Daisy square - from ravelry.com

I really felt that this Daisy square was going to stump me. It took a couple of attempts to get it right...but when I finally mastered the patter, it turned out amazing. I found the pattern at Ravelry.com. It's free but the square designer will only give you the pattern if you agree to send a completed square to her. She combines squares from everyone and creates blankets for charity.

Here is my square. I love it so much I'm going to make a whole afghan out of the same colors. Maybe I'll use it as a raffle gift for the breast cancer fundraiser next year.

Pillowcases are fun and easy...

I've decided that pillow cases are just about the most fun thing to make with all of the beautiful fabric that's available. Sometimes I'm just overwhelmed at all of the beautiful fabric and don't know what to do with it all. The answer...pillowcases.

With 3/4 yard of the pretty stuff, and 1/4 yard of contrasting fabric..you have custom pillowcases. They make great gifts and you can even wrap gifts up in them. I made pillowcases with multiple kinds of breast cancer fabric for my 3-Day team last year and everyone loved them.

This is my latest one. Wish I would have taken pictures of all the others. I'll be better about that in the future.

Catching up on projects

I've been remiss is posting my finished projects. I recently completed a baby blanket. Didn't use traditional colors (teal, orange, white) because the Mom-to-be is a little more hip that traditional blue and/or pink. I like this pattern because it works up VERY quickly. When I figure out to blog better, I'll post the pattern.


On the crochet front - I've found a new love. FOOD. Ok, those who know me know that real food is an on-going love affair, but crochet food is new and fun. I made doughnuts and cupcakes. Can you believe it? These are just about the most adorable things EVER.

Another Apple Cozy

The great thing about this blog and sharing it with friends is that they see some of my projects and say "hey....I want one of those". And that's just what's happened. A friend saw my previous apple cozy and said "I would love to have 5 of those". Cool. She wants to give them to her son to give them to his teachers. I never know how to price my projects, but I think I'm fair...$2.00 each. I found a better pattern that I like and is more flexible to the apple. I added a stem and leaf to the pattern and I really think it looks adorable.

Iris cards

I found a couple more pictures of Iris Folding cards that I've created. I love making and giving these cards. They look so complicated, but they're really pretty easy....just a little time consuming.

A special card for special friends

I wanted to create a special card for two of my friends. Here is the result...an iris folded coffee cup. I'm actually pretty proud of how great these look.

Weekend projects

After finishing my last afgan project I was looking for a small and quick project. I actually found two that I'd been wanting to try...so I did them both. The first one is silly, but it's an apple cozie. Thought it might be cute to make a cozie for my apples at lunch...to keep them from getting bruised in my lunchbox. Apples don't really need a cozie, but this was a fun little project. I used cotten yarn and if I had to do it over, I'd make it a bit taller and not narrow it so much at the top. The apple was hard to fit into the cozie.



The second project was a pair of fingerless gloves. I like them and they were very easy to accomplish, but they were a bit too loose at the hands. If I make these again (maybe next winter)I'll do the wrist with the same size hook as called for in the pattern, but change to a hook 3 sizes smaller for the hand.