Been a long time

I am sorry for the delay. But my new powercord for my laptop came in today. Plus I have had some health issues. I am working on a new post now. Just be patient please :)

My weekend works!

Fluffy had an extra day off school this weekend so that gave me more time to be creative :) I finished my last owl (in orange) so I moved on.....

To fish....hahaha

All were done in regular worsted weaight yarn (red heart).

The bigger one was done holding 2 strands together and using a bigger hook.

 

And here is the pattern for the fish

http://suzies-yarnie-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/07/ Just scroll down till you see them.

The fish were way to fast to do so I looked for the next pattern

A PIG!!!

Piggy pattern ...

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/70589AD.html?r=1;r=1&r=1

Last but not least I stayed up all night for various reasons so I went on the search for a slouchy hat pattern.

side view

If I was to make any changes to the pattern it would be to use a K hook for the brim so it would be a little looser.

here is the pattern

http://crazysockscrochet.blogspot.com/2011/10/crochet-pattern-super-slouch-hat.html

Well that was my weekend in a nutshell. Other than a new coffee mug cozy (one that actually fits LOL)

My owl craze is nearly at an end!

I have spent a bit of time making my little owl army. I have experimented with differant sized hooks, bulk yarn, and crochet thread. I now have nearly made all I was wanting. I have one orange owl left to make in worsted weight. And 2 or 3 in the cotton (colors will be sage green, baby blue and maybe black) unless I find more colored thread :)

Bulky made from Lion Brand's Hometown USA in Oklahoma City Green

And the cotton thread itty bitty's :)

Other than needing to find my orange yarn that is hiding somewhere. And finding the little buttons for the itty bitty's (the noses are just puffy paint for fabric) I am done. ext job is starting the pig army LOL.

The pattern for my army is

http://oceanofstitches.blogspot.com/search/label/owls

The crochet part is exact. I just changed the eyes and beaks a bit.

Afghans, cozies, an owl and a sweater!

I have been a busy little hooker lately LOL. Just in the last week I have done so much. I finished my St. Paddy's afghan for the back of my chair.

I also have been having fun getting new teapots and improving my cozy skills.

Teapot #2 Pink

teapot #3 dark green (and so far my favorite)

The 2 side by side!

The baby afghan and owl I made for a shower today.

The owl was real quick. Took me less than 30 minutes. I will post the link to the pattern later.

And here is the sweater I made on the knitting loom. I had no pattern and did this off the top of my head. I was thinking of Mrs. Weasley and the sweaters she knits for the kids. All differant colors and simply wonderful. Here is Noodle modeling what looks more like the coat of many colors on her HAHAHAHA!

Well that is not all for this week but it is all I have pictures of so far. Current projects for this weekend are. A small army of owls. A few birds (thanks to Lucy at attic24). My spring afghan which is almost done. A St.Paddy bunting for mom. And.... that reminds me to go to the craft store for more yarn hehehe.





New teapots and cozies :)

Something was missing...Has been for awhile now. I needed a tea kettle and teapot. It was not that I wanted them I NEEDED them. I was missing having them. Now let me tell you I am a big time coffee and tea drinker. And since I have been blogging I have seen lots of teapots and cozies and it made me miss mine even more. So I went on a mission to find me a new teapot. The kettle I knew would be easy. But I live in the south of the United States.....sweet tea country! I actually went to Target and found a kettle for less than $11 woohoo but then I found the only teapot they had. And it was exactly what I wanted just plain white, and guess what it was also less than $11 :) As soon as I got home I fired up the kettle and started to think of a tea cozy.

Tell me what you think?

I looked at several on the internet and then kind of came up with my own.

As you can see from the next pic I added a button for extra staying power :)

 The button was also to close the area to keep your hand from touching the hot pot.

But that is not the end of the story besides being very happy with my white pot and cozy I won an ebay auction and it came today. Serious happy wiggles when the mailman came to the door today LOL.

IT'S PINK!!!!!! A little smaller than the white one which is fine. But I got this for less than $5 and ....IT'S PINKKKKK LOL!

Now I am off to make a new cozy. I have my cotton next to me and I just have to decide a pattern and what colors to use. And my darling Fluffy just turned on Star Trek Next Generation. Oh this is a good evening hehehehe

My Dearest Fluffy!

Today was Fluffy's 11th birthday. We mostly just lounged around watching Harry Potter. SHe didn't want anything in particular (she rarely does). So I decided to treat her to a movie. We went to see Woman in Black :) yes it is a bit scarey for a normal kid but Fluffy is a rare breed of child lol. She has been a horror movie fiend since she was still in diapers. She loved it :)

Then we came home and watched more Harry Potter movies as I worked on my ST. Paddy's afghan. Today was a laid back lazy kind of day. Perfect for Fluffy's birthday LOL. I am blessed with awesome kids....the whole bunch of them LOL.

A trip to the book store!

After going to 2 differant craft stores and not finding what I was looking for GRRRR! I went to the book store. A nice raspberry mocha frappe and some browsing time was needed. My mom and the girls were with me too. Mom sat and read a book on her kindle. Noodle raided all the clearance kids Easter books.  Fluffy got into the Goosebump books.  And I went through all the crochet books they had (which was not much). When we went to leave I was going to just get a crochet magazine but my mom got Noodle 4 books, Fluffy a goosebumps book,

 and got me a book

 a magazine

 and the game bananagrams (that was all I asked for at Christmas and no one got it for me).

So I might not have gotten the supplies I was looking for but my mom spoiled me. Yeah right! I know she is thinking what patterns she wants me to make her in the near future LOL!