I wanted to start on my crochet collar last night, only to have bunch of obstacles effectively manage to stop me. When I read the pattern and checked it against the guide to crochet abbreviations I have, I realised that either the pattern was in US crochet-speak and my guide was in UK (thus, Australian) crochet-speak, or visa versa. Whatever the case was, I had to find the crochet terms translator on Google, add the terminology in and re-print my guide, which had been sourced off different parts of the web.
So that took a while. Plus there was the fact that the computer I was using {we are house sitting, so we only have the owner’s computer hooked up to a printer} positively refused to co-operate. Isn’t it just the most annoying thing ever when technology just won’t work? It wouldn’t print properly. I suppose I could have written the instructions and the pattern out by hand, but talk about taking a donkey’s ages….
Which was the main problem with the computer I was using. It was as slow as golden syrup at Antarctica. Then it froze, and I had to restart it, and it was still slow, but finally managed to print the papers off. But by that stage it had taken me an hour to get 7 pieces of paper printed and I was so tired from wrestling with the thing {funny how you can get tired without doing all that much!} that I just decided to take the easy route and work on my afghan which was almost finished rather than to tackle a new pattern.
So DH played Super Mario Bros, and I finished the afghan and have started the final touch ~ double crocheting the edge. I shall put up photos when it is done. It is not very pretty as this is my first crochet project ever, beside the nominal square to learn the stitches. I did take a break from it whilst I was overseas. I actually crocheted another, much smaller afghan when I was in Scotland, and I did a neck scarf as well which I gave to one of the girls over there.
So I have actually completed other crochet projects, but this is just the first one I started. I used the odds and ends balls of acrylic {yuck, I know} wool that were floating about our house, which also means that it’s all sorts of weird colours without a theme. I don’t usually do such hodge-podge jobs, but again, beginner’s project.
I didn’t think much about it when I started it two years ago. I certainly didn’t think that I’d still be going on it. But I took lots of breaks, and it’s one of those nice projects to come back too. You don’t have to think about how to do it after not working on it for six months, you still know what you were doing. You can just pick it up and go. And because of that, I think I will start crocheting another afghan, but this time with proper wool and in the same ply and with a colour scheme!
Sorry about the lack of photos this post if you wanted them. I just thought that as I have been liberally sprinkling this blog with a lot of pictures that I would hold off on the images and give you a non-pictorial post. Or does that make things too boring? Would just one photo help make all this text a little more interesting?
Oh, and in the end, my pattern was in US crochet terms and I had the UK guide. Just in case you were curious. ; )
xox,
b.
P.S ~ I found the greater part of my crochet abbreviations guide on this fantastic website ~ Antique Crochet Patterns. It is a really great crochet resource; plus free vintage crochet patterns? Who can find fault with that?? If you like crochet and are interested in vintage/old fashioned pieces, I can really recommend this site. Go ahead! Check it out.
P.S. 2 ~ Sorry, I know I said “no images” but I guess I couldn’t help myself. I didn’t want this great link to be lost in a ream of text. My bad. Perhaps I will be able to manage a “no images” post another time.
