Post Finals Post

All righty then we ended up having to borrow my grandmother’s camera cord to download pictures to the computer for somehow we have misplaced our own, or I would have posted some of these pictures sooner. Here is the bottom landing of our stairs in the new wood flooring.

Here is a close up of the unusual corners on this landing; the pattern was the floorer’s idea, the floor turned out beautifully.

Cleaning out our upstairs and reorganizing some of the younger toys the boys still have in there room; we here have a collection of stuffed animals my grandmother made for us her grandchildren. The little girl in pink with an apron was made for me as a child as well as the white & pink bear that has roses on her. The rest were made for my other brothers.

Here is a bookmark I made during my spring session finals but lent to my grandmother as an example of the Undercover Bookmark before I got a good picture of it. It is a dark green that can’t be seen quite clearly in this picture.

In this picture you can see the color better; this is a close up of the top. This bookmark was designed by Kathryn White. I just love how elegant it looks.

Ok now you think with my love of books & bookmarks I would have taken a bookmark with me on my vacation to the beach but in the confusion leading up to the trip I took 3 books but no bookmarks! So I had to make myself a bookmark while I was there, both of these colors I picked up while in Florida because here in Arizona they do not stock these in the craft stores. I got the strawberry bookmark pattern here but it is the 3rd pattern down and there is no picture on the pattern website.

After I whipped up this bookmark my mom promptly started to nag me that she too needed a bookmark even though she had remembered to bring 2 of the bookmarks I made for her before the trip. She said that her third book didn’t have a proper bookmark. I caved in under the pressure and made a second strawberry bookmark but as usual I can’t leave well enough alone so I added this leave to the end where the tassel should be because I thought it would look better this way. This bookmark shows that I have this desire to make any bookmark that does not have a picture so I can have a picture for my bookmark files.

For the pattern of the leaf on the end of the strawberry:
Leaf End
1 sc in next 2 chs, 1hdc in next ch, 1dc in the next ch, 2tr in next 2chs, 1 tr in next ch, 1hdc in same ch, ch2 sl st in same ch, ch2, (now on opposite side of leaf) 1hdc in same ch, 1 tr in same ch, 2tr in next 2chs, 1dc in the next ch, 1hdc in next ch, 1 sc in next 2 chs.

This too I made while on vacation using 2 of the 3 new colors I bought on a pattern I picked up on Annie’s Attic Website. I was pleased with the resulting bookmark. The green color is called Frosty Green and is an Aunt Lydia’s brand as is the pink which is called Dusty Rose.

I love Kathryn White’s Undercover Bookmark so much I made it again while on vacation in my new turquoise blue which is officially: Aunt Lydia’s Parakeet color.

In the same color I made the other Butterfly Bookmark Pattern by Kathryn White. I figured that since I made the other 2 bookmarks by Kathryn White I should make this one as well.

Although I like the butterfly aspect of this bookmark I didn’t like the round circle portion at the end of the bookmark. Therefore I thought for a while about the perfect ending for this bookmark and settled on:
Triple Cluster Tassel End
sl st into the 5th chain from the end to form a loop.
In the loop created, *make 3 dc, holding back a lp on each dc, then on the last dc pull a loop through all 3, ch 3 sl st into the top of the 3dc cluster, ch 3*, repeat from * to * 3 times, then sl st into the ch 5 ring and finish off.

Since I live in Arizona the land of perpetual blinding sun I needed new sunglasses this year. And since I didn’t want the lenses to get scratched up this year I needed a sunglasses case so I looked for a stitch pattern that I thought was appealing and found the right pattern for my case.

I have yet to add a snap to this sunglasses case but I plan on doing so next. The nice thing about making this case was that it used up some extra yarn from the pink hats I made for my mom and me.

This bookmark I made at my brother’s request for a gift for his friend with the nickname daisy, it turned out nicely I think.

Ok yet again I have made another Friendship Rings Bookmark. I used Cannon SC039 which I got from Mimi; I love the effect this thread gives in this bookmark.

I have finally finished my 1st summer session and next Monday I get to start my new class this time I only have 1 class for the 2nd summer session I think I about died of stress having to rapid pace classes at once. I don’t recommend anyone follow my insanity.