I've been missing crochet so much.  After making a whole handbag on Saturday, I didn't want to stop.  I decided to make one that could be lined with the awesome fabric Veronica sent me December 2007.

The stitch pattern is *3 sc, 3 hdc, 3 dc, 3 hdc*  And there are some single crochet rows thrown in there, too.

I did a little test swatch.  I love the way the anarchy waves look.  There was no forethought and each row has a different stitch pattern.  But that just wasn't going to work on a handbag whose sides need to match up ... well not without a lot of planning.  And I wasn't in the mood for planning.  I was in the mood to crochet.

I brought all the balls of yarn that matched the purse out in to the living room and picked the colors row by row.  Thank goodness I like the way it all worked out.  The mix of colors and their frequency really echoes that of the fabric for me.  I want to do fabric handles on this one, but I haven't really worked out how yet.

There are a million-and-one-other things I want to talk about in this post but I don't have the time.  But I still need to get them out of my head, so here's a mangle mess of thoughts:

- I wanted to talk about how the gifts people give me of yarn and fabric (like those in yesterday and today's post) cry out to me every time I see them saying, "Why haven't you used me yet?"  All of my craft supplies cry out "Me me me!" but I find the ones that are gifts do so especially.

- It's unbelievable that I've had that fabric for over 8 months.  Sometimes my crafty blog-record can be a curse.

- I see women all over the city wearing slinky skirts and dresses with awesome with multicolored, disappearing/emerging wave patterns on them and I was trying to recreate that in my swatch.  I couldn't find an example of the pattern on the web (I want that f*cking hour back, Google!).  I've been wanting to crochet that kind of pattern for weeks and it just sort of fit in with this project.  I like how things like this come together.

- I "watched" some TERRIBLE movies on-demand on Sunday while I was crocheting.  I need the noise.  In the office (aka craft room) I like music, but it's gotta be the TV in the living room.  When I saw a homeless woman with a radio the other day, it made me think of me on Sunday and I realized if I'm ever homeless I'd need a radio, too.  Then yesterday Angelina posted about homeless people, which I thought was a weird coincidence.

- I photographed the bag from yesterday on the couch.  What a crap background for that bag.

- I never explained the title, which comes from an Indiana Jones movie.  But it's a quote at our house because of its use in Clerks.  I thought of it because I spent all my spare moments last weekend crocheting ... OK, not all of them.  I also did some stitching for A Collaboration.  All that crafting didn't leave much time for anything else, but it sure did make me happy.

- Did I mention I wish I had more time?  I have so many stories I want to tell. :)