Slippers for Grandson-2013

These are called Duck Boots. Aren't they the cutest? They are for my grandson for Christmas. His foot measures 7" from tip of big toe to heal. These look really small, but I measured them and they are 7 inches if you stretch them just a tad for that half inch more.

Pattern comes from this book:

Slippers, and other Christmas projects-November 2013

For my mom for Christmas. I'm really liking this pattern and have made a couple pair so far. I think I am going to make a couple more pairs.

For my Bible Study ladies.

Minion fingerless gloves for my grandson and his daddy. Too cute! Here is the link where I got the FREE pattern:
http://tampabaycrochet.blogspot.com/2013/11/free-crochet-pattern-minion-mitts.html

So these aren't crochet but I made them for all of my Bible study ladies. Aren't they too stinkin cute? They are made out of socks. Here is the link: http://www.darkroomanddearly.com/2011/12/10th-day-of-christmas-sock-snowmen.html

October 2013-Doll Clothes

I'm making my grand daughters doll clothes for Christmas. I bought them each an 18 inch doll and refused to buy the clothes for them! So now I am making them. This is the first attempt:

This is very BRIGHT! And I used a bit bigger yarn than the pattern called for. Hopefully it will fit the doll. I haven't taken the dolls out to try on the dress. I'm hoping to make each doll 3 outfits. We will see how much time I have.

Here's the next one I made:

Here's the pattern book I'm using:

I didn't make the hat, shoes or purse. I think they would just get lost and be a waste of time.

October 2013

I made these slippers for a special someone for Christmas. I thought they turned out cute. The first one(on the right of the picture) kind of turned out a bit wonky, but when I tried it on it fits comfortably so I decided to go with it. The color is called Antique Teal. I used a light gray for the contrast color in the tie. The pattern came from this book:

I'm teaching a friend how to crochet and she wants to make headbands for her friends for Christmas. I'm not a headband wearer but I'm sure my young friend will rock these! I had my husband take a picture of it on my head and he had to make sure he got the flower! I'm definitely not rockin the band! ha!






I got the pattern from this book:

Unfortunately when I bought this book I didn't realize that the young girl on the cover is actually YOUNG! As in she has a smaller head than most adults! So I had to take the pattern home in the midst of our lesson and rewrite it all so that the headband would fit an adult sized head. This is just one headband, I'm assuming I will have to rework all of the patterns. Blah!

October 2013-Christmas gifts

I thought this color combination of red, gold and brown turned out very pretty for some friends for Christmas. This pattern was called "Wheat" because in the pattern book it was done in shades of brown and tans. It is from a pattern in this book:

Cozy Mile-A-Minute: October 2013

11 strips

Finished afghan!

This is a Christmas gift for a friend's family. I got the pattern out of this book:

Monkey Snuggle Blanket-September 2013

 I made this cute little blanket for a sweet little 3 year old. She's probably too big for a snuggle blankie, but I thought she could use it for her dolls or even as a companion at bedtime. Besides the fact I have wanted to make one of these for forever!! The blanket part was fairly quick going. The monkey part was a bit more tedious. I thought it turned out pretty stinkin cute if I do say so myself!

I bought the pattern book from Annie's Crafts.

Christmas Tree Skirt-August 2013

I made this Christmas Tree skirt for my daughter. They recently moved from Texas and are Dallas Cowboy fans. They decorate their house for Christmas in the Cowboys colors. One project done for Christmas...several more to go. August has almost come to an end. Time is getting away from me!

This pattern is from a Leisure Arts leaflet that I bought several years ago at a library sale. Copyrighted in 1994.

Cowboys afghan August 2013

I bought the pattern for this blanket off of Etsy. I just went to find the link to post here and it is no longer available. It didn't really have a pattern to follow for the background. I used an afghan stitch and then followed the graph that was sent with the pattern for the star and letters. I cross-stitched those into the finished blanket:

 This is for my Son-In-Law Scott. For no particular reason except that I found this pattern and wanted to try it and he is a fan. Oh, and he wanted a blanket that his toes didn't poke through. The afghan stitch is perfect for that problem. Very thick.

A couple of new projects

Fingerless gloves. I am teaching a friend how to crochet and I find that when I teach someone a crochet pattern it is best if I just crochet along with them. So this is the first project we made. These are the ones I made. My friend did a great job on hers also. I'm very proud of how quickly she has caught on. Our current project is a soft hat. Both of us have gotten frustrated with the type of yarn we are using, but I think she will be happy with her finished project.

I made this scarf for me! The first time I think I have ever made myself something to wear. I actually thought that it was the same color as the fingerless gloves. Imagine my surprise when I put them next to each other and the gloves are a gold color and the scarf is a tan color...huh??? Oh well, I'm sure I can find someone who would like some fingerless gloves. Their arms need to be a bit skinny though as I think they are a bit tight on me.

I'm having some friends over for lunch on Thursday and I wanted to send a little somethin somethin home with them. I found a pattern for a bookmark that I was then able to embroider their names onto. I added the tassel to the bookmark since the pattern didn't have one and I like tassels. I think I might make my Bible study women each one with their name on it. I might try to find another alphabet to cross-stitch into it though, this one is a bit plain. The problem is they are small and so I need an alphabet that uses just a few squares per letter. I'm sure there is one out there. I don't know if I like the yellow name for Leslie's. The yellow around the edges makes the bookmark "pop" but the name is a bit hard to read. But I'm not taking it out so hope she likes it ;)

Scarf and Fingerless Gloves-December 2012

So I'm kicking myself! I made about 12 scarf and mitten sets for Christmas and didn't take any pictures! I made them for my Bible Study ladies and this set I made for the winner of a contest I was co-hosting on my Edifying and Edgy blog. Each set was a different color and a different pattern. I made one other set of fingerless gloves for one of the younger girls in my Bible Study. I also made all of the girls in the family scarves and either mittens or fingerless gloves so that would make 7 other sets. And then I made all of the little boys beard hats. They were so cute in them. How did I forget to take pictures??? Crazy!

My current project is a Dallas Cowboys afghan for my son-in-law. I bought the pattern on Etsy. The first time I ever bought one from there. We'll see how it goes :)