Haute Crochet

Okay you guys. I think I found out why I keep crocheting things. It's because I made a "rule" for myself to not cast on any more things until x amount of WIPs are finished. And technically crocheting new things isn't casting on anything new.
So I learned how to make granny squares.

Then I sewed them all together, added a double crochet border and called it a cowl.

My son calls it a "cow" and says MOOO when I put it on. Which is kind of rude, but not really because he's like 2.

(He ALWAYS disrupts my photo sessions, because he loves seeing himself on camera)

I think the main thing I took from this lesson is that I should have checked to make sure the colors don't line up exactly. It bothers me!!! And then also I probably should have sewn it with a twist so that it doesn't bunch up all awkwardly.

But I do have a new cowl, and it does match my crocheted hat:

so haute!! har har har

 So there is that.

Actually, I was planning on adding a bit of white to the cowl as well, so it would be even more matchy-matchy. But then.... I added a row of sc in white and then I thought a nice shell stitch would look neat and well... it didn't. It looked terrible, and of course I didn't think to try it on until after I'd weaved in all the ends and so then I had to unpick it all and rip and ... then I was just sick of the whole thing and called it done!

Then, after digging around on Ravelry for more crochet patterns I finally decided to just deal with the fact that I wanted to cast on something new.
I went to Anna's Yarn Shoppe in Elk Grove (I have made  goal this year to buy all my yarn IN PERSON which, so far, has made quite a difference in how much I spend. I would have used stash yarn for this project, but I really wanted to have DK weight and my stash is seriously lacking in DK.)  and bought some Berocco Vintage DK for a knit-along I want to participate in.

Funky green for some mossy legwarmers.
Since I have already made legwarmers from this pattern, (some cloudy day) I decided to incorporate something new by learning how to knit two at a time.

Success!!! Hopefully having a new and fun project will lessen my desire to hook up a bunch of granny squares and make 'em into cowls. Although the coolest thing about grannies is how they use up all those partial balls....