Mint Chocolate Narwhal

A few weeks ago, I was looking for a relatively quick, cute amigurumi to make. What I found was a pattern for an Ice Cream Narwhal by Olive of StringyDingDing. It wound up taking a bit longer than would have been ideal, but I think it was worth it. If you look at the pictures…

Birds of Paradise Shawl

This shawl is so beautiful and colorful, I love it. After blogging about my progress on this last week, I was able to take my excitement for this project and use it to push through the last few rows of the shawl. And I'm glad I did, because I just love looking at it. I…

WIP: Birds of Paradise Shawl Part 2

It's been a while since I've talked about this one. This has been in the "I'll get back to this eventually" pile for a while, but for the past few weeks, it's been my personal project of choice. At this point, I'm only a few rows away from finishing this, and I am really excited…

Octocat

Who's this friend? Okay, some backstory. I am a software engineer. That's my day job. In my day job, I use GitHub, a code hosting platform with an excellent version control system, on a daily basis. And GitHub has a very cute mascot by the name of Octocat. So naturally, one of the suggestions I…

Color Choice, Design, and all that Jazz

Now that all the pride octopi have been re-listed, I wanted to take some time to talk about some of what goes into the design process for these little guys and why some of them took so much longer than others to complete. Full disclosure, I won't be talking about the shape of the octopi…

Stash Maintenance 3.0 Moving Edition

There's nothing quite like moving to really drive home how much yarn you have. While I was packing for the move, if I needed to cushion something small, or if I just needed to fill space in a box that wouldn't otherwise be fully packed, I would pack it with yarn. What this led to…

Status Report #36: Back in Business

As of yesterday evening, my Etsy shop is once again open for business. So, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the business side of Entropy over the past year, and talk about some changes that I'm making going forward. Reflections on the past year First and foremost, there's no denying that, starting…

Pastel Sweater

So I made a crochet sweater. Okay, let's back up to my birthday, in late December. I had just finished filing Etsy orders a few days prior, I was burnt out on a lot of things, and I mostly just wanted to make something purely because I wanted to make it. I also had a…

WIP: Kitsune Scarf No. 2 Part 2

I thought for a long time about what my first post of 2021 was going to be, especially since I took basically all of December off. Ultimately, this felt like the most right, so here we go. It has been a while since I talked about this scarf. It has also been a while since…

Status Report #35: December Hiatus

You may have noticed that starting in mid-November, my posting schedule has gotten pretty spotty. For both of the past two weeks, and one week in mid-November, I got to Sunday evening and realized I simply didn't have the energy to actually write up a blog post. There are a few reasons for this, but…