SHAME ON ME!

Yes it has been nearly two months since my last post. I don't really have a good excuse except that I have been very busy. I have been cleaning and organizing my house. I have also started some painting and trying to finish it up. We have planted a huge garden and I have planted another rose bush in honer of my mom, along with a lot of other flowers. I got my fountain going again and planted some pots. So here are a few of my favorite things!
My Grand-daughter painted the gnome and ended up looking like a leprechaun. I love it!

Well these are some of my wonderful flowers and maybe next month I will have lots of veggies to show! I will do another post later this week so I will be all caught up.

Spring Organizing

Yes Chris I do need to update my blog! It has been too long, but I made it before the month is up. Well I have finally gotten my yarn closet organized and marked so I can find my yarn with out digging all day. That gives me more time to knit and crochet. Then it's up to the sewing room to get it in shape and get the dust off that sewing machine! Here is my closet and yes it is mostly full of Peaches and Creme cotton and lots of their other yarn!
These are the bins that are on wheels and slide to the side of the closet and are easy to roll out.

These are my cones of 930 cotton..but I haven't got all 130 colors yet. The basket on the bottom of the black shelves are scarf kits and the one on the bottom of white shelf is skeins of 930 cotton. The top of the closet has some Double Worsted 980 and some other yarns like my sock yarn and Bernat. I have baskets of my Knitpicks yarn and some of the novelty yarn from Julia's Crafts that sit on top of the rolling carts. It is so much easier this way and I can always change it.

IS IT SPRING YET?

Well as usual I am so ready for Spring. So here are a few of my crocheted projects to help me along, since the weather doesn't want to cooperate.



Here is my Spring Flamingo that I made and the pattern is Alta M. Flamingo



These cute little birds are going to be great for my grandson to learn his colors. There were quick and easy and they are Birds of a Feather . The Spring flower tree was made from flowers by Lisa Gentry from her flower ball pattern on Ravelry

Here's some yummy food I crocheted too...Low fat and high in fiber. My little cookies and a pin cushion donut .

Way to Go Shawl & Mirror Lake Scarf

Joined another great group on Ravelry! it is the Lisa's Designs Group(Lisa Gentry) and is such a great place to learn and have fun doing it. Lisa has some amazing patterns and wished I had time to do them all. I did some of her angels for nice little gifts for friends. I did get my Way to Go Shawl finished and it turn out wonderful!! I did it with Rayon Super Petalspun from Peaches and Creme . The peach color was so nice and very soft and easy to crochet with. Here are a few pictures of my progress. And I will try to get a picture badge posted to side of my blog.
The Mirror Lake Scarf was another fun pattern. It was made of 8 motifs and then stitched together for the scarf. I made this for my niece that just loves green. It was done with Peaches and Creme Cabled cotton in Lime green. I love how the cabled cotton holds it's shape and very nice to crochet with as well.

More Christmas Knitting

Here are a couple dishcloths and scrubbers I did for Christmas gifts. The cloth to the left is called Widowpane and the one on the right is Alex's cloth and the pot scrubbers
are done with cotton yarn on one side and nylon Needleloft on the other side.

Getting Ready For Christmas

Mittens and Stockings


Trying to get some miniature knitted decorations done to put on my tree this year. I also found a pattern for a crocheted tree skirt that I would like to get done. It is called 7 Hour Tree Skirt and got it out of my Crochet World magazine.

I sure have been having fun dressing up my teddy bears too!

Halloween Bath Set

I made this bath set with a spider soap sack and a web washcloth. My little grandson Braden snatched it up real quick, but I did manage to get a picture of it.

Here are some spider web gloves I made for my grand-daughter Mackenzie. She was a witch and wanted these to wear with her costume. I found this pattern on Ravelry.