Cat Mad Crochet

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Happy Thursday everyone! Dave and I are celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary today, so it’s a doubly happy Thursday for me. I am overjoyed to say that the wrap is now nearly as tall as I am. I may have it done in time for the wedding after all. I am toying with the idea of weaving the ends after I finish the body of the shawl and before I start the border, so that I could easily (read without having a bunch of ends staring at me) stop the border wherever I am at the point that I need to block it for the wedding and then finishing the border later if I’m not going to have it all done in time. It’s not ideal, but it is the sort of move I would make. We shall see.

The circles continue. I’m very happy with them, too. The only problem is that I find I really enjoy making circles. I want to sit and make a whole bunch of them, but as this is a journal of sorts, I only make one a day. Perhaps I need to sniff around for some yarn and do a shorter term circle project. That would be a happy thing.

As usual, I watched a bunch of television while I was exercising and crocheting in the evening before bed. I caught a few crocheted items I can share. 

The first is from The Incredibles. The elderly woman who comes to see Bob about an insurance claim seems to have an animated crocheted hat. That was fun to see. I think they did a good job of illustrating the individual stitches and even the little hole in the middle where the stitches emanate from. 

What seems weird to me is that bottom edge. I guess perhaps the roll is stitched into place? My crochet doesn’t roll like that at the edge of a double crocheted hat. Also there are weird little stitches, like sewing stitches, that seem to go around the roll. Perhaps it was stitched in place? Perhaps they just didn’t know how to end it off? Perhaps they worked from a real-life example that had a weird finished edge? Who knows. I’m just happy it looks like it has stitches instead of amorphous globs like you see in AI. 

I hate AI crochet.

The other finds were in the movie Practical Magic, which I am moving in to replace the remake of Yours, Mine, and Ours in my queue of comfort movies since Dennis Quaid turned out to be a Republican asshat and a shill for the plastic industry. There’s no comfort in that. Enter the witches.

Aunt Jet, whose whole wardrobe is awesome, wore these neat little gloves. I’m pretty sure they are crochet. If not, they could easily be done in crochet.

And Sally wears this tank top that is definitely crochet.

Practical Magic doesn’t bring the crochet comfort of Bright Star, but I’ll take it. 

The last is, alas, not crochet, but I really, really want it to be! It’s a shawl edge in the Netflix series The Lady’s Companion. The shawl shows up in episode two on the back of a chair. It’s very pretty, but, on closer examination, I don’t think it is actually crochet. However, again, I think one could accomplish something similar with a nice honeycomb stitch, some love knots, and some treble crochets. It would make a lovely border for a woven shawl or one crocheted with a more solid stitch for the body and an extravagant open border.

Dave went for a walk and found this, which is why I exercise indoors. I am told the snake made it safely off the road and has gone on to do whatever snakes do in another place.

Happy crafting!