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Just as an aside, we've scheduled a new provider.... the CSR at our current service doesn't think it could possibly be "them"... but just to pacify an unhappy customer, they're sending out a service tech... and if it's not on their end, we have to pay $50, and I did ask Matt if that means if it's their fault, they will pay us $50, but he says it doesn't work that way.... hmmmm, that doesn't seem right...
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Spring Forward Cardigan
Cropped Cardigan Redux
Cable O's Vest
Leisure Arts Sampler Afghan
Anyway, it made me think about my buttons (I normally like to have my buttons picked out before I do the bands so if I use a smaller/larger button I can adjust the size of my holes). For someone that has sewn my entire life, grew up in a fabric store and been a complete fabric and yarn hoarder, I actually have a fairly small button collection. I don't hoard buttons. I buy them as I need them. So there wasn't anything in my collection that I was happy with for the DSJ.... but I also was thinking about the Cropped Cardigan Redux, as I'm on the sleeves for that one too. Here's what I found:
Cross Over Top
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for the button.
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So today I'll be on sleeve island either crocheting the second sleeve for the Delicate Summer Jacket or maybe working on the alpaca sleeve.
I did finish Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath yesterday. The next to the last boss was much much tougher than the final boss (just like in Legacy of Kain: Defiance. Raziel's final boss was much more difficult for me than Kain's). I have to say I enjoyed Stranger's Wrath the most out of all the Oddworld game's I've played. Maybe because I prefer shooters to platforms? I loved the chippunks and the animation in general on the ammo was very funny. A fun game, to be sure!
The crochet is really appealing to me right now. It's very hot, humid, muggy, and in general, simply nasty out. The lighter weight yarn is easy to deal with and my hands aren't sticking to the project (like it does with knitting... I tried to knit socks over the weekend, thinking the smallness wouldn't be too bad... but the humidity is so high that the wooden needles are sticky).
I also have to say that I like the gratification of how quickly this is working up. I'm going to have to go back to some of my older crochet attempts and restart them (like the one Carissa has started from the Crochet with Style book).
Doesn't mean I've stopped knitting. Block #13 was started this morning for the Leisure Arts Sampler Afghan
Now here's the dilemma: I've got the Lustersheen that I originally bought to make this Summer Jacket. Now I've got to find something else to use it for.... ah, an other quest....
Speaking of improving my crochet skills, I must say that I think the major reason I struggled making the Leisure Arts Sampler Afghan for so many years (it's the second pattern I ever bought when I started knitting back in the early 90's) was that I simply didn't know how to do the crochet edgings around each square. I did fine on the knitting, then would try to do the edgings and my blocks looked sloppy. So this one will get done. Here's the latest block:
So the goal for today is to start the first sleeve for the Delicate Summer Jacket. I hope the sleeves go as quickly as the rest of the project has so far (ooops, I bet I jut jinxed myself...)