Obsession or Life

Is it considered obsession when all you want to do for the day is sit with a coffee, tea, or monster and just crochet your heart out? I've become obsessed with using bright colors more and more, they're just so cheerful. And during winter when everything is white or a slight grey color other than the blue of the sky, isn't color just even more special than any other time?

I've found yet another thing to be obsessed with making, though I have stopped myself from making more until I can think of something to do with them. They're Granny Stars or Grandma's Twinkle Stars. The tutorial is here. So off I went on my hooky madness trying this out. And the results just made me beyond happy.

Next came the cutest flowers ever! Over at Attic24 she has amazing posts of the prettiest colors ever. Everything on her blog is eye candy I adore it. So when I saw her tutorial/pattern for these adorable flowers I just had to try it. And I love them =3

Then last but not least. I used to hate granny squares, they always bored me and just seemed well dumb. But I've come to love them and enjoy making them. So I made in about a night and 2 hours the next morning, a baby blanket for my cousin. Unfortunately I don't have a finished photo of it. Boo on me for forgetting. But I have a few in progress photos.
Here is the squares laid out before they're last row of color. I used the join as you go method. So it did end up a good bit bigger than this photo shows. The centers to all the squares where yarns that I was trying to use up, yet I still ended up with a good bit left of each. Ah well.

Well that's all for now. Have a great Valentine's Day or rather a good Singles Awareness Day.

Colors screaming my name.

Buying yarn and stash busting kinda cancel each other out right? Well maybe not so much. But i'm totally counting these guys as parts of my 50 for 2010 goal.

First off I made myself a bow. I love bows right now for some reason. Like hardcore, and my favorite shirt of the moment happens to be brown and yellow. So I figured a nice yellow hair bow would be perfect.

I just chained like 32-34 then it was either half double crochet or just normal double crochet, back and forth for 4 rows. I then joined the two ends and gathered it in the middle and attached it to a hair clip.

Then up next we have fingerless gloves for Sara. She wanted lime green and purple but I found some nice dark green and added it as well. Though the colors defiantly remind me of a creature from a kids show. Sara loved them. Which made it all worth while.
Then I totally did it again and made myself yet another pair of these soft green fingerless gloves. I used a different stitch so they're more open then the last ones. But they're still as warm and cozy. Which makes them awesome.
Then last but not least. I tried out a lovers knot shawl but got bored quickly, and instead made a neck scarf thing that all the emo kids wear. I like it, it sits nicely when worn and totally doubles as a handkerchief that you'd wear on your head. Plus its a nice teal blue color which makes me happy.