I’m up to my ears in work stuff and new book excitement. Next week at this time, you’ll be able to buy Crochet Adorned in a real bookstore. This feels very exciting to me, because for the longest time I kind of felt like people might think it was all an elaborate ruse. Next time someone asks you what you do for a living, try telling them you’re a crochet designer. (Frequent response: “People still do that?”) If they look at you funny, you can add that you also do craft design and writing. In my head, I imagine that at this point the asker thinks I actually just sit at home eating bon-bons and watching Law and Order. Ok, that’s kind of true, but usually with crochet hook in hand and precise attentionto detail that ensures no bon-bons get on the yarn.

Anyway, in the midst of all of this planning and scheming and another big work project, I keep thinking about this unfinished project:

At this point the ends are woven in. The squares are blocked. And it’s my “I’ll play with you when I have time again” project. The colors are a little bit wacky, but nice, I think, when it comes to working with what you’ve got. And actually, a lot of these colors are leftovers from the book. See, I’m a scrap worker at heart. I like to use lots of colors. So this time I almost worked in reverse, ordering 9 balls of yarn for one trim and then making a blanket with the “leftovers.” The prototype for the project these “scraps” came from was originally worked in scraps, but you can’t really do that when you’re writing a book. I’m hoping all of you already have lots of leftovers with which to work, but if not, you can always use another baby blanket, right? Right.

Just to let you know what’s on the schedule, tomorrow I’ll post details of my Blog Book Tour. And then Thursday, details of my book signings (I’ll be in Portland next week!).  And then eventually, I might even post about other crafts again, wait and see.