Saturday, February 19, 2011

Snowflake Saturday - Feb. 19

I don't know if any of you are on Ravelry but if you spend any time knitting or crocheting then you should be!  It is a community entirely dedicated to the yarn arts, including spinning yarn.  I could spend months on that site.  Lots of patterns by some wonderful designers.  Even better, it is free to join.  Even better...lots of patterns only available to ravelry members!
So why do I tell you all of this?  Simple.  My next four snowflakes are coming from a Ravelry designer named Christine Blair.  She has kindly offered up a free leaflet of snowflake designs from her Ravelry store TXCr1cket Creations   The leaflet is called Four Tiny Snowflakes and is worked in size 10 thread and uses a size 6 steel hook.  Unfortunately, without a Ravelry account, you can't get the patterns because they aren't offered elsewhere that i could find.  (Some designers post both on a personal blog and on Ravelry, like me!)  Will post a pick of each snowflake over the next 4 weeks.

Unfortunately, I haven't done the first one yet....but I will....and soon!  Come back to check it out or just download the pdf pattern and make your own!


Until next time,

Monday, February 14, 2011

FO

Just a few pictures of my recent projects.  Still not back into blogging, but baby steps folks!
Just a simple V-day display on the shelf in my hallway.  About $2 invested in this.  I found the Love wooden plaque (actually a picture frame with the heart being the frame) at Michael's for a buck.  Brought it home and painted it.  I bought the clay pots at the Dollar Tree 3 for a buck and painted it.  i used a scrap piece of wooden dowel from a previous (failed) project for the tree trunk and some leftover styrofoam balls from one of my VBS craft projects.  The flowers are construction paper roses.  You know the ones, cut out circles then cut spirals out of the circle, roll up the spiral.  Made a ton of those and hot glued them onto the styrofoam ball.  Hot glue a second ball into the bottom of the pot, glue dowel rod into the ball and add some moss to hide it.  I like how it turned out!


A simple knit stuffie for Princess A.  You can find the pattern at Stitching 'n' Knitting.  You have to scroll down and look on the left hand side for their free patterns and then click the link for Little Hearts.  It is a PDF pattern.  It was my first time casting on this way and using a kitchener stitch. 





This little guy got stuffed into an envelope with a V-day card for K.  It is called Grandma Heart and the pattern can be found at The Royal Sisters.  Mine is done in thread and a size 7 (1.65 mm) hook.

This bookmark is a new pattern of mine.  Not sure if I like it or not.  Each tassel has a bead at the bottom.  i do know that I am not fond of the tassel part, to bulky for my taste.  Still, I think H will like it.


And this one is my favorite!  This irascible guy is for Little Man J.  Mr. Sunflowers has requested several for himself as well.  You can't see it well in this pic but the nose pokes out above his mouth also.  The pattern called for google eyes, but the ones i had on hand weren't big enough.  Fortunately I found these eyes from my attempt at a polymer clay doll and put them to use here.  You can find the patter for this guy at  Sandyfroglegs Designs.  The pattern calls for a pierced tongue which isn't going to happen in this house so i left that out.  i also made a few minor alterations to shape the face more to my liking.  He works up larger than he looks with a width of about 2 inches.  I may give him a go in thread and see how that turns out.

Happy Love Day!

Until next time,

Saturday, February 12, 2011

snowflake Saturday - February 12

I almost forgot to design and post a snowflake this week.
"Big surprise," you say after looking around the blog lately and noticing that I haven't been posting much at all.
"Don't judge!  I have kids I have to take care of and and house to clean and a huge list of stuff to do! (pauses) and I have been neglecting you, dear readers.  (hangs head) so sorry.  Can you forgive me?"  This is where you say it will all be okay and tell me knot to worry about it.

Okay, not that that is out of the way.  Here is this weeks pattern.

Size 10 crochet cotton (bedspread weight)
 size 7 (1.65 mm) hook


ch 6, join to form a circle

ch 5, dc in circle, *2dc, ch 2,   repeat from * 4 times  work 1 dc and then join to 3rd dc of first chain.  (6 ch 2 spaces and 12 dc)


sl st into first ch 2 space,( ch 3, 2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) all in the same ch 2 space.  in remaining ch 2 spaces work (3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) join to top of the ch 3 and fasten off.


stiffen the snowflake using your preferred method.Until next time,

Friday, February 4, 2011

Snowfake Saturday - Feb 5

I made it to two snowflakes, only 50 more to go!  Would love for you to let me know what you think of it!

You will need:
size 10 (bedspread weight) crochet cotton
size 7 (1.65 mm) crochet hook

Pattern:
*Ch 6, sl st into first ch repeat from * 5 more times. You should have 6 loops.


Sl st in first 3 chains, *ch 6, sl st in 3rd chain from hook, ch 3, sl st into next loop of the first round. Repeat from * 4 more times. Ch 6, sl st in 3rd chain from hook, ch 3, sl st into the 3rd chain of the first round (this is the chain that your first ch 6 of this round originated from) fasten off and weave in ends.

again, this is a little snowflake, measuring about 1 1/2 inches across.  Hope you enjoy it!
Until next time,