I’ve been playing around with crochet lately, and decided I needed to swatch.  This is perhaps the largest swatch I’ve ever made.

Look!  I made a rug.

I’ve been playing around with Irish Crochet, and I wondered why I couldn’t explode it, the same way Doris Chan does with lace.  The rug was my first attempt.  There’s a few kinks I want to work out before it becomes something I might write a pattern for, but the rug is deliciously cushy and used up a good chunk of my worsted and aran scraps.  This is a good thing.

I’m busy packing for the Fiber Festival of New England (I’ll be teaching on Saturday – sign up for my classes!), so I’ll leave you with some great cat pictures:

Peake, sleeping.

Watson, quite unhappy with our attempt to dress him up for Halloween.