Left Hook

10/15/2025

When the project is big enough that you have to crawl around it to finish it...

09/16/2024

Dear scammers, don't bother messaging me with fake orders. It's not like you're hard to detect... and that's before we even get to the "Oh, by the way..." payment messages. 😆 And then you run for the shadows like the roaches you are and block me.

Dear Facebook, you need to make these people easier to report, and then you need to actually do something about it.

10/29/2023

It took three days and seven starts- SEVEN 😤😬 - but it's finally cute instead of aggravating. 🤣 Both the up- AND the down-side of finding a pattern, making myself follow it at least for a little bit, then, "well I think it could be better than THAT..." 🤔🤦🏼

08/27/2023

The colors are a little off because of the shot angles. Yes, it's the same piece. Up to 4 repeats now. 😊💜

06/10/2023

Y'all 😂 I can't 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

05/14/2023

Truth 🤣

Group: American Crochet Association

03/29/2023

Can.not.wait to see how this turns out! 😍

03/29/2023

I go through all that and the pattern I finally decide on is one I've not yet heard of... Inset Mosaic. 😐🤣 (Why am I like this?) I'm brand new to this, so it's not a shocker that it's new to me, but I gotta get it coded first before I'm off and running. 🤣🤷🏼

03/28/2023

Adventures in Mosaic Crochet

Yes, my floor is currently Advantek. Don't judge. 🤣

If you know me, you know inefficiency drives me NUTS. Mosaic is AMAZING and offers so many patterns (patterns, PATTERNS, ***PATTERNS*** 😍), but yowza, the ENDS. 😵 SO, as always, I set about to find a more efficient way to make this work. I've done both tapestry (carry the yarn) work and the Irish Weave (still my favorite stitch), so I had two ideas:

1- carry the yarn back across (zig zag, bottom sample)

2- swap all the fronts for backs, and vice versa (Greek key, top sample) every two rows

Yeah, I probably should've done the same pattern for both samples, but nah. Dull. I've just found this and I want to try all the things. 😁

After completing both of these, here are my thoughts:

I love the uniformity of having the fronts of all the stitches facing the same way in the carried version, BUT because the yarn is carried, the fabric does NOT stretch laterally at all. Kind of annoying. Also, if one were to do this, I would advise to actually measure the carried yarn so that it does not make your work's width go all over the place. Blocking won't make the carried yarn stretch.

Going to have to go with the less uniform but still stretchy flip flop version. It still beats the heck out of having to deal with hundreds of ends. 😄

03/22/2023

My newest obsession that I've been waiting and waiting for a little time to start working...because I can't leave well enough alone when it comes to efficiency, and, let's face it, regular mosaic crochet is anything but efficient. It's AWESOME...but ends.are.everywhere. 😑🤣😬 I've got a few experiments to try out (this is one) in the Quest For A Better Way, so I'm using some simple stitch patterns to see how it goes. 😁

02/01/2023

How it's going. 😊 Not a ton of time to work on it, and now I'm stuck because JoAnn's has decided to stop selling Lion Brand mandala cakes in store. Cause who doesn't like to pay shipping on one ball of yarn. 🙄😄 Anyhow, it's off to the next project till I get another Troll cake!

01/09/2023

Y'all. 😍