What do you make when you get some vintage 80's friendly plastic?  add a vintage 70's or 80's hot tray thingy do some melting then add glaze and you get some opaly looking earrrings and a pendant .  I totally forgot how much fun this old craft was. 

Yes I am totally stealing this idea from www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/2008/05/vintage-sheet-patchwork-swap.html
but it sounds like it would so cool to do a swap like this.  I think what we could do is to instead of shipping to the organizer, we pick a number of fat quaters we would like to swap and then we mail them directly to a partner or partners. Time frame could be after school starts, and before the holiday season sets in, like Sept to end of Octoberish?  so we can get out and do some thrifting or shopping around to find vintagy sheets or pillow cases. 
Maybe we could speicify what we really do not want, like flowers, stripes, or character prints. 

I hope others would like to be invovled in this type of swap since I missed sign ups for the other vintage sheet swaps that I could find on the net! 

Ok, my youngest son had to make up an invention for his science fair project. Well we came up with this design. Doggie Duster Busters!  They are helpful around the house, and good for the environment.  Only if you can get your dog to wear and then walk around in them.  Of course Mom had to design and then crochet them up.  Poor Athena was not very happy with having to wear them.  2 skeins of cotton yarn, a dog, a kid with an idea hopefully an A in science!

I was surfing the net the other day and saw a TP cozy that was in the shape of a wishing well and I think it was for barbie dolls?  Now I can't find the site.  Anyone know what site I was looking at?

I have been busy working on some other swaps, not this list, and this is the stuff I made for 2 of my partners
First a weiner dog from Beth Doughty's amigurumi book

then a bag full of goodies,
Whats this? A sandwich, made out of crochet cottonrest of the goodies
photos are clicky to enlarge

I just saw the eposide today where the crafter artist made a cool choker out of hot glue, fabric glue and glitter. 
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_accessories_jewelry/article/0,,HGTV_3225_3198817,00.html
I was wondering if anyone has made anything like this?  I plan on giving it a try this week just to see what it turns out like. 

I just ran upon the holiday section of the anthropolgie site. Man it has some cute but expensive ornaments.  http://tinyurl.com/3dgk32
I think we could all make up a penguin pattern, and the skater girls look like they are needle felted with knitted sweaters.  I really think the ornaments are super cute, but too expensive for me!

I havne't made this cake yet, but plan on doing so for a co-workers wedding gift, in her wedding colors.  I just thought I would pass this on for others that are looking for wedding cake patterns to crochet

http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/buttercream/buttercream.pdf

I am thinking about doing a swap where we crochet one or several of the cute scrubbies and send them to our partners.  I am addicted to making them up.  They are made out of cotton yarn or any type of yarn, and take a short time to make them up.  Here are several of the cute books that have them in them. 
http://tinyurl.com/24qwjr
http://tinyurl.com/yvkoek
http://tinyurl.com/ytdq8y
http://tinyurl.com/29xj97
http://tinyurl.com/ynppt7
http://tinyurl.com/23jsl5


Would anyone be interested in this type of swap?  I'm thinking around Halloweenish for sign ups and then send outs before thanksgiving. 

I test crocheted this pattern for a lovely lady on crochetville.  I worked on the doll for about 2.5 hours. She is a little bit under 8 inches.  Very easy and very cute pattern.