All This Yarn!!!!

I have finally decided to do something with all this yarn that I have. I have started making premie/neborn hats, booties and mitts. Then I have started crocheting scarfs and will do some hats for children and adults. I plan on donating all of them to a charity. I'm sure that someone out there could maybe use something warm for the winter, and maybe a new baby could use a new hat. I'm actually having a lot of fun doing this and I feel really good about donating these hats ect to a charity. I don't know why I didn't think of this before. Plus just maybe I will do some lapghans for a nursing home. Now I just have to figure out who the charity is and which nursing home I could donate some lapghans to.

I AM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

I AM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
by Genie Keller

I was born in 1776 on the 4th of July
Amid strife and the burning question of, why?

My aim to succeed in every way
To Bless my people with hope everyday.
My every word took a solemn beginning
The anticipation of futures and also of winning.

I was written with skill from far above
With meaningful words, blended with love.
The pattern was struck into every mind
To explain what was there for all mankind.
The Truth of the Right belongs to all men
To protect it and Guard it, secured to the end.

Now with hope in our hearts and the will of the state
With life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,
OR, our fate
I pledged to each person, the promise of peace
For Loyalty and Independence never to cease.
I wrote to protect us in all of our Rights
And grant us much strength through out all of the nights.

Company Coming!!!

Our three granddaughter came to our house Saturday and spent the night with us.
It was so much fun to have them here. They are growing up so fast. The girls and I went over to great grandmas house so she could visit with them for a little bit. The girls are starting to tower over grandma didn't realize how tall they had gotten till I saw them standing by her. I had made a doll blanket out of some left over crocheted squares that I had and gave the baby blanket to Bridgette for her dolls . I still have a bunch left over so maybe she will get a few more baby blankets. I have been trying to sort through all the yarn and projects that I have started crocheting, what a mess!!!

We grilled cheeseburgers, chicken breast and made some mac n cheese. Our oldest loves mac n cheese so that was about all she would eat! After supper we walked over to the store and bought some ice cream sandwiches then later we had some strawberrys and shortcake with cream hmmmmm .

Grandpa fell asleep! So the two younger ones played games on the computer and Brooklynn and I watched a movie. What a nice evening. Thank you to my daughter for giving me these three precious grandchildren.

Well a few more cups of coffee and I am off to the backyard to work in the flower beds. My husband started spreading the mulch but didn't get to far, so I'm going out to try to finish. I'm off work till July 5 !!!! Now maybe I can actually get a few things done. :)

Windmill Bag

The Windmill Bag is almost done. All need is my handles which I haven't bought yet but intend to soon. The pattern is really simple and easy. Its just putting it together that is sort of tricky. I had to take some scrap yarn and tie it together so I could see how the strips were to go together. After I got the strips temporarily together I could then see how it would look.

I just used Sugar'n Cream Naturals, Sonoma print. It is a 4 ply cotton yarn. The bag turned out great for what I want to use it for. The pattern calls for Plymouth yarn Boku and Galway Yarn, you will also need purse handles I saw some at our local craft store. I found the Boku yarn on Yarn.com and GalwayYarn on Yarncountry.com. Then next time I make one , I do think that I will use the yarn that was suggested in the pattern.
The stitches are just a hdc and fpsc and bpsc. So easy!!! plus it doesn't need a lining with this stitch. I'm not really ready to get the sewing machine out yet! I havent' sewed in years not even sure I remember how to work the sewing machine!:)

Windmill Bag designed by Cindy Adams
Crochet! September 2010

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