She's on fa-ya

After two more undo and unravel sessions I have finally neared the end (and learned to read instructions!). Today I went out to get some red yarn for the scalloped border but didn't find any yarn I liked.. so I guess she'll stay all green till the end.

Here is my first flower.. awww.

Gettin' all fancy on the second one. Like I know what I'm doing.. ahahahahahahaha. Right.

Some glass beads I got today. Made in china unfortunately -I know, but I couldn't resist them. I also bought some suede like green yarn, and a multicolor orange yarn that fades from light orange to a brighter salmon color. The yarn for the petals on the second flower are similar to this orange one, so when you work with it you get that changing mottled colorful look.
Then I spotted this amazing book of Kathryn Alexander's wow! Such cool colorful scarves and sweater projects in this book.. but check out her website for some cool hats and socks too! Here is a taste from her webpage.

Let the pros handle it

So I decided to start a crochet project last night. A skullcap. I think it's ambitious.. but I can probably manage since I've got a total of 48 hours of practice under my belt. Things were going along okay even though I had to keep turning back a few pages in my instructions to remember how to make the double crochet stitch. No problemo I got it at last.

Then I caught a mistake


I need to pull out all the stitches from the marker on the left to the marker on the bottom right. Not such a big deal if you are one of those people who can crochet at the speed of light. I crochet at the speed of molasses. It's a lack of coordination but I'm used to it. By the way the instruction book is from the KLUTZ company. Thanks for adding to my self esteem people!

Is this amusing? Can you say schadenfreude beyotch?!!!
Yeah you too
You're the worst of the bunch!
Oh no... NOT the dog too. Sigh.

Fabulous!
Canine humiliation!