Abbi the Penguin

Abbi is visiting the "tropics" on vacation and our Maine winters are a heatwave to her! She is a sweet and funny little girl who loves singing and sliding on her belly.

Abbi was crocheted using acrylic yarn, fiberfil & safety eyes using a FreshStitches pattern. She stands 8 inches tall. You can purchase her here for $30 USD.

Mojito the Dragon

This little guy was crocheted using FreshStitches Choose Your Own Dragon Adventure Pattern & some Bernat Super Value & Red Heart SuperSaver yarn. He is a sweet little guy who thinks he's tough, if you just play along he will behave nicely. If not you better hope he doesn't master the art of fire breathing! You can purchase him, or any of his other colorful dragon friends, here for $45 USD.

FO Friday, 7.12.13

So for a while now I have been posting that I have been working on a few super secret projects. Well the time has come to reveal one of them! My aunt had asked me to fix a granny square afghan for my cousin. What I didn't realize until after getting it and talking with my aunt more was that this afghan was made for my aunt when she was a teenager and it was made by her grandmother -- my great grandmother. Finding this out made it that much more special for me to work on!
Here are the before images of the squares that needed to be fixed:

In all there were 9 squares to be fixed. I undid the seams between squares and re-crocheted new squares to put in their places. Here are some photos of it finished.

I don't know if the original main color was off-white to begin with or got that way with age, but trying to match it was near impossible, so instead I used straight white for the main color on my squares. This way you can see the old ones vs. the new ones. I like it this way, then my cousin can know which ones I did and the ones our great-grandmother did.

This week I also started & finished a little dog as an order for my friend Sarah. Here is that little guy, I think I will name him Hudson. He is a Fresh Stitches pattern and oh so cute. Done in Bernat Super Value in Walnut and a mystery Marden's dark chocolate brown.

Checking in with Tami's Amis.

FO Friday, 6.21.13

Happy First Day of Summer!! I have one finished project to show you today, and it will be a quick one as I am going to try to get an hour of crochet in before I need to go to work (was supposed to be my day off, but what can you do?)

A very pink owl for my college roommate Hilary. She has one of the tiny owl's from Fresh Stitches as well and with a new baby on the way will have a second tiny one and a daddy owl coming her way. :-)

Pattern: Nelson the Owl, Fresh Stitches

Yarn: Lots of Pink Acrylic! One Pound in Soft Pink, Red Heart Super Saver in Shocking Pink, Light Raspberry & White

Checking in with Tami's Amis.

To-Do Tuesday, 5.28.13

An Update from last week:

Crochet
• Super Secret Project #1 (70% Complete) -- same as last week -- plan to work on it if not finish it tomorrow on my day off
• Super Secret Project #2 (60% Complete) -- same as last week
• Monkey (60% Complete) -- Yarn needed to complete it is discontinued :-(
• Cheese (100% Complete) -- was at 0% last week -- shipping it out today
• Butterfly (0% Complete)

Photo
• Order more Business Cards
• New Flash or New Camera?

Home
• Laundry
• Dishes

WIP Wednesday, 5.22.13

Haven't worked much on either of my super secret projects this week, however I did get my yarn in for the order of Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Started him yesterday just minutes after the postlady dropped off the yarn :-)

Going to finish this post and get back to working on it :-)

Checking in with Tami's Amis to see what everyone else is working on.

To-Do Tuesday, 5.21.13

An Update from last week:

Crochet
• Super Secret Project #1 (70% Complete) -- was at 33% last week
• Super Secret Project #2 (60% Complete) -- was at 54% last week
• Monkey (60% Complete) -- Yarn needed to complete it is discontinued :-(
• Pick up Yarn
• Cheese (0% Complete) -- starting it after this post is published :-)
• Order Yarn for Cheese

Photo
• Deposit Check
• Cards for Lee Auto
• Order more Business Cards

Home
• Laundry
• Dishes
• Bathtub
• Trash

To-Do Tuesday, 5.14.13

Crochet
• Super Secret Project #1 (33% Complete)
• Super Secret Project #2 (54% Complete)
• Monkey (60% Complete)
• Pick up Yarn
• Order Yarn for Monkey
• Cheese (0% Complete)
• Order Yarn for Cheese

Photo
• Deposit Check
• Cards for Lee Auto
• Order more Business Cards

Home
• Laundry (In Progress)
• Dishes
• Bathtub
• Trash

FO Friday, 5.10.13

So as promised here is a roundup of what has been finished since my last FO post (March 15th).

Probably was my two least productive crochet months since I learned how to crochet in January, 2012.

First we had a butterfly:

This was made for the daughter of a woman we bowl with. She wanted a butterfly and when I asked her what color she said Rainbow! I wanted a snuggly butterfly so I came up with my own pattern, if there is interested I would be willing to share it :-) Shayna (the little girl) apparently sleeps with it every night.

Next we have a bunny:

This little guy was made from a Fiberdoodles by K4TT pattern. I had planned to get better photos of him and post him to Etsy just in time for Easter, however that is when my grandfathers health issues started up.

I also made a Turtle & Skunk (modified Bunny) from Fiberdoodles patterns and didn't even take a photo of them... I was not on the ball.

I also made two shawls from this pattern. One was made in Bernat Satin for my grandmother as a prayer shawl and I made myself one from ArtYarns Cotton Spring in Color 1006 which I got as my "tourist" yarn from my trip to Florida in February. I have not photographed my shawl yet, but here are some photos of my grandmothers.

She really does love it. She called two nights in a row telling me about all the compliments she gets on it. I have to say, I like the one that I made her better than the one I made myself as the variegated yarn didn't lend itself too well to the pattern. I was however impressed with my ability to follow and finish this intermediate pattern easily, I guess my skills are improving :-)

Checking in with Tami's Amis for FO Friday!