Who'd Have Thought?

If you know me, I tend to be rather confoozled by technology. I take the longest way to do everything, and would rather not attempt too much of anything requiring power cords, memory chips, or the possibility of losing hours of labor by accidentally hitting the wrong combination of keys on the keyboard. But blog posts without pictures, at least, posts about knitting, tend to be rather boring, so I gathered up my courage, and pulled the memory card out of the camera and did with it what I saw my husband do with it a week or so ago, and what do you know- I found pictures! I'm a little too excited perhaps, but this means that instead of going back and posting about a project finished more than a year ago, I can show you what I've been doing recently. There's rather a lot of it, so we'll start with the most recent finished object, which was tied off last Thursday, and unpinned from blocking today.

 It's a doily- with tulips! My husband keeps giving me a hard time about this; it's a wedding gift, and he keeps claiming that I picked the tulip pattern because of my Dutch descent. I protest, but he's relentless. I guess it doesn't hurt if he believes that.

 I have no idea how many hours I put into this, but it did remind me of how I do like to crochet, though I've been a bit knit obsessed lately. I like how, in a circular doily, you do something different every row, yet can memorize the row's repeat in no time. I think having a deadline helps, too, otherwise all the picots in this pattern might have caused it to stall.

See- picots on the leaves, on the border, and on the netting between the tulips. Yuck. In spite of that, this pattern was fun. I'm tempted to make it again. Sometime. Maybe. Just because of the tulips.