My Sarabell Bag is Finished!!

My Sarabell Bag is Finished!!

Well lets say its sort of like the Sarahbells bag. The one on SarahSweetHearts.blogspot.com doesn't have a handle just a button for the closure. I was pondering the idea of just adding a wooden handle to it but decided just to add a crocheted handle to the bag. This bag in perfect for some of my smaller crocheting projects. It beats caring around a ugly Walmart bag!

All I did was add six single crochet rows above the two dbl crocheted rows. I chained twelve and skipped fourteen singles crochets for the openings on both sides. You could make them large or small don't think the size really matter just what ever you want for your bag. So far it is prefect!! but will have to make one larger so I can carry more yarn in it when I'm working on a larger crochet project.

Right now I'm starting on a bag designed by Cindy Adams called Windmill Bag,I found the pattern in Crochet! September 2010. It is four rectangular strips joined in a pinwheel pattern and conected to together with a single crochet. The bag the she has designed is really pretty, has bright colors. She used a medium worsted weight wool/silk yarn and medium worsted weight wool yarn. But again I'm being different I'm using something that I can throw in the washer if I want or need to. Plus I not all that keen on bright colors for me. So I'm using Sugar'n Cream Naturals, Sonoma print. It is a 4 ply cotton yarn. I really like working with this yarn.

Sarahbells Bag

I couldn't sleep so was web surfing one night found this really great blog. She has tons of different patterns. I love blogs like this. I found this really cute pattern for a bag, so I have started crocheting a new bag.The bag can made so many different ways small to a large bag. They one that she has on her blog has a button to close the bag , but I'm thinking of buying a wooden handle for mine. I plan to make a smaller bag for my loose items that I will be carrying in it. this pattern is free to download and is easy to make. I used Sugar' n Creams yarn in warm brown. I can't wait till it is all finished. I hope to buy my handle for the bag this weekend so I can start using it.

This is what it looks like right now. Will post a picture of the finished bag.

You can get the pattern for the bag at SarahSweetHearts.blogspot.com.
Look for Sarahbells Bag.

Spring Flower Festival at Kingwood Center

A Day at Kingwood Center

Ahhhhhh finally no rain, a little sunshine just enough to make it nice out. Perfect day to go to the Spring Flower Festival 2011 at Kingwood. All the tulips and other spring flowers are coming up. I think that the tulips will be up for mothers day at Kingwood! That is what Kingwood is famous for.

While we were walking around looking at all the activities I saw my granddaughter Brooklynn she was with her great grandma and great aunt. Then I saw my daughter in-law and grandson Evan. I also saw some people that I work with. Guess quite a few people were taking advantage of the nice weather.

My Husband belongs to an orchard club. They had some flower for sale there.I think that they probably sold almost all of them. Many other plant clubs were there selling there plants. At the end of the month there will be a perennial sale I usually I try to make that sale.Hopefully I wont have to work that day.

A couple had two Alpaca's. They are so cute! A lady was spinning alpaca yarn. She dyes the yarn herself. The yarn is so soft. Just wish it wasn't so expensive. Would love to work with some.

After we saw the alpacas there was a male Peacock over by one of the buildings. They are so beautiful! Of course my husband thought he could make a sound so the bird would show his feathers off. I don't know who this man is that is standing by me !!! LOL Of course the Peacock just walked away from us ! :)

I went to the greenhouse they always have tons of plants for sale. House plants and flower bed plants. I bought a little daffodil for me and an Asian Lilly for my mother, for mothers day.

After we got home I did start digging up some of my plants that have gotten to big. started dividing some of them up giving some away that I don't have room for. Still have more to dig up probably will do that this week end. Cant wait to see what our back yard will look like this summer.

Flower Tote Bag

Have made all the squares for the tote bag, Crocheting them together was fairly easy and quick. I actually had the bag all together in two days.
Would have been sooner but I have to work so could only work on it when I was watching TV in the evening.

The pattern is kind of tricky when placing of the squares, looks like a heart on one side. So you have 8 on one side and on the other side you only have 5.
On the side that has five you only crochet four flower squares with one granny square in the middle. The three granny squares that are on the other side (which is two on the side and one on the bottom), these three granny squares wrap around to the other side. They are crocheted to the flower squares.

Instead of crocheting my squares like the pattern, I crocheted them together. So my trim on my bag is a little different. I just did a slip stitch on the front of the bag. Which doesn't look that bad and was really easy to add.

Then for the button, use size F crochet hook. chain 2, 6 single crochet in second chain from hook don't join, mark first stitch. Then you just do 2 single crochet around should have should have 12 stitches. then single crochet in each stitch. Skip first stitch, single crochet in next stitch keep doing this around to end. You have a button!!! How easy love it.

The handles you can make as long as you want I chained 85 and then did a single crochet on the handle.

I'm pleased with the way it has turned out. I m also surprised as to how strong it feels. There is a plus also if it gets dirty throw in the washer and let it air dry.

A New Project

I have started something new for me. I usually make afghans,hats,scarfs,dog sweaters. Was talking to my sister the other day and she asked me if I could make a tote. Told her I have never done that before so she gave me the website for the pattern, looks really easy. In the mean time I found a tote pattern in one of my crochet mags that I get through the mail. Soooo I thought I would make the one I found in Mays 2011 Crochet! magazine Dress It Up -- Flower Tote Bag Design by Nancy Brown. I'm using cotton yarn for this tote. The granny squares are easy but I'm really confused about the joining round you don't fasten off the flower sq. you are suppose join the squares together by crocheting them. So I decided to just join them together like I do all my other squares. I will have to read the instructions and practice on some extra yarn that I have. This will give me a good excuse to make another one :)

Rain Rain Go Away

Oh when is the rain going to quit! I want to go out and play in the dirt! I can't wait to go out and work in the flower beds. I have spring flowers popping up all over. Two weeks ago it was 60 out and I did work some outside. We have to redo some of the flower beds. Had some construction done outside this winter and alot of the flower beds were covered in piles of dirt so will have to move the dirt around. We also want to put some new landscape logs down and finish the front flower bed with a border also. I think working outside in the beds is one of my favorite things beside crocheting. The biggest problem is trying to make the big dogs understand they can't walk in the flower beds. They see me go in them so they follow right along! Guess they will have to stay inside when I'm out working this spring.

New Sweater fo Rupert!!!!

Well Ruperts sweater is finished. And as I said before he wouldnt be happy when I put it on him!!!! HA! Actually I have to just put some velcro or snaps on it. I just tied the opening. He looks so cute! Now he is just standing here whinning I think he wants it off.

New Sweater for Rupert!!!

 

Found a really cute doggie sweater on Crochet Soiree for Rupert. This crochet pattern is really easy. I didn’t have the bulky yarn that it called for so I just used what I had. I had to make some adjustments to it. Used a smaller crochet hook, so the squares were a little smaller had to add an extra square on each row and an extra row too. Can’t wait to see what it is going to look on him.   

It will be finished tonight. I’m sure Rupert wont be happy when I put the sweater on him.

HATS!!! SCARFS!!!!

Well I have made my three granddaughters some hats. Making some scarfs also. Guess they will be my guinnie pigs. I'm not sure if they will like them or not but have got to use some of this excess yarn up!!! Begining to pile up. Pretty soon we wont have a bedroom it will be a yarn room. I think I might be a yarn horder!!! :) LOL. I hope not. I have found a cute scarf pattern for the youngst its a puppet scarf! Looks really easy. Hope to start on it this weekend. Have been kind of busy this last year so haven't really been able to post anything. Just had to house sided ,insulated , an new roof. The house should stay warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. I hope!! Will post some pictures of my new projects.

Some New Projects

I am selling a few baby things on ebay now. Have started with some baby booties. They are so cute and easy to make. I hope to start selling some other baby and shower gifts on ebay also. I have made a sleeping sack and some baby mitts. I have just bought two new patterns to make. Papoose sets.They are really like the sleep sacks but just called papoose. Can't wait to get started on them. I will sell them also on ebay.

I have made this baby blanket in August. I have had the pattern for awhile but just never got around to making it. Wasn't sure what colors that the new mommy was going to use. I did know that she was having a girl so I thought I was safe using pink and mint green. Guess what!! the colors were perfect. The colors that she is using in the nursery are pink and green!





""There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens. This is the light that shines in our hearts.""

I am working on an afghan that I would like to enter into our street fair this year in September. I just hope I that can get it done. Working so many hours and trying to do something that I enjoy just sometimes doesn't work out. I have also been trying to work in my flower beds out in our backyard, in between the rain that we have been having. At least everything is growing including the weeds ;) The afghan is a pattern from Leisure Arts book. 63 easy to crochet pattern stitches combine to make an heirloom afghan. So far it hasn't really been that hard. Its keeping me brushed up on all the stitches. Plus I am working on a baby afghan. The baby afghan is due in Aug. so I have been working on it in the evening before bed. I think everything will get finished at least I hope so.

Half-Square Granny

I have been working on a new afghan pattern that I found in Crochet World April 2010. It has been pretty easy. Just time consuming having to sew the trinangles together. Then the strips. But I think it has been worth all the work. I have used my own colors instead of using the colors that they have used in the pattern. I like greens and browns,also the quilt looks more homey and the colors go with just about any color that you would have in a room. Now all I have to do is the edging. That should be a breeze!!! Can't wait to get it finished.

New Baby Afghan

I have just finished a new baby afghan for my husbands niece. She is due this month (April) and isn't sure if she is having a boy or girl. That is why I picked green and yellow. I just hope she likes it. I really like the colors and how it turned out. I used the circle in a square pattern that I found on Lion Brand Yarn website. It was really easy and went pretty fast.

Oh January

Well it's 11:03 can't sleep!!! I hate when I do that. I'm lucky that I have tomorrow off. Wouldn't be able to think very well at work if I had to go in! :) Well we had our snow our first week in January. I think that it snowed everyday that first week. The it was bitter cold and today well its warming up a bit. The snow is now turning into ice so you have to watch your step on the side walks, parking lots ect...... I wonder what the weather will do next week??? Oh it's Ohio you just never know what is going to happen with the weather here any ones guess. Last Week my daughter house caught fire.They were home and her husband was able to keep it under control. Took the fire dept. 20 min. to get there. What a mess!!!!! But everyone is just fine. Part of the house had fire damage. I need to check with my daughter to see if the afghans that I made for the girls are ok. If not then I guess I will be making some new afghans again. I did finish the black afghan will post a picture of it soon. Now I'm trying to finish the baby afghan. Will post a picture of it also.

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine

Christmas 2009

Well we have had a nice Christmas so far. Our kids & grandchildren will be coming to our house today. I will make sloppy joes for the people that are burn't out on the turkey and ham thing. And of course I will set out the rest of the cookies, ect... that I have made. Good way of getting rid of all the sweet things that don't need to be around me!!! Thats all I would eat if I had it my way. No snow this Christmas what bummer :( Hope that we get some yet today or tonight. Probably won't start snowing till I go back to work Monday morning. I hate that early morning drive (4:30 A.M) always seems like I'm the only one out at that time of the day. I make the tracks in the snow for everyone else HA! At least next week will be a three day week then back to the old schedule 5-6 10 hr.days. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

Crochet Hook Caddy

I found this cute crochet hook caddy pattern. Since I have so many hooks I thought that it would be good to make one. The only problem is I need another one. It isn't big enough. I think I will make another one then I can keep the hooks that I don't use to much in it. I will just make it a different color. Here is the link for the caddy I found this cute crochet hook caddy pattern. Since I have so many hooks I thought that it would be good to make one. The only problem is I need another one. It isn't big enough. I think I will make another one then I can keep the hooks that I don't use to much in it. I will just make it a different color. Here is the link for the caddy~ http://crochetcafepatterns.blogspot.com/2005/05/crochet-hook-caddy.html

I have decided to redo the black afghan!! Yes I know, but I'm just not to fond of it. Seems to busy. I like the one that I found on Caron.com. Same colors just a different pattern. So as soon as I get a few more squares done I will post a picture of them. I'm not going to take this new one apart!! :) Haven't put the baby afghan on ebay yet would like to post both of them together. Maybe one of them will sell.

My Two New Afghans

Well I have started working on two afghans. Just about finished with a baby afghan and I"am still trying to figure out what I want to do with my other afghan that I"m doing. Not to sure about the trim on my black afghan can't decide if I like the color of trim that I"m using. The trim that is on there right now will frame the center squares then there will be more squares added on. It will hopfully give the afghan a quilt look at least that is what I'm trying for. The baby afghan is called "circle in a square". Found the pattern on Lionbrand.com. I will trim the baby afghan in pink. Just need to finish one more row of squares then it should be done. Then I can put it on Ebay to sell. Will probably be another week or two before I put the black one on Ebay. Hope they both sell.

My New Project

Don't have a picture of the baby afghan yet. Its's just about done. I have started this afghan. I think I will sell this one don't need it here all ready have plenty laying around here :) I have started with the center and will work out. Wasn't sure what kind of look that I was going to end up with. but here is a pic of the lay out just need to start sewing the square together. I think that after I sew the center sqs together I will trim the center with a contrasting color Maybe linen or the dk red color haven't decided yet. Then I want to trim the outside with a sq also not sure what kind or what colors I'm going to use.

Oh September!!!

Well I'm have decided to try to sell some of the things that I crochet. So I'm starting with baby blankets. Right now I am crocheting one that has the sq. called circle in a square. Got the sq pattern off of Lion Brand website. Looks nice. Its circle is pink the square is white. Not sure about the size, thinking about maybe something to fit a crib . Then I have to figure out how much I need to charge for the blankets. Guess it will just depend on if it is one piece or squares that I have to join. Could be interesting, don't really now if I will sell any or not.If I don't sell any then I will have some for people that are having babies! Will post a picture when I get a couple of rows done. Our yearly street fair starts next week, I know I didn't make an afghan like I wanted to so I could enter it in the fair! My sister has already said that I should have done that. Maybe I will try next year, something to ponder. Its just trying to find the right item to crochet and time. I 'm not really sure what they enter either will have to check that out. I know last year the news paper(here in Bellville) a husband and wife won most them. All the grandchildren will come to our house Saturday. I always buy ride bracelets for them so they can ride what ever they want as many times as they want. Then they come back to the house rest eat and sometimes go back down in the evening. There aren't that many street fairs anymore I think Bellville and Loundnville are the only ones around here that actually shut down the main streets for the fair. http://www.bellvilleohio.net/fair-construction.htm Can't beat this admission is free, entertainment is free. There are rides and plently of food vendors.