Owl Purse

For mother's day I made my mother-in-law a purse... not just any normal purse.   One thing you need to know is she likes owls....and I like to crochet.   So this is what happened...

Initial Yarn Tutorial

Occasionally I actually start a project and finish it in the same day...and today was one of those days :)  I feel accomplished!

I made this M with just cardboard and yarn & I embelished it with a little fabric flower. 

I had a box in our garage that was just sitting there so I drew at the letter M for my and my husband's last name intial.

I wrapped the yarn around the cardboard after I cut out the M.   I just used hot glue to glue the yarn every so often from the back of the M.

After wrapping and warpping it finally came out like this :)

af-CAN :)

Here is an afghan I started working on last week...well the beginnings of it! It will be bigger soon :)  I am doing a basic pattern.....I love it because it is so therapeutic!

locker hooking, anyone?

Around Christmas my sis and I decided we wanted to see what this locker hooking thing is all about.  I decided to make a cover for my coupon binder!   Here it is so far!  I just have to make into the cover now:)

happy birthday :)

This past week was my mother-in-law's birthday!   We celebrated at our house by cooking a big Irish meal....we had the works!    i was inspired by Cornflower Blue and made some green decorations.   :)

You probably can't see mine that well so here is a pic of cornflower blues... check her blog out on how to make the crochet party chain!

After while crocodile....

Last night I want to relax a big before I went to bed so I learned an awesome crochet stitch....the crocodile stitch!  

Here is the best how to that I found....I think I am going to make a purse!  

My favorite crocodile stitch items :)  I will show you mine when it is look like something!

by zoom yummy

Pattern by bonitapatterns.etsy.com

Crafty Goodness

So I have been thinking about trying to dye my own yarn...   Have you tried to do this?  I really don't even know where to begin but I have seen some beautiful yarn that was hand dyed.  Maybe I need something like this?  Any tips or suggestions?

Last night I spent my night making these little embellished bobby pins :)  I like them!