I bought this book because I make hats for the homeless. It looked like fun and I have lots of little balls of yarn left over from all the hats I have made for years now. I plan on starting on the 1st and hope I can get them all done next year. I am starting at the beginning and keep going til I am done. I try to make a hat a week, so I am gonna have to pick up the pace a bit to get these all done.
A year ago I lost the sweetest little girl. She was almost 19. Not only did I lose her but I found the family of the little gray tom I found in my front yard. It was a very tough day.
Both my knit groups made these stars. They are very addictive. Once you have made one, well can eat just one potato chip? I bought this kit: https://www.barrettwoolco.com/products/fabric-star-kit.
However you can just click on the link that is posted on the kit page and see how to make them. Come on you all know you have tons of little pieces of fabric laying around your craft room. I plan on making them for each month/holiday.
Why yes I am cutting out fabric for January as I decorate with snowmen.
A friend of mine gave me the table runner and I had a red bowl from my grandmother and since I made 5 stars they just all kind of go together.
Go watch the tutorial and make yourself some, bet you can't just make one.
We all have our addictions, shoes, chocolates, books, cats, yarn, etc etc etc.
This year I have a new one, they are bobble hot pads. I found the pattern on okiegirlblingnthings, She has some really cute patterns on there. I made several for birthdays and tried to find yarn to make them look like flowers: for instance I made sunflowers with a brown center, yellow bobbles and a green back. I decided I had 3 craft Christmas parties to go to and went to my stash and grabbed all my Christmas looking dishcloth yarn. You do not want to know how much I have (when Hobby Lobby went totally to their brand a few years ago, they put all the peaches and sugar and cream on clearance, i bought carts full).
I wrote down how many I needed and how many each person got and ended up making 50. They are so much fun to make and you can do a lot with the various colors. I plan on making some for me next year for all the holiday months.
My new addiction: These are a few I made. They are called Modern Round Crochet Potholder. You can use them as a potholder but I prefer them for hot pads as the bobble keeps the hot pan up off the counter. Go check out the pattern and make yourself some. They make a great last minute gift and pair them with a dishcloth, well people will love them.
A friend posted the Christmas Chevrolet commercial on FB, it is 5 minutes long. Best grab a box of kleenex before you watch it. Go ahead and look it up.
When I was a kid and we lived in Carlsbad, NM we would drive around and look at the Christmas lights, of course we went to the rich neighborhoods. They had some of the ugliest decorations ever. We would take cocoa and cookies and just have a fun evening.
Later in life my dad and i would still do this and when his dementia kicked in, I would bundle him up, grab cocoa and cookies and off we would go to the rich neighborhoods. Dad would often comment rich people have no taste. Or he would yell stop and sit and look at some house, memories of days past, just being in the moment of Christmas, or? Then he would say we can go now. I never asked, he never told.
I miss those days. Perhaps this year I will get in the car and drive through a couple of rich neighborhoods with cocoa for me and pretend dad is sitting next to me yelling STOP!.
Dad I know you can see ALL the lights from your seat up there and I can imagine how beautiful it is. Christmas was his holiday. If you did not put the tinsel on the tree one at a time and in the perfect place you had to take it off one by one and start over. Do not even think of throwing away that nasty silver tinsel, cos it was pulled off one by one and saved for next year. Afterall it was $.15/box.
Ok not the kind of deer you are thinking of, but the kind where you gasp and go holy crap. I just joined a private group on FB that has to do with WIPS (Works in Progress). I pulled them all out and went through them all. I grabbed a notebook and wrote them down and made a note of what needs to be done to finish them. I have 11 that just need things like ends woven in, buttons put on, etc and 16 that need to be finished knitting and then ends woven in. I knew I had projects all over the house but until I gathered them all I had no idea. I am sure as time goes along I will find more. 4 will be frogged that I did not put on the list.
These are just the knitting/crochet projects. Never mind how many cross stitch patterns I have going and then the Doll House. Guess it is going to be a very busy 2024.
So, how many unfinished projects do you have?
