Crochet Me Crazy

Even though we had our faucets dripping last night, the hoses outside had frozen so the water wasn't draining in the sink. We had to keep putting hot water through to try to keep it unfrozen. We brought out drinking water cooler in so we would have water to drink today. It kept freezing last night. It's kinda big and between that and the space heaters, it's pretty cramped in here. The power has been going on and off intermittedly. At least its only been going off for 15 to 20 minutes at a time.

I've started two different scrap yarn crochet projects. I started this star afghan quilt thinking it would be a good use of scraps. I have a lot more of the diamonds crocheted but I just laid these out quickly to give an idea of what it will be like. I tried to find a picture of this pattern online somewhere to show it to you. It is such a beautiful afghan when it is finished and really resembles a quilt. I can't find a picture of it anywhere though. It's a pretty old pattern that I have had in my "to do" stack for quite awhile. It has several names in different publications. It is called a "Star Coverlet" in the pattern I am using but I have seen it published under the names "Six Pointed Star Afghan" and "Six Pointed Star Quilt"



However, I'm finding that some of my scraps are too small to complete a diamond with so I started a rectangle granny square afghan for my even smaller yarn scraps.



(Sorry, the pictures aren't very good...I was trying to keep warm in my bed while the electricity was off while I was doing this)

I will just crochet my little scraps onto this as I go along. I can't bear to throw the yarn away and they were quite frankly driving me nuts because I didn't have anywhere to put them here in the RV.

Here's a little something I crocheted this week. I just saw the pattern and thought it looked interesting and fun. I'm packing it away for now but I figure it can be used to set something like a plant or something on. It could be a place mat but I'm not into place mats so I won't be using it for that. The pattern is a little bit lopsided. If you'd like to try this pattern, hop on over to Hooks, Yarns, Crafts & Gardening Blog: Ripples & Shells Pattern



Okay, now can we have our normal Texas weather back?