Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

The Work Progresses

Theme of the week: progress. 

To-do list: decimated.  Running: Miles and miles.  And miles.  Children: "being have."  Crafting: surprising amount of production!

Besides stitching up 20 rows at 5.5 feet each, I watched a lot of White Collar (a clever little show with pretty people that satisfies my loss of Alias from 6 years ago).   And that's important.

wip

so 70s

I decided to put a row of flowers amongst the stripes, so I experimented with a couple patterns.  

crochet flower

there's a hole in the bucket
I didn't like the gaping holes, so I did something a little different on the next one and it looks the same to you, BUT IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
crocheted flower

there's still a hole in the bucket

Searching the interwebs, I tweeked a third pattern and got a happy little flower.  Seen here:

 

crochet flower

yay

 

When I switched to the other color, they were NOT  the same size.

 

crocheted flower

not quite

 

With a couple adjustments that would be fascinating to chronicle (and read), I came up with some mostly uniform flowers to attach together somehow in a row.  I'm keeping the details a secret to add mystery to this here blog.  

 

crochet flowers

13 down, 9 to go

 

Is it working?

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One year ago: Bow Down, a silly little tutorial

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