I love this little book, and have for a long time! I have a friend who painted a pair of TOMS with Where the Wild Things Are creatures, and then another pair of shoes with The Giving Tree on them. I was inspired to create something, and after some brain searching decided to go with Harold and the Purple Crayon. Off I went to Target to find some cheap knock-off Toms to try before I shelled out the big bucks, and came home with some even cheaper knock-off Keds. Then I thought that I would be satisfied with just sketching it out today, and then finding paint to do the rest later, but the creative juices were flowing, so I grabbed a purple pen and went to town on my $12 shoes. This is pictures of the work in progress, and then the finished product (for now at least!)

The finished product =)



My printed off prototypes


The shoes in progress


Side View


The back



C&C Welcome =)

Okie doke. So I got the idea to make a tshirt rug this summer, and I thought it would be a great addition to my classroom. I started cutting up all my old tshirts, and then hitting up my family for theirs as well. I had a lot of blue, so I started making a rug of blue grey and white.



Then I ran out of those colors. I thought maybe I'd just make lots of little rugs instead of one big one, so I started a red rug, got a few rounds in, and then school started. Recently I got bit by the bug again, and decided to make a rainbow rug instead of mono-colored ones because I could get more out of the tshirts I already had.

Rainbow rug in progress:



almost there!


finally finished!


It's about 5 feet across from point to point, and there aren't terrible signs of warping, so that's good. It does seem to twist a little from the center to the edge, but all in all I'm really happy with the way everything came out!

Up close shot of the edge, where you can see the purple section


Up close of the middle


Thanks for looking!

A few years ago my sister in law asked me to make a blanket for someone she knew. We searched and searched for patterns, and finally came up with one by Katie Benedict at http://oneschemeofhappiness.typepad.com

I went to Hobby Lobby without her and looked and looked and looked for the perfect color combo (NO pink, I was told). And here's what I ended up with (minus the brown):



So within a month or so I had a blanket, and had only used half of my yarn. Not a terrible problem to have...I stashed the rest of the yarn and forgot about it.



Skip forward 3 years. I came across four balls of yarn, had no projects in the works (a first and a last), and decided I'd "get ahead" on baby blanket making so I'd be ready for the next one. Enter entrelac. I was searching for a great idea and came across this blanket in fairly similar colors on http://www.nikkiinstitches.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Entrelac-Knit-Baby-Blanket-Pattern.pdf and decided I needed to try it out. I had great ambitions to create a quilted effect with knitting, but it turns out it was all I could do to get through the front. I rather like the way the back looks now that I've had some time to stare at it. Now I'm just waiting for the right baby to come along! 



(please forgive my disgusting carpet/foot!, and the lack of finishing. I think it'll be another year or so before I get that done  )



And a closeup!

Overall I am happy with how both blankets came out!

Thanks for looking!

At Christmas, I learned that one of my nephews loooooves snowmen. My sister has a 3 foot snowman that she puts by the door every year, and he kept going over to it and either staring at it or talking to it (or grabbing its nose). =)



Jackson's birthday is right after Christmas, so I decided to make him a little snowman of his own. This was a pretty easy thing to whip up, although I skipped out on making the top hat and went for a beanie instead.



He loved it! My sister-in-law sent me a picture of him sleeping with it a few weeks later. Yay! =)

I made this tractor for my 3 year old nephew who is OBSESSED with tractors and cars. He has one of those motorized John Deere tractors that he rides around on in the back yard, and that was the inspiration for this little crochet guy.



I had some trouble making the body square up, so I ended up running strings from one side to the other (on the inside) to sort of give it an infrastructure. It was slightly awkward to stuff, but all in all it came out pretty cute. =)



Also, I wasn't sure whether or not to put eyeballs/headlights on it, but I sent out a text message survey, and most people said yes. So 20 minutes before I was to leave for the party I frantically cranked out some eyeballs and a little smile.



Ready for the bag. =)

I decided I would make a doll for my niece's birthday. I wanted it to be a fairly proportionate doll, so I drew a picture to block out the body.

Sadly, I left that picture at work, and made the doll at home, so what I ended up with was the longest torso'd shortest legged doll ever. I was going to make it a pair of shorts and a shirt, but as it turns out, I had to do a dress to cover up the tragic misproportion of the body.

It's my first "person" creation though, and I'm really proud of the hair, I worked for at least an hour trying to get the hairline fixed so that it looked somewhat realistic.

The dress just sort of created itself as I went, and it turned into a ballerina looking thing, so I went with it. I had some trouble figuring out how to create underwear (one try looked like a dolly thong), but in the end I got it together and ended up with a pretty nice looking ballerina doll. I added the pink ribbon to make it look a little fancier. =)

Sorry for the terrible photo quality, it was on my phone =/

My niece loved it! Yay!