I opened the MAM leaflet, tried the 'basic' MAM pattern, and just couldn't do it. I looked at another one, it had popcorn stitches as the centre of the strip, and had no problem. The woman at the yarn store looked at me as if I was nuts when I told her I couldn't do the basic, but wound up doing the popcorn one!
Delainey wound up receiving 3 other baby afghans at a baby shower!
I crocheted all different kinds of things, doll clothes, dolls, afghans, kitchen stuff...and just kind of 'blurred' into making up my own patterns. Small stuff at first, squares, the handled bath scrubby...and started branching off and making up other stuff.
On a personal note, I'm married (October, 1991) with two daughters. Both daughters love seeing what I work on, dh *sometimes* gives the thumbs-up. I have learned, however, not to ask his opinion on more 'girly' things, cause he just never likes them, lol!
I am a big Harry Potter fan, would love to meet JK Rowling in person (wouldn't a lot of us??). I would like to say a big thank you to her, for not giving up when publishers decided her work just wouldn't sell...and for giving us the magical world she has seen. I've read each book a few times (waiting delivery on #6 as I write this!), and have watched the first three movies over and over. Especially the Prisoner of Azkaban. Quite often, while crocheting, I'll pop it in the DVD player as 'background' sound, and it does help!
Would also love to meet Larry Gowan (last I heard he was singing with Styx), and Stephen King, whose short stories I read and re-read. I have read most of his novels, but some of them have a bit too much 'filler'. If you haven't read his short stories, you should...his sense of humour really stands out!
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Someday, I just might put a picture up here...