Sixty one degrees!
That’s warm for February;
I’ll make a doily.
As some of you know, I previously complained about the cold and snow which motivated me to crochet some 6 ft or 7 ft long afghans.
The weather turned warm on Wednesday and all the snow has now melted. My lawn is a beautiful green. (With luck, our cold has been transferred DownUnder, sparing Nathan and Nick from the sweltering heat they experienced while we mid-westerners were shoveling heaps of nasty white stuff.)
Lucky for me I’d finished the afghan before the warm weather showed up. Jim requested a doily because he’d inherited his grandfather and grandmother’s sideboard, and the doily will look beautiful under the crystal decanter. Now seemed a good time to begin this project.
I bought thread on Saturday; the doily is about 1/2 done. Tonight I’ll be adding the pretty open work decorations that turn it into an honest to goodness doily instead of just a strip of bland crochet. Ironing will open up the holes; the finished item will look as pretty as any a lady from the 19th century could dream up.
(As seems traditional with crocheted doily patterns, the directions contain a mistake; this mistake occurred in row 13. I puzzled over this a bit, then concluded: Yes. It’s a mistake. Then, as is traditional for any person who crochets, I winged it. The main criteria are: Make the row look pretty. End up with 220 stitches at the end of row 14. Then, resume the rest of the directions.)
Here’s more on the Chicago Heat Wave, which is ending. I’m going to the Opera on Saturday; I predict I will see casually dressed opera goers. (That’s what I saw last time when we were expecting many inches of snow to fall during Madame Butterfly. )
P.S. If you had trouble logging in, it appears my web host changed servers. The blog was down briefly.
P.P.S Of course this is an open thread as are all Haiku posts.
Lovely, please post a picture of it under the decanter
Barbara– I will when it’s finished. I suspect it will be a week or two. I think it takes me just as long to make an 11″ long doily as a 7ft long afghan!
Oh, it’s going to take a while to untangle that graph. Maybe if I apply feline decomposition…
Cats are not allowed near yarn or thread. (The google ads think my blog is about crochet. Speaking of which, the add for 6 pointed start afghan looks pretty neat. Maybe next winter. . . )
Perhaps Chicago is responsible for the 1.25 uptick this January compared with last January in the USA.
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt
Looks like an AWS Reconstruction.
Martin–January was frigid. The warm few days is February.
lucia (Comment#10250)
Martin–January was frigid. The warm few days is February.
UAH has January warmer than 2007 and 2008. It makes me think that some surface stations in the US may have got buried in the snow. Best alert Gavin.
Have you informed the keepers of the dataset of the error?
Jamie–
It is an unfortunate fact that informing the keeps of crochet doily direction data sets of errors is futile. Compared to errors in many publications, this was minor. It was related to how one begins a row. The little decorative bars were just not ending up looking like nice Vs. One leg was vertical, the other inclined too much. So more like |/ instead of \/.
JamieDyer (Comment#10260)
Have you informed the keepers of the dataset of the error?
They said they know what the problem is. Apparently the Satellite has been buried as well. So much for global warming.