Family, Books and Crochet...Oh My!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Christmas Ornaments

I found these lovely Christmas ornaments at the local dimestore last week. They were a buck a piece! Super deal! I couldn't resist them and ended up buying one of each! These will look great on my tree this year!

Thrift Store Bargains

One day last week I had the opportunity to visit the thrift store in the next town over. As always, there are good bargains to be had. For a $10 bill, I got the following:

A set of shot glasses. These will be a gift for a grown niece.

A lovely yellow sheet for my bed (the color just isn't showing up enough) and 25, yep 25, pillowcases. There are 4 sets and the rest are singles. I am hoping to put a crochet edging on some of them to fancy them up. The pillowcases are priced at 75 cents per pair. That's a bargain! Normally, I find a lot of embroidered pillow cases in the bin, but this time they didn't have any. Maybe next time. I really lucked out though because I found 3 sets of "manly" pillowcases...gray with stripes, a sort of khaki green color, and the camo with orange trim. My guys will love these! I can't wait until I get the opportunity to go and scavenge around again!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Latest Crochet Project

My latest crochet project is....a preteen version of the earflap hat. I'm using Royal and Black Red Heart yarn (as requested by my nephew). It will get wrapped up for Christmas when I'm done. I promise to post a photo. I'm just getting started on it and I think I'm on round 5 or so.

sigh...I'm SICK...

I'm looking pretty fierce, aren't I? I feel about like I feel...blah. My head is like a rock sitting on my shoulders. Stuffy nose that runs, sore throat, ears hurt, lots and lots of coughing going on...and here I sit at the computer desk. I just can't help myself. It's probably good that I'm here at the moment because the kids, God bless them, are irritating me to death and they really aren't doing anything that would normally irritate me. Anyway, I've got my favorite ratty old sweatshirt on over my favorite nightgown along with a pair of comfy socks. I'm ready to hit the bed or hit the couch for some more crochet time. But, Big Daddy is watching football and his screaming and hollering is irritating me, so maybe I should just go to the bedroom for a lie down. What do you think? You agree with me? A lie down? Good. See you all soon!

Latest Projects Finished

Small T is modeling one of the L.A.M.B hats. The free pattern can be found here http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=100020.msg954657#msg954657 .

I really like this one with the green stripes. Plus, the hat is a lot slouchier than any of the others I have made and that's appealing to me at the moment.

These are the last two L.A.M.B. hats and matching wrist warmers that I finished up today. I used Red Heart yarn in white, black, pumpkin and turqua.

These are all four of the "sets" I made for one of my nieces. She wants to give them out as Christmas presents to a few of her friends. I thought that was really sweet.

I love the BRIGHT colors and how they really pop against the black and white yarn!

By the way, the wrist warmers are from my pattern which can be found here http://bookfairy43.blogspot.com/2011/11/7-wrist-warmers-free-pattern.html .

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Latest Projects

So...what's been going on in the crochet world here at Big Momma's house?

Well...I finally got around to putting beaks on Nick and Maggie. They look so much better now!

I wrapped them up in a box yesterday so they are ready for gift giving.

One of my nieces kindly asked me to make some wrist warmers so she can give them to her friends for Christmas gifts. These are a few of the samples. She will be giving out one set of black, the black with green, black with pink, and one other unmade set.

She also asked me to make some hats to go with the wrist warmers. This is the first one. It's a LAMB inspired hat (think Gwen Stefani). The free pattern can be found here http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=100020.msg954657#msg954657 . So far, my family really likes this hat. I'm hoping that Small T is in a good mood after school today and will be cooperative and model the hat for me.