Hi!! It's almost spring! My daffodils have started to bloom and boy are there sooo many more this year. I'm ecstatic. :D When we first moved in to this place I think we maybe got three or four blossoms. This year there are probably 100! Please don't mow your daffodils down before they have time to soak up enough energy for the next year. I will come to your house in the night and dig them up, my preciousssss....
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It's time for the monthly installment of Gifted Gorgeousness. Rathian grows! She got her dangerous claws added in which means the bottom corners are now done. I'm saving her most deadly bit for last even though it's the first thing I go for in-game! If you're new, she is part of a set of video game glyphs I'm slowly working up to a little cube for my husband to
show off have on his work desk.
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I have also managed to complete another speaker cozy. Yay, two down! These will be the smallest (lol/sigh) of the set and already have a happy home on the rear bookshelf speakers. I will work on the towers next.
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Here are my latest floss ORTs and yarn ORTs. I used to put them out this time of year for the birds to have high fashion nests but I decided I'd try to fill the jars entirely as a sort of mini-finish all its own. Sorry, birds!
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Not for any "a-long" but I managed to knit up this little dishcloth just in time for St. Patrick's Day. I was very close to running out of yarn for it. I'm not super fond of this colorway so I didn't want to buy another skein of it just to finish a dishcloth! But I managed to squeak by, woo! That little squiggle is all that remained after omitting two rows and shortening the i-cord (which was a new thing learned, yay!). There are shamrocks on it though it's a bit hard to tell in this photo.
Technical Details
- "St. Patrick's Day Cloth" pattern by Kris Knits, found here (ravelry) and here (blogger).
- #2 regular and DPNs.
- Yarn: Peaches n Creme Solids in rosemary.
- 8.5" x 8" unblocked.
- Started March 8, finished March 14, 10 hours.
And last but definitely not least, Kim over at Wisdom with Needle and Thread is having a
joyous celebration of her 60 trips around the sun and invites y'all to join in the fun! She is offering up 60 RAKs to her party guests and if you've never seen her work before, go, go look! She does such beautiful tiny things. Really, the borrowers are totally in love with her house.
Alrighty then! I think I've done enough talking for my two weeks. I'll be around for
Jo's Easter Blog Hop so until then, may you have productive fingers~ :D
You have been busy! The crochet is amazing.
ReplyDeleteYour work for the speaker cozies is beautiful. Wow. That was really close on the yarn for the dishcloth. It is cool.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of speaker cozies before, but they are very ingenious; your crocheting is beautiful. Congrats on having just enough yarn for the dish cloth!
ReplyDeleteWhat a busy girl you are!
ReplyDeleteAwesome projects Rosey.
ReplyDeleteLinda
You have been busy !! My favourite though is the daffodil picture ..
ReplyDeleteThank you! And I suspect it may be my favorite picture too. More are blooming every day now! :D
DeleteYou are having adventure with all the needles. Great going on crochet, knitting and cross stitch pieces !! Lovely daffodils:) Are they cut flowers too?
ReplyDeleteRathian is growing well.
ReplyDeleteLovely crochet. If I were to even suggest speaker cosies to my DH I think he would kill me :D
Nice progress on everything!
ReplyDeleteLOL! Your whole post brought a smile to my face. Great finishes and WIPs! I had to laugh about the daffodils...when I was growing up our neighbor had a whole hillside full of them, just because he left them alone to do their thing!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful progress and lovely flowers :)
ReplyDeleteHAHA....honestly Rosey....you keep me in stitches!! I pictured you crawling around in the dark of night stealing into gardens to dig up poor innocent daffodils :D :D
ReplyDeleteFantastic stitching and loving the crochet and knitting. I would never be able to crochet speaker thingys.....firstly because I don't have speakers (HA!) and secondly because I'm too lazy :D :D
How's the Singer coming along?
I enjoyed reading your blog, as usual.Lovely pics. I like your crochet work - it makes me want to pick up a crochet hook and start creating.
ReplyDeleteLots of lovely work you have completed this month, well done.
DeleteThank you for taking part in GG this month.
ReplyDeleteNice work on Rathian.
I'm now thinking about hubby's JBL speakers which dwell in our hallway. They are approximately 4 x 2 x 3 feet, you'd need a big doily for those!
Lovely progress! You have done some beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much~ I am indulging in my whims this year and am thoroughly enjoying it! :D
DeleteI didn't know what a speaker cosy was until I read Jo's comment above! But why stop at speakers? I am now imagining you covering your whole house with crochet.
ReplyDeleteLovely stitching progress! The St. Patrick's Day dishcloth is gorgeous, great job! :D
ReplyDeleteWow, Rathian has seen some nice progress. And these speaker cozies looks really great.
ReplyDeleteI love your St. Patrick's dishcloth, lovely pattern.
I'm looking forward to seeing your contribution to Jo's Easter blog hop.