April 17, 2012

I'm Feelin' Crafty...

I have recently taken up knitting, on top of my crocheting habit that I've had for several years. It's getting expensive, what with my yarn snobbery requiring me to buy only the nicest, most expensive yarns for these  yarning projects. However, with my knitting stuff crowding into my yarn basket, and my baby always running off with my hooks and needles, I decided to make myself a yarning book. I bought a giant 3" three-ring binder, and I will make four "pages" for it: one page for my double-pointed needles, one page for my interchangeable circular needle set, one page for my crochet hooks and sundry items, and one page for ribbons and buttons. So I spent nine hours today sewing up page one. It was my very first real sewing project, so please excuse my amateur stitching, but here it is, Page One: