Happy Weekend

Here is another scrappy potholder. I love making these with my scrap cotton. Each one gets its own unique look. :)

Here is the Purple afghan again. :) It sure has grown. I am now close to the halfway point on it. :)

Hello Rainy Day!

It has been a cloudy and rainy day today. The rain has come off and on all day. A really nice day after all the high heat we have been dealing with. Was near 100 most of the week. Too hot to really be outside.

A recent project. Just a regular granny square afghan. Love making these from time to time.

I am making another one simular to this one. Only I am using grey and yellow in place of the pink/ mauve in this one.

 We have had a really hot summer so far. How about everyone else?

Stormy Friday

We had a pretty bad storm blow through last night. Ended up with us sitting in the hallway for awhile, away from all the windows.  Fortunately it passed by and we are all ok here. And today; it is storming all over again. All though so far just a normal thunderstorm. Nothing severe yet. Hoping with all this stormy weather we don't lose anymore trees. Was  really sad when the apple tree came down awhile ago. But we are glad to see that it is attempting to come back.

So with all the rain coming down outside...... I am working on this. A cute little baby dress. Sorry about the picture, but it is rather dark outside. It seems to be a really easy dress to make. I found the pattern on Ravelry. You can find the pattern here . This one is coming out bigger than I had hoped. So I think I will be making another one after this one is done. But I will be using a baby yarn instead. The pattern called for WW, aran or bulky and H or I hook. So, I think I will use an F or a G hook with the baby yarn. :)

This is a set of flower dishcloths I made a little while ago. They were super fast. :)  The pattern for this was one of those free tear off sheats at Micheals.

Hope everyone is having a great day :)

A few more projects

A cupcake Bunny cake! :)

I made these cupcakes recently for a dinner at church. The kids loved it. :)

Breeze Ripple Afghan

I am always starting up new projects. LOL! Above is a new ripple afghan.

Sugarplum Ripple

And yes here is yet another ripple afghan.

I still have my Round Ripple afghan to work on as well. But I havn't done any work on that one latly. I need to though. I would like to get it finished so I can give it as a gift to someone. :)

We recently had some really bad storms come through NC. Here is a picture of some of the hail we received. We were fortunate that we had no damage here with the storms that came through last weekend.

The hail picture is from the storm that we had come through two weeks ago.  Today is looking like it will be a beautiful day in the 80's....... And they are telling us we have another round of storms coming in this week. Seems like it is going to be a bad year for spring storms.

Spring Round Ripple

My Newest Round Ripple.

I started a new round ripple. This one seems to be more of spring colors. So I am calling it  My Spring Round Ripple. I will be adding some white next and then a round of the verrigated again. After that I will be adding some green that matches the green in the verrigated. :)

Cookies and Cream

I found a really cute cookbook at the store recently for cupcakes and cakes. So I tried some of thm out. Above is the cookies and cream.. It is made with chocolate cake mix, oreao cookies, white frosting and marshmallow cream. There is also a cream filled center. :) YUM!

Tie Dye Cupcakes

I aslo tried out the Tie Dye cupcakes. :) They were a lot of fun to make. I used white cake mix and a lot of food coloring.

Blended Scraps Ripple Finished!!! And a few other projects :)

So here it is!! All finished. YAY! I finally added the last few rows needed to finish this afghan. I love it!

There are more pictures on my facebook page and in my Etsy shop.   I will be starting another ripple afghan soon. But this new one has planned out colors.

Here is Petunia. She is here just in time for Easter :)  I actully finished her awhile ago. But am finally getting around to getting some  pictures of her. You can see more pictures of her here and here.

And finally here are a bunch of dishcloths I have finished. :) I have been making a lot of dishcloths lately.

I found the round dishcloth pattern at http://www.bestfreecrochet.com/ .

Maggie Weldon is doing 365 days of crochet dishcloths. And she is providing patterns everyday for different dishcloths.

Just a Rainy Saturday

The latest update on my Blended Scraps Ripple Afghan. I just finished adding the reds. :)

This afghan is almost done. YAY!!

Here is something completly new to me. The above project is freeform crochet. There is a group on Ravelry that is doing this. Each day we get a new set of instructions to follow. And each day is also done by a different person. Has been fun so far. And ?I have no idea what the final outcome will be on this project...

Today was softball tryouts for Kyra. :) We should get a call sometime tomorrow to let us know which team she will be on. We are looking forward to softball season starting up again. :)

FINISHED!!!

 YAY!! I finsihed the Ribbon afghan today! I am so happy with it. :)

I added just a plain white border. No fancy stitches. I wanted the colors to stand out in this one and didn't want the border to take away from them.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Ribbon Afghan Update!

 I am moving right along on this one again. :) I am getting close to being finished. I think. LOL!  Will be adding several more rows and then adding a few rounds to the edging. I do believe after looking at it a lot, I will be finishing it off with the white. :)  I really do love all the fun colors in this one. And I can see I will still have a lot of those colors left over when this afghan is finished. So I need to figure out what I will make with what is left after this. Maybe a hexagon blanket? Or maybe another ripple of some sort. Choices. LOL

Have a wonderful day!

Friday is here!

So Friday is finally here! But we have a very busy weekend ahead of us.

As you can see above I was able to add a little more work to the ribbon afghan.

I found another darker purple and decided to go ahead and add it in as well. So far I think I like the addition.

For those of you thinking about making this.... And you are worried about weaving in all those ends...

Heres an idea for you. Instead of worry about weaving in the ends. What about turning them in too fringe?

The actual pattern does not include aborder. I am just going to add one on. So, if you like afghans with fringe it wouldn't be such a task at the end. Or if you don't want the fringe, just crochet the ends in as you go. I could have done that. LOL! But I decided to wait.

 Even though I wasn't going too.... I did start yet another project.... I found some really pretty purple Kashmere and decided to make another Prayer Shawl. I didn't have enough of the purple so I added in some white. This one will be going to a friend of mine at church. Her favorite color is purple.

I do like this yarn, it is super soft. Unfortunatly Bernat discontinued it. :( Luckily before it was gone, I did get a bunch of it. I just never thought to get a larger amount of each of the colors. Next time I will know better. :)

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

Ribbon Afghan Update!

Now that the Prayer Shawl is done, I was able to pick up the Ribbon afghan again. Yay! This one is so much fun with all of the colors. :) I have decided that I will just crochet all those ends in when I add the border to this afghan. The question is...... What color should the border be? Aran? White? Or should I add a black border? I really am not sure what I want to do. I was orignally thinking the Aran. But then I added some white into the stripes and thought it was really pretty. And the black would make all the colors stand out. BUT, would the black take away from the overall effect of colors in it now?

Here is a different angle to show you all the colors that are in the afghan. I did decide to add another color into it. I will be added another shade of brown to it today. :) Can't wait to see how it will look in there.

And this is a gift I received for Christmas. What a great gift it is. Loads of room to store my yarn and project. And there are a lot of pockets to put things into as well. :) Right now I have all the yarn for the Ribbon afghan in there. It fits in perfectly.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

New Finished Project!!

Here it is!!! The Prayer shawl I posted about earlier. :) I finished it today.  Good thing, they need it Wednesday. YAY! It was a pretty simple pattern to work up.

Check out this tangled up mess. I need to somehow figure it out and get it all wond up so it can be used for another project.

Busted!~

So the plan was to atleast finish off one of the three projects I have been working on BEFORE starting another one..... Well...... That didn't happen. Something has come up and I am working on a new project. But... It is for a good reason. :)

 Above you can see a closer view of the project I am working on. It is a prayer shawl.

You can find the pattern here. 

 We have a special event coming up at church next weekend. And we will be decorating in a winter theme.

So I am using Bernat Softee in Pale Blue and Baby Denim Marl. I am making it with two strands held together.

  And... To go along with the fact that I started a new project. I also had to buy a skein of yarn. LOL! I needed the pale blue to go with the Denim Marl I am using in this shawl.  I really didn't want to have to buy any more yarn. But this was needed to finish the project. Atleast it is going to get used up right away. :)




 Have a great Day Everyone!


Stash Busting Group

Oh Wednesday!

Granny Ripple!

Just love this afghan! So easy to work up. About to be at the halfway point with this one now. Then to add an edging to it. :) I am using Red Heart yarn in Aran, Med Thyme, and Windsor Blue. I am making it 3 rows of Aran and then 5 rows each of Windsor Blue and Med Thyme.

Ribbon Afghan!

This one is also a lot of fun to make. :) Such an easy pattern. Once you have the first couple of rows done, its just a repeat the rest of the way through. I am not sure of all the names of the colors in this one. I am just using up a lot of my stash yarn for it.

I have another skein of a brown color, that I am considering adding to the mix in this one. I have two shades of brown in it now, and Aran. I have tons of skeins of Aran. So I guess I will be using that in a lot of my scrap along projects.

 I have not done any more work on the scarf I posted about earlier. I will get back to it again soon. :) Been really wanting to work on these two afghans.....

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Back to School :)

 The kids were finally able to go back to school today. They were out all week last week due to snow and ice. Kyra was happy to go back and see her friends at school. Sean on the other hand, was not to thrilled. He has exams to make up now.

Mr Noah playing with his favorite toy.

Do you remember this one? I posted about it not to long ago. This is my Granny Ripple. I picked it back up to add a few rows on it. :)

This afghan isn't as wide as I normally do, so I think I will be adding an edging to it when I get finished. I am aiming for it to fit a twin sized bed.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Monday!

I was able to get a lot done on the Ribbon afghan this weekend. :)

This pretty much shows all the colors I am using in this afghan. I may add another shade of brown. A medium color brown color.

 Its finally looking like the kids will be able to go back to school again. Hopfully tomorrow. Sean has exams to make up when he goes back. A week off from school is going to be a little tough to make up.  Kyra dosn't have any tests to make up, but she will be starting 2nd semester classes soon.

Kyra wrapped up in her Christmas blanket.

 Have a wonderful day everyone!

A Quiet Weekend!

 It has been a quiet weekend at home. I have done some more work on the Ribbon afghan. :) I really love the way the colors are laying out so far.

Have a great afternoon :)

Still Snowy & Icy

Some of the Ice hanging off of our roof. It is melting this afternoon though. Hopfully we will have clear roads here realyl soon. Part of our road is still a sheet of ice. But I was able to get out today. Lucky for us, we have two entrances on our driveway. One goes to the part of the road that is still solid ice. The other entrance is mostly clear. Once I got off of our street, the roads to the store were fine.

Above are photos of my first pair of finished crocheted gloves. I found the pattern at Redheart.com

It was pretty  easy to follow. I made a few changes to them as I went along. And they are now heading to my Aunt in Michigan. :) Hopfully she likes them really well.

And here is the latest on the Ribbon afghan. I keep finding other colors to add in. So this one will end up being very colorful. For those that would like to find it. Here is the link to the pattern again. :)

Ribbon afghan

Have a wonderful day everyone!!

  

Still on a Snow Break

So we are still on an extended weekend here. The snow turned to freezing rain/drizzle on Monday night. So we woke up to an icy mess on Tuesday morning.  It started to melt  during the afternoon only to refreeze overnight. It looks to be melting out there today. So maybe, just maybe the kids can go back to school tomorrow. We will just have to wait and see. I certainly hope it melts soon... I would like to get out of the house again. :)

Here is the latest update on my Ribbon afghan. I am still enjoying this one. :) So many pretty colors in it allready. And if I find some more I like, I may add to it as I go along. I decided to add a few random rows of white in there to break up the colors. As for the rest of the colors, I don't really have a set pattern as to how I add them in. Just putting them in where I think they look nice. :)

 Hope everyone is having a good week so far.