Last week I picked up a couple of vintage zippers so I could try making flowers with them. This is what I came up with this morning. The one on the right I hot glued and the one on the left I stitched by hand. They were pretty fast to make. Can’t wait to get some more zippers to play with.
Went to a wedding a couple hours away on Sat. and on the way out the door I grabbed some yarn so I’d have something to work on in the car. Usually I make the single crochet ribbed dish cloth like on the right but after making a couple of those I decided to switch over to granny squares. And then on a couple of them I added a ruffled edge. Not sure what I like best. Some of the knitted dish rags I was given for my wedding two years ago are wearing out so I’ll probably keep a couple of these to replace them and use a couple of them for presents. If you don’t use handmade dish cloths already I highly recommend them. Nothing compares with them for making it easier to wash your dishes.
Thought this would be the perfect day for sharing a picture of this wall hanging my mother made for me and gave to me the other day. It will go perfectly in my patriotic themed guest room.
Over the weekend I went through my stash of flannel and realized there were lots of smaller pieces that were the perfect size to make pairs of burp cloths out of so that’s what I made. Ended up with 6 pairs of burp cloths and one single. They will come in handy for upcoming baby presents.
This past weekend I decided to rescue an unfinished object of my mother’s and try to finish it for her. It’s a baby crochenit afghan that she started and never got back to. I haven’t done crochenit for over 20 years so I didn’t remember what to do but figured I’d be able to find some help online and I did. Luckily I came across their website complete with video tutorials that showed me exactly what I needed to do. My mom gave me a couple pattern books she had as well. Between those and the patterns on the website I could make a lot of different items using this technique but I’m not sure how much I’ll get into it. Does seem like you could go pretty fast. I’ll keep you posted how it goes.
There’s a hook on each end and you take turns with each color picking up stitches and then crocheting them off. It’s an interesting combination of knitting and crocheting combined into one.
The other day when a friend stopped past to pick up a couple of last minute Mother’s Day gifts I showed her a few of the latest things I’d been working on including these tshirt cozies. She indicated that after just coming up with something for her kid’s teachers for teacher appreciation week she was looking for ideas for end of year presents and thought that the tshirt cozies would be a great gift. I took a couple and added some school supplies that I had on hand to show what they would look like. I’m sure they would make a perfect present for not only teachers but anyone on your gift giving list. The two shown above are already spoken for but here are a couple others that I’ve made recently that are still available:
These were made from brand new bright yellow tshirts that had never been worn. I made these a bit smaller and made a set of coasters with the leftover material.
The white cozies are crocheted from two white ribbed knit GAP tshirts and the pink cozie is crocheted from a pink Eddie Bauer tshirt. So shabby chic!
This little mint cozie is crocheted from a GAP tshirt. The material was thin so it ended up being a bit small.
Wouldn’t it make the perfect little holder for loose change or paper clips?
A couple weeks ago I asked my Activity Day girls what they wanted to make their mothers for Mother’s Day and they all said origami boxes. I taught them how to make those at Christmas and they loved it. So I was trying to think of something we could make to go in the origami boxes. Luckily I came across some soap kits that were 75% off at Joann’s. This kit had enough soap, coloring, scent and molds to make a bunch of flower soaps that were perfect. The next day I happened to be at a different Joann’s and I picked up a different kit for me so I could practice. I also bought some colored soaps. In my vast overabundance of craft supplies I actually have a full box of soap molds that I was given but had never used. I’d only made one bar of soap on one previous occasion many years ago so I wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing. Since I had green soap and turtle molds I decided to make turtle soaps for my Mother in law and one of my friends for her b’day. They both collect turtles so I thought this would be a fun gift for them. Luckily they turned out and I had these little soap bags to package them in. It ended up being a great gift. We were quite hurried the night of Activity Days since we only have an hour and had to make the soap, origami gift boxes and cards but somehow we got it all done and the girls had a lot of fun in the process.
