( bun cover! )
You can find the pattern here.

The last crochet or knit pattern from Star Gift Book No. 150, the rest are embroidery patterns or yarn crafts and I'm still deciding if I'm going to post them for completion or not.
( Fish Mobile )
I think this pattern would be cute in thread for phone charms and such.

( silly in jokes with your partner + youtube video )

Well, I did finish my bun holder last night, but I didn't keep track of my stitches because bun holders are sort of personal things, and what fits my hair might not fit yours. At some point I'll have to write a tutorial for making them though. I put my hair up in a basic bun, and then put the holder over it and slipped in a bent vintage steel dpn, and it held very securely until I took it out a few hours later. I'll see if I can get a picture later.
Hopefully today I'll get a bit more done.

I really absolutely want the new Kindle but some how I think I'm going to have a hard time convincing Mike I need two just because the new one has more memory and a native pdf reader, and I don't want it enough to not still want my Kindle 2 since the size slides so easily into my purse and is so very convenient.
Tuesday morning the new Southern Vampire book came out, and it was so neat to have it pre-ordered, turn on my Kindle first thing when I woke up, and be done reading it by noon.
Still weather achy. Still not absolute ruler of the world.

I relisted the earring pattern set here.
Other than that..yesterday I wanted to get some good lace for a choker, and I was mourning the fact that Three Sisters fabric wasn't opened anymore. Mike took me to Seams Like Home and I found fabric there. Like most of the independent fabric shops in town, it's got a strong quilting theme, but I did find the kind of lace I wanted, and amusingly enough, it was stock from Three Sisters! The owner of Seams Like Home bought their stock and merged the two stores! E got a bunch of scraps for her dolls and we also picked up some elastic and buttons to make bento belts for our new bento boxes. (and I splurged on some German sequins, because I love sequins)
We stopped on the way home for dinner at New Sagaya.
So today I'm going to finish up a new bun holder I'm making myself, and E and I are going to make bento belts decorated with buttons.

( Picture )

So while I was making it, I had to frog 3 times because I've never done flat non-increasing pineapples, all my pineapples were for things like doilies and ruffles. Mike and I were talking, and I was trying to explain what I was doing, and the geometry involved.
And I finally said "But all this just makes no sense to you does it? You don't even know what a pineapple is." and he replied
"It's a crocheted lacy design that starts with a curved base and decreases towards the top." and my mouth fell open.

"It's like learning a new language. Eventually with total immersion, you pick up a lot."

You can find the pattern here.

So I'm not sure I'll be able to get this posted before I lose my connection again.
I posted a crochet pattern to Don't Eat the Paste, but like I said, I'll post here as well as soon as I can trust my connection. It's a pineapple patterned thread nano pouch.

I won't make it to chat tonight because really? The last 16 hours, I've been lucky to get in 30 seconds of connection before I'm dropped again. The techs at my isp are working on the issue though.

Remember my Little Bat crochet pattern? Well, I've been really eager to show off what Share made with it and posted to Ravelry, but I had to wait. She made a bride and groom set for her Dad and Step-mom to give to them for their wedding. Here Comes The Bat.. aren't those the cutest?

I was talking with jehanna today about marmalades and jams, and how cute a little vampire orange would look on a jar of marmalade made with blood oranges. We also talked about what would be in a goth jam. We decided on blood oranges, pomegranates (juice probably, it's a lot easier than dealing with seeds!) and cloves. After a bit more thought, I wonder if a touch of wild roses would be good in our hypothetical goth jam.

I didn't make jam or scones today. Mike is sick, and I think I'm coming down with it. So I made dinner a couple days ahead, and a big pot of chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles. I even put brussel sprouts in it for Mike, and carefully served mine up without them. I still think they are evil. When I was a kid, my mom once told me I couldn't leave the table until I finished my brussel sprouts. I'm sure you can all guess how that ended. Yeah.. when she woke me up for school the next day, she decided I didn't want to eat them a lot more than she wanted me to.

Almost done. One crochet pattern left after this, and the rest are yarn crafts, appropriate for
children to do with your help, and for grandparents to ooh and aww over. This pattern made me nuts, and I edited just a bit because it kept changing how it expressed the stitches, sometimes from one row to the next the spacing in the abbreviation would change. Other than that, I didn't edit the original text.
( Gift Doily )

As promised. I even colorized the picture so you could get an idea how they look colorized. The reversed colors for the matched set, I didn't do. But I'm sure you'll be able to imagine. And shudder. Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
( Crocheted Potholders )

Also from Star Gift Book No. 150.
( fluffy crochet! )

Well... the spine finally tore on it. I knew it would. So I'm going to try and get the whole thing transcribed in the next couple of weeks.
Of course.. I haven't shown you the horror yet. That will have to wait. I'll post it on Friday the 13th, it deserves a special day all it's own. It really truly does get worse than the odd hand puppet on the cover. But today's project is pretty. I think I'll need to see if I can graph out the pattern in international crochet symbol at some point, because following it in my mind in the written form made me a bit dizzy.
( Sunburst Rose Doily )

I spent today mostly reading, cooking, and working on my scarf, I'm halfway through the second round, and it will be 4 rounds total. (strip method donchaknow)

I also spent a little while transcribing a couple new patterns. This time, knit patterns. The first one is fairly wearable. The second, really customizable, but for the most part? Not recommending the customizations they did. Well.. E loves one, and I like one. Can you guess which ones we like? But I think it would look too cute with embroidered flowers and rick rack, because rick rack makes everything look better.
( No date in this book )
It doesn't say, but the Loops variation is the one you need the crochet hook for. And check out the flowers hat! Yep. Those are pom pom flowers. It sort of reminds me of those swimming caps with plastic flowers attached.
Did you guess which variation I liked and which one E likes?

I love this stole pattern. It's done strip method, and has a flower-y look to it.
It's from 1952.
( Barbara Stole )

From my vintage book stash. These are 3 edgings from Star Book No. 81, Edgings which has crochet and tatted edging for handkerchiefs, pillows and towels.
A good modern use for edging patterns is using a medium to worsted weight yarn and doing lengths as scarves or edging a scarf or stole in a sport weight.
( here they are. )
Of course.. I really should do more of the disembodied head patterns!

This is both instructions for designing your own, and a pattern for the one I made.
( Woven Hearts are so much fun )
I'll make a real post in a minute or two.

I'm working on a crocheted version of a Danish paper heart, and I'm not sure I have quite enough yarn left to do one side, so it may turn out tri-colored, with the strips of one section being one color, and the semi-circles being a different color. Pattern *will* be posted later, and I think it has possibilities sized up a bit as a really thick nice hot pad to put hot things on since it's 4 layers thick in the woven part. I think it also would make a nice scrubbie the size I'm making it.
I'm feeling a little better today. Sorry about the whining last night.

No new versus was posted, but at the store, where it was just John vs. Iron Man, John won by one vote. 58/57. Here, my two added choices were tied. 2 votes for The Santa Bear (hey, he's vicious!) and 2 for the dumbo octopus.

I was thinking of doing knitting vs crochet and scrapbooking vs. plastic canvas needle point then running the winners against each other, but really, while we are all responsible adults capable of intelligent discussion, discussing politics, religion, or crochet vs. knitting in a polite setting is really just a way to start a fight.
( a fun screenprinting youtube vid )

I need to make myself a vintage crochet icon.
Well, in those patterns I posted yesterday, at least one other person noticed the extremely odd photography of the scarf/hat patterns. Heads. Just heads. No bodies.
I've been fighting this urge to scan the creepiest picture in that book and making an "I ain't got no body" icon.
I was showing Mike the pictures in the book yesterday, and he wants me to scan them and offer them up for captioning. He was pretty creeped out. The worst are two pictures of kids in hats with matching purses. He asked if that's where the heads lived when they weren't out exploring. One of them has this really scary creepy smile.
There are also sweater patterns. So there are also women missing everything from the waist down. Seems made to photoshop into mermaids, or to use for paper crafting and make cards with big floofy fabric skirts. Or maybe mermaids.

( cut to save the uninterested )
*grins* I was vaguely debating resolving to post a craft a day next year. Scanning out of my vintage treasure could do a lot of those days!