Snowflakes, Hacky Sacks, Sewing...

Ok here I go. “A number of months ago I came across a book by Delsie Rhoades called 101 Snowflakes at my local library. I borrowed it and started making snowflakes.” You remember that from last post this time I have more I made but had not yet taken pictures of. Here is #1 from that book. All the following I made for my mother, she said she wished she had more of my snowflakes, which I was giving away as Christmas presents. Some of the snowflakes below were a finials project one of many I started around finals.

This is #3 from the book.

This booklet is the one I got the below angel pattern form.

This angel pattern from a booklet called Angels, Snowflakes, & Garlands designed by Anne Halliday. I looked around specifically for angel patterns because they are what my mother collects. I made 4 of these angels as gifts this year.

This is #8 in white; I made this one in gold first.

While searching for angel ornament patterns I came across this used booklet I bought it.

And here is the only ornament I have made from it so far.

And this is #27 from the book by Delsie Rhoades called 101 Snowflakes.

And another # 14, that I made in gold for my Aunt and my mother really admired it so I made another in white.

And another #28.

And another # 61, you can see I really went to town on snowflakes this year.

I made # 33 for one of the girls I watch and it was too small in her estimation so I made her a different one. This was the second of this number I had made.

# 84 I love this one it is very delicate looking, well I love all of them really.

And last but not least # 88, which I made two of as well. All the snowflakes in this post went to my sweet mother.

Ok on to other things now I come to my brother who loves to play with these. He had asked me once if I would make him some more and I told him it was cheaper to buy them at $3 a piece than to spend the time it would take to make them. So all of these he purchased himself except the red one which is really the Psychotic Tomato designed by Regina Rioux Gonzalez aka Lady Linoleum.

I after many, many, many, trials of other peoples hacky sack patterns and they were not the right size or look right…. I proceeded to copy one of the existing hacky sacks my brother bought. And finally I got the first striped one.

After that I proceeded to make another striped one.

Then feeling like a change I was going to make a pokadoted yellow and black one but the pokadots were so time consuming I made only two stripes of yellow pokadots on black. Resulting in the below ball.

Next I decided to go full force and make pokadots, as one of my brother’s other hacky sacks had. This was very time consuming. I was also stealing away my brother’s hacky sacks so I could try to imitate them, thankfully I was not caught and my brother loved the hacky sacks when he got them on Christmas and very surprised.

These below pajamas were also another finals project I decided I would make around finals, like I had time to do that no. I didn’t finish these till January.

Another set of pajamas, I have to tell you they are so soft it is like one of those super soft stuffed animals but all over when I wear them.

Yet another project was this sewing pincushion trash bag set. My mother has one and it makes her sewing projects so nice the bag is for thread clippings as you sew or other fabric trash. The pincushion is for when you take out the pins as you sew.

Here is a picture of it on the wrong side of the serger machine. It is supposed to go on the right side.

After I made one I proceeded to make another out of remnants from my flannel quilt. It is more fun the second time through a pattern and quicker at least for me.

This thread was sitting in my thread bin annoying me for it was to thick for my normal thread work and to thin for yarn so I whipped out my new Crochet magazine and made Sunny Spread Squares out of it. These are all the squares I could make before the thread ran out. I feel much better about having these squares in my bin than that thread.

Oh here is a picture of the magazine I got the pattern out of.

Now my crochet hooks have a nice case to hold them but my knitting needles do not so I found the below pattern and made a Knitting needle case.

And here is what I ended up with; I received the most compliments from the male members of my family than I had ever received before. You see they liked the camo fabric which I got because it was a remnant and on sale. It was really gratifying I’ll have to make something in camo again soon.

And here is what I ended up with; I received the most compliments from the male members of my family than I had ever received before. You see they liked the camo fabric which I got because it was a remnant and on sale. It was really gratifying I’ll have to make something in camo again soon.

I’ve been bitten by the sewing bug so I bought some more fabric to match the brown ribbon I had from the camo knitting needle case.

I was able to make not one but two more knitting needle cases because I didn’t have to make the extra crochet hook flap so on the first case I had brown on the outside.

Here is the inside.

And I made the second case blue on the outside.

Here is a peek inside it.

With how crafty I have been lately I needed more storage so I bought some plastic storage bins to store and spread out what I have. And that concludes this post I’m glad aren’t you?

Stain Glass & Snowflakes

It has been so long since I have last posted. Ok here is what I have been up to. I finished my finals got good grades, took the scary GRE and finished buying Christmas presents. Not to mention helping my mother bake 7 types of cookies. All right on to some of the things I have made.

This is what I made in my stain glass class. I at one point thought it would be horrible to look at because of the thickness of the black lines, though now I am content with what I made and pleased with it.

This is the piece that my father made, he is the one that encouraged me to take the class with him, and we had a great time together. Now our stain glass pieces are hanging in the windows together.

This is a Christmas present that I made for my cousin who loves sunflowers, I made 7 coasters for her, and why 7 you might ask. Well I made 6 and looked at the remaining yellow I had and I didn’t have much left and could make one more coaster so I did. I originally saw a picture of this coaster as an embellishment but decided it would work well as a coaster. So I zoomed into the picture and worked backwards to formulate the pattern and ended up with this. I saw this embellishment on Crochet con amor.

A number of months ago I came across a book by Delsie Rhoades called 101 Snowflakes at my local library. I borrowed it and started making snowflakes. The above snowflake is for a little girl I sit, she wanted her snowflake in bright pink. This snowflake is # 23 in the book.

This snowflake is for the afore mentioned little girl’s sister who also wanted bright pink. The snowflake is # 22.

I decided to make snowflakes this year as a gift for my Aunt who’s tree is what I call a designer tree with ornaments only in a couple of colors. Her tree is gold and white so I made the following ornaments in gold. This snowflake is # 57.

Also for my aunt this snowflake is # 8.

Another for my aunt this snowflake is # 19.

This one had and interesting stitch called Lover’s Knot, it is # 9.

I didn’t starch this one like the picture in the book, but it is # 13.

And Last but not least # 14.

More Babies

This baby hat I made not for anyone specific but to get ahead on the baby boom which is occurring in the people I know. The bonnet came from a pattern called Angel Kisses Dress which was designed by Anna. The bonnet size is newborn, the only problem I had was trying to figure out how much thread I would need to make the complete project, I still haven’t made the whole outfit so the question is still unanswered.


The little girl who will be wearing has already been delivered and is healthy so I am pleased.

This is another outfit for a member of my personal baby boom group. This was a challenging project, first I had to find a non-feminine outfit which is harder than it sounds. The pattern is called Little Boy Blue designed by Shifio; I also had to consider that we live in Arizona so it will not get too terribly cold. Here is an overview of the whole outfit.

This little hat I had to make twice the first one was too small.

This sweater was the most time consuming part of the outfit.

I had a fun time trying to create a theme for the outfit and wound up with bears. These cute little bear buttons were so darn cute I had to use them.

Even though I added buttons, I upon consultation with my mother thought the shape of the bear buttons would make them difficult to button up; therefore they became false buttons just for looks. I added snaps under the buttons to make the top easy to put on the little boy.

This bear patch goes with the bear buttons and bear theme.

When I got to the shorts the top of the shorts had a design that would suggest a draw string or ribbon to hold the shorts on the little baby, but this is a boy outfit so I got a length of rope that is classy looking.

Here is a close up just because, I had to knot the ends unfortunately for the edges didn’t sear though I was told that they would, oh well.

These booties also caused me a great deal of frustration. I generally crochet tightly so the first bootie was noticeably smaller than the second. I then pulled out the bootie yarn of the larger bootie and remade it but it turned out larger as well. I then made a completely new bootie and it matched the larger size one so I finally had the two booties.

Ok I got tagged by Ccat. I am supposed to do the following:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 3 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

1st 7 facts about myself: Some random, Some weird. (you can choose which is which)
1. I have 4 brothers and no sisters.
2. I can not spell worth anything, thank goodness for spell check.
3. I just took a stain glass class with my father (it was a lot of fun).
4. Around finals I go on a frantic creative binge like I have all the time in the world when the opposite is true.
5. My worst recurring nightmare is that I lose my teeth. (I usually happens before a visit to the dentist)
6. I’m probably the only college student that goes to bed early Friday night.
7. I’m scared of the GRE.

2nd I am tagging Crochetroo, Mimi, & Tami.