Oh Ya, I used to blog .

Since I started playing these games on facebook, I forgot all about blogging. I'm the only one that reads it. I just miss having this space for free expression that I can just add my stuff to the pile. Facebook games are so fun. I had no idea how very consuming they can be. I know for the last 6 months if I was fortunate enough to be online, I wasn't blogging. I was virtual farming, farkling, or facebooking in some way. I prefer FarmVille to FarmTown but it didn't start out that way. I turned my nose to yoville and i accidentally got my all time hightest Pathwords score EVER while logged in as my mom. I was It's been quite an educational and empowering 6 months. I had no idea of myIt strength. Heroic. Believe in this one thing, everything happens for a reason. When you least expect it, you'll have an eye opening moment of understanding. Orale.

I've been crocheting more than EVER. I'm way faster now, too. Practice makes perfect. I've got some good designs of my own that I'm going to try and make patterns up for. If I get that done, I'll put them up here. Right now, nobody else reads this. Some Free Crochet Patterns may change that. We'll see. There's Tica modeling a hat I made while travelling to and from Csasino Morongo.
I'm working on a 'Hooker Bag'. It's a tote bag for your yarn and hooks that says HOOKER real big and above it really small it says 'crochet'.

Here's a handy stitch generating website. Stitchpoint.com You can use to generate any text you want. I don't do cross stitch, but there's two fonts that are done in back stitch. I like back stitch. There's another one at Crosstitch.com

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Crochet Steering Wheel Cover

This is a steering wheel cover that I crocheted for a friend's vintage car. I used Lion Brand Suede Yarn. Then I laced it up with some NY cotton. I was rather proud of it. I used a Q hook.

I found a Hello Kitty Bow pattern. From Melissa in Italy...

She states that it was inspired by Minnie Mouse. But right when I saw it, I thought of Hello Kitty. I found Melissa's blog back in the summer when I learned to crochet. But I found myself there again cause I made a widget on my iGoogle that is her blog, um.... I put a widget of her blog rss feed. I put that one there on my page of iGoogle. I made some of her patterns over the summer. I made the lotus blossom bracelet. And I love the bow nectie necklace. Melissa, you're the shit! Girl, you inspire me. What that really means is that I try to follow a pattern, and I end up with my own rendition every time... It's with all patterns--not just these. So much inspired by your cool designs. But never actually becoming the same. Anyway.... here's Melissa's Hello Kitty Bow.

It's for Girls!

Welcome to Bookworm!

This is the Bookworm that I crocheted for my boyfriend's Ma. She just celebrated a birthday which this little guy was supposed to be a gift. He wasn't quite ready in time. He was, however, completed in perfect time for the day which she finally achieved the HIGH SCORE for the game. She had been playing vigilantly for a couple of months and the record High Score (which was held by Billy) remained in tact. Since she was so proud of her achievement, we honored her by presenting her with the crochet version of her favorite game mascot. I made his little eyeglasses from some coated crafting wire I had. He is stuffed with cut up plastic grocery bags because I had no poly fiber fill. I did not make a pattern - I can barely follow one. I inserted a nice plastic coated stick in him so he could be a plant poker. He's posted up in a potted violet right by where Ma plays Bookworm. This is my very first amigurumi. Now I want to make all sorts of happy little ami's.

Welcome.

Hi. Welcome to my blog. Despite the title, there is nothing here about fishing. I'll be covering topics like crochet (that is done with a Hook), funny lyrics for our favorite songs(the lines), Nintendo DS games, life with Billy, and our dog, Stitch. (The stinker!) Life is so full of material to fill up a blog with. Chock full.

Crochet is a french word. Very often, purposely pronounced 'Crotch-It' as a term of endearment. It's helped me to begin my recovery from a serious Nintendo DS addiction. I still play Club House Games - Billiards every day. Billy is always supportive of whatever compels me at the moment. He 'hooked' me up with a hooks he got at the thrift store yesterday. It was about 20 hooks and a little zipping up leather case. Thanks again, Billy! Stitch, my dog, gets his yarn on too. That's my yarn, Stitch! You can't have it.

I've been wanting to set this blog up for a while just so I could have something to look back upon and refresh my waning short term memory. It's so much harder to remember things now that I'm older. I'm going to be 35 this year. Whoa, that just hit me. I knew how old I was, but typing that sentence just now planted the reality firmly into my mind. Eventually, I may learn to write patterns and give them away. I find patterns to be overwhelmingly cryptic. I'll start from a pattern, with good intentions, but soon I've converted to free form.

This blog has also been born as a sister-blog to Playin' Hookie at Work , which is my sister's blog. She's the one who taught me how to crochet recently. She's a natural born whiz at anything textile. She sews, crochets, and needlepoint or cross stitches -- all that. She comes over and we post up with our yarn and our hooks and have a full on Stitch & Bitch that can go on till 3 in the morning. She designs the coolest shit! She made some little booties for Newborns in Need and they look like little tennis shoes. She's doing a Hello Kitty face right now.

I'm working on a few different projects all the time. Never just one. Right now, I'm making a pillow for Billy.

Sidecars are for Bitches.