Ta Daaaa!!

Yay!! The baby afghan is finished. But, I ended up not following the pattern. I changed the edging on it.
I had started out making it with the pattern it called for, but decided I didn't like it that much. It is a beautiful afghan pattern. But it seems more geared torwards a girl with the ribbon edging. So since this is going to be for a boy, I changed it up. I did a DC and then finished it with the crab stitch.

 I hope that you can see the border in this picture. Its hard to get a good shot of this afghan.

And here it is, all done. :) Now to wrap it up and give it to mom and dad for their new baby. :)

Here is my beautiful daughter. :) She is sitting there doing her favorite thing. LOL! Can you guess what that is?

No, not sure yet?

Ahhhh! Yes, texting with her friends. LOL!

Oh and she is wearing her current favorite hat. She loves to wear hats. Reminds me of me when I was little. My mom had several hats for me. And I am sure I took some hats from others to wear. LOL!







Have a wonderful day everyone!!!

Progress :)

No, I am still not done with the baby afghan. But I have made some progress on it. I only need another dozen or so rows. Then I will put on the border. I still have not decided on a color for the ribbon.

 I love this color. :) It is Ivory. I hope the parents will also love it.

Here is one final picture to show you of the baby afghan. :)

This is another afghan I had been working on. Although this one is allready finished. It is just a medium sized Granny square style afghan.

I used an acrylic yarn in an off white, dusty rose and dusty blue.

Here is one last picture to share with you of this afghan. :) I will take a full size picture later.

Have a wonderful day everyone :)

Back to school shopping

 We got up and hit the road earlier this morning. It is tax free weekend here in the Carolinas.... So we did our back to school shopping. We went to the Outlet Mall in SC. They had some really great deals as well as Tax free.
 We went to Skechers to get some new shoes, which were on sale. Buy one pair, get second pair half off.  We actully ended up with 3 pairs. Kyra found 2 cute pairs of Tennis shoes for 20.00 each.
Sean found one pair that he really liked.
 We went to Aeropostale which is Kyra's favorite store. There she found a some nice jeans that were normally 40.00, but were on sale for 50% off. And then she found the shirts. LOL! They had a lot of shirts on sale for 8.99. So she was very pleased with her finds there. :) Sean on the other hand only found one outfit there that he really liked. He grabbed a nice tshirt and a long sleeve button down shirt to go with it. And he grabbed some jeans that he liked. Sean still had money left to spend so we went to Rue 21 where he found some nice tshirts.  So, the kids had a great time picking out there school cloths..And are ready to  go back to school. Although we still have 2 weeks before it actully starts. Even though we did find some really great deals there, we still have more things to get. But that will have to wait untill school actully starts. We need to get the real "School supply lists". I allready picked up a bunch of things I know they will need. But hopfully there isn't too much more that will be on the lists.

The baby afghan is still not done. But I am getting closer. I am just past the halfway point on the main part of the afghan. Then I will add the border. I am still deciding on the ribbon to add in the edging. Since it is for a baby boy..... I am considering a blue,yellow, green or brown ribbon. For those of you on Ravelry here is the link to the afghan I am working on. And here is the link for those that are not on Ravelry.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone :)

Started Over

Well, I decided I was not happy with my first go on the baby afghan. So I ripped it out and have started over. I also found I had made a mistake. I tried to fix the mistake, but it just made it look funny. So here is a new start on it. when I started it this time, I also used a bigger hook. It seems to be laying much flatter this time.

And here is another shot. A little bit of a closer view.

And here is another shot of the finished Scarecrow. :) I havn't decided what to do with him yet. I may give him away or hang onto him and use him in some sort of a decoration for Halloween.

Today started out really hot. But we had a storm come through and it cooled it down outside. Tomorrows forcasted high for us is only 90.... Today it was 96 with a heat index of 105-110. It was a hot one!
 Time to get back to work on the baby afghan. Only another 18 days to get it finished......

Testing... 1. 2. 3.........

I tested a pattern out for a friend. It turned out cute. :)  It is a Scare Crow Pumpkin. For those that crochet, the pattern should be avaliable soon in Dianes Etsy shop.

Here he is almost done. :)

Finally finished. Overall it only took a couple of hours to make this cute little guy. :)

Here is an update picture of the baby afghan. As you can see I didn't make too much progress on it. I worked on the Scarecrow pumpkin yesterday. So now it is time to get back to work on this afghan. The edges on this one are curling up some. So I am hoping that the edging will fix that issue. If not, I guess I will need to rip it out and figure out something else.

And one last note: For the person that stopped by and asked about the Round Ripple. I was unable to email you a reply as it did not save your email address. So I am posting a link here for a pattern to a Round Ripple.

I hope you see this and are able to work on a Round Ripple. :)

Round Ripple Afghan

The Race is on :)

I have a friend who is going to have a baby in Oct. They are having a boy and this is their first baby. I started working on a baby blanket for them last night. I had meant to get started on it earlier, but had been busy working on other projects. Now, I am running out of time. The baby shower is on Aug 22nd. So I only have 20 days to get this done. Here is a link to the pattern that I am using for this blanket. I am not sure if I will follow the pattern exactly. I am thinking about changing the edging up some from what she has.

Here is a close up to show you the stitches. I am using Hobby Lobbys, I Love This Yarn for this afghan. It is really soft, and seems to hold up pretty good. The color is "Ivory".

 Here is the Bold and Bright Ripple. I have not put much time into recently.

 And here is the other Ripple. I did add a few more rows to it since the last time I posted about it.I am over halfway done on this one now.

We had a pretty busy weekend this past weekend. The kids had movie night at church on Sat. They watched 2 movies and had pizza. Our Youth Pastor tends to keep the kids quite active. :) The little kids will be going to the Zoo on Wednesday. 

Almost done

The baby afghan is almost finished. :)

Baby Afghan, Peaches Pouches, Update on Hannah

Here is an updated picture of the baby afghan. I switched it over to a round version. :) It is a little over halfway done now.



These are more of the Pouches I am making for Amy. She uses a lot of them. :)



And now for Hannah. Its looking more likely that she will go East of us. We will still get some storms and rain from her, but nothing as serious as first thought. Right now she is still a tropical storm, but they expect she will be a cat 1 hurricane soon.Next on the list is Ike..... But they aren't really sure where he will be heading. A possable hit on Fla or if we are all lucky he will just turn and head back out into the Atlantic. Currant status on Ike is that he is a cat 4.