Search and Ye Shall Find

It’s starting to be rainy again. My sister visited yesterday. We had a good time. But, I am glad to be home.

I’m hanging out in the club room right now. R2 wanted his space. I may run a few errands after this. Or I might just stay here and crochet until I get home sick, or hungry, or both.

I still have a plethora of projects; okay, so not literally a plethora, but it feels close to it. I am still working on my sweaters for autumn and winter; something that is starting to look like a great coat/swing coat; and my box of socks. And over the weekend, I chained up a crochet sweater. That’s not as dark as it sounds in truth. It just means “I began a crochet sweater”; in crochet the start of a project is called a “chain,” and so when you begin something you are “chaining up” your project.

In knitting when you begin something it’s called “casting on” a project. I don’t have that many new cast on’s. Just the mate of a pair of socks for my box of socks. An ongoing project in either knitting or crocheting (and several other places in the language besides these crafts) is called a “work-in-progress”, and at least as far as I can find in the literature in knitting it’s abbreviated WIP. I don’t know what exactly you call a crochet work-in-progress. If you’re a crochet efficiando, you may have to do some research on that on your own. My advice if you don’t know is to find another crochet hobbist/professional and ask them, or better yet take a trip to the library and search the shelves or the stacks. Or if you’re really pressed for time search for the word online; most search engines are fairly intuitive and easy to operate.