Riot and Frolic

Well, request for yarn.  Yarny goodness.  

I love yarn.  Yarny yarny yarn.  Down it goes, down into my basket…  Of yarn. 

Some nicey-nice (today's post is sponsored by the letter "Y") lady asked me if I would craft something for a benefit's silent auction.  The benefit is for this great group- Beyond Ballroom Dance Company, so, duh, "yeah!"  

Besides being rather honored at the request, I love the group which will benefit from my crafting. 

No, I really love them.  All the members of this company.  Each and every one of them. Personally, or at least in a not-at-all-stalkery kind of way.  Did I mention my bestie is in the company?  Yes, she's a stud in a totally girly way.  

Anyhow, they get to dance at the new Cowles Center in Minneapolis, which I hear is amazeballs.  You should go to their show.  It's in 2012, so you could give tickets to the show as a Christmas gift.  Yeah, that's right.  I'm pluggin' their show.  What?

So, remember this disaster?

I was looking for a nifty square to work into a groovy shrug/scarf business for the very silent auction I've been rambling on about.

Well, I found a fancy pattern!  Actually, it's not fancy.  Pretty simple.  Or pretty and simple.  Or rockin' and simple, more like!

Yeah.

Here it is.

Wow.  That is a terrible picture!

The pattern comes from Beyond the Square.  It's a book for crochet nerds where the author, Edie Eckman, gives you patterns for pieces to crochet in circles, squares, hexagons, paisley blobs, ovals, everything.  

I will not want to stab myself with a crochet hook after making twenty of them, so we are making progress!

And for those of you wondering about the CBS contest, I am a loser.  It was an honor just to be nominated?  By myself?