basimah knits… and spins… and maybe complains about things a little…

so i’m still with the picture issues (because none of my camera stuff works with the new computer and windows xp), but i took a crappy picture of the adorable ladybug wrist pincushion thing i made today.  it’s way adorabler in person than in this pic, but at least you get an idea of what it kinda looks like.

the inspiration came from the episode of uncommon threads that ran today (a diy network show that’s now running on hgtv, along with knitty gritty so that means now i actually get to see them).  on the show, they made a plain little wrist pincushion.  it was cute, but it was certainly not living up to its craftastic potential.  so i got to work and tweaked things a bit and ended up with the ladybug.  i think it needs a bit more tweaking to make it really awesome, but i’m writing down my ideas for a later date.  maybe if i mess with it enough, i can call it my own pattern.

speaking of people and their patterns, i’m putting out a call to all crocheters (or the maybe 2 that actually read this here).  please submit your patterns to the "crochet pattern-a-day" calendar.  there’s one pattern that goes on for over a week, and most are at least two days. not because of super complex patterns, but i think because they were trying to stretch everything out to last a whole year.  i’m rather unimpressed, and i’m sure i’m not the only one.   if i could design things that aren’t based on someone else’s stuff, i’d be all over making submissions.  until i get that far, i’m leaving it up to you, dear readers (please tell your friends).

so we got this fancy new computer because our old one finally crapped out.  like won’t-turn-on-without-nearly-exploding crapped out.  so the new one is all fancy and high tech and junk, but apparently none of the picture-getting technologies we used before will work with this new one (scanner and webcam), which means either i just take no pictures until i can buy a decent camera, or i can bootleg webcam pics by telling the one program that the webcam is actually a scanner, because it won’t believe the webcam is a webcam.  so i took the second route and got a lame-o pic of the doily i made last week.

the pattern is lille rund serviet and i used size 10 crochet cotton.  it’s wee small… like only 7" across, but for a first ever knit doily, i think it’s pretty good.  i’ll try to remember to take a pic once its done blocking, because i’m a super genious and thought it smart to photograph a white doily while its blocking on top of a white paper plate.  yay me!  it’s on the paper plate because i’m bad with circles (like "get that kid some help" bad) so i got frustrated and put the plate under the doily then put the pins in around the edge of the plate.  i did remember to get a pic.  double yay me!

so that’s my creation for the day (er… week… month… whatever)