Spring has Sprung!

Not much to show for my crafting this time around, but I do have some photos of the flowers in my messy garden. My FIL planted the garden when the in-laws were living in this house, and we haven't done much with it since. I added one plant, and I try to weed every now and then. Here are some photos of what we have growing at the moment.

And some project updates:

These are a few face cloths I've made for the Adopt-A-Mom collection we have going on at work. We are going to try and put together some Mother's Day gift bags with various goodies in them.

Here's my latest find at the $1 store. They had a great variety, so of course I had to get too many of them. But I didn't have any girly ones in my stash, so now I'm set for a while. They need to be bordered.

That's it for the moment. Hope to have lots more flower photos, and even more progress pictures for my crafts, or better yet, maybe some FO's!

Update to my 2011 List

Crochet

- Edging on baby blankets (Blanket a, b, c, d & e): one left in stock, might pick up some more
- GGG for donation: Taking this off the list. I gave my sister all the yarn for lapghan squares
- Kaleidoscope, add more to current ghan: Have lots of scraps and I'm ready to start working on this again
- 12 inch squares to be made into lapghans for donation (Lapghan A, B): Also taking this off the list for same reason as GGG
- Becky's squares joined into an afghan (Lapghan C, D, E, F): Finished a few of these, and taught her how to join, so I will only help when she gets overwhelmed

- Halloween ornaments: long time away, so haven't thought about these

- Crochet A Rainbow Squares: finished mine, waiting for a bunch from MIL to send off.

- Hearts

Knitting

- Pink sparkle hat for gal at work

- Hearts

- Mini stockings and Christmas Ornaments: Better get started on these, Christmas is just around the corner!

- Tree of Life baby ghan (Progress 1): I've made great progress on this one, gotta keep at it.

Sewing

- Color books for a few little ones

Baby Blanket Borders and a Lapghan

It's been over a month, and I don't feel like I have very much crafting to show off. Work has been very tiring, and I haven't even felt like crafting, which I should force myself to do so I can relax. It's settled a bit now, and I'm adding crafting into my daily routine as much as possible.

A few weekends ago I spent some quality time with my sisters and a close friend for girls weekend. During that time I taught our friend to sc around a baby blanket to make a border. Don't think I got a picture of the one she was working on, but here are some that I've finished.

My sister has been plugging away at squares for lapghans. We're still trying to work through my stash of randomness. I'd like to start fresh, and get my craft room cleared out as much as possible so I can set it up for all of my crafty fun!

With all the 8 round grannies she finished previously, we set them out to be stitched together. I had one finished before girls weekend, and then I put another one together to show her how to join them. I hope she takes pictures of the one's she's completed, I love seeing the finished product. Here are the two that I've finished.

That's it for the moment. I have one more baby blanket to border, my Tree of Life to Knit, and my Kaleidoscope to work on. I'm sure there's plenty more I'm forgetting, but those are the one's I'm going to concentrate on the next few weeks, unless I get bored.

Lots of Ends to Weave

It's been a while since I updated. Didn't realize it was quite so long. Been very busy with work, crafting, cleaning, visiting my new baby nephew.

I finished 3 more squares for the comfortghan. Found the pattern in a crochet block book at Barnes & Noble a week or so ago.

A baby blanket from the $1 store I added an edging to. one round of sc, then rhdc. I didn't think it needed anything frilly b/c of the color contrast and the cute little giraffe.

Two more blankets ready for edges, then I'll have to go shopping for more.

One that I finished last month.

My Valentine's Items: Knit hearts, Crocheted hearts, Heart doily.

Pink & Green Baby Ripple, finally finished last month.

Baby Tree Of Life

Comfortghan Squares

There was a request in my craft forum for some squares for a dear friends' nieces and nephew. Here's are the two that I made for the girls. I used the Cross My Heart Square pattern.

And one for the boy. I used the Leaf Square pattern for his.

Not certain what my next project will be. In February I'll be starting the Baby Tree of Life. I hope I'll have the patience and drive to finish it. I haven't done any large knitting projects!

Week in Review

Not too much crafting this week except finishing off those lapghans. I dropped them off at my sisters house and showed her how to do a sc edging around. Prior to that I only taught her dc for the granny squares. I also gifted her a bunch of yarn so she can work on more lapghans. I gave her a bunch of greens and blues. I'll try to remind her about taking a photo of her FOs.

On Wednesday I decided I needed to start something new and different, so I looked through the Knitting box calendar and found a pattern for a Baby Leaves Hat. I finished it on Friday. I probably should have used a solid color, but all the colors I had were too dark, so I just used up the last bit of the purple tweed that I had.

I have some comfortghan squares to make this coming week, and I'm looking for a simple baby hat to make out of some of my Vanna's choice yarn to use up some of that, and have a quick and satisfying projects. I may also pull out my Kaleidoscope ghan to get back to that. I'll have to figure out how many more motifs I'll need to make it the recommended size.

Tomorrow I'm having my official wedding ceremony with our parents, so not sure how much craft time I'll have. We had our ceremony and reception in October, but we didn't have a license because my SO was in the process of changing his last name. So tomorrow it will be official!!

Snowy Night

After a long night (3:30pm-1am) at work, I leave to find about 2 inches of snow covering my car. The snow started just before 10pm and just kept falling. Fortunately there weren't very many cars on the road at 1am, because the roads were a mess. There were no plows, and it was very hard to tell if any salt was put down. My street was definitely not touched, and it didn't look like anyone drove down it for a couple hours.

I've been working on 12 inch crocheted squares to join into lapghans for donation. So far I've completed two ghans.

Baby Goodies

One of my close friends is having a baby next month!! Her shower was in November this past year, and of course I had to make her some goodies!! She's having a boy and the theme of the party was the Alphabet.

I whipped up this blanket in no time. Well, it seemed to go quick, but I worked on it every waking moment since I was a bit of a procrastinator.

I also put together a Diaper Cake at my sister's request.

Everyone admired both gifts and of course my friend loved them!

Fingerless Mitts!

Sometime in December while working on the computer I decided I could use something to keep my hands warm. So I looked up a pattern for fingerless mitts. A friend pointed me to the New Moon Alice Mitts. It is such a nice pattern.

This is the first pair I made. I couldn't find a color that I wanted to make for myself, so my cousin asked for Black & White stripes which I had, so hers were up first.

Next I made my own, which of course I don't have a picture for. Mine are a burgundy color.

I got orders from a couple friends, sister, and my other cousin. Multi-color for a friend, solid black for another (no picture), blue for my cousin, and purple tweed for another friend.

I also made an orange and green pair for my sister and another black stripes for her boyfriend. Don't have a picture of his yet either.

Blankets to Donate

I taught my sister to crochet granny square last year so she picked up some yarn and had a ball. She made lots of squares. I think 195 squares total: half green and half blue.

It was my task to join them. I started this task on our Girls Weekend in April. I used a join-as-you-go method that I made up while I was working on it. I continued with another granny round, but would sc in the ch1 spaces for the sides to be joined to one another.

The first one I finished on January 9 with a Cafe colored border.

And the second one I finished today with a Rose colored border.

There are a lot of ends to weave in, but I'm not up for that task. She'll have to learn to do it, or ask the ladies at the Church she's donating the blankets to help her with that.

My sister is having a ball with the granny pattern, so she'd been making Giant Granny Ghans lately. I've been whipping up 12 inch squares that I'll join to donate.

Start of 2011

Since I'm such a slacker with this blog, I think I'm going to do something quick and easy and just list the projects that I have going right now and the ones that I have planned for sometime this year.

Crochet
- Edging on baby blankets
- GGG for donation
- Kaleidoscope, add more to current ghan
- 12 inch squares to be made into lapghans for donation
- Becky's squares joined into an afghan

- Halloween ornaments

Knitting

- Pink sparkle hat for gal at work

- Mini stockings and Christmas Ornaments

- Tree of Life baby ghan

Sewing

- Color books for a few little ones