Our 4th was pretty uneventful aside from The Kid bringing home The Drunk Girl to spend the night but we'll talk about that later. I mean, it really was pretty uneventful.
What I wanna talk about it the great resurrection of old stuff, namely this one old thing here:
The Irish Hiking scarf I started back in either February or March of 2007 (!) and then it had a bit of an accident with coffee and cats in November of that same year. I recall thinking I would salvage what I could of the yarn and toss the rest (I know this because I wrote about it) and make something else with the remaining 90,000 balls of yarn I had. However, earlier in June I was cleaning (ha, ha! I know!) I found the yarn and the last bit of the scarf, which I thought I had completely dismantled, in a bag and decided, "What the hell! May as well finish this sucker!" And so it began all over again. While I don't have a picture of where I'm currently at, and who really cares, I am probably about a foot from finishing. She says with pride.
Now, on to some crocheting weirdness: I have a friend who is having a baby. Fairly soon. So I look through the 70 gazillion baby blanket patterns I have here which is what had inspired the cleaning.
Anyway, I decide I am not really finding anything much that is hitting me as the baby blanket I want to make for her wee-one-to-be, though I am finding lots of booties, sweaters and bonnets, but that isn't where I'm supposed to be going. So I decide to wing it and grab some yarn and begin winding it into balls.
I start this new project, making a prototype, and as I begin looking for an edging for it I stumble upon the exact pattern, which is really just a few stitches clustered together, in a very old publication dating back to around the end of the 1930s or early 40s. After finding an edging I liked I continued searching, thinking I might like one a bit better, and oddly enough find the same exact pattern, yet again, in another publication though this time newer (late 1970s/early 80s). After giving it some thought and showing it to a friend she realized that she had seen it or something very similar to it either on the Internet or elsewhere in print not terribly long ago, perhaps within the last 5-10 years. And realizing this, neither of us can actually identify it in its newer, updated form*. Prior to working the group of stitches I don't recall ever having seen the written pattern before, however the stitching looks familiar though I feel that way often with crocheted pieces.
This might be weird it if was a complicated pattern, but it isn't and stuff like this is duplicated time and time again, changing stitch counts, yarn gauge and hook sizes, thereby calling it an "Original."
Anyone recognize it?
*By "newer updated" form I mean worked up in something other than a yarn heavier than a fingering weight.
