San Juan Sunset

My summer project will used Hometown Lion Brand Yarn color San Juan Sunset. I have 14 skeins. I hope it is enough.

Joann’s website shows the orange in the color far better than my photo:

From Joann’s website:

Simplify all your crafting projects with the easy care Lion Brand Hometown Yarn. This chunky hometown yarn is ideal for a variety of needlework like home crafts, sports projects and more. Enrich your knitting and crochet experience with this soft textured yarn that gives you the perfect holiday craft to create beautiful garments, afghans and throws.

• Brand: Lion Brand
• Weight category: 6
• Solids Composition:100% Acrylic
• Multi-colored Composition: 100% Acrylic
• Tweeds Composition : 94% Acrylic & 6% Rayon
• Solids Weight: 5 oz , 81 yds
• Neons Weight: 4 oz, 64 yds
• Multi-colored Weight: 4 oz, 64 yd

Stained Dress

My dress was ruined by the hair dresser. I was not ready to give my dress up, because I had only worn it a few times. I used a combination of embroidery and fabric paint to create what I call an underwater tableau vivant. I’ve never embroidery before (other than a little when I was nine years old) or used fabric paint. So, it has been a learning experience. The water was an afterthought, thus, more abstract. I went back and outline the starfish in pink. It didn’t feel like he was showing up enough. Also, while I was going through my pins and needles, I found a little plate that my sister had given me a few years back, “Refuse to Sink.” So I tacked that on. It looks great now.

Rainbow Crochet Knee Scooter Seat Cover

While I’ve been recovering from recent foot surgery, I decided to crochet a cover for the seat on my knee scooter.  I started in June, hence the rainbow.  Crocheting a rainbow was great for using small spare balls of yarn here and there.  I had to do some digging in my stash to find the right colors, but I managed.  Interestingly, the Navy blue is done with two strands because the yarn was thinner than the other colors.

I had a debride/repair of the right Achilles insertional, calcaneal exostectomy, gastrocnemius recession…. LOL!

The knee scooter has been my lifeline.  I can only now start a wee-bit of weight bearing.

Crochet/Knit Stars Ceremonial Art Project

I am starting a ceremonial art project that will represent the value, creativity, dedication, and honor that craft-artisans have for female veterans, –many of those artisans being female veterans themselves.

We are in the embryonic stage.  Two more female veterans have joined me on the committee.

The ceremonial art project is strictly 100% for highlighting female veterans.  There is nothing for sale and no requests for money. No one is in business for anything.

We are hoping to get 1000s of crochet or knitted stars in order to create this art project.  It may take months, even years before we have enough stars to bring the project to fruition.

Today however, was a very good day, because I now have an address that crochet/knitted stars can be sent to:

VHSO
Voluntary Service Office (135)
1100 North College Avenue
Fayetteville, AR 72703-6995
Attn: Crochet Star Project

We are asking for crochet/knit stars from all over the country, even all over the world from crocheters and knitters (craft artisans).  If you know a female veteran who you would like to dedicate your star to (or stars), please include a letter or note with her name and/or story on it.  Feel free to express as much as you like! The same applies if you are the female veteran.  Let us hear and share your story.

The star can be any size, any color, or any embellishment.  It is clearly up to you.  The only rule is that it needs to be made out of yarn.

I am finding that all the small balls of yarn that I have left over from various projects are turning out to be perfect for making little stars.

This is the very beginning….

Please share if you like.

Crochet Candy Corn Halloween Place Mat

I’m still focusing on “yarn busting,” before I buy anymore new yarn.   I bought the candy corn colors years ago and I still cannot remember what my original intent was.  So far though, I’ve made a few place mats and buntings using the candy corn motif.  This place mat is my latest.  I’m very happy about it because when I was done it was severely bunched up as if the pattern and my gauge caused too many stitches.  Surprisingly after I washed it and then ran a light iron over it and it flattened out perfectly.  I guess one could say I “blocked” it.

I may use this same pattern to off load some red, white, and blue yarn that I have.  Now to find the diagram/pattern again.  I have no clue where I saved it on my computer.

3rd 36″ Crochet Round Rug

This rug was a major yarn-buster.  Although, there were a few rows that I was limping to the end trying not to run out of one color/yarn before being forced to move on to another skein.

I  like getting rid of yarn that I’ve had for too long.

You can see in the above photo how on the last outer row I ran out of bulky yellow and had to use more of the bulky white.  But, that’s okay, no flower in nature is perfectly colored.

 

Some, but not all of the yarn I used is listed below:

Lion Brand®, Hometown, USA Dallas Grey, Super Bulky,

Lion Brand® Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick® Yarn, Super Bulky, Navy

Lion Brand Homespun® Yarn, Montana Sky.

Loops & Threads® Charisma™ Yarn: Royal, Yellow, and White, Bulky

Loops & Treads, Zoomba, Lightening, Super Bulky,

Caron® Simply Soft®, Dark Country Blue, Ocean

Lion Brand® Homespun® Black

2nd 36″ Crochet Round Rug

My crocheting has an extra enjoyability factor when I know I’m using up yarn that has been unused for some time.  Recently, I’ve finished my 2^nd rug using yarn I had already.  The weird thing is when I go and look in my stash often I can’t for the life of me remember the original purpose for the yarn purchase.  At one time, I did use this Loops & Threads® Country Loom™ Yarn in another color for a throw I  made for a brother. Even though I didn’t like the end product, I sent it to him anyway.  But, when I was half way through with the second brother’s throw using this very yarn pictured, I was too unhappy with it.  The fact is, this is a yarn rug.  It didn’t work as a throw.  I really can’t think of much it would work for other than a rug.  It’s a bit rough.  Not scratchy, but rough.

I doubled the strands because one strand alone isn’t thick enough for a rug.  I did crochet a single strand rug using the Loops & Threads® Country Loom™ Yarn  but it was too thin when I stood on it.  Instead of pulling it out I now use it for a mat under the cat’s litter box.   In my opinion the yarn has to be doubled because when the strands are single it hurts my feet when I stand on it.  I can feel the variation in the stitches.  It’s not quite a stabbing feeling but it is a disrupted feeling.  When the yarn is double-stranded the rug feels more comfortable  to stand on.

In the photo, I used Loops & Threads® Country Loom™ Yarn, Solarium color.  In the end I only had enough yarn to half finish the final row, so I had to take that row out and search my stash for a substitute.  I used Loops & Threads® Charisma™ Yarn, Royal color.  I sort of like it more now. The royal color makes it clearer that I was going for a big flower look.

Yarn Used:

Loops & Threads® Country Loom™ Yarn 

COLOR: Solarium

Weight: Super Bulky

Contents: 100% acrylic

Skein Weight: 5 oz. / 140 g

Yardage: 125 yd. / 114 m

Loops & Threads® Charisma™ Yarn

Color: Royal

Weight: Bulky (5)

Contents: 100% acrylic

Skein Weight: 3.5 oz. / 100 g

Yardage: 109 yd. / 100 m

 

The Art of Tying A Tie

I have had this pamphlet since working at Dillards in 1994. Now, I am sharing it with you, and putting the hard copy in the recyclable bin.

 

The November Infinity Scarf

Lion Brand yarns, Homespun: 98% Acrylic 2% Polyester

Herb Garden and Saffron.  Measures 9″ wide and 60″ all the way round.

I made this scarf in these colors to encourage the thought of  pumpkins.

Pixie Pink Bulky Crochet Infinity Scarf

I had fun making this bulky pixie pink infinity scarf. As a child, I enjoyed putting fringe on things. Yet, for some reason I don’t remember the task taking so long. I think I’ve grown impatient with age.

I used Bernat Blanket Brights, Pixie Pink. 100% Polyester, 220 yds, 10.5 oz. 2 skeins. Machine washable and dryable. The scarf measures 45″ x 11″ folded. That means if it wasn’t an infinity scarf it would be 90″ long. The 11″ wide does not count the fringe.