I’ve actually been furiously making things for the shop the past few weeks. The problem is, it’s the product photos that are tripping me up. As you can probably tell by the above photo, a photographer, I am not. I have the shop set up through Big Cartel, and it won’t take me long to write a few product descriptions. But truth be told, I’m dragging my feet on taking the product pics. I hope to have something for y’all next week, though! (Thank you so much for being patient.)
That being said, I want to talk about the little blanket pictured above.
2025: A Year Better Forgotten
I set out to make this blanket with a vague idea of maybe selling it. I’d always wanted to make a twelve-pointed star blanket, and I had hoped I would finish it in time for Christmas because of the obvious symbolism of stars and Christmas. But, much like almost everything in 2025, I came up short on doing that.When I tell y’all that 2025 has been difficult…well, it really has, for a variety of reasons that I won’t bore you with. Suffice it to say, I’m so glad to see it in the rearview mirror.
But what does this have to do with my star blanket, you ask? Well, like I said, I intended to make this blanket to sell. I started working on it in mid-November. Then, I set it aside for a few weeks after I had to frog a whole round of 300-something stitches because I missed a single stitch in the previous round. I needed a break from the thing, so I worked on other stuff instead.
Shortly before Christmas, I picked it back up. I crocheted while I was out of town for Christmas and then some more when I got back home. As I worked on it, somewhere around the second or third round of the turquoise, I realized I really liked it.
When Crafting Is Sort Of Like A Triumph
I finished this blanket on December 30th, 2025. I was so glad to be finished with it before the New Year.But I looked closely at it (after I sent some victorious “I’m finally done!” texts to some people with a pic enclosed for good measure). The blanket was beautiful (even if I was the one who’d made it). I crocheted it with a sort of nebulous idea of a supernova. The purple was meant to represent the black hole at the middle of the supernova, and the two shades of blue and the white were meant to be the flames. (I even looked it up to see if blue or white flames were hotter so that I could put them in the right order. For the record, blue ones are; hence, the arrangement of the colors.)
Anyway, my supernova blanket was beautiful, with no visible errors, and it had come out almost exactly like I’d pictured it in my head before I started. If you craft or do pretty much anything at all, you know how rare that is!
Yes, I Cried Over This Blanket
2025 was so full of disappointments, both in crafting and in other endeavors. But somehow, against all odds, this blanket turned out to be gorgeous. So of course, I started sobbing like a child as I looked at it. It ceased being an “it” and became a “him,” and I told myself that nobody else would ever love him like I do. So there went the idea of selling the damn thing.But that’s okay, too. He’s on the back of my couch now, and that’s where he will stay. He represents a light in the dark, the one thing that works out like it should when all else seems hopeless. He gives me hope for the coming days and the New Year itself. I once read something that said (and I’m paraphrasing heavily here), “Creativity is like a faucet that has sat dormant for a long time. Sometimes, you just have to let it run and get all the mud out before the water starts running clear again.” And you know what? Maybe life in general is like that, too. Hopefully, I’ve finally gotten all the mud that’s accumulated over the years out, and the water is going to be drinkable again. That’s what I’m telling myself, anyway.
Crochet Blanket Commissions Open!
After getting way too emotional over a blanket that was meant to be sold, I consoled myself with the idea that I can simply use his picture as an example of things I can be commissioned to do for people. I will be more than happy to make you a twelve-pointed star blanket in any colors you’d like, even identical ones! You just can’t have this one, lol. He is my baby.Nevertheless, 2025 is over, and my blanket has given me a ray of hope for 2026. Like I said earlier, I hope to update this blog with a link to my shiny new shop very soon. But until then, my work can be found at Romarin et Corbeaux in downtown Anniston, Alabama. You can also commission me directly by emailing me at thecraftingbunnyshop@gmail.com.
Happy New Year, everyone, and may it be a kinder, gentler one than last year, for all of us.
