Hurricane, anyone? and other stories …
So we had a hurricane hereabouts this past weekend. Not *here* in Austin - we didn’t get more than a few sprinkles, some nice cool breezes and a low pressure system. But my parents and Jeff’s mom live in or near Houston, and they certainly got a lot of hurricane Ike. Jeff’s mom has been here all weekend because her town has been under mandatory evacuation since last Wednesday (she lives 20 minutes from the coast). Neither of my parents have power and some trees got uprooted, but their houses are okay. From what I hear, people are doing the Post-Hurricane Refrigerator Fest: grilling/cooking everything in their refrigerators on their grills and campstoves because it’s going to go bad if they don’t.
Meanwhile, I spent the weekend up to my ears in fabric and other materials for my swap. Such fun! I am so far pleased with what I’ve come up with - also pleased that what I planned is working out instead of having to switch course midstream. Sometimes I come up with kooky plans that are way too impractical.
I put my daisy-flower afghan up on the wall to see how it looked a couple of days ago - you may recall I was thinking I had all the squares done. However, when I got it all tacked to the wall I realized it was not going to be the size and shape I wanted, and that I also wanted to rearrange the colors. One issue was that I decided not to put a border on the squares, but just to stitch them together as they are so I had to deal with the loss of several inches. The end result of my reconfiguration is that I have nine more squares to make. I was kinda hoping I was more done than that, but it’s better to have it turn out right than wimp out right at the end.
I don’t know if you ever look at the “currently reading” section over there –> but lately I’ve been trolling through this Embellished Crochet book almost every night trying to decide what I want to do from it. I don’t know why, but the prospect of beading and/or embroidering a crochet garment is attractive, whereas normally I think something that sounds like thhhbbbbpppttt when I think of making clothing. I really am not fond of making clothing, but I think I might make that sweater there on the cover. I bought this book while going to look for the BH&G Holiday Crafts magazine that Anna VS mentioned - I liked the snowman on the cover and the mention of lots and lots of felt crafts. I like felt. That magazine is going to get me in trouble, because I’m going to try to do too much this fall again.
Seems like September has inspired a fresh bout of crafting, eh?
