3KCBWDAY7 - crafting balance

Crafting balance. I do not have it. I binge on whatever project blows my kilt up; months of knitting, months of quilting, months of thematic cocktails. But what this theme is asking is whether I mix it up with knit and crochet, and the answer is: no.

I do not know how to crochet. And it makes me go rage-face when I get to the end of a perfectly reasonable pattern and it ends with "finish with crochet chain". Without telling me what that is. Instead of looking it up, I always improvise, and manage to painstakingly re-invent the entire craft from base zero. Time and vocal chords would be saved if I could just admit that I needed to learn to be a hooker.

 But there is bias against crochet. It probably has something to do with toilet paper covers.

And then I see something that shakes my knitterly world.

Tiny amigurumi.

via

Japanese micro crochet. 

And this blanket.

Made by Myrtle & Eunice.

And so crochet is on my to-do list. Next to making a fondant-covered cake, running in an organized running-type event, outrigger paddling, archery, paintball, and classic car rebuilding. 

Any day now.