TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

I am kind of having on of "those" days. Just when everything starts to get better, everything turns to shit again. blah. It happens. I feel like I want to take a week-long nap. I just feel drained.

Anyway, life goes on and this post will too. Off to a land I have not ventured before. Crochet! Here is what was then my first crochet WIP and is now my first crocheted FO! (pictures of that in my next photo shoot, haha.)

It's the "Boy Beanie" from the SNB Crochet book. So easy it was unbelievable! It looked like a yarmulke after the first few rounds, and made me laugh. A lot. I'm not sure why, even. It was a breeze, and I am surprised I got through it so quickly and easily. I am so excited about learning to crochet! (That was obvious when I took a moment after every round to try the hat on and monitor

Cutesy story time: I had a terribly hard time with crochet, at first. Then, I got a bag of yarn bits and leftovers that had belonged to my late great-grandmother Hazel, an avid crocheter. (She had ten kids, and 30 grandkids. She would crochet all the grandkids slippers for Christmas.)  My great-aunt had it for years, and it had been just sitting in the garage. She'd actually been meaning to sell it at a yard sale but after seeing something I knit for my mom (or maybe grandma?) she decided to give it to me! It had a lot of hideous colors like yellow-orange and this horrid lavender and everything was acrylic. Thank god I am not a yarn snob! Acrylic is fine by me, as long as the finished project doesn't absolutely have to be blocked. I decided to give crochet another go, and this time I got it! It's weird to not really understand how things work, and when I am making mistakes. I know knitting to well now that I can tell a mistake a mile away, but crochet is new and I am not used to the mechanics of it. Anyway, I decided to practice reading crochet patterns by starting with the classic granny square. And ended up with these:

See what I was talking about with that orange?! I'm thinking I might make a ton off differently colored granny squares to stash-bust this yarn, and turn them into an afghan for my grandparents (Hazel's son, and daughter-in-law). They would love it, I'm sure. But then again they're my grandparents. They love everything I make! (I knit my pop a beanie and he not only wears it when it is not cold enough for one, he has worn it so much it now has holes in it!)

Also on the crochet front, I crochet a single crochet edging around the afghan I knit for my mom. I forgot to take pictures, and should sometime soon. It only took me a year!