Podcast: Crochet Unraveled
January 20th, 2007Amy, my co-administrator and collaborator in all things Crochetville, has started a podcast for Crochetville. It’s called Crochet Unraveled: News and Views from Crochetville, named by Ada (jadyn05), one of our Crochetville members, with the tagline added by yours truly.
Crochet Unraveled will feature news from the crochet world at large and from Crochetville; book, magazine, and yarn reviews; designer and website profiles; and more. In the first episode, you’ll hear Amy and one of our members, KnicKnac; and in upcoming episodes my own voice will be heard. We’re also looking forward to the participation of more Crocheville members in the podcast!
You can take a listen to Episode 1 (.mp3 download, 22.5 MB), check out the show notes, or subscribe to our podcast RSS feed. Crochet Unraveled should be available in the iTunes directory soon.
In other Crochetville news, the forum hit the 10,000 member mark this month! I am truly amazed at the continued growth of Crochetville. This past summer, it became necessary to move Crochetville to a dedicated server because we had outgrown shared hosting. Amy and I converse via phone almost daily to discuss administrative issues and how we can make Crochetville the best place it can possibly be—a comfortable place to come and talk crochet and a resource with a wealth of information to new and experienced crocheters alike.
Amy and I have more exciting plans for Crochetville, which should unfurl over the next few to several months. So please stay tuned!
Me on DIY: Uncommon Threads
October 6th, 2006I know, I know, I shoulda said so sooner! But I’ve been so wrapped up in other things, I’ve been slack online. For those of you who caught (or taped) Uncommon Threads (DIY Network) today at 10:30 am Eastern, I was on with Kim and Cecily.
Our episode was titled It’s My Party, and we made a spiral bauble garland (Cecily), wine bottle cozy (me), and crocheted flower pins (Kim). In the final segment, we displayed (but did not demonstrate) crocheted wine glass charms (me) (pattern here!), crocheted boxes (Cecily), and crocheted sushi (Kim).
This was one of several episodes we (a group of designers from Crochet me) taped last July in LA. It was quite an experience and a lot of fun to meet everyone and be there together.
Wine bottle cozy pics below! I thought I had some photos of Kim’s flowers to share, but I have to retake them (yes, I have in my possession two of the flowers that were actually on the show… very cool!). Reds and oranges are so difficult to photograph well!
New Blog Theme, New Home Page
October 6th, 2006Finally the eternal “Coming Soon” sign no longer graces my home page, my patterns and tutorials pages are back up, and my whole site has a brand spanking new theme. The impetus to finish was, as we like to say around the Tomato Ranch, a deadline with dire consequences. Well, maybe not dire, but still I didn’t want everybody out there in Teevee Land to see my messy mess of a site. I did the entire thing in a fit of inspiration (desperation?) starting at around 2 am this morning and finished in time to go to a friend’s house to watch the show at 10:30 am.
I love my new WordPress theme, which I’m using for my entire site. Once I made the decision to use WordPress to manage the rest of my site in addition to my blog, things went so much more quickly and smoothly! No more tedious picking at individual pages. I’ve got two separate installations of WordPress, one for my blog and one for the rest of my site. Now working with my site is a breeze… whee!
For the record, the old:
And the new:
Love Dem Lima Beans
August 9th, 2006Amy tagged me with the Five Things meme…
Five things in my freezer: family size bag of lima beans, package of whole wheat pitas, cubes of homemade parsley pesto, container of homemade chicken stock, our last package rockfish.
Five things in my closet: red paisley J. Jill skirt, basic black George pants, cream-colored Birkenstock sandals, picnic backpack, boxes of old photos.
Five things in my car: infant car seat, doggie crate, doggie ramp, microfiber cleaning cloth, nail clippers.
Five things in my purse: Chapstick All Natural, tiny copper-colored hairbrush, South Carolina quarter, Wal-Mart receipt, bright blue pen with black ink.
Five things in my wallet: Books-A-Million discount card, AAA card, baggage claim check stickers, REI membership number sticker, attorney’s business card.
Five people I’m tagging: If you want to do this meme, consider yourself tagged! If you do it, I would be oh-so-tickled if you let me know in my comments!
Crocheted Flower Scrubbies
July 6th, 2006I crocheted scrubbies and pins in April of last year for a flower swap at Crochetville.
These daisy dish scrubbies were fun to make. I liked the way the cupped petals took shape. I must admit, by the time I got to the third one, I didn’t think I’d ever make it to the last petal!
Pattern: Flower Scrubbies (PDF file). (You must logged in to FreePatterns.com to download the pattern. It’s free to join.) Designed by Denise Rothberg, published in Annie’s Favorite Crochet Magazine (October 2002), and now available on FreePatterns.com.
Yarn: Peaches & Creme; colors: 10 (Yellow), 3 (Cream), and 1 (White); 4-ply, worsted weight, 100% cotton.
It’s funny, I distinctly remember where I bought the plastic scrubbies even though they’d been lying around in my craft supplies for some time: the yellow ones came from a corner grocery at the beach and the red one from a dollar store.
The trick was evenly spacing the first round, since scrubbies aren’t always the same size. I used stitch markers to divide them into quarters. Is that obsessive?
The one with the red center is my favorite color combo, so it’s getting a close-up.
Oh, and how can I not plug the site that helped me find this pattern? CrochetPatternCentral.com, always my first stop for free pattern searching!
Whoops, mommy has been paged! (That would be me.) (I’m tellin’ ya, he should’ve slept for at least another 45 minutes!) So I’m outta time for now. I’ll be back another day with the flower pins!
