Hiatus
Okay I know its been a long time… but my crocheting was on hiatus and still is… i guess i made too many blankets in a row and needed a break to explore other crafty things and get back into reading more…I’ll post again in the near future with new stuff!
Anibus: Kat’s Dragon
Well, since I don’t have any pictures I can post of my current progects I decided to post some of an old progect. I wanted to make a stuffed dragon for a friend of mine that is a huge fan of dragons, but when I couldn’t find a pattern for one, I made up my own. I never wrote down the pattern and could now kick myself for it cause I would love to post it for anyone else who might be looking, but I did it by taking bits of patterns from other stuffed animals and put them together. He will truely be one of a kind. So here are the pictures:
Drew’s Blanket: Another quick update
Okay I know it’s been awhile. I’m pretty much done, I have a few stiches left on the boarder and thats it. I can’t show any picture’s till after I give it to him. So there’s not been much to tell but I thought I should put somthing down.
Hope to have more next time!
Drew’s Blanket: A quick update
Hey! Sorry I know its been a bit since I last posted, but I’ve been busy. I’ve put a nice dent into Drew’s Blanket, gone through at least one (out of three) skeins of yarn of each color. I was finally able to come up with a pattern that I felt fit his personality and I felt worked.
I do one row of sc in the back loops and then in the same color do a row of 1/2 double crochet in the back loops. It gives it a neat layered look on one side and a stripe look on the other. I was very pleased with that discovery. So I’ve decided that should I ever make another blanket with the same pattern it will be the “Drew Blanket” pattern. Same goes for the blanket I made for my best friend. The “Miss Caitlyn Blanket”. Okay so back to work! I’ll post again soon!
Drew’s Blanket: Drowning in Yarn
Okay, so the story starts, that I made a blanket for my best friend and when her boyfriend (who’s aslo a good friend) started to “steal” it, I offered to make him one. Soo, yesterday I made it out to Joanne’s to pick up the yarn needed.
Drew’s Blanket Invontory:
3- Red Heart, Medium worsted, Black, 7oz
3-TLC Essentials (makers of Red Heart), Worsted weight, Dark Brown, 60z
3-TLC Essentials (makers of Red Heart), Worsted weight, Dark Thyme, 60z
1-TLC Essentials (makers of Red Heart), Worsted weight, Med Thyme, 60z (the store only had one so I have to order 2 more online)
6- Carton Wintuk, Worsted Weight, Nutmeg, 3 oz
4- Red Heart Sport, Sport light, Camouflage, 2.5 oz (to be used for the boarder)
20- Total
I’m still playing around with pattern ideas, but will keep all who reads updaed on the progress of Drew’s Blanket!
Ladybug
Okay well my best friend (the one I just made the blacket for) LOVES Ladybugs, so for her birthday (not till August haha, hope she doens’t see this, I don’t think she comes out here anyway. lol) I plan to make her a bag, I’m not sure of the pattern yet, but I was out looking for anything crochet ladybug related and came upon a pattern for a ladybug bookmark. With a few alterations and a thicker yarn I made a change purse. Of course I have to go buy a zipper but here’s the-almost-finished project.
If you want the pattern let me know. I don’t remember the site I got the bookmark pattern off of but I have it on my computer, so just let me know!
Indside view.
Lots of Pictures!
This is a blanket I made for one of my best friends. It was gonna be a Chirstmas present but it ended up being just a prensent cause I waited so long to give it to her. It was my first completed blanket!
I liked this yarn for a border much better than tassels, and seeing as she has cats I thougth the blanket itself would last longer. Hahaha
Close up of the stiches.
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Two completed strips of granny squares for a baby blanket I’m making using the extra yarn and boarder yarn left over from the blanket above.
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The front veiw of my new yarn bag… Its on wheels and has lots of pockets!
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My new book, I can’t wait to make one, there’s so many to choose from! I’m just scared with having to put all the squares together it would fall apart. So if anyone has any tips on how to make a quality “granny square” blanket so it will last, please let me know!
Not Just Layin’ Around
Okay, I know there’s not much up, and I haven’t done anything in a while. I’m spending some time looking at the online crochet world, getting the feel of things. I have decided I would like to sell my crochet items online but I want to open my own page instead of sell off of a site. So if anyone has any helpful tips please let me know! Oh, and I might change the name “Lefty Crochet” but I’m not sure yet.
You know you’ve been crocheting too long when:
1. You need to rent or buy a separate dwelling just for your yarn, patterns, etc.
2. Your family tiptoes around and is quiet when you are “counting” (lest they end up killed outright for making you lose your stitch count)
3. Herrshners, Annie’s Attic, Mary Maxim and the Needlecraft Shoppe all know you by first name only and have memorized your credit card details
4. You cannot go through metal detectors because you have so many hooks stashed everywhere in your luggage, your purse, etc.
5. Strangers mail yarn and unfinished projects to you without asking first.
6. Caron and Lion Brand are fighting over which one of them can hire you as “Poster Crocheter” in their new ad campaign.
7. Your computer’s memory is maxxed due to the number of websites for crochet that you have bookmarked as favorites.
8. Your email inbox exploded due to sheer volume of Internet crochet list email.
9. You know more people by their email address than their actual names.
10. You win an award in mIRC for staying online the longest in a crochet chat room
11. You have more tools that your Significant Other.
12. Michaels and WalMart give you Frequent Customer discounts.
13. Your local yarn store owner knows exactly what skein of yarn you just ran out of the moment you show up in their parking lot. They also know what row you should be on by now.
14. You own more yarn by weight than you do furniture or motor vehicles.
15. The IRS and state tax authorities allow you to declare your yarn, pattern, hooks, etc. as dependents on your tax returns.
16. When someone mentions UFOs, you automatically think of Un Finished Objects (as in unfinished crochet projects) rather than extraterrestrial transports.
17. You have more yarn in your closets, storage lockers, garage, etc. than Herrshner’s main warehouse has.
18. You have had to explain to non-crafters the difference between crochet and knitting more times than you can count.
19. You can crochet perfectly while fast asleep.
20. Your family decides they’ve had enough of your hoarding and hooking and has you kidnapped and deprogrammed.
21. You cannot find your family amongst all the boxes and bins of yarn and patterns around your home.
22. Your family files a class action suit charging the yarn manufacturers, pattern publishers, etc. for causing you to abandon them (alienation of affections).
23. Strange men call and show up, having heard a “hooker” is available at this address.
24. Because of you, yarn and patterns have now been declared an illicit substance by the FDA and DEA. They find you and throw away the key.
25. You write in abbreviations only, thanks to reading patterns for too long.
26. Instead of counting sheep to sleep, you count stitches.
27. You intrigue Martha Stewart by having every item in your house crocheted, including your furniture. You make her jealous because she didn’t think of this first.
28. Even when they take your yarn and thread away in hopes of curing your affliction, you grab anything; dental floss, wire, packaging twine, weeds, tinsel, etc. and start crocheting with it instead.
29. Everyone you know has something you crocheted but in a strange color combination because they failed to specify a color preference, and you had so much scrap yarn to use up.
30. When it was time to tent your house to kill termites, etc. you crocheted the tent from plastic grocery bags cut into strips.
31. You taught one of your children to crochet a chain but did not tell them how to finish off; you now have a 5 mile chain “string” lying about.
32. You realize you practice a craft where the phrase “the end is near” actually has a positive meaning (your project is nearly finished.
33. You chastise people who call a crochet hook a “needle”.
34. You got fed up with the unhelpful and rude craft store clerk at your local yarn store and crocheted her to her cash register in the middle of the night, stuffing a ball of yarn in her mouth so she wouldn’t yell out.
35. You frequently get charged with carrying concealed weapons without a permit because you carry crochet hooks around.
36. You determine that you can eat Cheetos and crochet at the same time by using toothpicks to pick up the Cheetos so they don’t stain your fingers.
37. You get a patent on how to crochet with chocolate. You also develop a chocolate that cannot melt and stain your yarn.
38. If you stacked your yarn from end to end, it would stretch from here to the Sun (96 million miles or so)
39. You crochet during dental treatment.
40. You win a fashion award for crocheting people’s hair into interesting hairdos.
41. You win the lottery and spend the whole darn thing to buy Lion Brand Yarns’ stock, a sheep farm in New Zealand, and spinning lessons.
Crocheted Food
I was poking around a few crochet sites looking at diffrenent patterns and stubbbled across crocheted food.
I love sushi so I got a huge kick out of the picture.
I also found this other crochet food article that was funny.
Crocheted Food
More Pictures:
More food
Justine Crochet 