This weekend I did what I do best…. avoidance. I prefer to call it ADD knitting… that way I can blame it on some poor defenseless disease. When in doubt I will blame my problem on being ADD. It works for so many Americans these days I thought I would join in. Oops! Was that a soapbox I was tripping over? I need to be more careful. Anyway. I have been watching all the beautiful items Melody has been knitting and feeling a bit frustrated. All my projects are long and involved. Can you say polka dot intarsia blanket one more time? Not me… I am toast! As soon as this one is done.

polka dot pgy

This one is for my nephew’s new little girl.  She is precious and I love knitting this for her, but….. it takes forever!!!!  While I have been slugging away at this, Mel has made a bazillion fun things.  And then last night I went on Ravelry and found the most amazing blanket (somebody slap me… another blanket?).  This one looked like some amazing intarsia….. a Mario blanket.

Mario blanket whole

This amazing blanket was created by Gege and she explains the whole process on her blog ~ Gege Crochets. The really amazing thing is this beauty is not knitted.  It has been crocheted.  It is tunisian crochet!  Of course I had to YouTube it and find out how to do it right away!  I cannot crochet.  I have tried and tried and end up throwing things… mostly balls of yarn, but still.  This I can do!  Probably because it is so like knitting.  Now I can finally say I can crochet!!!  And my version of crochet has a fancy, sexy name!  Tunisian crochet!

By the way, in case you are wondering… I am avoiding exercising right now.  I am always avoiding something. Hmmmm, what I else can I do…..