Earth Day and a tribute to a metal sculptor

April 22 is earth day...I love it when Google comes up with such cute logos to remind us of significant events.
I didn't do anything to celebrate, though. But the weather did remind me too of the earth and our vulnerability. In the middle of summer here, it suddenly rains! The day started sunny, and in the afternoon it turned gloomy. The strong rains lasted less than an hour, but showed that nature has more power on us than we are conscious of. Its sad how we unconsciously destroy it thru depletion of natural resources, trash, pollution, and much more...

This April I'm also reminded of someone I didn't really know, but a year ago, (in April 2008) he died in a tragic motorcycle accident in Dallas, Texas. He is Thomas Davidson, 38, a metal sculptor. I found out about his death when I followed up on his order of a Japanese crochet book. He wanted the hat on there, and I think he'd ask his mom to make him one. The book I mailed was not claimed at the P.O. there so it was sent back to me. I emailed him asking why he didn't get the book, and his mom emailed back informing me of the tragedy that struck them. It was so sad...it happened on his way home from the opening of his exhibit of metal sculptures at an art gallery :( (more on this post)

More on the Romantic Shrug and my latest crochet project

Same picture as this one, different effect ;)
Want to polaroid your pictures too? Its a free download I found here.

My latest shrug design is fast-becoming popular (by my standards)...hehehe...over at Ravelry, 114 have favorited the pattern, 32 have queued it. That isn't a good indication of sales though, but I'm quite satisfied with how its coming along ;)
I would like to thank those who are making the shrug as of now. Bheng, who went over to my house so she could get more tips and buy my extra Tulip hook (the same hook that I used for the shrug); Tin(who is the fastest crocheter of shrugs that I know of...) and Tina, who wants so much to finish the shrug but needs some more photo illustrations. I would very much like to do it now, but...
I still have to make 3x more of these:



Or a total of 40 pcs of souvenirs:



I need to finish it by Friday :p
I'll show here the finished product when its all done ;)

Romantic Shrug - crochet pattern now available

My latest self-published crochet fashion design is now out :)

You can see the details here on Ravelry.
You can also take a look on my Etsy shop.
Or, you can view it on my website ;)

Organizing Ravelry projects and update on Lacey crochet shrug...

Its almost ready - just needed to make sure everything is right.
I modeled it this morning and can't wait to show how it looked on me. So here's another sneak peek...



...I am liking the pencil sketch better than the real picture :p


Btw, if you haven't noticed yet, Ravelry has some cool features for organizing your projects. Just click on the organize tab (next to the all projects tab) on your projects page, and you can group your projects and easily tag each one. Ravelry just keeps getting better :)

Not quite a slouchy cap

Two skeins later...

This isn't what you'd expect from a slouchy cap :p...I thought I had only a few more rounds to finish, but now I have to rip it several rounds back. Or maybe start all over again and use a bigger hook :(

Lacey crochet design and a slouch hat coming soon...

Another new week, and I really couldn't wait to show my latest shrug. Its finished, but my camera is out of power... Actually, I couldn't charge the battery since I can't find the cord! So I have to use my old camera, and I bought AA batteries for it :p
I am not totally finished with writing the pattern yet, so the modeled pics would come a little later...
Meanwhile, I'm making a hat. A while back, I had been thinking about coming up with my own pattern for a slouch cap, since its currently in fashion. Just look at all the crochet slouch caps over at Ravelry. (Btw, congrats to Zu for making it on the top list!)

Here's a peek at my hat design:


I used Catania cotton (thanks again to a dear crochet buddy for it). I would probably use up to 2 1/2 skeins of Catania...
The size of the hook is 3mm.
I can't wait to finish and show you this hat!