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!

Stash Busting Saturday!!!

Stash Busting Project # 1

Ribbon Afghan

Stash Busting Prject # 2

Granny Ripple

Are you working on some stash busting projects??? If you are please add your link below :)

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!

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.

Snow Day!!!!!!

This is what I woke up to at 5:30 in the morning. Sure is beautiful outside...  But from what I hear the driving is rough. I don't need to go anywhere, so I am staying home and off the roads. The kids are out of school for today. From the sounds of the weather reports, they will be out tomorrow as well. They are saying that we will be getting some freezing drizzle later and the temps are going to drop into the teens overnight.

I took this picture around 10am this morning. As of noon we were at 6 inches of snow. And it is still snowing out. This is a huge event for us. LOL!

And of course I didn't want to leave out crochet ......... Here is an updated photo of the Ribbon Afghan I have been working on.  This afghan has been a lot of fun to work on so far.

Have a great day Everyone :)

Setting Some Goals!

With the New Year here! It is time to set some goals!  And one of my goals is to use up all the yarn I have. :)

I have collected a lot of yarn. LOL! And it needs to be used up. So below you see my first 3 projects of 2011. Both afghans are being made up from stash yarn only. :)

This is my ribbon afghan. I am using up the yarn that was left from Kyra's ripple afghan. But I have also found a few more colors I had on hand to use on it as well. The pattern for this afghan can be found at The aventures of the Gingerbread Lady Blog.  This pattern looks like it will be a great way to use up a bunch of yarn :)

This is my Granny Ripple Afghan. This pattern can be found at Ravelry.  I have a few skeins of the green and blue in my stash as well as the soft white. :) Hopefully there is enough to make a medium sized afghan.

  My final project is a scarf. The red strip is done, except for weaving in the ends. the white strip is barly started. the white strip will eventually interlock with the red strip, and then I will be adding a strip of black.
This I am making from yarn that my dad and step mom gave me. They came up for a visit recently and brought me a rubbermade tote full of yarn. Most of it is red, black and white which are the school colors for where they live.

  Have a wonderful day everyone!