I just made up this cute bath puff!  took me about 1 hour to do.  My last bath puff fell apart, now I have a nice new one for my shower later on.  and its super fluffy.  I used a G hook and 100% cotton yarn.

At least that is what my kids are calling this hat. I think it lots of fun. I got the idea from that cute japanese pattern book that has fruits that you can make into household goods.   The pattern for the fruit was for a tea cozy, but heck I use my microwave to make tea so I decided to make a hat! Goofy but I love it!

If you are like me you have way too many single skeins of the different noro yarns. I decided I had to make something out of it and I found a pattern, the woodstock duster from Interweave Crochet fall 2006 magazine. http://www.interweavecrochet.com/2006/materials_fall.asp#woodstock
and since I have to add my own flair I changed it to my completed sweater.  I just love it and I love how large the sleeves are.  I don't remember how many different skeins of yarn I used but I am thinking probably over 10 skeins of different yarns.  I even had to take a close up of the button I used, I made that when I had my kiln up and running.






Isn't Noro the bestest yarn ever! And the beuty of it, is I think all the yarns go together wonderfully!

Since it seems like I have been on a sushi kick, including going out to eat it too much lately. I finally got off my duff and finished this hat set that I have been working on for ever......... it seems . I used caron simply soft yarns (100 % acrylic) and a size F hook, single and double crochet and here it is. Hat and scarf and scarf unrolled

 

Sushi anyone??
I made up this cute hat (if I do say so myself), its my own made up pattern, and I think it is super fun to wear. I used caron simply soft yarn, and am working on a crocheted sushi scarf to go with the hat! I received a knitted sushi scarf and decided to make one up in crochet and then the hat idea came up.  Man I love being creative! now if I could craft full time and not have to go to work that would be ideal!

I finished this finally! yes the log house isn't ami, but the mice & fairy are made in ami way.  the log house uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug as its framework, so I even recycled part of this project!



I wish the pattern for the log house was mine. The log house pattern came from an ebay win from Kathleen Early designs. The mice were started from her pattern, but I switched them into ami since that was much easier to do for me!
more photos on my flickr site
http://flickr.com/photos/52476635@N00/

After working on this pattern for a while I finally finished it today. I remember as a child loving to draw little houses for mice inside of hollow logs or tree stumps. I just love this. To bad I have boys!  Plus I used a recycled empty gallon milk jug for the house's framework

Hubby is always complaining that I never make him anything. Last night I made him this hat. I used paton's merino wool yarn, less then 1 skein.  I love how the colors pooled and it has this weird stripey look. Plus he said it kept his head warm this morning while cleaning ice of the car windows.  I sorta followed the boy beanie hat from SnB happy hooker, using an F hook and DC, I just increased on rows that I felt like needed to be increased on until it got wide enough then I did straight DC rows with no increases


Plus I think he looks cute in it.

I tell you those japanese scrubby books are so cute, and the things you can make out of them even cuter. Here are the lastest ones that I made up! these are from the scrubby book #7, I believe


I used the peaches and cream 100% cotton yarn that you can get for around $1.30 a ball, each one of these took less them 1/2 of a ball, and only took a few hours to make up.   The kitty is actually like a puppet. Too cute for sure!

I made these for my swap partner and now that she has them I can post a few photo's I really think these little guys are cute. I am making up another set right now for myself!