My daughters are fighting over this. MissC wants to hug him and squeeze him and call him, “George.” MissB’s favorite color is purple, and, well, the universe revolves around her, therefore Mommy must have made this for her. I was just using up yarn and trying the pattern book. They’re insisting that I make all the dolls. And, TJ wants a mouse for Hep Cat to play with.
Could there be a better name for the pattern for our pastor’s wife? I was going to use white ribbon, but the pink gave it something. I did add buttons, I just forgot to take a picture of it finished.
She’ll be here tomorrow.
I had to look it up, I’m kinda visual.
The Star Stitch is really pretty, though.
My dear friend, Susan, gave me some pink baby yarn a few years ago that had been her grandmother’s. I would love to make Susan something special and pink for her baby(-ies) with it, but it’s wool (thankfully, superwash). She hates finicky laundry. I’m still thinking of making her something for a girl, but I’m not sure how it would go over. And, there’s only so much yarn! I’m sure I could get two or three baby sweaters out of it, but her youngest girl is now over a year old. I’ll really have to dig through my books for a sweater of fingering weight for that size. Hahaha: I just walked over to the bookshelf and the first thing I pulled off was an old Workbasket magazine with a size 2 crochet sweater on the cover in baby pink 3-ply! It calls for 6 1 ounce skeins and these are 1 3/4 ounce skeins, so it should only take like 4!
My pastor and his wife are expecting number five. They have four boys and the scan shows this one as a girl. Can you imagine the excitement? I asked her what her color(s) are and she simply said, “Pink.”
Looks like I’ll have enough to make both, but I’d better get to it. I can only stand So. Much. Pink. for so long.
Wow! Miss B really looks like little Cow, doesn’t she? (That’s baby BB in the photo, her face can be seen on the pattern page)
Finally got around to moving my soaker pattern here! Woolly Britches are available for your crocheting pleasure. My photos aren’t very organized (yes, they’re all digital) so I’m having trouble finding the one that goes in the middle of the page (Ben, help?)
That’s the original WB soaker that I made in 2004. Maybe I should take a new photo and show how well it’s aged. It went through the wash (oops) and shrunk a little, but still works great for Miss C.
I saw this neat bag while blog-hopping. It’s such a fun, simple idea. I’m working on making one myself. Only, I would like it to have a square or rectangular base and be able to hold more, so I’m thinking a button closure or some such. I’ll have the ties just be ribbon or crochet from the base (not sewn to the bag, like I think hers are).. And, maybe button the bag to the base so they come apart for easy washing.
So, last night I began crocheting the base. I finished it about lunchtime today. This afternoon, I’ve been working on the bag. I had just gotten the basic bag together - the lining was just stitched into the bottom - when BB came in and said, “My pockie!”
She snatched that thing so fast and ran off to play with, “My pockie!” I snapped this picture of her having her “lunch” from the bag.
I Finally learned how to do the crab stitch (AKA Reverse Crochet, I hate sending you to about.com because of their popups!!! so, I’ll link directly to the images for the helpful part)
First put the hook through the next st opposite your working direction (if you’re going right to left, as usual, then insert through the next st to the right)
Then, pull the loop through under the working loop! I actually twist my hook to get them to ’switch places’! This is where the twist comes from! This image was the ~AH HA~ that I needed!
Then just yo and pull through as usual. So now I have the crab st in my st vocabulary to use on the lunchbag pattern (a la twelve 22) I’m making!!
My son ran in from the backyard carrying a package clearly marked JoAnn Fabrics. The delivery man apparently tried the front and when we didn’t answer went around to set it on the side yard (they usually just dump them in the bushes next to the front door). In the time it took him to go from front to side, I went from backyard indoors.
The children were utterly fascinated with the new setup. This is the only unwound yarn that I had, so I tried the swift out. Almost all my handwound balls have been rewound with the ballwinder.
I was wandering about online and came across a fruit & veggy playset pattern. I wanted to get her Soaker Sleep Sack anyway, so I figured ‘What the hey!’
How does a homeschooling stay-at-home-wife hide that she’s trying to make a Christmas present all afternoon? I don’t, I found out. While sneakily stuffing the half dozen fruits and vegetables that I’d already crocheted, BB came up and started trying to help and AJ was wanting to know what it was. They ended up running off with the bag of 3 or 4 vegetables while I was trying to finish up the rest of them.
These things make up so quick! I’d done all five vegetables and an apple to the stuffing point, so they were picking food off me and running off to play with it as I finished the touches. While they were playing, I made another apple and started the strawberry. Then dinner. Then I finished the strawberry and AJ requested the watermelon -she’d found the pattern picture. I don’t have enough orange yarn right now to make them, but I’d like to do another carrot or two and the orange. There’s also a plum in the pattern, which I could make, but I think a bag and 9 food items in one day is all I can handle today! And, I still need to add the seeds to the watermelon.
There’s also a tropical fruits pattern, but I don’t want to spend the extra $$ today. I’d love to have a banana and that pineapple, though.. Maybe I’ll wing it sometime. I also want grapes. I was thinking whilst making some fruit that it would be so easy to just do bobbles all over and -voila- grapes.
note: I changed the bag pattern to have 2 handles. My children like to wear things either around the neck (which is not allowed) or around both shoulders, so I thought I’d keep the short handles, but put two so they could wear it on one shoulder like Mommy or on both shoulders. To do this, I worked the dc border halfway around (there are 16 triangles over the diamonds, I went across 8 of them), then slip stitched back across 4 of the triangles and started the handle, worked it for about 10 inches, then slip stitch joined it to the beginning 3 dcs so that the last sl st ends up on the first dc, then I continued to dc (purl dc, really) the other way around and joined to the last dc from the first half, turned and worked the other handle from that point (9th triangle from original beginning, or 8th triangle from direction just worked) and connected it to the third triangle from there. I sl stitched to the beginning and joined/fastened off.
So, that means that the handles are worked -above the dcs- over 4 triangles.. start in one, skip 2, end in last. Then there are 4 triangles that the sl sts are worked over, then handle (start in one, skip 2, end in 4th), then 4 triangles that sl sts are worked over.
I also worked the carrot top differently. I wanted it to look more like carrot leaves, so I worked: 5 ch, sl st in 4th ch from hook, 6 ch, sl st in 5th ch from hook, sl st in next 2 (to be in same as the first sl st), 4 ch, sl in same place, sl st in next 2, repeat twice, increase length of leaves to your desire.
Why haven’t I written? Well, I still need to take pictures of the 2 dresses and quilt I’ve made, but I’ve been busy with homeschooling and handwork. Here’s a summary of the beginning of December (plus, there’s still stuff in the works!):
I need to starch the snowflakes, but they are #1-4 of the 99 Snowflakes publication.
2 bookthongs (of the 5 or 6 I made), 2 were given to Ben’s friend the night I made them, then I made the others for fun.
The pineapple bookmark, and the one below, are from the Icicle Bookmark pattern online.
The hearts are cute, but the pattern was a tiny bit confusing.
The socks are for AJ for Christmas. They’re the “My Little Angel” pattern from SocksSocksSocks done in Lorna’s Laces: Buck’s Bar colorway (yes, the same yarn I tried to make my Jaywalkers from, now I’m just trying to use it up!!).
Tuesday, I decided to try crocheting up a pair of longies for the baby.
As modeled by the 2.5yo. She doesn’t wear diapers, so I figured she could give me a good approximation of whether the pants’ll fit on a littler one over a diaper. Looks like it may be a tight fit.. and the legs may be too long! The pattern is “Peppermint Twist Pants” from Crochet for Tots.
The closeup shows the 2 sides of the fabric when working Purl hdc every other row, hdc the rest of the rows. I’ll add this to my Purl Crochet page.
