May Entry
May 9, 2024
Hello! I just finished redoing the diary archive.
Plans for this month:
- A doll or other pixel art
- Finish or make considerable story progress in Hades (post-game)
- My greatest enemy...this brown yarn that I have started and frogged about 15 projects with. I have a pattern and I WILL use it !!!
What I've been up to:
- Playing Disco Eluysium. I'm maybe 40% through now? To describe in the least spoilery way possible: I went inside that apartment all the way on the right, so now I'm taking a sadness break LOL ( :'-[ .)
- Managing better physical-health wise ðŸ¤
- I feel like I've been crocheting/knitting a lot but can't think of any projects I did... so uh just believe me I guess.
- I haven't been drawing at all :( !
The End, nothing exciting.
Logging Several Boxes of Crochet/Other Sewing Stuff
May 18, 2024
My sister is cleaning out my grandmother's house and dropped off 6 or so boxes of what is mostly crochet and sewing stuff. I got very caught up while sorting them. Box 1 contained: An unfinished, plain white baby afghan (and 1 extra skein of yarn, maybe enough to finish it) The yarn is old, scratchy, and stained. A J hook pierced through the project like a brooch, but it honestly looks larger than what was used for the blanket. 2 yarn labels - one most likely for the white yarn of this project; the other completely unrelated, saved for the blanket pattern on the back of it. There was a test swatch in pink yarn for said pattern.
Box two is where I started to realize the extent of what I'm doing to myself. It contained a copy of Instant Crochet (which is available on the Internet Archive.) Then I found an issue of The Workbasket that was not on IA. Stuffed full with cut out patterns from other sources. And a sewing kit catalog. About 80 scans later my wrist is dead LOL, so I'm not gonna push it. There's a few 70's commercial sewing patterns and more yarn and a very unfinished blanket and more waiting in that box still.
I'll be honest, the extent of my interest in vintage fiber crafts is usually limited to sometimes thinking a pattern is nice and getting annoyed that it's not archived somewhere. I don't know the traditions/expectations/ettiquette of preserving old patterns. Is it in poor taste because I don't own it? Is it at risk of being lost forever? Does no one care after a certain amount of time, because honestly crochet is not particularly... individualistic? (IE, there's only so many ways you can arrange the same few stitches, and we're over a century of trying to make new things.)
I looked up the issue of The Workbasket that I have scanned, it's not on IA, and there's almost nothing on Ravelry. (I'm not mad, I don't think anybody considers it an archival project.) I'm very *shrugging with pathetic noises* in this department, if you will. I love the idea of sharing these scans somewhere and will both look a bit more into what I can do, and will appreciate any and all spoonfeeding of basic information LOL.
have a little knit pouch pattern I found.
Links you might be interested in (and may already know, too) if this entry intrigued you:
VintageKnitCrochet.net: a 1-person shop of collected + cleaned up vintage crochet and knit patterns
A quick read on the history of The Workbasket Magazine
FreeVintageCrochet.com: Archive of vintage patterns
FreeVintageKnitting.com: Ditto, but knit.
The WorkBasket Magazine designer portfolio on Ravelry
(Click) Pouch Tote Bag pattern :
Knit this fashionable and handy tote bag. Materials needed are about 3/5 ounces worsted weight yarn (4-ply), number 8 circular needle (16 or 24 inch length); size G crochet hook.
Abbreviations:
- k (knit)
- p (purl)
- tog (together)
- yo (yarn over)
- sl (slip)
- st (stitch)
- ch (chain)
- rnd (round)
- psso (pass slip stitch over)
Gauge: 9 sts equal 2 inches.
BOTTOM: Cast on 27 sts. Work back and forth in garter st (k every row) for 54 rows (27 ridges), bind off.
SIDES: With circular needle, pick up 104 sts around square bottom (approximately 1 st to each ridge or cast on st), join, k 1 rnd.
Pattern -
Rnd 1: *Yo, k 2 tog, repeat from * around.
Rnd 2: K.
Rnd 3: *Sl 1, k 1, psso, yo, repeat from * around.
Rnd 4: K.
Repeat Rnds 1 through 4 until piece measures 8 inches from bottom.
Beading Band -
Rnd 1: K.
Rnd 2: P.
Rnds 3, 4: Repeat Rnds 1 and 2.
Rnd 5: *K 1, k2 tog, yo twice, k 2 tog, k 3, k 2 tog, yo twice, k 2 tog, k 1, repeat from * around.
Rnd 6: P. (Note: On yo twice of previous rnd, p in front and then in back of yo's.)
Rnds 7, 8: Repeat Rnds 1 and 2.
Rnds 9, 10: K.
Work pattern st for 8 rounds more, bind off.
Ties: (Make 2) With size G crochet hook, ch 120. Sl st in 2nd ch from hook and in each remaining ch, fasten off. Thread one tie through beading, knot ends. Beginning at opposite side of pouch, thread other tie through beading; knot ends.
I haven't made this pattern! Just sharing for the fun of it. Will update with anything interesting or new, when possible.
