s2s sampler

I just completed this Side2Side sampler afghan.
Started it on June 15nd and completed June 19th.
This was fun working with different stitches.
Started with a chain of 166 stitches. I used popcorns,
clusters, trebles, doubles and half double crochet stitches.

Purses...Purses...

I made these two purses this week...
I think they turned out pretty cute..I sort
of winged it from a pattern I found...changed
the bottom then did the three double crochet around
and around to the top, 5 rows of single crochet
topped it off with a knitted 6 stitch Icord.

end of May 2009

It's been a busy month. I did some knitting
and forgot to take pictures...bad bad me...
Here are two Log Cabin afghans I finished today
one right after the other...
The dark brown and black with variegated golds,
black and brown is for a friend I've known since
I was 7 years old.
The other will go into the afghan pile......

shawl

I finished this Shawl on Friday evening.
You can't really see the pattern to well
because of the yarn color..I love the colors...
I had to rip out the last repeats because it came to the middle of my knees and being 6 feet tall that was pretty darn long...now
it ends at upper thigh...

April has been a busy month

I have a friend that is unemployed and needs money.
She is planning on going to the Gay Pride Parade in
San Francisco in June so I made her these scarves to
sell there.



I made this Pink one for another friend who loves
pink...I created the pattern myself and was surprised how much fun it is to make.

Mary Maxim

I ordered this kit from Mary Maxim and frogged
it after I got half way through it...the pattern
says it's 62x40 and I didn't see that before starting.
My gauge was correct but I didn't like that it was
going to be 6 feet long and so skinny...Not enough yarn
in the kit to make it wider so I'll use the yarn for
something else...nice pattern though. The pattern is
a repeat of sc, ch2, sc, skip2 sc sc skip2, sc, ch2, sc.
Gets very boring...but looks nice.

More Alligators

More Gators.......

Baby Bear Afghan

I finished this baby bear afghan the
first week of April for a friend.
I've made quite a few of these and they
are fun and easy to do.

Knitted caplet

Here's my attempt at free range knitting..

More Magic gans....

first I made this afghan while camping....

When I got home I didn't like it so I frogged it by undoing
it and adding another solid color with it.

I had more than enough yarn so I ended up with these two afghans.

Camping vacation March 2009

Can you see the windmills on the tops of the hills?






We went to Lake Pardee for a five day 5th wheel
adventure...tried to catch fish but no luck..it
was very cold in the morning around 37 degrees..
that is cold for California folks..brrrrr Went
for a nice boat ride, fished, looked at wild life,
and sat around camp with a nice fire and enjoyed life.

My Poinsettia

Here's our Poinsettia all 6 feet of it blooming
like an idiot at the end of March...It almost froze
to death in the winter after a freeze and my husband
starting watering it and almost killed it...We looked
it up on the internet on how to care for it and they
said very little water...it took off again after that.
Its over 20 years old.

Last night creation

Last night I got the pattern and the
idea from a gal on Raverly to make a
scarf out of a magic ball...so I created this



Just started a new one...


Here's the link to the pattern:
http://www.crochetcabana.com/stitches/diag-box-st.htm

What I've been doing

My friend Ava asked me why I hadn't posted anything
since the 23rd of February...
I've been trying different things......

I finished the knitted 'Dragon Scarf'

Crocheted some curly scarves....
These are sooo easy...*chain 35 and single crochet up the chain
repeat from * until you have it as long as you want it...


and started a knitted worm...

Old Yeller

Here's another alligator in Yellow...
I'm having way too much fun knitting....hehehe



here is the link to the website for all these critters:
http://www.morehousefarm.com/KnittingEssentials/Patterns/Critters/