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I've got two new finished projects to share. (yay!)

I wanted to re-teach myself crochet, so I used up some yarn that was gifted to me to make essentially one HUGE granny square

Clicky to see the crochet throw

I also finally uploaded the finished pictures of the scarf I made for the 2009 mod scarf exchange. It was my third year participating. Probably my last cry I like scarf exchanges. The person who has my name, contacted me in late AUGUST for my addy. I gave it and after I returned from vacation on the 10th, I asked if she sent it because I was worried it got lost. She said she'd send it when she got enough money to send it out. I still haven't gotten it and since I'm not a mod anymore and she doesn't see me around to remind her. I'm doubting I'll ever see a scarf. It only cost a bit over 2 bucks to mail the one I sent out. If she can't afford to mail it, how did she afford the yarn to begin with? [/rant]

Click to see the cabled scarf

The scarf I was supposed to get from the Mod exchange appears to have been lost in the mail. cry

Pirhan. She sent it out and it should have arrived on Friday, but it's not here even yet. I'm bummed because I did sent out my scarf, in fact I was the first person to get mine out and my recipient got it.

If so, she must've sent it cheapest way possible, in which case it will arrive whenever it damn well feels like it.

Practice will hopefully make perfect. It's why I'm starting with the hat. My dad wants a very basic, very boring hat and he's always complaining that they're hard to find. In the meantime, I have a lengthening rectangular patch that's getting a little better each row.

Wow, all I've ever done was dresses for my dolls when I was a little kiddie and a rather skinny blanket I made when I was preggy.

I got overly frustrated with both activities.

For real. Getting gifts is what I've been stressing about in regards to the holidays coming. Hell, I don't even know what to get one of my sisters. We're almost strangers. She calls every few months and we talk but I have no idea what she likes. It seems like all she rattles on about is her youngest kid. She used to scrapbook but she doesn't seem to be into that anymore. I'm betting the scrapbook stuff I bought her a few years ago is still sitting in a box somewhere. She mentioned that if it's not premade, she hasn't been using it so at the next holiday, I even bought her PREMADE pages. Meh. One time I made her a headband that's designed to cover your ears and be warm since she used to wait for buses/public transit. She seemed very uninterested at the whole thing. It's sort of like when I gave my mother this that took me forever to make. I even made it in her favorite color. Her response was "oh.. this sorta looks like the Addams Family mom". Needless to say, she will NOT be getting more lace wraps from me. I also gave her this when I was a semi-new knitter. I've never seen her wear it even though she claims she did once when she shoveled some snow. I did make her a messed up pair of mittens I've seen her wear. Of all the things I've given her, she wore the WORST one. I should make her a good pair of mittens but given the past luck with giving handmades, I'm not all that motivated to do so.

It's not even limited to my blood family members. I spent MONTHS working with tiny needles and crazy lace yarn (think thread.. it's so light and small) on this. I had to redo some of it several times, multiple "do overs" and I was so proud of it. I bought the yarn and picked the pattern especially for my mother in law as a gift for inviting us on vacation with them last year. I'm all excited, hand it over and she says "Very nice. I could always use one more scarf". It's a wrap! If you scrunch it up as a scarf, the detail will be lost. She folded it up and didn't even mention it after that. All that work~ Ugh. I should have kept the thing for myself.

As for circular patterns, what size of circular do you have (or are they a set of DPN's?) because that might narrow down your choices