Crochet Diva

Here's the first crochet shrug I've made. I designed it myself based on a shrug Nancy had in the shop that she bought at White House Black Market. Of course I'm never going to make anything white and using tiny yarn...so I just looked at the overall stitch pattern, and the overall construction shape (fold in half and seam) and ran with it!


Here's the beautiful back. I guess it doesn't really go well with the green shirt, now does it?



It's so pretty it makes me smile like a fool.

My first weekend up here in East Lansing this summer I wound up at a yarn shop called Woven Art (it was teaching crochet/knit/and letting people weave as part of be a tourist weekend). I wound up learning how to crochet, and true to form, walked out of the yarn shop with two skeins of Henry's Attic Safari III to make this guy. All it took was some double crochet in a circle. I know I said I'd never knit a poncho...but this one is crochet, thankyouverymuch. As you can see from my face, I am very unhappy about how hot Michigan is!


So of course the next step was to take Woven Art's beginning crochet class. Here are my three samplers from it.


And so of course, this little guy (sampler 3) will so be frogged and used with the rest of my remaining Alpine cotton to make a shrug. Welcome to my shrug kick.

Soon to be frogged...

This is a start on the Phoebe caplet from the Spring05 IK. However, it's slow as heck in knitting and is just trying to look like crochet...so I'm thinking I'll endulge it, frog it, and just crochet it on huge hooks. I'm also considering making it a shrug to be more in season.