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Why blogging is good

Blogging is good because it makes you finish things.  This had been three quarters done for weeks.  I needed something to blog about so hey presto I found the time to finish it - I don't want to fall off the wagon this time! 

 

The pattern is from a Japanese book called simply "Amigurumi Book" by Tomoko Takamori (ISBN 987-4-529-04171-3).  Very cute book with lots of very cute things.  This was fiddly as I did it with smaller yarn/hook than the pattern called for, and it's about 15cm tall (6"), so really fiddly.  But funny.  And good for small hands.  Henrik insisted I put the tongue in.  I nearly didn't, but I'm glad I did because it's very fetching I think.

Thanks so much to all the lovely comments on my last post.  My intention is to get back to all of you asap, but apologies if it takes a little while...   

A gift from Granny

When my gran kept asking me what I wanted for Christmas this year (last year actually, but you know what I mean), I kept telling her I wanted her to teach me to crochet.  I could have learned from a book, but I wanted her to teach me.  She taught me to knit when I was three, so it kind of felt like a tradition for her to teach me and after all she is the queen of the granny square afghan, having churned out countless squares for countless blankets, and claims to not know how to make anything but granny squares.  She wrote out the most lovely instructions for me which include things like "make sure you sew in the ends as you go as it's a devil of a job if you don't.  Trust me, I know", and "OK here we go!  Dive into the next hole for three more trebles".  She also was at pains to tell me that it's traditional to have four rounds of colour, then the fifth round in black.  She also said she's seen some recently that used colours instead of black: a mustard version was very attractive, but it really is not the way they are supposed to be made.  Lord knows what she'll think when she sees I have blatantly ignored tradition and made mine only four rounds, and used off-white for the border colour.  Contraversial indeed.

One thing I must say, these squares are wildly addictive.  I've done ten since Friday.  Just what I needed - another obsession.