I have been busy. Really. I got a job at Jack in the Box, and let me tell you, fast food is a lot more work than I ever thought it would be. It was really kicking my trash those first few weeks (it still is, just not so bad). I would come home from work and have no desire to do anything except (maybe) eat and go to bed. It's a lot better now that I'm used to being on my feet for longer periods of time, but yeah. I'm just so happy to have a job this summer.
So after a month or so I started to get bored doing nothing with my life except for eating, sleeping, working at jack in the box, and aimlessly perusing the internet for whatever was left of my day. I needed some change in the routine. The desire and initiative to actually do something different started when I discovered Ravelry, the online Mecca of Knitting and Crocheting. This site has just about a bajillion patterns on it, a ton of them are free, and there are so stinkin' many cute ones! A lot of times homemade knit and crochet stuff can look so very, very homemade, and just kind of clunky and meh. I have never been exposed to so much awesomeness for free! Something had to be done of course, I couldn't just let all those free patterns go to waste! But alas, I had no mad skills in the knitting or crocheting department.
So I made a trip to my local library, where I found a wonderful book, The Happy Hooker, by Debbie Stoller. The title caught my eye. I found it to be very easy to read and learn from; it had clear directions and splendid illustrations to accompany them. In no time I was crocheting to my little heart's content, then frogging it all out, then crocheting some more, then frogging again, all using the same half a ball of yarn that I bought at DI last semester for a group project making sock puppets. I had learned to crochet, and a whole new world of crafty possibilities is now open to me.
I had to begin right away.
I went back to Ravelry, where I found the most adorable and delightful pair of crochet slippers you could ever imagine! If you are so inclined to crochet (or even knitting), the pattern can be found here. Being my very first time following a crochet pattern, I obviously had a couple minor struggles. It wasn't until I had basically given up on the first slipper finishing the way I thought it was supposed to that I realized I was doing a single crochet stitch where it was telling me to chain. Duh. Me thinking, "No wonder my counting is so off!" But I was so ready to try felting these stupid slippers that I just let it be (hey, it still looked like a passable slipper to me) and did the second one the incorrect way as well. Just so the wrong one wouldn't feel like such an outsider.
Enough of me talking though, here are the pictures of my lovely new slippers!
The toe is beautifully rounded, so cute on my happy little feet! I found the little decoration thing at DI. They're actually a pair of clip on earrings that I just clipped on through the crochet stitches. I thought they worked very well, and the little bit of sparkle in my life makes me happy.
When I makes these slippers again I'll know to follow the pattern correctly, which will save me a lot of grief and frustration. Also, I'll be sure to felt them a little longer (It took two cycles to get them to this size and look. They're a little bigger than I thought they were, and I wouldn't mind if they looked a little more felted too).
So that's all I have to post about right now, but I have been working on other little projects too, so I'll be back for sure. Sorry about the super wordy post.
Until next time.
