Destination: unknown

I finished the double crochet "Lullaby" blanket with reverse single crochet around the edging yesterday. I'm going to offer it for FREE on Freecycle this weekend. I made it knowing that I wanted to donate it and I want it to go to someone who really needs it. It turned out nicer that I imagined. It is large. It measures 36"x 43 1/2". It is heavy & thick because I used two strands held together.

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Here we see what I consider to be "the money shot." Yes, yes, yes! There's nothing more satisfying than looking at a completed blanket folded up, ahhh.










I must've had a productive day yesterday. The "Corn" wool potholders turned out quite pleasing after undergoing the felting process. They're still on the porch drying. Wet wool is not a pleasant odor. Yuck!







I also finished crocheting the Soft Navy & Pumpkin scarf. Just have those fun (not really) ends to weave in!












Shades of blue scrap yarn rug that I started months ago. It'll be some time, I imagine, before I break down and weave in all of those loose ends! The sad part is that I already weaved in many of them, plus there are ones on the other side. I think weaving in ends with a needle looks better and is more secure than just crocheting over them which I used to do. I want to crochet a solid blue border around this rug which will look nice. I have two other scrap rugs to finish.

One thing about me is that I do eventually finish projects started months prior. It's nice to be able to pick up a project that is already underway.


Yesterday evening I returned to crocheting a scrap blanket that I started months ago. It has shades of orange, blue and white. Some of you have seen it before in photos that I shared of me working on it at the park. I'm adding more white to it from a 16 oz. skein of Red Heart using my favorite red plastic H hook to form clusters of two half double crochet stitches. Taking a long time. I just want to make it wide enough to be a lap blanket. Its ultimate destination? Unknown.

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.