Crochet Trance

2026-05-12T22:44:21Z

I’ve started listening to one episode of The Magnus Protocol with The Beef every night, which gave me the itch for The Magnus Archives so I’ve been listening to it again while I’ve been crocheting the last few days. A lot of it is less spooky to me now than it was the first time but some episodes still really get me—The Piper, Lost John’s Cave and, eventually, Blanket. Brr. I’m probably going to skip that last one again.

The first time I listened to these, The Beef and I were on holiday in what was basically a big tent, in November, with the only source of heating a wooden stove. So we put logs on the fire, wrapped up in blankets and sat in armchairs pulled as close to the fire as possible. Because it was November. I vividly recall my fear when I walked along the path to the unlit shed outside that housed the toilet with my phone as the only source of light. So the best/worst place to listen to a horror podcast. (I’m a baby, so the worst.)

Anyway while I have been working my way through season 1 over the last few of days I have been crocheting. My friend described the way that you kind of sink into crocheting and then you realise 2 hours have passed as “the crochet trance”. Absolutely true! I don’t get sucked in that way with knitting!

Voilà! Sewing in ends of any project is the worst part. I put that off for 2 days.

After fiddling about with foam kneeling pads and pins I decided to invest in a real blocking board so this evening I put them on to block overnight, and then I will try seaming everything together.

Granny squares made with various Stylecraft and Yarnsmith yarns. Swatch made with Hayfield Spirit in the colourway Meadow.

There’s also a swatch for a Hexagon Cardigan on there. It may turn into a jumper with sunflower granny squares on front as well as the back? Undecided. Winging it. I’m only seen this modelled by trendy young thin women with a significantly smaller portion of boob so who knows how this will look on me. This will be an ✨adventure✨

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Blimey!

2026-05-09T12:59:25Z

Gosh. Almost a week since I took a peek at Dreamwidth. Painting the kitchen and the various Agonies and their various doctors etc have really taken it out of me.

I am so close to finishing my first installment of bears. I haven’t quite managed even stuffing yet so all 3 are slightly different shapes lol. As you can see, 3 ears and some faces are needed.

They keep making me think of the Kevin James Shrug meme

My mother has been away visiting my grandparents so she’s been unavailable to pass them to her knitting group, so my lackadaisical approach continues.

I did get Influenced™ into relearning how to crochet and am now working up a little pouch to keep um… something in. I’ll find something.

To the left here you can see the image I am using for inspiration which, infuriatingly, on a reverse image search only turns up on Pinterest. No origin, it’s just Pinterest all the way down. If anybody recognises this I really want to find the original artist and would appreciate a tip!

I love the colour palettes on the bottom two but I somehow don’t have anything that can approximate them because, it seems, I tend to buy muted colours without realising. I am soft autumn in those colour season things (if you subscribe to those things) and I have always tended to that kind of colour palette unless buying for a specific project.

Anyway I didn’t want to buy more yarn so I devised my own delicious colour palette.

Can you tell what my inspiration is?

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