My mom's birthday was in November and I made her this cowl. The yarn came from a local Alpaca farm. Its baby alpaca and I wasn't sure how it would work up... If not for the expense (which my mom is worth) I'd crochet with it all the time!
I finally lined the hobo style bag. I think it turned out nice.
I especially love that I made the strap adjustable. I'm pretty sure its going to stretch when the bag is loaded up. I love the size of it, too. I crocheted another one in black, ecru, and cranberry but I ran out of black yarn which made the strap too short. I'm going to frog it and add more ecru and cranberry. (Well, sometime over the winter I will.)
I visited a friend a few weeks ago and we made little boxes from greeting cards. Here's the video tutorial we used.
I made some more that weekend from old Christmas cards. They are so cute! I did modify how I folded them though. I used a ruler to draw lines from corner to corner, instead of folding, so the tops and bottoms don't have creases in them.
In one of the boxes are a pair of Christmas ear rings that Noelle made for me. Aren't they sweet?
And I finally got my netbook =D
It even has a crochet cover, with a zipper, that I made for it.
Its taking a little getting use to, size wise, but I love it!
Last night I spent some time unraveling some crochet and knit items for the yarn. I came upon this idea one day a couple of years ago. A lady from church went through her closet and ended up giving me a bunch of sweaters she no longer wore. They were all very pretty and good quality but so out of style that I knew I would never wear them. (There was one sweater that was a classic and it now hangs in my closet.) We have a charity store in town that I could have donated them to but they had so many ladies' sweaters that they didn't need any more. What to do with all these sweaters? Recycle! I've since seen this idea all over the internet but when I was given the sweaters, I didn't have the internet. Must have been some frugal vibe in me. :-) Anyway, its a great way to get the expensive yarns for little money. Other resources, besides hand me downs, are yard sales and thrift stores. Here is a blog post that tells you the best way and types of sweaters/yarn to look for.
I love the internet! With a few clicks I can find great crochet patterns. For free! How great it that? Crochet Pattern Central is my new favorite site! I also like to recycle whenever I can and found out about My Recycled Bags. I also found video tutorials for crochet on NexStitch if you want to learn how. Three gems that I thought I'd share just in case you didn't already know about them ;)
