I missed the milestone of the previous post being my 100th! Oh well, 101 is just a cool to commemorate.
I'll do it in style, with a new finished item. Before I left the States almost 2 years ago, I bought a few crochet books to bring with me, as I was just getting into it, and I wasn't sure what the selection would be like when I got her. I needn't have worried, as there's plenty to choose from at the local library. But I'm still glad I got them. Once of my purchases was Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution. It's got lots of cute patterns. I've been wanting to make those fishnet thigh highs on the cover for awhile, but first I had to go for something a bit less fussy. I decided on the Circle Motif Rug.
Once I had decided I must make myself this run, I needed yarn. Wool yarn here in New Zealand is plentiful, but almost none of the brands available in the States are sold here. So I'd have to find a close match. No problem, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually used the yarn called for in the pattern. But I came across the problem that I couldn't find any bulky or chunky weight yarn. At all. I checked every yarn store in Napier and Hastings. I even asked at all of them, and none of them were aware of any heavy weight yarns. There are only 4 stores, so it wasn't too big a quest, but it did end in failure at first. So I gave up. I started other projects. I forgot about the rug.
Then one day I was at JJ's Crafts in Greenmeadows looking for buttons for one of the baby sweaters I knit. And out front in a basket was a HUGE skein of really thick yarn with the sign "Rug Wool - $10". It wasn't the colour I wanted, but I thought it would have to do, as the chances of finding similar wool again was slight.
The skein was a bit of a big tangled mess, but I managed to get it into a ball. A big ball.
Here it is next to my puppy for scale. Okay, yes. He's a small dog. But that's still a big ball.
Well, here's the boy sitting on the finished rug! I think he may end up adopting it for himself, despite the fact that I made it for the back door step.
2 comments:
Congrats on the milestone. Your wee dog is a sweetie, and it may well have found a new home on that rug. Jay Jays, is such a cool shop, I get my needle felting needles from there. cheers Marie
That was one BIG ball of wool, and I really think it belongs to Doakes (spelling)! Congrats on your 101 milestone :)
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