hope you had great holidays!
I bought this pattern & quickly made several of these gorgeous Slanted & Enchanted scarves, using various acrylic scraps.
This pattern is sheer genius – short rows, but no turning or wrapping, you can use any weight yarn, and you can use up scraps of yarn – any amount longer than JUST 10″! You can’t even make a round of granny squares using 10 inches of yarn!
link ups
http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/
A couple of quick reviews, I’m playing catch up…
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
After watching the movie on vacation this year, I was immediately hooked into this series. This book has been on my to read pile forever, so I grabbed a copy from the library & I think I read the book in one night, immediately requested the next book & read that immediately as well. To say I was enjoying the book would be an understatement.
The book’s been reviewed a hundred times, so I’m not really going to say much other than the fact that this was definitely my favorite read for 2012, & this was the book that got me back into reading, after not touching a book for most of the past few months.
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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Like the first book in the series, this book has been reviewed a bunch of times & I don’t have anything new to add, so I won’t write a lengthy review. I read this book immediately after watching the movie & reading the first book in the series & loved it as much as I loved the first one. I couldn’t believe my eyes as I read the book & watched the story unfold, & when it was over I sobbed because I had to wait to get the next book to read.
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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read this book about a week after reading the first two book in the series, I had to wait to get the book in from the library. It was the longest week in recent history!
I was so excited to see how the series would end, and I admit – I was definitely a little disappointed with this one. I still LOVED it, but it didn’t have quite the same amount of, I don’t quite know, flavor? that the other two books had. There was just a little something something missing, and instead of reading the book in one night like I did with the first two, it actually took me a couple of nights.
I admit to be dying to reread the whole series again, however, because I suspect that rereading this book a second time will give me new insights into the book.
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas like we did. We woke up yesterday morning to about an inch of snow on the ground, so it was wonderful to have a white Christmas. We enjoyed the holidays so much we didn’t even take a lot of photos!
We spent Christmas Eve at church with my parents, followed by our traditional calzone & the beginning of opening up of our gifts. We “number” our gifts & can only open matching presents, followed by the story of the gift – where we bought it, & why… so it takes a very long time to open up our presents! We stayed over at our parents house, along with Wedgie, woke up & spent the morning with my parents, before spending the day with Jon’s family.
We were very blessed this year, with way too many wonderful & generous gifts from our loved ones – among them, a laptop (mainly for my design business, yah mom & dad!) & a shiny new NOOK! So if anyone knows anything about Windows 8 or knows of any great NOOK related blogs / websites, please share them with me!
I know the blogging has been sparce of late, but after the holidays I’ll hopefully be getting back to normal!
Miss you all- happy holidays
I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas!
This is another blanket I finished up a couple of months ago. It’s another scrap Ogunquit Blanket.
I have a new fo! This one snuck up on me, I never even took a wip photo let alone shared one with you!
I had forgotten just how fast my Coins Quilt pattern is to make.
Have you made one of these? This is one of my older designs, made specifically for using up small amounts of yarn in a pleasing way. Being quite a yard saler, I’d always end up with small amounts of yarn & I was always quite frustrated with the current scrap patterns on the market: often, they’d call for large amounts of “scrap” yarns, like a full size skein, or the main color would also be a large amount – like 2 pounds or so. I didn’t consider those true scrap projects. Depending on the size of your finished coins quilt, you might only need a skein of Red Heart Super Saver as your main color. So even if you don’t have a full skein laying about, you can easily make of one blankets & only need to buy one skein of yarn that’s often on sale for $2. And, the best part is, even if you don’t have a skein on hand now, you can still start your blanket today with the scraps you have on hand! And, it’s free!
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more progress on the side to side corner afghan
All I have to show you today, I’m afraid!
a lovely shawl made by StarStrong
Blacky67′s gorgeous shawl
marjos beautiful shawl, can you see how she changed up the edging?
ppremdas made a great version, didn’t she?
what about Leilacnm’s
great two color version?
I will try to share some more versions from my terrific testers in a later post.
 New Crocheted Name Doilly.pe… $24.00
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 Crochet Gift Bag $6.00
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 Red crochet doily. Round cro… $22.00
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 Crochet gift bookmark $3.50
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 Hawaiian Blooms – Red Flower… $15.00
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 Crochet Gifts – Christmas Or… $9.00
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 Red, Black, White Granny Squ… $87.00
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 Set of Two Dishrag or Pot Ho… $12.00
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 Men’s Fingerless Gloves … $26.00
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 Crochet Chicago Bears Footba… $28.00
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 Custom Crochet Gifts of Any … $20.00
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 Pink, Brown White Ribbed Hat… $27.00
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 Toddler/Girls Crochet Hat – … $20.00
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 Duck Family – Made To Order … $22.00
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 Crochet Newsboy/Newsgirl Hat… $25.00
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 Shrimp Cat Toy – Stuffed Wit… $3.00
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Treasury tool supported by the dog house
good afternoon!
I actually finished this afghan up about a month ago – two months ago? And posted photos on Ravelry,
but never remembered to share with you guys. Here it is, in all its glory…
you can see the border a bit better in this photo…
The start to a new corner to corner afghan…
and a Wiggly Way afghan… thank you, Linda from allottastitches!
yes, Wedgie is helping… this is a better photo of the wip…
