When I was a wee little thing my dad made me a hat. You heard me right. My dad made me a hat. Crocheted it, specifically; with pink yarn and put a little bunny iron-on on it. It was very cute and I wore it up through sixth grade. It’s still in my parents house somewhere, I’m convinced, I just don’t know where. Anyway, yeah, my dad crochets, and he taught my sister and I how to do the simplest stitch when we were kids. He taught Erin how to granny square, but I couldn’t figure it out. Short attention span and all that. We enjoyed it for a while and Erin was always better at it than I was so I gave up crocheting scarves that were always kind of wonky shaped anyway.
When I got to college my sister and I started knitting. Our aunt taught her while they were camping and she came home and taught me. Again, we made scarves, mostly. I liked it a lot since the stitches were much harder to add or lose stitches accidentally; though you could miss a stitch and that would ruin your whole day. Anyway, I made scarves for all my friends that year and got sick of it. I couldn’t read a pattern or remember which was purl and which was knit, so I couldn’t really do anything else. So I stopped just before going to Geneva.
You all know what happened at Geneva. I’m very fond of saying it, though, so I’ll tell you again. I met this really cool guy there and we started going out and then I met his family. His family is also really cool and they do all the crafty things. After spending a lot of time with them I was inspired to try again, though I didn’t actually have time for that until after Logan and I were married. I picked up crocheting as a thing to do on my way to my best friends wedding up in Boston. A ten hour car ride calls for something to keep your hands busy. I made like two pot cloths. I can’t honestly remember if they were supposed to be pot holders or wash clothes, so I call them pot cloths and call it even. I also tried to make a hat but I was very confused on how that worked. I figured it out on the way home, but it was too dark by that point to see what I was doing. Sad day.
So, over the past six months I’ve been getting into knitting as well as crocheting again. My sister-in-law showed me this amazing site with all the patterns on it. I can find loads of free ones to try out for just about anything I want to make. The only sad part is the app kind of sucks. Like a lot. But if I find a pattern on my computer and add it to my library I can get it on my phone so that’s nice I guess. Anyway, I apparently didn’t learn from my initial scarf making experience freshman year. I decided I was going to make all my friends wrist warmers. I even got some of them to their respective owners. Unfortunately, wrist warmers, while much quicker to make than scarves, are twice as tedious. You have to make two of them for everyone so you’re doing the same thing twice per gift. It gets old really fast. I finished one in every house color which was enough for three friends and then Christmas hit and all that came with it and I didn’t finish the rest.
Needless to say, I haven’t been doing much since then. Now you might be wondering what all this has to do with the title. I shall tell you! I am on the hunt for a project. That’s it. Pretty exciting huh? Yeah, I’m looking for something to make, specifically with the yarn I got for my birthday. I’ve been making things intended as gifts and now I want to make something for just me so I don’t have to worry about if it looks funny or ever gets done. I have a bad habit of starting things and not finishing them. I’m thinking a hat, because I really like hats. I have a gray and purple yarn that says hat to me, though the wrapper says “Afghans, scarves, or apparel.” I do what I want! So I’m looking for a fun hat pattern that’s new and maybe a little challenging. I’d really like to try cables, but I’m a little afraid of cables. I suspect they require more than two needles and the only size in which I have more than two is 4s. And fours are rather small.
I will probably end up crocheting, though I’d like to try some new knitting-y things. I like crocheting cause it’s easier to do fancy things, I think. Not that I’ve tried fancy knitting things, but I feel like the fancy crocheting things are less intimidating. Mostly you just use one hook for a start. Nothing scary like using three or five needles at a time to keep everything in place. But, maybe someday I’ll give it a try. For now, I’m on a hunt for a new crafty adventure. Wish me luck!
I Am Purps 