[philhelias-moved-deactivated202]

I don't know what toxic agenda told people otherwise, but you can set boundaries with Deities. That's not offensive.

You can ask them not to contact you when you can't handle communication.

You can ask them not to use a particular type of communication with you if it leaves you feeling anxious, upset, or otherwise bad.

You can ask them not to give you prophecies if you can't handle the paranoia of dealing with one.

Your experience with a Deity is personal and the rules established for it are personalized, too. Don't let anyone guilt trip you into thinking you're less of a worshipper for wanting more autonomy in how your communications go.

[yarntails]

Blocking this doily was an experience! It took a little over three hours and a bit of my sanity. I’ve told myself I’ll never do this again, but I feel as if that might be a lie..

Photos of the doily are of it while being blocked. I totally forgot to get any pics after I took all the pins out. The finished size was 51 inches in diameter.

[knottybliss]

WIP WEDNESDAY IS UPON US ONCE AGAIN

[knottybliss]

Hello to everybuggy who came for the Pin Pun and stayed for Shenanigans - it is WIP Wednesday! Yes, even if you don’t see this until Friday, because time is a construct and sharing is what matters!

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT! Big or bitty, beginner or bexpert, I wanna see it!

[knottybliss]

My contribution this week is my first ever attempt at doing a ripple blanket. Several of these hung over the back of my grandparents’ couch and I am missing them poignantly right now.

My grandparents, not the blankets.

So I did a stash dive for random acrylics I otherwise was never going to use but somehow keep acquiring.

I swear I have greens somewhere in the house but I’ll be damned if I can find them.

[lacewingdragon]

Working on adapting a lace trim pattern to some handspun linen thread I picked up last year! This is a test swatch I'm doing while I work out the bugs, since this stuff works up so wildly different from mass produced crochet cotton (and is more irregular in diameter).

[lacewingdragon]

WIP:

Dawnglow doily by Julia Hart

After a weeks long hiatus from crafting due to moving, I'm crocheting again! 16 and a half rounds down, one and a half left to go!

[lacewingdragon]

WIP: Dawnglow doily by Julia Hart

[lacewingdragon]

My first doily, the Moonpetals doily by Julia Hart, is complete! All that's left is the blocking, and given that I'm hopefully moving in the next 2 weeks, I'm planning to wait until I've moved to block it.

Making this was such a great learning experience, and gods, what a stunner! My little family is all in love with the results of this delightful pattern. I'm definitely going to be making this again at some point!

My gauge was definitely a bit off, and wow can I tell, lol. I used size 10 cotton thread and a 1.75mm hook like the pattern recommended, but it's supposed to end up 11" blocked, and mine is over 11.5" before blocking. I suspect that Hart was using a different style of hook, perhaps a boye. I'm probably going to go straight into another of her patterns after this (I'm eyeing the Dawnglow doily with hunger, y'all), and I'll probably try it on my 1.65mm boye steel to see if that gets me closer to the gauge and look of the photos.

I feel so amazing after finishing this. Even a year ago, I would never have believed that I'd be able to pull off a pattern like this by now, and 2 years ago, I had only been crocheting for a few months. I don't often feel proud about pulling off a crochet project, but I'm seriously proud of this one.

[lacewingdragon]

I trusted the pattern, and now the rippled edge is smoothing out nicely!

[lacewingdragon]

Trust the pattern trust the pattern trust the pattern... >_<

[lacewingdragon]

I've been slowly realizing over the last few months that a lot of the issues I've been struggling with in crochet, especially with tension and gauge and working into chains, stem from the fact that the person who helped motor me through the earliest stages of learning to crochet specialized in amigurumi. The more I'm learning to keep a lighter but still stable tension, the easier a lot of this has gotten - especially on my poor arthritic hands!

[lacewingdragon]

It takes a darn good pattern to convince me that it's worth it to crochet into chains, but the Moonpetals doily has managed it... and now I'm cursing my way through the rounds that require it. So far, it's been worth it, though. It's coming out so beautifully.

Moonpetals pattern by Julia Hart

This doily has 21 rounds.

[the-fibre-stuff]

It’s been a bit, but I’m curious about “the rounds that require it”. I’ve never crocheted doily-style stuff where that wasn’t most rounds.

[lacewingdragon]

This is the first doily I've tried, actually! I'm fairly new to this craft, lol. Most of my thread lace experience so far has been with Irish lace motifs. As I've been working on this pattern, I've been starting to get the hang of working into chains in ways that don't murder my arthritis - and part of that has been not crocheting so darn tightly, lol.

I picked this as a sort of stretch project, and I've been learning a lot working on it! I would never have been able to manage it even 6 months ago.

[lacewingdragon]

It takes a darn good pattern to convince me that it's worth it to crochet into chains, but the Moonpetals doily has managed it... and now I'm cursing my way through the rounds that require it. So far, it's been worth it, though. It's coming out so beautifully.

Moonpetals pattern by Julia Hart

This doily has 21 rounds.

[yarnbabey]

ooh! this is one of my favorite doilies!

[lacewingdragon]

I can see why! It's lovely, and such a pleasure to work on.

[lacewingdragon]

It takes a darn good pattern to convince me that it's worth it to crochet into chains, but the Moonpetals doily has managed it... and now I'm cursing my way through the rounds that require it. So far, it's been worth it, though. It's coming out so beautifully.

Moonpetals pattern by Julia Hart

This doily has 21 rounds.

[lacewingdragon]

Here's how it looks 6 rounds in! (before the cursing begins, lol)

I'm using Aunt Lydia's size 10 in light peach on a 1.75mm hook.

[lacewingdragon]

Round 8 is complete! Gods, I am SO in love with this pattern so far.

[lacewingdragon]

It takes a darn good pattern to convince me that it's worth it to crochet into chains, but the Moonpetals doily has managed it... and now I'm cursing my way through the rounds that require it. So far, it's been worth it, though. It's coming out so beautifully.

Moonpetals pattern by Julia Hart

This doily has 21 rounds.

[lacewingdragon]

Here's how it looks 6 rounds in! (before the cursing begins, lol)

I'm using Aunt Lydia's size 10 in light peach on a 1.75mm hook.

[lacewingdragon]

It takes a darn good pattern to convince me that it's worth it to crochet into chains, but the Moonpetals doily has managed it... and now I'm cursing my way through the rounds that require it. So far, it's been worth it, though. It's coming out so beautifully.

Moonpetals pattern by Julia Hart

This doily has 21 rounds.