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I ran across a series of videos on Youtube a little while ago that were made by C. G. P. Grey. They’re quite informative (on a wide variety of subjects – Daylight Saving Time, the uselessness of the penny, the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK, various election systems, etc), and I ended up watching all of them. After some clicking around, I discovered he does time management consultanting for a living, and has some interesting advice along those lines as well.

The reason I bring it up is because he inspired me to get organized in my designing endeavours. I’m still working out some of the kinks, but things have been going swimmingly! Of course, I’ve been crazy busy as a result.

And so, this post is an update on my design progress!

Currently, Hope’s Hat is in testing:

In the meantime, I’m working out sizing issues on some other projects… here’s a bit of a preview:

It’s all very exciting!

It’s the Crocodile stitch! Sometimes called the scale stitch.

I have seen this stitch pattern used to look like scales, feathers, leaves, and cartoonish chainmaille. It all comes down to colour, really. You can alter the pattern a little bit to change the sharpness of the scales, too, which is kind of neat.

Here is a little bag that I whipped up:

I did a simple single crochet panel for the back:

If you’re going to make a bag using this stitch, I recommend lining it. As you can see here, the crocodile stitch side is actually quite hole-y:

I made this little bag up as a sample for an upcoming class I’ll be teaching. Look on my teaching page for details of when the next Crocodile Stitch class will be!

I woke up this morning only to find several blog posts missing!

Since then I have learned two things: one, I’m going to have to re-create those missing posts, and two, back-ups are a thing. :P

Ok, so I already knew about back-ups, I just didn’t really understand how the Wordpress ones worked. Rest assured, I do now! Hopefully, if this happens again in the future, the fix won’t take as long as it will today.

Please stand by!