I finished my April square!

*passes out*
March 6th, 2009
mio Apparently it’s March now. (I know, “nothing gets by you, does it?”) I realized tonight that I’ve forgotten to do the first of the month updates, so here it is, just a wee bit late.
First, the 12″ squares CAL:

I still need to do a border around the edge. I stopped short of the 12″ to accommodate a solid dc border in the green I used for the flower. I’m sure I’ll get around to that sometime before the April square is revealed (note to self: start badgering craftADDchick soon)
The other monthly check-up is the charity crafting. I fell five points short of my goal for February, but with tonight’s effort I’ve caught up! I’m making March’s goal 20 points. We’ll see what happens.
Here is the Lollipop blanket:

Now with border!
You’re just going to have to imagine what the purple shell blanket looks like finished. The sun was long gone by the time I finished it and the indoor picture of it looks really really bad. Mom and Dad will be dropping by tomorrow and I’ll be sending them home with them. I’ll try to remember to take a picture before we say goodbye!
In other news, I have an update on the “make your own centre-pull ball” technique. Here is a picture of the ball from yesterday after making the border on Lollipop:

Not too shabby!
February 23rd, 2009
mio Or participate in a poll. One or the other.
I’ve made a bunch of swirly hexagons up and, after consuming copious amounts of caffeine to counter the hypnotic effects, I posed them in a couple of ways for your consideration.
Which do you prefer?
Option 1 (aka Klingon Layout)

Option 2 (aka Opposite Layout)

Vote in the comments! Or via e-mail if you’d prefer: fantastic dot mio at gmail dot com
In the meantime, I’ve joined a swap on Craftster! Specifically, the Amazing Crochet Motif Swap. It’s being run by my favourite crochet pusher on Craftster, craftADDchick (some of you may remember her from the 12″ square crochet-a-long). It should be fun!
In completely unrelated news, I’ve bought a new book! You see, Charles wanted to get out of the house this weekend, and really wanted to get some new reading material so we headed off to Chapters at Runnymede. He took lots of pictures, and I bought a book:

I’ve barely had a chance to look at it, really. What post-it notes? Oh, and just ignore Charles if he suggests that I’ve been keeping the book next to the bed so that it’s handy just before I go to sleep. (My most creative time is between 11pm and 1am. It’s a curse.)
And he didn’t even buy anything. *sigh*
Anyhow, more pictures from my trip to Alberta under the cut!
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