Cat Mad Crochet

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Here we are! The first week of September. I managed to finish one project for the holidays already, so this month I plan to finish another. I was thinking it would be Adia’s shawl since that is so very close.

See! Very close. I’m at the gray fading to black border. I have two more shades of gray and then black to work through. It should be no more than 16 rows. I am so close. This could have been its month to leave the hook and join the pile of finished objects, but, alas, this is not to be. Look at those linked doubles, though. That is one delicious stitch!

Instead of finishing the shawl, Adia is asking for some fingerless mitts. Since I had the yarn balled up already, I can’t use that as an excuse not to start them, so I started them on the 1st. Look at me go!

Let’s talk about what’s happening here. I chained 24 and made a ring. Then I worked a single crochet, two single crochet v stitches, and another single into the ring. After that, I started working the internal increase laid out in The Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary for this stitch pattern. I’m quite pleased with the little radiating pattern it’s developing. I’m going to work it until it is long enough to reach Adia’s wrist when the chain ring is around her middle finger and then either add chains to go around her wrist and continue the pattern or join up the edges and keep going. I’ll have to keep turning the rows to keep the pattern looking the same, and I will need some more internal increases to make it fit her lower arm nicely. This one is coming along very nicely. And there’s no reason to talk about the other stitch patterns I tried and frogged because they looked icky and lumpy and strange and bad. 

Hannah’s pink wrap that had to be frogged and rethought it coming nicely, too. Behold its unblocked brilliance!

This is one of those stitch patterns that really needs blocking to shine. We will get there. A swatch might have been a really good idea on my part, but, since the yarn is discontinued, and I don’t want to waste a single bit, the project is the swatch. Please send well wishes.

I have made more circles. I am deeply sad and worried and sick to my stomach over everything that is happening in my country. Hats off to the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago for their speeches the other day. I felt less alone. Give ’em Hell, boys!

May your crafting bring you peace in these and all times.