Back to work?

I can't believe I haven't crocheted anything since I finished the coffee cozy/coaster set! It's been probably a little over 2 weeks since I've worked on anything. I think it's the longest I've gone w/out since I started!! Of course once I start really blogging on it... ;) I've just been spending so much time on the computer reading and writing blogs...

I almost got to go to a real yarn store today! I usually have to settle for getting all my yarn at Wal-Mart. There's one small craft store in town, and they have a nice selection of yarn, but they're kind of snooty. And the aisles are too small for a stroller... In searching for something else online I ran across the address for a fiber store in a town about an hour away. Well, we decided to go to the Wal-Mart in that town today and I planned on dropping in at the fiber store... it turned out that they were closed :( I will have to call and find out their hours... I've almost driven to that town just to go to the fiber store - glad I didn't if they don't hold regular business hours.

Anyway - I'll just have to post a picture of my daughter in my favorite hat that I crocheted her :) It's so adorable! I spent the few months before I had her making hats and booties :) did I mention obsessively??

Coaster/Cozy Set

Here is a picture of the coaster/coffee cozy X-Mas gifts that I made for some of the adults on my list... they turned out pretty cute. I got the pattern from a Crochet magazine. It called to satin stitch a candy cane on the coaster and cozy, but I omitted that so it didn't have to be just for Christmas :)

Anyway, the crocheting has been going pretty slow lately... I worked my butt off up until x-mas to crank everything out on time... now I'm just working on a hat and then will get back to projects I started before the x-mas rush :)

X-Mas Crocheting

I spent the months of Oct-Dec madly crocheting items for neices/nephews and other family members for Christmas gifts.

I made hats for all of my husband's neices and nephews, of which there's quite a few. I made a hat for my nephew and then made some American Girl doll clothes for my two older neices (hats, scarves, pants, a jumper and a dress), and then hats for my youngest neices. Then I made this coaster/cozy set from a crochet magazine for my husband's mom and step-dad, my mom, my step-daughter's mom, and my sister's mother-in-law. I had intended on making all of them a set of two, but I was under the wire and just barely got done with one of each for everyone (except my husband's parents-since there was two of them). I had wanted to make my two youngest neices (both toddlers) these cute piggyback animals that I purchased patterns for online (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7636820) but unfortunately ran myself out of time! And due to running myself out of time, I did not get pics of the cute little cloche hats I ended up making my little nieces, and didn't get any pics of the coaster/cozy sets... but I am in the process of making one for myself, so I'll post a pic of that when I get it done here in the next couple of days.
So now I'm back to all the projects I started or wanted to start (or finish) before Christmas! :) I started a shawl for my 10 year old daugter - I was thinking of making shawls for all the nieces but after starting the one for my daughter realized that it would take way too long! Maybe I'll start now for next year ;) And I have one baby blanket for my baby daughter that is almost finished - I have one strip left to sew on... I didn't really like the way it turned out anyway... so it's been on the backburner for quite a while now. I should have made the new year's resolution of finishing all the projects I've started ;)

New Blogspot

Hi! I had started a crochet blog a while ago on blogdrive http://kscrochet.blogdrive.com/, but it was really cumbersome to add pictures - which of course with a crochet blog you want to be able to add and handle pictures easily! I've been using blogger for my "family" blog for a while and am pretty happy with the way posting and pictures work, so welcome to my new crochet blog! I will hopefully be posting much more often here!