Imagine the Impossibilities update
Categories: cat-comments, imagining-the-impossibilities
Tags: making stuff
Date: 22 January 2012 09:17:12
Look!Look! Maybe I can begin to imagine it's not so impossible after all!
After three and a half hours spent with my (very patient) friend Margaret, I have produced a useful 1m25cm long chain of crochet (George was quite interested in it last night) and a small, wobbly, not-quite-symmetrical disc of crochet (7cm in diameter at its widest point, 6 cm at its narrowest!) I think I chained a stitch when I should have just carried on going round, which has led to its not quite circular shape. I'm also not quite confident about some of the holes that I'm pushing my hook through - whether it is the right hole or not. (For those who are Real Crocheters I suspect there is a more technical term than "hole". But it does me for now!) And if it's not the right "hole" then I may inadvertently be adding an extra row to my disc.
HOWEVER, I vaguely know what I'm doing and intend to carry on going round and round in circles ("I don't think you're quite ready for corners yet," sighed Margaret) for a while. This first effort is destined to be a cat blanket. When I've mastered the going-round-and-round I may be ready for corners!!
The Very Bad Kitten, George, may be a disruptive influence to this craftwork however. I got home from Ray and Margaret's, proudly showed Mr D what I had done, stored my efforts back in its little plastic bag, put the bag on the coffee table and went to cook dinner. Within minutes George had stolen the plastic bag, and raced upstairs, trailing wool and clinking (crochet hooks) and rustling (plastic bag) He refused to let go until cornered. Then later on, as I was crocheting at the slowest speed known to man, suddenly a small, marmalade, furry creature leapt onto my lap, seized the disc in his mouth and made a swift getaway. It was only the fact that his paws got tangled in the wool that prevented George from making off with the crocheting again! During the evening, he did continue to mount commando raids from various angles, but I'd got wise to it by then, and managed to repulse all attacks! Sigh.