Here's my Kindle Cover I made. (This was actually my second attempt as the first one was too small. However, the instructions are for a Kindle 3, which is bigger than my touch, so I miscalculated.)
I love how the inside fabric is so cheery. I need that this time of year.
And this dish cloth is so cute and colorful! When I repinned these on Pinterest, 33 more people pinned them after me. I'm working on a few more besides this one.
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!
I still haven't finished the lining for my purse design. With all the remodeling and moving around of things in this house, I can't get to my sewing machine right now.
I've spent a lot of time crocheting though and have another purse that needs lined. I've also crocheted a baby hat/sleep sack set for a friend. I had some TLC Cotton Plus yarn in my stash that was perfect for it! I got the hat pattern here but looked at how sleep sacks were constructed and came up with my own pattern using half double crochet (the pattern used in the hat).
And now I'm working on the circle dance bag pattern for Noelle. She started dance classes this year and needs a way to carry all her gear.
Here's one I made for my neighbor (its like mine, in between a small and a medium), and the first one I put a liner in. I definitely need to put liners in these as they hold their shape so much better. I really like the way it turned out and I know Sue was really happy with it (she picked the great colors, btw).
The liner was stitched on my machine but it had to be hand sewn in.
The next one is for me but it will be my first large one. I love little handbags but sometimes you just need a bigger one, ya know?
If you haven't checked it out already the pattern can be found at the futuregirl.com blog. As well as some great tutorials and pictures of other crocheters' designs. I especially like the sock monkey diaper bag!
Our church is putting on its second live nativity (December 4 & 5) and I'm the costume coordinator again. A group of us work on the costumes and those days have been teasingly dubbed the Grace Fellowship sweat shop ;-)
(You can see a hint of the costumes to the left but that's only about 1/4 of them)
There are 80 volunteers involved this year and they aren't just from our church. Wow!
Its fun and exhausting but so worth every minute of it. Especially when you hear how much it blesses people and reminds them why they celebrate Christmas to begin with.
To all the volunteers..........THANK YOU!!!
What characters are my family this year? Noelle is Mary, Kyle is a shepherd, Kirk is a wise man, and I'm a villager (so I can help where needed and take pictures :-) Hopefully, I'll get us together (in costume) for our family Christmas photo. Some of the families did this last year and the pictures were great!
I am taking off today through Saturday to focus on Thanksgiving and enjoying my family (and hopefully finish my wrist warmers, lol). I just wanted to share while I had a few minutes.
