Sunday, March 10, 2024

Still Trying To Catch Up..

Well, here's some more of what I meant to post about. A picture of the little "Doll botttles" I got at the Dollar Tree, for the little dolls I got there. 
This is a bunny in a sleeping bag. I got a magazine just for this pattern a couple weeks ago. It was a  lot of work but I finished it. I haven't embroidered a face on for a long time and I didn't like it. But I think it came out all right. 
And this is a Unicorn Doll outfit I finished. I thought it would fit my 12 inch doll but it didn't. So I tried it on a 15 inch doll I have. It's too big for her, too. Sigh...  It's a paid pattern, but it is also available for free on her blog.
Without the doll inside. I am going to have to get a bigger doll, I guess. This is for if I ever get a grandbaby (girl grandbaby). :)
And I crocheted these slippers, they are from the same magazine as the rabbit in the sleeping bag. I will most likely donate these to the reservation.
And, a doll dress I finished. (Technically it is not finished, I still have to do the waistband and sew closures on the top of the dress. I also did another one just like this, but smaller for a dollar tree doll. In a coral color. Ugh I can't find that picture so I will have to catch up with that one later, too.
 

Well, this isn't all the things I have finished. But I thought I would post them anyway. I can't keep up. Between being tired all the time and having to watch the dogs. Our internet is horrible and only works about half the month then we can't use it. This is the inside of a journal I made. I should have posted this one second.
This is the front. I made it around Valentine's Day in case you couldn't tell. :P
And a card I made out of some wrapping paper I thought was so cute. I cut out one of the snowmen and layered it on top of another snowman. I just printed the sentiment out.
                                                     And I made a matching envelope.
This is a cup caddy I made for my DIL. She sent me three hats she crocheted. I didn't even know she crocheted! So I made her a thank you gift. I also sent some little crochet things she could use: A small pair of scissors, stitch markers, I can't remember what else. 
This is a little flower keychain I crocheted. I saw a reel on Facebook and thought it was so cute. It didn't have a link so I went looking for a pattern and I found one on YouTube. It is a LOT of weaving in ends, and I would sew a backing on the back part to cover up all the sewing too. I bought some felt, but I still need to sew it on. I don't know who or why I made this keychain. Or what I will do with it.
Here's another keychain I finished. A little backpack. I got this one off Etsy. You can put a little hand sanitizer, or ChapStick, or whatever inside. I sent this to someone for an RAOK. 
 

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Dolls and Square Bears

Well I said I would try and get pictures of the dolls I got, in my last blog post. These are the ones I got at the Dollar Tree. Not the best picture. 
And these are two bigger dolls I bought for the "Baby Syndee Layette" patterns. You  can see I already crocheted one outfit. I just have to do the elastic around the waist for the panties. These got put on the back burner, since I've been doing hats and squares for chemo patients lately. I am honestly getting overwhelmed with all my projects. I hate it when this happens. It takes the fun out of crocheting for me.
I had seen a Facebook page, "Chemo Project Crochet" or something like that. She takes squares and makes them into comfortghans for chemo patients.  Some of them are small children. That's what the squares I am doing are for, small children.  I have had this big bag of variegated yarn forever that I got at a yard sale in Nevada. I was going to do the Square Bear pattern. But I could not wrap my head around it!! (I tried it the second day after I had chemo, so I am blaming it on chemo brain...)  I was looking at my blog, and I know I'd done lots of these squares before! So a couple days later, I tried again. I figured it out. :P  This is what I had done (I finished one more each of the peach and the green bears since this picture was taken). I don't know how many I will do. I was kind of thinking five each. But, I am getting overwhelmed. I still have to do all the faces on the squares...  (Sigh) Here are some more squares I did before, too. All different colored ones.


 And, I did these. The squares are supposed to measure 9 x9 inches. You can see the variegated ones are to small and I'm going to have to add to those, too. Sigh....  I'm just going to sc around the edges.

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Hats and Update

A lot has happened since my last blog post.. I was diagnosed with cancer last October. I have been going through that (a lot, mentally, physically...). I have been getting chemo. Yesterday was my fourth round. I have still been crocheting. I think it's the only thing (besides my family) keeping me going sometimes. On the days I feel good enough to crochet. 😊  This was my last project of 2023. I started getting into crocheting doll things again. And buying dolls. I should have uploaded the picture of all the dolls I bought. I bought six or seven of these size dolls at the dollar store. They usually don't have any white ones in, so I was (so excited) getting a bunch while they had some that day. 
 
I did a cradle purse, pillow and blanket. I also bought some little bottles at the dollar store. I'll have to upload that picture, too. And I bought a bigger sized doll (it came in a pack of two dolls, with bottles, and other things..). I'll have to upload all those for another post. 
This is a hexi cardigan sweater I've been working on. For me. I keep seeing them on Facebook in crochet groups I am in. I have crocheted so many baby hexagon sweaters. I remember when I translated the one youtube video of the hexagon sweater all those years ago.. It's about time I made one for myself! I just am using yarn I have since we don't have a lot of money.. You can google hexi cardigan, there's so many different ones. I'm using one I saw on YouTube. (You would think the pattern would be imprinted in my brain by now.. But..) :p
And, I have been crocheting hats. There is a cart with a bunch of hats people have donated for the chemo patients, that they can take if they want one. (My hair started falling out about a week after I started treatment.. But it's still not bad enough I need a hat all the time..)  Anyway, I said "I don't need a hat, I can crochet one. And I can crochet some more for the cart!" This one incidentally (coincidentally) is the same yarn as my sweater. :P  IT's called the "Delaney Hat".
This one is a popular one right now, for Valenine's Day. I've done two and a half of these. I have another purple one going, because I want to keep this one. :P
                                                            And a pink one I did. The pattern is called Hearts Striped in a Row.
This one is just a basic dc one I don't even remember what pattern I used, it was on my phone on day..
                                                             Another Delaney hat, in blues.
                                                      A Reversible Strands hat, for a man.

 Another Delaney Hat. I've done two in this color. One is mine. The other one, one of my MA's one day said she loved my hat where did I get it? I said I crocheted it. Well long story short, I did one just like it for her, but I tweaked the pattern and made it five stitches lenghtwise, and I added two extra rows widthwise because she tried mine on and it was a little smallish. She said her coat is blue. But I was like "Blue... There's so many blues..." And ended up settling on one just like mine. I gave it to her yesterday at my appointment (I asked if she was working, and she was). She paid me a little.  And I brought in all my other hats for the cart, too.  It's a good thing I brought my hats in, the hat stash was getting low! 

The Delaney Hat is no longer available online. :(

Friday, November 17, 2023

The Afghan and Sweater Set

Wow. Two posts in one day. This is the baby afghan I was talking about in my last post. I have done several of these afghans before, I love this pattern.  
A little closer up view of the edging. The baby's room is actually "Rose Gold" color. Who can find rose gold baby yarn though? So, after much brain work and a lot of "UGHHHH", I just decided to do regular pink!! Sheesh.  We don't live near a lot, and have to drive a ways to any craft or other stores. 

 I was just going to do the baby afghan. But then I decided to do a little sweater set. It's been a long time since I did a sweater set, since they cancelled the OB Ward thing I was sending to. I will have to find links for all these. The little mittens are my own pattern. The hat is the Pumpkin Side to Side hat. The booties are Christals' "Impatiently Waiting for Baby" pattern. I can't remember the sweater off the top of my head. I actually combined two patterns. (I did one sweater, but I added the little ties and edging from another pattern.) I need to start keeping track of all these things. I try and go back and see what pattern I used "for that one sweater I did", and I never put the link in for it! I am going to go see right now, so I don't forget.

Of course, I already put all the patterns away. I managed to find the sweater pattern I did. But, I used the ties and edging for this sweater pattern. I wanted something old fashioned looking. The hat pattern. Impatiently Waiting For Baby Booties pattern. My mittens pattern. OMG I forgot about my other blog. I don't even remember how to get into that blog! (Sigh...)  Anyway, I have all the links there for future reference. Finally got it together for once. 😜 Now let's see if I can get it together to mail these in time before the baby is born! 

I'm Still Here...

I was having problems signing in to my blogger account. (Sigh....)  Besides all my other,Real Life problems. 😔 But I am back. I haven't stopped crafting, or crocheting. I am still trying to find (and upload-- SIGH!!) all my pictures of everything I have been doing. But this is a start. I've been making a lot of cards. This bear was for a pen pal friend of mine who likes bears. I printed out the sentiment on word, or notepad or something. The bear stamp is really old- might have been one of my very first stamps ever that I have. 
A Halloween card I made, trying to use up some bright colored index cards and envelopes I had. 
I had made these two little notepads out of the five packs of notepads you get at Dollar Tree. (Dollar Twenty-Five Tree). I sent one of these in Happy Mail to another one of my pen pals.
This is a baby card I made for the same pen pals son and DIL, who are expecting a baby girl. I actually crocheted a baby afghan and a whole sweater/hat/booties/mittens set, too. (And I got a couple outfits).  That's another picture I need to find and upload.
Okay, another Halloween card.
               I didn't have any polka dot paper, so I made my own for the little circle...
And another background paper I made up of my own, with another really old stamp I have. This card, I used a Trick or Treat bag I got from DT as one of the background papers, too.
                     And this is a more recent card I finished (yesterday, as a matter of fact.). 
I was trying to find a picture of the stamp set I had bought that I used for this card. I had been wanting it forever. And they had all their stamps on sale one week, so I got the set finally. It's called the Tea Lovers stamp set.  
I watched one of her video tutorials to make some tea pockets, using that stamp set. I made this one yesterday, too. I made the tea pocket and above card for the same person I crocheted the baby set for (well, for her grandbaby).  She has been here for me a lot lately. 
These are some I made the same day I originally had watched her video tutorial. I went a little crazy making the pockets. 😜 I don't know what I was thinking. Who am I going to even give all of those to? LoL.... I will have a lot of little gifties to give to unexpected people. 

 This is the very first batch I made, with two that I actually decorated. 

So, the "other Real Life problems" I have been going through is: I was diagnosed with cancer last month. It was and still is a shock to me. Even though I have a family history of cancer; I am not an alcoholic, and I actually took care of myself, ate healthy, took vitamins, tried to exercise....  (The people in my family who had cancer did none of the above and were alcoholics). I went to a new doctor this week. And I was talking to one of the nurses before seeing the doctor. And she said it sounds like I just got some bad genes. And maybe I should get genetic testing. She said all of our boys should get screened for cancer young. 😢   I had been not feeling well, and had a busy summer with our two older boys coming to visit. I will try to update my blog, now that I finally got back in. I have been going crazy with stuff online, all my doctors and stuff I have to do online... 😖 I should be starting treatment(s) in a couple weeks. If you all can keep me in your prayers.  

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

A Few Things I've Finished

I wanted to crochet a "bunny" doily for a friend for an Easter package. I couldn't find any free patterns, but then I saw one on YouTube. (Yay!) I haven't crocheted a doily in a long time. And I hadn't ever crocheted one from a YouTube pattern. It was pretty easy, though. I didn't think it would turn out, because it was all bunched up like it wouldn't block right. But, it did. 
A close up of one of the "bunnies". This is the link to the pattern I used.
And, I finished a little "bear" sweater. I had started one in 2018, but I couldn't find it anywhere in my yarn bins. I remember that I realized I was using Caron worsted weight yarn, and the pattern calls for baby yarn. I vaguely remember ripping it out. But. I now have one finished. I've been trying to make things up for if I ever get a grandbaby..  :P So far I have three sweaters done, and a couple toys. Here is a direct link to the sweater pattern on Yarnspirations.
When I was looking for the bear sweater I had started, I found this mouse. The body was done, I just stuffed it and sewed it up, and added the tail. I have no idea what pattern I used for this.
And I finished a little turtle. This was in the latest Crochet World issue; and the whole reason I even bought the magazine. I couldn't find my yarn needle to finish it, so it took me longer to finish this.
It's hard to get a good picture of it. You can see a photo bomber in this picture. :P
 

Thursday, March 23, 2023

We Moved...

....Again. I hope this will be the last move for a long, long time. But we had to get out of the house we were in. We could not take it anymore.  It's been a lot of work, but we're trying to make it here. The sunrises are beautiful. And you can see thousands of stars in the sky at night here. Living in the city, we couldn't. 
We had a "historic" ice storm not long after we moved here. Our power was out for three days and nights. It was not fun. We are on a well, so we didn't even have water. The ice was thick. Online it said it was equivalent to the weight of a piano on the electric wires. 
Tree limbs were down (and power lines in some places) everywhere. 
I decided to start another quilt. (I need another project like I need a hole in my head). None of our things really match the color of the walls in this house. And, I really want  a new bedspread anyway. I dug through my fabric to see what I could find to match the walls in our bedroom. I found some green fabric that I've had forever. It pays to hold on to fabric from the early 90's. 😝
                I am doing one quilt block at a time. Probably will take me forever.
This is the first block done. It's called the Sawtooth Star. Only 67 more squares to go. 👀
And this is a sweater I had started in 2018. (Well, not this sweater. But the same pattern.) I couldn't find it anywhere. I know I had started it then realized I was using worsted weight yarn and it was coming out really huge. So maybe I frogged it. This one is coming out more to the right size. I have actually finished the neck edging, and sewn the ears on since I took this picture. I just need to sew buttons on for the eyes, and do the nose/mouth embroidery. I'm doing the bear. It's the Character Sweater pattern, by Yarnspirations.  I used to love crocheting baby things. But the group I was in (which, I will admit I did get burned out from it now and then) doesn't send baby things any more. So I don't really have anyone to make baby items for. But I decided to start making a stockpile of them, for if we ever have any grandbabies.