Stuff
This is where I post about things I have tried and enjoyed or not enjoyed.
December
I wasn't quite as neurotic with December's block as with the previous month. I knew exactly what I was going to do and, as luck would have it, the very last day of December came forward with a cold enough temperature to present me with a Sea Foam Christmas tree. The...
November
Ugh. I'm so conflicted by this November square and I've put my talent for overthinking to good use. In the book this does look like a poppy for November and Remembrance, which is probably perfectly appropriate, given other well-discussed caveats, for November in the...
December
mmediately there's a noticeable difference in the colours of the blanket. Orange eliminated, pink put firmly in its place and yellow and light green dominating. There was a week when the temperature hardly changed between night and morning, 11 to...
Dying Jezebels
There were dying butterflies wherever we looked on our walk today.Butterflies appear all year around here in Hong Kong, and DB, being relatively green, is full of them. These Redbase Jezebels (Delias pasithoe) have been around for the last few weeks but this weekend...
October
I just launched myself into this one without too much prevarication though I had to make several attempts on the central flower which is supposed to be a chrysanthemum, significant in Chinese culture as it symbolises autum and longevity. I know that one does have to...
September
Though I'm now quite used to @Tinnahekl's mosaic crochet technique, I prevaricated for ages before tackling this square. No idea why but my hesitation is why I'm only writing this in December. I find the flatter design of Tulip crochet hooks the best for this...
November
ery little has changed since October, though the temperatures here are now no longer red but mainly orange and pink. So much so that I had to order more skeins of these colours from London just before their second lockdown started. Who knew when I...
October
t's taken me so loooooong to get around to doing this because October was a DULL month weather-wise (and otherwise) here. It's cooled down a bit but largely, without any relief in the form of travel temps, to a monotony of orange and pink, broken...
August
Back to a conventional crochet block for this month's offering, albeit a slightly more complicated one than previously, again from the 75 Crocheted Floral blocks book. This one is number 34, the Sunflower Square. August 2020 HK maximum temp: 35C HK...
Crochet in haste…
... repent at leisure. Some life lessons learned from my latest crochet project. (A picture from 2017)I consider my congenital carelessness to be one of my more annoying personal characteristics. As a child and young adult, I was constantly losing things or breaking...