Thursday, January 5, 2017

except-ional

i'm a Yes ... But-ter...
and i argue with myself...
just about anytime that i say anything, it will be followed up by 
yes ... but
there's almost always a but in there somewhere...

Melissa is Except-ional...
which is the same as saying yes ... but
but (you knew there was gonna be a but, right?!?) nicer and more politically correct

last year i found the Gerbera Garden pattern and used it to make a leftover throw...
the leftover yarns made a pretty throw, but (there it is) it was worsted weight and there are very, very large spaces between the petals - my knees can fit between them...

so when i decided to crochet a field of daisies for my room, i knew i was gonna hafta buy smaller yarn (like the pattern SAYS to use)... 

i like the colors of the original Gerbera Garden pattern, and i LURVE orange...
 but (another one) my room doesn't like orange...
so i went to Hobby Lobby and bought a bunch of sports weight acrylic yarns (there would be no crocheting or knitting going on if i had to use wool ... there WOULD be a lotta Benadryl lotion slathering) in colors that i thought were gonna play nicely together
 and started crocheting... 
but (were you waiting for it?) then i remembered that  i didn't like the pattern's directions
At. All.
 so i changed the way the flowers were connected to each other and crocheted some more...
yuck
in the meantime, Melissa decided that SHE needed to make a field of daisies, too 
except she chose peaches and purples and greens
 (to go with her birthday roses quilt)
by that time, i had given up on making THAT afghan, and finished off the mess i'd started by making a scarf...
still yucky
i whined for a while...
i still wanted to make a field of daisies for my room
but (there it is again) i wanted it to be pinks and purples and blues...
so i went BACK to Hobby Lobby, bought some more yarn, and then crocheted for a couple of months till i had this...
better ... MUCH
in the meantime, Melissa was working on hers ... 
she, too, had a hexagon-shaped lovely afghan... 
except she decided that HER field of daisies needed to be a STAR...


 it's EXCEPTIONAL, innit?!?

"There are always exceptions," replied Flea. "They are what makes you exceptional."
Mo Willems, The Story of Diva and Flea

4 comments:

  1. Well, my goodness......I am totally gobsmacked by these two beauties! You have excelled yourselves!

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  2. Oh So Pretty! And a WHOLE Lot of Work!!! Well Done you two!

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  3. Oh my! The only things I use my crochet hooks on these days are dish cloths. You two are AMAZING!

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  4. You two certainly do feed off of each other! BOTH of these are exceptional, just like the people that made them! If I come to your house, will you teach me how to crochet?? I really want to learn.

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