Wagon Wheel Yellow Baby Blanket

See previous entries for a link to the pattern. This blanket was made for Riley, a teaching colleague's 5 month old son.

4th of July Cards

Though I was planning on making Independence Day cards since the beginning of June, naturally I put them off til the last minute. Here's one that I made for my auntie.

Inside:

One for his parents:

Under the Sea Card

Here is my combined version of the crab card (which I forgot to scan before I sent) and the octopus card that I didn't really like.

Octopus Card

I'm not entirely thrilled with this card. It's using a template from Paper Creations Summer 2007. I think I got a little carried away with the glitter. Perhaps I will try again later this week.

Happy Birthday Flower Card

Here's a birthday card using those uber-popular flowers and ribbon. It was inspired by an example in Paper Crafts June/July 2007.

Board Shorts Card

Here is a card I made using a template from the magazine Paper Crafts June/July 2007. I'm not too crazy about the pattern paper, but I'm not allowing myself to buy more paper until next month. It's also for a boy and boys are so difficult. ;)

Blue afghan - Xmas 2006

Here's my husband and the blue, chenille blanket that I made for his mommy this past Christmas. It's about 4 x 5', yet she said it would make a shawl. Crazy, I love her and enjoyed making it.

Sunny Wheel Square

Here is a square a from an afghan-to-be. I used this pattern.

Baby Cards

My best friend is pregnant! Finally someone is having a baby girl!!! (I think I'm more excited that she and her husband are). Here is a card for her and one for a former co-worker who had a baby boy in the spring. The template for the onesie is from Paper Creations Summer 2007. Images are clickable.

New Hobbies - Cardmaking and Scrapbooking

Okay, I completely dropped the ball with photographing and posting my crochet projects as they were finished. I must have made at least a dozen blankys and a bunch of assorted other junks. I will try to "back-post" and get some of them up there this summer--at least the ones I gave to my auntie, which fortunately are a lot.

Anyway, new hobby--Paper crafts! I started with scrapbooking after my wedding scrapbook was a dull, half-assed affair, and I'm determined to redo it properly this summer. I'm experimenting with greeting cards because they allow me to use all my scrapbooking crap in quicker, simpler form.

Here's the Mother's Day page I did for my mother-in-law. Sorry the scan is so bad. I will have to work on scanning things before framing.

Little Girl's Purse

New Blue Hat!

I was inspired by this post to make this new hat. Isn't it purty?

What I made for Xmas

A snuggly shawl for my kid's mommy (no pictures).
A long scarf for Christina in FL Keys Green (Homespun also no pics)
A Forrest Green scarf and hat set for my auntie (pictures to come)
A hat and scarf set for tam, along with assorted boy scarves and hats (pictures to come)

A cotton scarf for Debs and a spiffy throw

A scarf and hat for laura.

Scarf and hat for Sara.

Worried

I'm not posting this in the main forum because I'd like people to comment only if they're interested (or bored) enough to come to my personal journal. It really freaks me out that some many of the women in the crochet communities that I follow are majorly overweight! Some are just carrying a few extra 10-15 lbs (like me), but the vast majority seem to be health-affectingly obese. I don't want to turn into that...this phenom particularly scares me because in my mad Xmas-present making and in my post bar exam aimlessness, I was content to sit on my ass for hours daily.

My Xmas Table

Okay, my camera sucks and sapped the color out. But here's what I've got thus far:






Close up of the table runner

Quickest shipping ever!

My Joann.com order, 18 skeins of yummy yarn arrived in less than a week--it actually shipped within 2 days! That's soooo much better than the 2 wks it took last time. Now I should have enough yarn to make all my Xmas presents...that or another throw blankie.

More yarn!

I succumbed to yet another Joann.com free shipping offer. I bought $30 worth of yarn--enough to make the shawl I'm making for an Xmas present and another throw blankie. Now I have to really get cracking.

Xmas Lapghan Begun!

Here's my first granny square! I'm hoping to make an entire afghan (or laphan as I will likely tire before I finish anything big). Using an L hook, I used this pattern.

kitty

Okay, jeremy thinks it looks like a bear hat as well, but I swear I tried to make the ears pointy. Because the picture is bad, the hat is black with white ears.

I hate waiting

Today my order from frankfort ave needlework came. Ordered Sunday on ebay, it came a mere 4 days later. Comparedly, I am still waiting for the Joann.com order that was placed a week and a half ago. It took 3-4 days just to show up in their system and has been in transit for the past 3 days. In the meantime I've been to Walmart where I could have bought what I needed for the same price or less. To be fair, I got free shipping and a discount on cotton yarn from Joann's which is what makes the waiting worth it. I did not, however, get a sale on the stitch markers, which I could have picked up anywhere and need so badly NOW.