It's presstime in Loveland, which means this editor hit the road today.

Sock-it-to-me fog in Raleigh, NC, and snow in Denver conspired to make this a challenging travel day. Lots of delays and cranky co-passengers.
The delays were unpredictable and mostly secret—we found out about further delays in 10- to 20-minute increments. (If you travel often enough, you know what I'm talking about.)

But we crocheters have secrets weapon against travel angst: yarn and a hook. (I also espied a knitter knitting away, an oasis of calm amongst the delayed passengers.)

In today's CrochetMe More enewsletter, I allow as how I don't have a crocheted scarf to call my own. I'm working on fixing that.

Look:

This scarf began life as a swatch for a project in Interweave Crochet's forthcoming winter issue (Wait 'til you see the whole project!). It's worked in superlight but warm Tahki Dove.

I am a crocheter obsessed.

When it comes to crochet projects, I often eagerly take on a project. Then it falls by the wayside in favor of another new project. It's a hazard of the job.

There was every chance that the Moorish Mosaic Afghan by Lisa Naskrent from the fall issue of Interweave Crochet would meet the same fate. But not so.
I have been working feverishly on this. Look:

In this week's enewsletter, we talk with Lisa Naskrent about her design inspiration for the Moorish Mosaic Afghan, featured in the fall issue of Interweave Crochet.

So, here's a cool thing to do today: Bloggers and Interweave authors are opening their studios for the first-ever Open Studio Virtual Online Tour! You'll find details and a full list of participants here. Be sure to check out the studio of crochet designer Kristin Omdahl.

Stop in and be inspired!

Marcy

Have you seen the Fortune Cookie Bag in the Fall issue of Interweave Crochet? Very clever, I think. And the size is just right for a wallet, phone, keys.

But maybe you want to carry a little more—or less. Here are some options.

Bigger and smaller.

When I was testing the pattern, I used sock yarn to make this:

Just because you have a blanket doesn't mean you have to use it.

Apparently, it was cold in Melbourne, where Cate appeared at the opening of Screen Worlds at ACMI
Here's the story.

So here's a curious thing about that purple crochet hook.

The pattern for the project I'm working on recommends an H / 5 mm hook. The yarn I used recommends a knitting needle size of 5-6 or 3.75-4 mm. Frequently yarn balls give only knitting needle sizes (though this is changing among more enlightened yarn producers). To figure crochet hook size from a recommended knitting needle size, bump up the mm by at least 1.

Today, I'm in the garden doing this:

In the washer is a crocheted wool bag felting itself.

How about you? Do you have any crochet in your weekend?

Marcy

OK, I've been back in North Carolina for a week now, and I really didn't mean to leave you hanging about the whole hook thing. But I came right back to bonding with my computer and working on three more issues of Interweave Crochet.

So, here's the deal. I went to extreme measures to avoid losing my hook on the return trip.