Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A Week of Making Hats

Last week, before Christmas, I spent the biggest part of the week crocheting hats.  For all of the hats I used the Hansel and Gretel hat pattern from Mamachee. For the flowers I used the flowers from the Allie hat pattern from Susan Linn Studio.

This camo hat is for my husband.

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Black hat with flowers, and scarf set, for my daughter. I made two different flowers so she could choose which one she wants to wear at any given time.

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This green hat is for my grandson.

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And this purple hat is for my granddaughter.  I put a decorative edging on hers to make it a tad more “girly”.  :)

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Friday, December 16, 2011

More Dishcloths!

Yes, I have been on a dishcloth making kick recently.  This particular pattern happens to be one that I really love, and enjoy working with.  :)  If you’d like a copy of the pattern, it can be purchased at this Etsy shop.  If you do purchase a pattern from her shop, feel free to tell her that Rita Lippert sent you. Thanks!

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This is the same pattern, but I put a different edging on it.  This purple one is for me. :D

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Cakewalk Yarns Giveaway

Head on over to Tangled Happy to see how you could be the winner of some gorgeous colored yarn!  These are just a small sampling of what is available.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

Dishcloths

I’ve had some fun this week making some dishcloths.  For these ones I got the idea from this blog post. What I did is similar to the first pattern listed. I started and ended with a row of plain sc. Didn’t crochet an edging the entire way around as I like the looks of these without doing so. These worked up super quickly and I think they’d make some great last minute gifts!  Although I am definitely keeping the green one for myself.  LOL  :D  These are made with Bernat Handicrafter 100% cotton WW. I love working with this yarn.

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I thought it was pretty cool how the variegated yarn worked up on this one. :)

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More Potholders

Here are a couple more of the potholders I made using the Wooleater pattern. This post will refresh your memory as to where the pattern can be found. :)

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

RAK

Imagine my excitement when the postman delivered this wonderful box of yarn goodness to me yesterday!  I received this from a wonderful yarn friend, who wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you, yarn friend!  I appreciate your thoughtfulness and kindness very much!

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Crazy Quilt

I just have to share this eye candy with you all.  This quilt doesn’t belong to me, but that didn’t stop me from photographing it.  The quilt belongs to my son-in-law and was created by his paternal grandmother.

Seems to me this kind of handwork just isn’t done, or seen, too much any more.  I’ve made a few simple quilts in my time, but nothing as intricate as piecing all of these fabrics together.  I *love* this quilt!IMG_6825-1

Some close up shots of various parts of the quilt. Note how the teensiest, tiniest pieces of fabric did not go to waste.IMG_6822

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The binding was even sewn on by hand. :)

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Potholders

Another little project I have been working on is these potholders.  I’m using the Wool Eater pattern from Sarah London. I made an afghan for my granddaughter, using this pattern, and I just love the results this pattern gives.  :)  Saw this post on Ravelry, which is where I got the idea to make the potholders. I am using cotton ww yarn since I am making them to actually sit under hot dishes and pans. If they’re being made solely for decorative purposes, I’m sure you could use whatever yarn you like. :)

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Loopy Flowers

I was a very lucky winner recently, and won some patterns from Crochet by Jennifer. This Loopy Flower pattern is one that I won. They work up quickly & are lots of fun to make.  Unfortunately I have had nothing but gray days on which to photograph them, so my photos don’t do them justice.  Not sure yet what I am doing with these, but I can imagine they would be useful as trims on all sorts of things…barrettes, scarves, blankies, etc. :)

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Pretty Ripples

So…have you wondered where I’ve been hiding the past two weeks?  LOL  I haven’t been hiding, but I have been working on this small ripple blanket. I was inspired by, and got the pattern, from here. The ripples were fun to make, and since I still had the pink and orange yarns out, I used those colors.  This afghan isn’t very big, but I think it will work well for a doll blanket, or even a small baby.  :)

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Pink and Orange Patchwork Afghan

This is what I’ve been working on for the last week or so.  I finished the first patchwork and wanted to make another one using pinks and oranges.  Went through my stash of partially used skeins of yarn, and this is what I came up with.  I am not 100% happy with it, as I don’t really like the order of the colors.  I actually mapped this one out and followed my diagram for color placement.  I think I like random placement of colors better. I think next time I need to use an odd number of squares (from the bottom up) instead of six.  Then maybe the colors wouldn’t come out in such a “severe” pattern. I’ll have to check it out and see. Oh well, this one is made and I’m sure not going to tear it apart and start over! ;)IMG_6930-1

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Close up shots of the little embellishments I added to it.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Royal Mail for Me!! :D

It was an exciting mail day today!  The mailman brought me this wonderful bag of yarn from the UK!  Thanks to Neicee’s post for alerting me to the fact that I could get all this gorgeous yarn for a decent price…and shipped to me for free! I ordered this on October 20th and it was in my mailbox today, October 28th.  Now that is some fast service!  Thank you, Neicee, for being a wonderful enabler! ;) :)IMG_6799-1

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Just look at all of these GORGEOUS colors!  :D

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