Yarnivorous

G'day all! A lovely lady called Marion left a comment on my blog. Alas blogger does not put a reply address in unless you specify it in your home page on blogger, so I cannot reply directly (all I have is "noreply-comment@blogger.com"). She wanted to know about yarn comparisons between the US and Oz, along with crochet hook sizes. Now I am not exactly a crash hot crocheter. I prefer knitting cos I have been knitting for quite some years now. I can crochet simple things (but not squares if you want them to stay exactly square, lol). I'm not too good on crochet hook sizes here in the US cos they tend to say "use size G hook." I'm a metric kinda person. So here's a handy dandy page comparing hook size between different standards. Also yarn standards vary from country to country (and often within countries too). The US is trying to get standard yarn sizes going but even that doesn't work well for me at least because there is still quite some...

G'day all! Recently I said I have a new obsession. The obsession has died down a little bit now that I have finished the second item (the first one is awaiting more "yarn"). So what is the obsession? Is this an April Fool's joke or the real deal? OMG. CROCHET! What's the big deal about crochet? I am left handed. I knit right handed. I can't crochet right handed though and my left handed crochet did not work cos I wrapped the stitch the wrong way so it would never catch on the hook. Not long ago I grokked that I was doing it wrong and voila! Thank heavens it is not scrapbooking. I really don't need even more hobby stuff in this place. My new little bag is from the Happy Hooker, the SNB crochet book. It is made with Caron Simply Soft. I had to buy a whole huge skein of yucky acrylic to finish my Cash Iroha top (cos Noro does like to make singles yarns and they do not hold up well in the seaming process). I used about 5m of acrylic from a 280m skei...