM profile and update it, if needed, and check on my pattern pages, at least once or twice a year, but now I’m not very inclined to do that anymore. I also had a second account that I used for downloading patterns I find on the email newsletters, but that profile is gone now.
I had also found that the link I had to my CM profile on my links list in my sidebar didn’t work anymore, so I updated it, but I’m debating if I really want to keep it there. The few patterns I have on CM, I have here anyway and I’m able to keep them current here, so I really don’t see the point in keeping the link up.
Hydrocephalus Awareness – Jonathan’s Story
My son, he is just one of the many reasons why we need Awareness.
Taking a break from posting about crochet, because I have decided to share my sons story since he just recently had to have another shunt revision surgery.
Hydrocephalus Awareness and Research is needed very badly. The ONLY treatment for this condition is surgery and the insertion of a shunt into the brain, which can plug, break, or malfunction. There is no cure for it either because Hydrocephalus is the result of other conditions or problems with the brain, whether it is congenital (developed before birth) or acquired. It’s estimated that 1 to 2 of every 1,000 babies are born with Hydrocephalus and many more children and adults develop it later due to severe head injury or by other traumatic means, such as a brain tumor, causing a blockage in the brain causing excess fluid to build up in the skull. Without treatment, it could cause severe brain damage and even death.
Jonathan’s Hydrocephalus Story
Jonathan was born with Aqueductal Stenosis and Chiari Malformation Type 1. Both conditions are brain abnormalities that happen during development in the womb before birth that cause congenital hydrocephalus, commonly known as “water on the brain”. The only treatment for this condition is the insertion of a shunt into the brain. A shunt consists of some kind of regulating hardware, like a valve, either a programmable or fixed pressure, with 2 catheters, the proximal that goes into the ventricles of the brain, and the distal, that ends in the peritoneal cavity in the abdomen (VP shunt) or into the aorta of the heart (VA shunt), both connects to the shunt valve. Jonathan has a VP shunt with a programmable valve. Sometimes there is another piece of hardware needed to help the valve control the flow of the CSF (cerebral-spinal fluid). For Jonathan, that is a gravity compensator that “closes” when he is upright to slow down the flow of fluid through the shunt, and “opens” when he is laying down to help it drain a little more. Since Jonathan was about a year and a half old, up until today, he has had 74 surgeries for his shunt, including the first placement of it at 17mos old. He is now 23yrs old. He has also had 2 surgeries, called Decompressions, to correct the Chiari Malformation, which is a condition where the cerebellum of the brain is herniated down into the spinal cord through the small opening at the back base of the skull. His first decompression was when he was 23mos old and the 2nd was just in May of 2014, when he was 21yrs old, almost 22. The Aqueductal Stenosis is a narrowing of a “tube” in the brain call the Aqueduct of Sylvus that is between the 3rd and 4th ventricles causing it almost impossible for the CSF to flow through causing a build up of fluid in the brain.
All of these surgeries are considered to be brain surgery and as of 11-05-15, at the age of 23 years old, between the shunt and the Chiari, he has had a total of 76 brain surgeries. This is why we need Hydrocephalus awareness and research for better treatment for this condition.
(On top of all of that, he also has Asperger’s Syndrome.)
Update: As of November 3, 2016: Jonathan had his 75th Shunt Surgery at 24 years of age, making that a total of 77 Brain Surgeries.
RIP Spike, The Great Lump
It is a sad day here today in the Christensen household.
One of our cats, Spike, passed quietly during the night last night. He would have been turning 8years old next month on the 2nd. He came home to us when he was around 3 months old and it’s been a wonderful almost 8 years with him in our family.
RIP Great Lump, we love you.
Checking In
Yes, I’m still around. I apologize that I have been so silent lately, so much has been going on with life in general and I’m not one to blog about my personal life very much, unless crochet is involved somehow, anyway. I know I have talked about a new hat pattern in my previous posts, and I do plan on getting that up for sale, as soon as I am able to get decent photos of the finished hats. I finally got a mannequin head for hat photos, so hopefully soon.
I did have a bit of a creative dry spell after the hats were finished, but my creative muse has recently come back with an idea for a pattern eBook. It will be patterns for shawls, wraps, and possibly a capelet or 2.
(I do have bit of a personal update under the “read more” at the bottom of this post.)
This will most likely be the only time you will see me write so much about any of my personal life. I will most likely stick to my crochet talk and new upcoming patterns in future posts. I am very excited about the eBook project. I already have a wrap, 2 different triangle shawls, and a hooded capelet, all waiting to be written up. The hat pattern is already written, just waiting for photos and some minor editing done.
Just a Quick Update
Wow! It’s been busy around here, with 2 daughters graduating, and a son finishing up his sophomore year in high school! My Step-Daughter had just graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, the commencement ceremony was on Memorial Day. It was very exciting, First Lady Michelle Obama was there and spoke to the graduating class, also the commencement address was by Marian Wright Edelman, who is the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund! This coming Sunday, May 31, is my Daughters commencement. She is graduating from high school, and will be attending a local Community College in the fall. My eldest son just finished a month of Physical Therapy last week and is doing well. His PCP is very happy with his continued progress though all of his health challenges. We are so very proud of both of our girls, and both of our boys, and all of their achievements! Love and Congrats to them all! ❤
Through all of this, I still crocheted, taking it wherever I go. I even crocheted on the 2-1/2 hour car trip down to Oberlin, Ohio for the commencement. I have finished crocheting the various versions of the “Winter into Summer Hat”, now renamed “A Hat for All Seasons Peasant Hat”. I have a pattern written up, but still need to get photos of the hats. After the photos are taken, and last minute proof-reading and editing, if needed, then I will be putting the pattern up for purchase. Right now I am working on another hat, similar in shape to the “AHfAS” Peasant Hat, but much more lacy, worked up in size 10 cotton, and it will definitely be something for summer. If it doesn’t work out as a hat, it’ll be a very pretty doily instead 😉
Overdue for an Update
Well, I have been rather busy as of late, got a couple of Christmas presents out of the way, and working on 2 different shrugs, practically almost at the same time, in-between everything else, along with designing and posting the pattern for the Faerie Blossom Wristwarmers! Plus, for about 4 days a week, I don’t really get to get on the laptop as my husband works 4 days on and 4 days off, and usually on his 4 days off, if he and I are not out and about, he likes to use the laptop.
But anyhow, I do have a HUGE update in the making, but not at this time. I can tell you that there will be a lot of photos in that upcoming update on what’s going on in my crochet world, including a sneak peek at a new shrug in the works. I’m really excited about this new one!
I do have a bit of news to share, I have very recently joined the ranks of Indie Crochet Designers on Craftsy. I have uploaded 6 of my patterns onto Craftsy, 3 for purchase and 3 for free, and started a Pattern Shop there now, also. The majority of my designs will still be on Ravelry, though. You can find my Craftsy page HERE. My user name is MidknightStarr.
A bit of an update
No photos today though, but I’ll have plenty coming up in my next post though.
This past weekend, I was out of town. I went to Oak Lawn, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, with my mother-inlaw, her sister, her sister-inlaw, and her niece, to visit 2 of her cousins to have a “Woman’s Weekend”. The weekend was spent playing games (I crocheted a lot, though), going to craft bizarres, and just hanging out with each other. While there, I finished the back to my grandmothers shrug, bought a few fun things from the bizarres, and enjoyed visiting with everyone. For dinner on Saturday, we went to this amazing Asian restaurant, called Chi Tung. They served Chinese, Japanese,and Thai food and had the Hibachi tables. Everyone got Chinese, except me. I got the Pad Thai with shrimp and it was extremely yummy! I could barely eat a quarter of it because there was so much food! My MIL said there was probably enough on my plate to feed 4 people! I took the leftovers home and my husband and I finished it for lunch today. Just before leaving on Sunday, I asked my MIL to take me to a Fanny May Candies shop because I could not leave the Chicago area without at least a box of those chocolates. Before the company closed all of their shops in Michigan, I worked at a Fanny May Candies in my local mall for 5yrs and was hooked on their chocolates. That was 20yrs ago.
I’m sure that the next post I make will be a “show and tell” of the things I got while there and an update on the shrug.
Today, as I began the 2nd sleeve of the shrug, I started thinking about the shrug I’m going to be making for myself out of the Patons Lace Sequins in Smokey Quartz, and started getting new ideas on how to make it different from my Dragon Scale and Daughter of Dragons Shrugs. I am so excited about the ideas I have for this one! I’m sure I’ll be blogging all about it at a later date 😀
Halloween!
but I still got some crocheting in 😀
Halloween is usually a big thing with our family, but this is the first year, in the 12 that we have lived in this house, we actually did not decorate and hand out candy. Last year was the first year that our youngest child decided that, at 14yrs old, he was too old to hang out and go trick or treating with his parents. Now 15yrs old, he went and hung out at a friends house and did a bit of trick or treating near the end of the evening, before coming home at about 9pm. Our oldest, who is now 22yrs old and is on the Autism Spectrum, usually stayed home and passed out candy to all of the little ghouls and goblins that was brave enough to walk through out makeshift cemetery and past our giant spiders and spiderwebs. If the little one was to scared to come up to the porch, we would meet them at the sidewalk and give them the candy. This year, he has a pretty bad cold and an infection in his foot, so we left our porch light off and he had an early night to bed. Our now 17yr old daughter started going trick or treating with her best friend over in her friends neighborhood when she was 13, but now she lives at her grandparents house to finish high school there, and it sounded like she had a quite Halloween at home.
It was a cold and rainy/snowy day/night here in Michigan, so there really weren’t many kids out trick or treating anyway. Down here in SE Michigan, we didn’t get as much snow as they did a bit more north, but it was there and it was freezing out.
We actually do have 1 decoration up in our front yard, and knowing us, it’ll probably be there year round LOL
This year for the husband and I, we went to a couple of costume parties. One on Halloween night and one last night. The one on Halloween, we were the first to arrive, and within 20 minutes of being there, the power to the entire townhouse complex and surrounding neighborhoods went out. Apparently, a utility pole snapped in half near the top of the pole downing the electrical line just a couple of blocks from the townhouse complex we were at. The hostess of the party pulled out a bunch of candles, called her husband, who was still stuck at work for another hour or so, to pick up more candles, and posted on the Facebook event page that the party was canceled due to power outage, but that didn’t stop people from showing up anyway. We hung out an visited fro a bit, but had to leave just after 11pm because my husband had to be up to get ready for a 12hr work day at 5:30am.
Yesterday, during the day I didn’t do very much, but work on my Grandmother’s shrug. I was hurting a lot from Friday’s activities (stupid Fibro 😦 ). During the day on Friday, we were out and about doing our usual Friday errands, plus a couple of extra things including finally buying a new microwave, as our old one was finally on its last legs after 12 years of use. It was a very busy day and I was on my feet a lot.
So, I basically spent the majority of Saturday during the day in bed with Tea, Netflix, and Crochet, trying to recover enough to go to the costume party that night, which I was looking forward to. Last nights party was themed, “Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales”. We had a really good time there and saw a some very good friends.
I think today is another “in bed with Tea, Netflix, and Crochet” kind of day. I am completely wiped and hurting. It’s now after noon and I’ve been “up” since at least 9am, but was awake “on and off” since 6am when my husband left for work. I was awoken by the youngest at one point at around 7:30ish too. Sometime after 9, I annoyed the eldest to wake up to take his antibiotics, too.
Sometime mid-weekish last week, I finished the first sleeve to the shrug, and yesterday a got a few rows of the back done, probably about 2 inches worth and I have to make the back 10 inches long to fit the armhole. So, I think I’m going to get off here, make some lunch and some tea, turn on the Netflix, probably MacGyver, and pull out the crochet.
More Halloween photos under the “cut”
The Liebster Award
First, I thank Yarn It Up for the nomination! I was actually rather surprised about this, thank you so much! 😀
Apparently, the rules for The Liebster Award vary and change over the years, but still have the same basic idea. If you get nominated and accept the nomination, you post on your blog, then nominate other bloggers. This is something new for me as I haven’t heard of this before, but I think this is a neat idea. A “get to know” the community, and to show other blogs that you appreciate them 🙂
The rules that go with this nomination are:
1. Thank the person who nominated you with a link to their blog
2. Display the pink Liebster Award in your post
3. Answer the questions I posted
5. Nominate 10 other bloggers with up to 200 followers and inform them by commenting on their blog or contacting them
6. Write ten questions for the bloggers you nominate
My questions from Yarn It Up are:
1. What is your favorite craft? I would have to say Crochet.
2. Do you do crafts full time (is it your job)? IF not, what do you do for a living? Well, I don’t actually have a job anymore, I’ve been a SaHM for the past 12yrs, but I’ve been trying to make Crochet my job lately by writing patterns and selling finished items.
3. Who taught you what you know? My maternal Grandmother when I was around 7yrs old first taught me how to crochet.
4. What is your favorite blog? I actually don’t have any one favorite
5. What is your dream? To have my own business selling things I make
6. What country would you most like to visit? Either the UK or Poland
7. What is your favorite book/movie? Favorite book: Pride and Prejudice. Favorite movie: The Phantom of the Opera (ALW 2004)
8. When you were a kid, what did you dream of being as a grown up? Unfortunately, I don’t really remember 😦
9. Do you have pets? What are they and what are their names? Yes, we have 5 cats: Drusilla, Meredeth, Spike, Buffy, and Pickles, 2 white rats: Zombie and Ghost, and a leopard gecko: Shady
10. What is your favorite quote? It’s in the title of my blog:
“Live Peace – Speak Kindness – Dwell in Possibility” ~Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping is my favorite actress and favorite person in general. She is a very inspiring and an all around amazing person that I hope to meet one day. This quote of hers is something that I hope to live up to.
Now my 10 questions for my nominees:
1. What is your favorite craft? (yes, I “borrowed” this one, but it’s a good one)
2. How long have you been doing your favorite craft?
3. Do you prefer the city or the country?
4. Do you have any children? If so, how many and their ages? If not, would you want children in the future?
5. Do you have a favorite program on TV?
6. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
7. Who is the person who inspires you the most? (living or not)
8. What is your dream job?
9. What is your favorite website to visit?
10. Are you a dog or cat person? Neither? All? Or better yet, your favorite animal, otherwise?
My Nominations:
This is completely voluntary, only if you want to do this.
I’m not following very many blogs and most of them have been inactive for a very long time.
I must be Crazy…
So, for the last few days I’ve been suffering though a nasty head cold. Put that on top of having Fibromyagia, I haven’t had the energy to do much of anything, although Monday and Tuesday I did do some editing on the 3 versions of my dragon shrug patterns. Today though, my motivation to do much of anything has practically been close to nil, other than going through my blogs and favorite sites and updating here and there, and of course a lot of reblogging on Tumblr. Pretty mindless stuff, really. Then I got an email with a question about my Adipose, I get a lot of those. Anyway, instead of opening the pattern on my laptop in Adobe Reader, I go to my deviantART gallery, where I also have the pattern posted, but the nice thing is the way dA displays PDFs, I could search though the pattern without opening it up. After I answered the email, I realized that maybe I should submit a few more patterns to my dA’s crochet pattern gallery since I only had 3 patterns in it at the time. I submit an older pattern, and as I was looking at it, it got me thinking that I really should go through all of my old free patterns an update them, clean them up a little bit.
Well, I say I’m crazy, because I really should be crocheting and working on the orders I have, instead of updating 5+ year old patterns. So guess what is going on the “To Do” list. Maybe I can do one pattern update at a time after each project finished. It’s not like I have tons of things to do already.
So, yeah…
Crazy
Grandma’s Stash and Patterns
Earlier this month I posted about my Grandma’s stash and WIPs, well yesterday I finally sorted through the bin that had some yarn and the crochet patterns in it and had a few surprises. I also found the rest of her hooks, including her steel hooks. The major find was an old steno notebook that my Grandma had hand-written a couple of patterns in and an old envelope addressed to her from her sister stamped 1971 with a hand-written slipper pattern in it. There were many issues of the Quick & Easy Crochet digest with dates ranging from the early 80’s to the late 90’s (that I’ve seen so far) and a few issues of Workbasket Magazine. There were also 2 folders filled with loose patterns and a few hardcover pattern books with mainly afghan patterns. There were also what seemed to be tons of empty yarn labels scattered about too.
I moved all of the patterns and books into a smaller bin and condensed all of the yarn into the larger bin. The hooks will be stored with all of my hooks.
Grandma’s Stash and WIPs
I was going though one of the boxes that has my Grandmothers yarn and found a bunch of unfinished items. Mainly squares and motifs, but also 3 WIP blankets no longer attached to the skein of yarn and some kind of thread project. One piece looks like it could be angel wings. There is also a stiffened and crumpled thread crocheted snowflake that looks like it was at one time attached to something, as evidence of some hot glue still stuck on the back. Some of these I’m sure I could probably do something with, but some should most likely be frogged, but my mind balks at the idea of frogging something that she made.
The ripple blanket that she started is at a point where I could just weave in the ends and wear it as a shoulder wrap. Another blanket, I know from the look and the colors, gray and black, that it was going to be a train, but I’m not sure if the pattern for it is in the box yet and I know that I don’t have the right yarn for it. I could guess that it was probably Red Heart SuperSaver, but with dye lots, and the fact that even though Red Heart SS is still a stiff and rough yarn, it’s not as stiff and rough as it was a good 10-20yrs ago. She had made one of these Train blankets many years ago for my mom in the same colors. There is also what looks to be a simple single crochet blanket started, but the stitches are very uneven and inconsistent, the edges are wavy too. I have a feeling that one was started late in her life with the arthritis and Alzheimer’s affecting her. It’s such a pretty blue variegated yarn too, although its a very rough/scratchy acrylic yarn.
I came across some more of her hooks, a tiny box of split ring stitch markers, and her ruler too.
This box I was going through has a lot of white and light golden yellow-cream-tan-ish yarn. This is the box with all of the pattern pamphlets/booklets/books and a couple of hard cover pattern books in it too. I want to find a home for the yarn before I go though the patterns though.
Checking In
I know it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted, but I really haven’t done very much crochet-wise. With my health, then one of our cats got sick, I was a bit distracted. Unfortunately, although we believed that our cat, Oreo, was improving, we lost him suddenly on Monday of this week. He was only 5-1/2yrs old. He was born in this house also. We also didn’t have internet for about 4 days during all of this.
I’m to be getting “back to work” now though. I have a couple orders to fill, not jewelry yet though although I’m still hoping to sell some. I have 3 dice bags for a custom order, 2 small and 1 large, and my step-grandmother ordered a dragon scale shrug that I need to get started on. I still need to buy the thread for it though. I’ve also talked to my husband about opening an Etsy store, I’m not sure when that will happen yet though.
I recently made myself a Pinterest acct. For the longest time I told myself that I didn’t want, or even need, a Pinterest, but I blame my WordPress blog stats for this. I was checking my stats when I noticed that under “referrers” was a link to Pinterest, so I followed it and saw a couple of my things had been pinned, so I got curious and wanted to so a search, but needed an acct to do so, and well, there I am. Also, because of this, I am getting the urge to knit again, but before I pick up a new knit project, I still have a skirt, shrug, and a sock to finish.
Speaking of WIPs, I still need to finish Keely’s Dragon Shrug and a summer top I started.
January 19, 2009 – August 18, 2014
Photo taken on August 14, 2014
Still Here, Still doing Stuff
I know my posting here has slowed down over the last couple of weeks, but sometimes life takes over again.
Over the last week we were preparing for my parents visit. They live in Florida and I am in Michigan and they move down there from Michigan almost 20yrs ago. about 2 and a half years ago, my Grandmother passed away. This was the Grandmother who had taught me how to crochet. Over the last couple of years my mom had been going through her mothers stuff, sorting into what to pass on to whom over my moms 2 siblings and their children. There are 12 of us grandchildren, and so many more great-grandchildren that my Grandmother had. Since I am the only on out of all of the grandchildren to have learned how to crochet, I got what was left of her stash and all of her pattern books. I found her hooks kind of scattered through the yarn. My parents came over on Thursday to visit and drop off 8 boxes of stuff, the majority of it being my grandmothers yarn stash. My favorite is the 6-100yd balls of gold/gold metallic size 10 thread brand new, never been opened.
Art by Midknight
I just updated my art portfolio website, Art by Midknight, if anyone is interested in checking it out 🙂
Home Now.
It’s been a very difficult month, but we are back home. My son was discharged from the hospital on Monday after a 17 day stay. He had to have 2 surgeries, 1 of which was a major surgery, during his stay. It’s sad to say that it was his 75th surgery and I know it won’t be his last.
I’m gradually getting back into the swing of things back home with getting back into a daily routine along with the post-hospital care my eldest son need, and getting my youngest son to his “teacher time” because he is in Home Bound School. I need to get back into my crochet and knitting, especially finishing up on both versions of the Dragon Scale Shrug. After today, there are only 3 days left on the Free Download Special of the original Shrug. I am still in need of testers for the 3 smaller sizes, please visit THIS POST for more details.
I also still have the Isabeau Earring design to perfect, write, and get up for sale, and while I was staying at the hospital with my son I came up with another choker necklace design that still needs to be written.
Where Have I Been?
Sorry that it seemed that I’ve dropped off of the ‘net again. My eldest son has been very sick for the past month and has been in the hospital for the past 9 days. He had surgery this past Tuesday and will be going back into surgery this upcoming week. Needless to say I haven’t been doing very much crocheting lately.
I have a pair of crocheted earrings that I had done the week before we ended up in the hospital (I stay here with my son day and night). The earrings were inspired by my own Isabeau Choker pattern. I plan on having them up for sale as a single pattern and together with the choker at a special price for both patterns bought together. When I’m happy with the way they look and I have them on ear wires, I will get a photo of them posted.
by Midknight Designs 