{Fat Cat Crochet}

Photo courtesy of Tahki Stacy Charles Crochet, 2007 2d Edition Pamphlet

Sometimes getting into a groove on a project is a problem.  I've been wanting to make the Lacy Top Cardigan (designed by Doris Chan. PDF pattern is available for free download on Ravelry.com ) for my SIL ever since we saw the pattern while shopping together in 2007. Yes, two years.  Well I've started on it.  Really.  And it's an easy pattern too.   But it does require a certain amount of concentration which means I can't take it to Knit Night (yes I know this sweater is not knit and most of you know I don't knit but Knit Night just rolls off the tongue nicer and besides I'm the only Crocheter there so my vote doesn't go far in the name game) because we talk too much to keep count and I end up frogging most of what I do and that leaves me pretty much where I started before I even got there (DEEP INHALE!).  My that was a long run on sentence!

Most other nights my problem is the ELPH.  Don't get me wrong!  He is the most awesome, Ever Loving, Patient Husband there is and I don't know what I did to deserve him but, the 'kids' have him under their little paws.

I usually get home before ELPH.  In his awesomeness he doesn't expect me to be wearing nothing but an apron and have dinner on the table when he arrives home but he does kinda like for me to have some idea of what I'm going to microwave (and when) or have something in mind that HE can cook for us.  After dinner, about the time I get all settled in on the sofa with my yarn & pattern & glass of wine, the dog needs to go out.  'Fine! Lets get this

over with! '  And out we go.  Now Sparkie and I can scarcely go outside with out Jaspurr in tow.  Sparkie sniffs around and does her thing, Jaspurr wanders off and then Spark & I head back to the house.

I get all settled in again when Jaspurr jumps up on the back of the front porch bench, looks in the window and proceeds to SCRATCH HIS NAILS ON THE GLASS to be let in!  Now the ELPH & I will take turns letting the little PITAC (Pain In The Ass Cat) in and out but here's my little secret.  When ELPH is not home?  That PITAC goes out after dinner and stays out until it's darned convenient (like at the end of a row or a commercial) for me to get up & let his little ass in!  Same goes for the dog.  No matter how many times she 'dolphins' me with her nose!

So, when I can't work on my SIL's beautiful cardigan I make fast, easy things.  Like the Sweetest Guy Scarf.  (Also availabe for free at Ravelry.com)  We all know a sweet guy don't we?  Go!  Make him this scarf in his favorite NFL team colors.  You can find that list over on Holly's blog Knit with Snot for You .  Go!  She put a lot of work into that list, the least you can do is use it!  Besides that she's a RIOT!

I also made the Breezy Hat designed by Linda Permann (pattern currently only available the Summer 2009 edition of Interweave Crochet )

It was a fast project and easy to transport and I used left over yarn from the Secret Project.  I'll probably make some more in solids and Clemson colors.

So if you don't see anything new here you can find me sitting on the sofa trying to count.