Bunny's first crochet

Either this motivated bunny taught itself how to crochet or that's the project I started working on earlier today on the sun-warmed porch. With the intention of making a blanket in the same color as the bunny, I started using Paris a.k.a. Bushy Stitch. It's a beautiful stitch pattern with a lot going on in one chain. Think it burns calories.

Today I found out that my female pen pal who lives in South Korea received the package that I sent to her a couple weeks ago. I sent several handmade crafts as you can see below. A white rose black ink pen, a sparkly pink rose pin, a bookmark, a mini gift bag made with chenille yarn in Antique White, 3 face scrubbies, 3 hair scrunchies. Left click for a closer look.

I recently made this pretty pink & grey hat for someone using Caron Simply Soft yarns. I just need to weave in the ends and away it can go to its intended owner.



















A decorative scarf that I started several weeks ago using Simply Soft "Bone" and Bernat Matrix ribbon yarn in Natural Network. I'll pick it up and finish it when I get into a finishing zone. It's in a box in my bedroom with a few other items that need to be finished.












Slate Blue brushed acrylic yarn transformed into a hat. I just wanted to use up the yarn to see what it looked like. Going to donate the double-stranded hat somewhere, somewhere.

Today I'll probably finish the last few rows of the sweater I've been making and decide which sweater pattern I'll start on next.

Happy cow

I bought the counted cross-stitch plastic canvas cow from the Salvation Army. It was very well-made from yarn. It has a compartment that I am currently using to store scissors, aluminum crochet hooks, and remote controls when they are not in use. The brass bell around its neck jingles. Next to it is the second sweater can cozy that I made using black bouclé yarn and surprisingly soft pink bulky yarn that was also a thrift store find.




I made this slipper months ago by now. I still need to sew up the back seam and make a second one. I'll get on that for sure one of these days.





Had my second yard & porch sale on Saturday. Was a sunny day. It got so hot that I was so glad for it to be over with so I could stop complaining about the heat and bees/wasps flying in my face. Have been putting the unsold non-crochet items in the attic and organizing the unsold crocheted items. I have selected three blankets that I would like to donate.

I visited my friend Kathy yesterday at her home for several hours. We ate cheesy bread and pizza from Papa Murphy's. We sat outside on her porch after we gave her husband instructions for replanting hostas in front of the house. I worked on a gradated stripes blanket that I've been making for myself while she held the large skein of Red Heart "Claret" yarn. It will probably be long and enough to cover the top of a twin-sized bed.

It's a chilly, whitish gray day which is a signal to get cozy and relax. My plan is to watch recorded Lifetime movies in the office bed while crocheting another blanket that I've been working on until it's time to go on errands late this afternoon.

First Blogger post. It's photo-riffic!

It's Saturday afternoon already. I spent a good chunk of time this morning learning more about how to use the tools available for this blog and taking pics of the many crochet & knitted items that I've made. It's unbelieveable how fast those projects add up. I'll share many pictures of finished and in-progress works.

I made the Ginger Sesame Sweet & Sour Chicken last night. I just dumped some ingredients together to make the sauce to flavor it to my liking. I crocheted the Fiesta Ombre cotton potholder in Ripple Stitch months ago when I was in need of a potholder for retrieving dishes hot from the microwave.

I do way more crocheting than knitting, but I enjoy being able to do both and they can go together. Not too long ago, I crocheted adjustable ties for the soft novelty yarn headband that I knit last year. I went on a scarf binge last month using very soft yarns and made one using the same yarn with complimentary Caron Simply Soft yarn in Soft Pink and Orchid.

In progess: yellow wool potholders. They are currently rather large because they still need to undergo the felting process which I've never intentionally done to wool. Also, I just need to add loops for hanging them up. These I plan to sell. My taste in colors is rather bold for home décor and is primarily in the red family.

Green & yellow blanket posed with its coordinating sweater can. Surely a John Deere or Green Bay Packers football team will find them irresistible.

This is the baby blanket that I'm currently working on using two strands of yarn held together using a shade of Wintuk "Lullaby" which I bought a bunch of a couple weeks ago at a thrift store.

That's my hand you see holding up the aluminum hook while I take a pic with my right. I was wearing black and pink beaded bracelets that I made a couple years ago. I'm going to sell two black bracelets which would fit a person with a larger hand or wrist since I custom-made them for myself and I have wide, capable hands.

I wasn't sure how that variegated yarn would look worked up so first I did my version of a swatch which happens to be an entire baby blanket. I did a simple picot edging with white baby yarn with a rayon thread running through it which adds sparkle. The ends aren't woven it yet, but you can't see them because I hid them from you!

I made17 preemie/micro-preemie hats out of scrap yarn during my last vacation while hoping psychic energy can't be absorbed into the hats since I spent most of that crocheting time watching horror movies about serial killers and thinking about how sad it is about premature babies . . . Well, I was planning on a yard/porch sale last month and thought about which small crochet items I could make quickly. I dove into the freezer bag full of hats and, with the addition of ribbon and tulle, transformned several of them into the mini gift bags and French Vanilla sachets that you see above.

She's so lovely. This Cream & Glazed Dawn scarf is so light, airy, and soft. It'd make a luxuriously soft gift for someone. If it were my personal fashion taste, I'd keep it. In the meantime I'm just happy to look at it and touch it.

Weather permitting, the next Rita's Really Great Stuff yard/porch sale will be held on Saturday, September 27th. I will turn 32-years-old the day before, on the 26th. I hope that I have many, many craftastic years ahead of me.