Cat Mad Crochet

Crochet ideas and inspiration for the independent crafter

  • Why did I start a blanket in the middle of the holiday crochet block?

    Why did I start a blanket in the middle of the holiday crochet block?

    Reading time: 4 minutes We have finally received a cool, overcast, gloomy day. I cannot be more pleased. Bring on fall! Bring on the snow! Bring on short days and long, dark nights. I crochet with a vengeance as if enough stitches will bring down the rule of the sun.…

  • Weekly Update: It’s holiday project list making time!

    Weekly Update: It’s holiday project list making time!

    Estimated reading time: 6 minutes It is that wonderful time of the year when I make up my dream list of holiday gift giving projects. It’s months out, so I feel like I have lots of time to come up with a list of beautiful and complex things to make…

  • Weekly update: The cowl (swatch) project

    Weekly update: The cowl (swatch) project

    Estimated reading time: 2 minutes This week’s project is a cowl/swatch I’m making for Adia. I plan to make a sweater with this stitch pattern, but making the swatch was just miserable, so I grabbed a hank of the same yarn I am using for the sweater (Malabrigo sock) from…

  • Weekly project update: The Sophie Digard knock-off

    Weekly project update: The Sophie Digard knock-off

    Estimated reading time: 5 minutes If you’ve read my posts about the movie Bright Star, you know I love the crochet in that movie. While everyone talks about that one sweater, there are others in the movie worth emulating. In fact, I like some of them better than that one…

  • A shawl for Adia: the weekly update

    A shawl for Adia: the weekly update

    Estimated reading time: 5 minutes And I’m back again! Aren’t you excited? Well, either way, you’ve navigated yourself back to my blog, so here we go! This week I have been working a lot on Adia’s marled, color-changing shawl. It’s a ¾ circle shawl worked in various colors of lace…

  • F you said the blanket: An angry weekly update

    F you said the blanket: An angry weekly update

    Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Another week of madness has passed in my country. I really, really hate living in interesting times. I cannot wait to be on the other side of this little historic interlude. (Please, please let it be a little historic interlude!) May the mid-term elections bring…

  • A new quest!

    A new quest!

    Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Do you play video games? I used to. I enjoyed the strategy type best. Sometimes, in the middle of play, one of my choices would cause a shift in the game and my original quest would change. I suddenly had to rethink everything I had…

  • What I’m watching with crochet in it and a shawl update

    What I’m watching with crochet in it and a shawl update

    Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 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…

  • Weekly Project Update: The shawl grows!

    Weekly Project Update: The shawl grows!

    Estimated reading time: 4 minutes How is it almost June? Time is flying by at an amazing clip. I’ve been working on the shawl but am still reveling in finishing the doily. Never again with doilies for me. I cannot make another. Happily, the work on the shawl, which is…

  • Weekly project update: A shawl worked with single-minded determination

    Weekly project update: A shawl worked with single-minded determination

    Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Another week that is simultaneously thirty days long and three hours long has whizzed or crawled past. I think my perception of time has been permanently changed. I am forever going to live in a world in which the month and day are best determined…