... because they look so much nicer in the kitchen than my store bought ones! I used cotton yarn, so they're functional as well...



I found the pattern on Ravelry. It's from a blog: Postcards from Waterloo.

This is where I got the idea:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=340609.0

And this is how mine turned out:



Too bad Marit (3-yr old) doesn't want them anywhere near her room... Maybe when she gets older, I hope so!

Are these bunnies or mice? 

Followed the pattern in Debbie Stoller's book (Happy Hooker), but I think my positioning of the ears made them look more like mice. Which is why I added to that idea by giving them a big pink nose and pink felt in the ears.



Hope my nephew likes them anyway!

Thank you  ! Hope you'll enjoy making it too.

It's my mother's birthday tomorrow and I've finished another one for her. My parents' couch is the same colour orange/red, so I hope she'll like it. That's always tricky with a large surprise project!

I probably won't be doing another one any time soon (RSI  ), but hey, you never know.

Laid out on our bed:

So I had lots of small bits of yarn in my stash and thought it would be fun to make an afghan out of it. I decided upon the square I would use and figured out I would need 264 squares for an afhan to fit a single bed.

I bought the black yarn and one skein each of blue and lilac. The rest was all in my stash, which is a lot smaller now!

Much, much later  I could lay them out on the floor:


The finished afghan:




Did I mention I didn't weave in the ends as I went  ? Now that I'm working on another Moorish Mosaic afghan and did weave them in as I went, I know how much time I wasted, but never mind. I took time in between to weave them in every 20 squares or so. I lost count of the squares, so I have 10 squares I didn't use. I'll probably make some more and make a doll's blanket out of them. But not any time soon... I've seen enough little squares for a while!

Finally finished some and hope to send them off tomorrow!

These have been waiting for a lining for a really long time, but I've finally finished them.

My purple exchange bag made out of really annoying part synthetic, part cotton yarn that kept twisting itself up into a curl every time I drew a lenghth from the ball:


The lining (my first with zipper - I am so proud):


I used leftover yarn I had from an afghan I made earlier for the Granny's no square bag:


The lining:


I actually took sewing lessons to learn how to do a lining... and as I did these a while ago and have only done kids clothes since then, it's a good thing I'm still taking lessons 

I had some green acrylic yarn lying around waiting for something to be done with it and after a quick search I found this froggy on Ravelry.

It was late when I assembled it so at first I had it all wrong and thought the small sphere was the head... The good part about this is that I now know limbs I've sewn on are attached very firmly  . I was not amused when I had to get those off, so after lots of frustration over the legs I left the arms on and just flipped froggy over.

I took 5 battered marbles out of my son's enormous stash and put those at the bottom of the body (and not the head ) as the pattern called for. When my 5-year-old felt those he immediately asked: Those aren't mine, are they? Ermmm... No, no, of course not...

I've made this bunny before, but this one turned out way better... yay! Friends of ours very recently had a baby and I had this ready for them a while ago. Because I wasn't completely happy with my first attempt I made some changes this time.

I wanted it to be bigger, so I did sc in the back loops in stead of slip stitches. So far so good  . As the head progressed, I realized this bunny would have the same too large around the bend face my first one had. If I had followed the pattern, bunny wouldn't have been as cute as his counterpart in the book. So I changed to colour B at round 12 in stead of round 18. I used acrylic yarn for the body and cotton for the face. The eyes are safety eyes, but I can imagine the parents will use it for decorative purposes only for the time being.



With the starghan for the same baby:

A few weeks ago I bought Jan Eaton's 200 crochet blocks and I decided to use one of those blocks - no. 35 - for a baby blanket. I have now idea whether the new owners like handmade stuff, but I hope they will like this. I will let you know how that turns out  .

Just finished weaving in the last ends (how I hate weaving in ends, but crocheting over loose ends doesn't work for me, the ends still peek out). Luckily I didn't have to do all squares, as I did half of them earlier.

Here it is: