To Do List

You're reading this, so obviously, you're out of lives on Candy Crush and your FarmVille crops (versions 1 AND 2) are nowhere near ready to pick and your crafting energy and wells won't replenish for another three hours. You can't think of any more words for Words With Friends, either...not with the letters you were just dealt, anyway (x, k, q, and four t's with all vowels on the board taken). You really don't want to have to get off the internet or go to your site online or do whatever it is you ought to be doing, you're tired of the "You're Procrastinating" song, so you're spending time with me. I appreciate it. No, really. I really appreciate your time spent reading this.

If you're still with me, I have a lot of work to do. This is going to help me think through and figure out how to get it done. I got commissions for 4 pieces last week at church!!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!! I'm happy, can't you tell? This means someone is going to PAY me MONEY to crochet!

She wants three scarves and a blue poncho just like the poncho I made for me at the height of the foofy useless scarf knitting/crocheting craze/revival some 8 or 10 years ago.

This is the blue poncho I crocheted for myself.

The color of the yarn I used for my poncho has been discontinued, but think I have enough to do the poncho, but not the scarves. I've started on the poncho to get that out of the way. It's going quite fast, I think.

Of course I'm not being interrupted by children crawling into my lap like cats do when you are crocheting, knitting, reading the paper, or working on the computer. My kids have gotten too big to do that. It still doesn't deter the youngest if she really wants attention, but it's also been hot for Torrance this week. While muggy weather doesn't seem to deter cats at all--it has the opposite effect, actually--it DOES tend to deter a young teen from mommy glomming.

In case you're wondering, NO, I don't have any cats. At all. My husband is allergic to them. I did have cats and dogs (and ducks, and chickens) when I was a kid. I lived in rural Ohio then. There was more space there.

So. Planning.

"I'm procrastinating/all day I sit there waiting/for the perfect moment to begin..."

Oh all right!

So. Set timer for an hour. Keep it in reach so I can turn it off when it beeps, get up and stretch my hands, go do something else, and then come back. If I do two or three hours, then I will see how many rows I can get done in that time...I might even finish it! Yay!

After that, I will need to alternately heat and ice my shoulder for 20 minutes, each. Then I will probably need to cook food for somebody, or go get groceries, and then cook food, or go take somebody someplace, or do SOMETHING, the nefarious purpose of which is to interfere with my crafting.

Fortunately, my middle child has a dentist's appointment tomorrow morning, so I will get some work done there!

Coogee Bay Dress Interweave Summer 2012 Update

Collar close-up

Soooo this is what I've done so far. Above is a close up of the collar. I got bored with continually adding motifs. I had one row on the other side. The problem was the sleeves are formed by doing the collar. I decided to crochet it to get a feel for how it will look when I'm done. The magazine instructions call for a spiraled crochet collar. I don't like to work round in spirals. I don't like the rows running into each other. I like a definite beginning and end to each row. So I crocheted the collar in rows in the round, and chained up at the end of each row. However, if you look at the center of the collar, this does make a visible join.

This is blurry. Sorry! This was originally designated as the "front" but since the collar has the chain up bit, I have decided that this will be the back. I still need to add more motifs to the bottom.

So this is the "new" front.

I've been adding motifs to the "new" front. I definitely will need to make a panel for the side and underarm. I'm having trouble holding the camera still when I take these photos. Sorry for the blur.