Christmas Gifts I Made This Year

              The first gift I worked on this holiday season was my sister Britney's weather scarf. She is going to school for meteorology, so I thought it would be cute if she could tell the weather everyday with her scarf. I'm glad she liked it and I look forward to seeing it in her outdoor weather casts in the future.

              The second gift I finished was this skull scarf for my sister Magan. She was unavailable to model it so Mike was kind enough to volunteer. There are skull beads crocheted into the fabric and the ends of the scarf are about 5 inches of just black with no skulls. 

                 The next one, Meredith sent me a picture of some finger less gloves that she liked. They had scales and changed color fluidly as the went up. Unfortunately the author of the image did not include a pattern so I had to wing it. This is my result, they do not change colors as fluidly, but I think they have a neat look. She liked them and that's all that's important. I really liked them so even if she didn't I would hang on to them =)

                For her boyfriend, who is the before mentioned Mike, I made a blue and white hat. He gave me the yarn a couple weeks ago, so I gave it back to him in the form of a scarf. 

This is the last big gift I finished was this cat for my nanny. The body is just a rectangle folded and sewed together to make legs. The head is a hourglass shaped piece, folded in half, and sewn. The ears are made by pushing the poly-fil out of the corners and sewing across

I found the pattern here: http://marmaladerose.blogspot.com/2009/04/crochet-kitten-pattern.html

I also made a lady bug bookmark, but unfortunately I don't have a picture of it. Post again soon =)

Crocheting Cables

I have been wanting to make cables for a long time now and finally looked up how to do them in crochet :) normally it is primarily associated with knitting and since I am not very good at knitting I am glad it can be replicated in crochet. I think These will eventually make very nice finger-less gloves.

 I found the basic instructions at http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa062798.htm  . The cable itself is front and back post stitches, where you skip 3 stitches and then go back after doing the next 3 stitches. The fabric on either side of the cable is made up of half-double crochets.

Reengineering a Pattern my Grandmother Taught me

Years ago when I was about 10 my grandmom was having trouble finishing the baby blanket for one of my cousin's babies. So she taught me the pattern which she called the shadow box stitch and I finished it under her guiding hand. She made these baby blankets with a beautiful pastel rainbow yarn and since then I have been looking for the pattern. I have been unable to find it, but today while messing around I was able to partially recreate it :) I think it came out pretty ok and makes me want to whip up some rainbow colored baby blankets.

Gameboy Color Backpack

About 10 inches wide and more than 20 inches high.

Its funny, of all the colors gameboy comes in, orange is not one if them

 :) I didn't notice this until after and I think its kinda funny

I Finally Finished My Sister's Wedding Afghan

Finally :) its done after 5 months of on and off work. I'm glad that I finally got to give it to her. The look on her face and the pride off finally finishing it made the time and effort I put into it more than worth it.
I probually will not make another one of these until one of my other siblings anounces their engagement :) but I'd deffinetly do it again for one of them.
That's it for now :) post again soon

Happy Birthday to me!! :D

I made a cute little piece of birthday cake :) I will hopefully be putting up a pattern soon. Post again soon :)

Experimenting With a Swirl Border Idea

               I started in each corner with a different color, really low with 3 single crochets, then 3 half double crochets, then 3 double crochets, and then lastly 3 triple crochets.

               Then  3 more triple crochets to make it to the corner. I did that for each color and then continued with the first again. (This is where you on going to start crocheting on the tops of the other colors)

               I then *ch1, tr1, ch1, tr1, ch1, tr1, ch1, tr1* in the same stitch as the triple crochet in the corner. This should get you around the corner of the Granny Square or blanket. I did this for each of the colors and then went back to the first.

              The rest was just triple crocheting until I got to the part you had done the chains before and then doing the triple and chain pattern again until you reached the regular triple crochets on the other side.

               When I got each color to wrap around the times around that I wanted and had then gotten around the last turning set of ch and triples, I did 6 triple crochets, 3 double crochets, 3 half double crochets, and 3 single crochets. I then (after taking the picture below) fastened off with a slip stitch.

                :) increase the number of the singles, half doubles, doubles and triples in the beginning, if the thing you're bordering is bigger and you want the angle for the color rising to be smooth from corner to corner.

                Have fun with it and see what you can do. Post again soon :)

New Yarn Bombing

                   This is the newest yarn bomb that I have done =) I made a black band to fit tightly around the pole and then a blue rectangle. I then pressed the middle of the blue rectangle together and secured it with a long chain with two rows of single crochets on each side. Then I sewed the bow to the band using blue yarn.  

Yarn Bombed Again =)

This is the yarn bomb that I did the night before last on my campus =) 

Magan's Wedding Blanket

             I'm started making my sister Magan a weeding gift before her wedding. It's a blanket with her and her now husband's name and the date of there wedding. This is what it looked like a little while ago. 

This is what the chart that I designed looked like

                This is what I have finished so far, as of this morning. Unfortunately I ran out of grey yarn this week, but I'm very excited to get back to it, so it should be done soon. =)

Finished Coral Reef Display

             Here is the final coral reef display  The last thing we added were the words coral reef project, the yellow seahorse, and the contributors sheet. The words did get a little wet, because of the rain and my not rain proof back pack. 

              Hope you like it =) and if your a student or alumni at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Metropolitan Campus, you can go take a look at it. It is right across from the front reception desk in the library and it looks much cooler in person. 

 

I'll post again soon. Feel free to ask me any questions in comments =)