Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Crochet News: Snowflakes In September

As I said in an earlier post, Christmas is not that far away and now is the time to start making gifts and decorations.  Really, if you're more efficient than I, you probably started your Christmas crocheting months ago.  I normally put everything off till the last minute but after what I went through last year, trying to finish all the gifts I made at the last minute, I am determined not to put myself and my family through that stress again.  When I get stressed out like that my whole family suffers.  Not nice, but true.





I made this snowflake last night and finished it up this morning while Mom ate breakfast.  It's a gloomy day outside so Mom is sad today.  The weather affects her greatly I noticed.  On a sunny day she's up and cheery and smiley.  On a gloomy day like today she's down and out and can't say why, it's just that way for her.  Hopefully the sun will come out later on but until then we're stuck in the house so crocheting keeps me busy while we are confined to the living room again.




I may write out the patten for it, depending on requests I get for the pattern.  It'll be easy and won't take as long as the pattern I wrote for the bikini top, lol.  This one is beaded but easy enough it can be finished in less than a day.  I think it's kinda cool with the flowery middle that's round, turning into a squarish snowflake.  I wonder if snowflakes are ever square?  I don't know why they wouldn't be but I'm sure I can look it up on Google.  It seems like Google has links for answers to any question under the sun.


Off to Google, gotta find out more about snowflakes before I make any more of them.  There must be some kind of "snowflake rules" or something that a person ought to follow when making snowflakes, don't you think?


It's a low energy, high coffee intake kind of day so sorry for my babbling and rambling.  I'll start working on the pattern for this snowflake now, forget Google.  I am the creator of my snowflakes so I can follow any snowflake making rules I want and can make up my own rules as I go along.


Yea, it's a weird day alright, and it affects me a lot, which is very apparent in my writings today.  yikes.  Time to put away the keyboard.


Hope your day is sunny and warm,
cynthia

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Cynthia, another beautiful snowflake! As far as I know there are not any rules for snowflake design, but you never know! I might go check it out too, just to see if there are rules or not. Keep making beautiful snowflakes, I'm sure your mother will enjoy them as she looks out the windows. That's a very nice thing to do for her!
Cathy P.

Emily Schilling said...

Hi! I just recently discovered your blog and have enjoyed browsing. Normally I don't make comments--I just lurk around looking for patterns that interest me lol! i love snowflakes and I like yours so I wanted to share a blog I found called Snowcatcher where there is soo many snowflakes. Maybe you already know about it but I love to find anything I can when I am intersted in something! I am not really very computer literate as to send a link but I am sure if your interested you will find it. Thanks for letting me 'lurk' around and have a great day!!! ekschilling@yahoo

Cynthia said...

Thanks for lurking Emily, and thanks for the tip on Snowcatcher, I'll be heading that way asap! Sounds great!

Cynthia said...

FYI: I went to the Snowcatcher site and found a multitude of wonderful, very creative, extremely beautiful snowflakes that are unique in design! Just google "Snowcatcher" and go there, you'll be glad you did!