Little People

Little People - my very first pattern - Crochetville Forum

I want to make this doll. I also want to use this pattern as the basis to make a gnome.

Want to Make This Sweater... Maybe With This Yarn

Baby It's Cold Outside | Crochet Me

This looks really cool. I also want to do a cute ruffled sweater that I found on Ravelry but this sweater looks pretty easy and cute. Plus, you can't beat three hours for making a baby sweater. I'm going to add it to my list.

I bought some yarn today. Two skeins of 100% Superwash Merino Wool Swish Worsted Weight in Merlot Heather dye lot 24092 that are 110 yards per 50 gram ball. Three skeins each of 60% Pima Cotton, 40% Modal natural beech wood fiber Worsted Weight in Hollyberry dye lot 24140 and Terra Cotta dye lot 23810. Spent too much as we are broke right now but I actually bought the yarn with a project in mind. I'm going to make a scarf each for my mom and my sister for Christmas. The other yarn will be for a baby sweater or longies.

Adding in Another Color

After a few more rounds I've now added in some red. I'm working on the second round of red. I'm thinking I'll probably do four rounds of red, eight of pink, four of red, eight of pink, and end it with four of red. I think that will make it big enough. I'm trying to make it big enough for the baby to lay on and have some playing room on the floor but not so big that it becomes a bother to use.

Belle's Afghan

I'm working on a Round Ripple Baby Afghan that I found on Ravelry awhile ago. I frogged the baby mittens I was working on because I only had a thicker yarn than the pattern called for and trying to figure out the conversion was annoying me. I crochet to relax and that was definitely not relaxing. The afghan is surprisingly easy and I'm loving it. I'm just on the 8th round but I can already see that it is going to be very pretty. It is just pink right now but I'm going through my yarn to see if there is another color that I'd like to mix in. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out my camera situation and can post pictures soon.

Christmas List (A Work in Progress)

1. Husband
a. Cable Hat (saved pattern)
Needed: 3 balls Swish Worsted Yarn in Dublin.
b. Beanie (saved pattern)
c. Toes Up Socks (saved pattern)
d. Narrow Tweed Scarf (saved pattern)

2. Boys
a. Two (one each) Cute Kids' Earflap Hats
Needed: 4 balls Swish Bulky Yarn, one each in Planetarium, Marlin, Verdant Heather, and Adobo.
b. Gnome Home
Needed: 1 ball dark brown bulky yarn, 1 ball lighter brown (possibly mixed colors), tiny bit of green bulky yarn for base, green eyelash yarn, various yarns for flowers on walls.
c. Whimsical Castle Bag
d. Two Medieval Money Bags.
e. Crocheted Hot Dog
f. Easy Peasy Strawberries
g. Simple Crochet Balls
h. Baby Triceratops

3. Baby
a. Little People Doll
b. Baby Grab Ball
c. Blocks
d. Cute Butterfly
e. Baby Mittens

4. Mom
a. Shelly Scarf
b. Gulf Shores Hat

5. Dad
a. Starter Scarf
b. Remote Control Caddy

6. Sister
a. One Skein Scarf
b. L.A.M.B Inspired Hat
c. Quick Winter Headband
d. Fancy Filigree Bracelet (This is for a bookmark but I'm making a bracelet with it.)

7. Brother
a. Aran Scarf
b. Crochet Wine Bottle Cover

8. Niece
a. Hot Pink Bracelet Purse
b. Amigurumi Sprite Doll to go in the bracelet purse.

Sunhat

I'm making the baby a sunhat. I've been working on it for awhile. I thought I had a pattern that I wanted to use but it turned out entirely too small so I've been winging the hat so far. I'm going to try out using the ruffled brim from the Darling Crocheted Ruffled Sunhat because it is just adorable.

Crocheted Soft Rib Longies

Whenever I read SouleMama I get inspired. Today the little sweater for baby has me inspired. I’ve wanted to make some longies for the longest time. However, I don’t really know how to knit, I’ve only ever practiced a few stitches and don’t even have any needles any longer. I’d given up the hope as lost until I found these crocheted soft rib longies. Now I’m supposed to be working on my July projects which are basically toys for the kids for Christmas, a couple balls for the baby to have now, and a remote control caddy for my dad for his birthday. But these longies are calling my name. I’m going to finish off the project I’m working on right now, a baby grab ball, but this is definitely going on my list of things to crochet!

Progress on Baby Grab Ball

I've made two of the pieces for the Baby Grab Ball and I'm beginning to get the hang of it. They seem relatively simple though I'm not doing the edging right. I'm trying it on each piece and I figure that by the end of the first ball I'll have it down. My printer is out of commission (can't find the cord to connect my laptop to it and never got the wireless to work correctly from the laptop) so I've handwritten the pattern out so that I don't need to be on the laptop the entire time I'm crocheting. I need to hit up the library and print some patterns out.

Got the Supplies

I went out and bought the yarn and fiberfill for the July projects today. All of it is acrylic. I wanted to get cotton but they didn't have the colors that I wanted so I walked over to the wool. I realized (luckily, prior to paying) that it would felt when I washed it and since these are going to be kids' toys and will get dirty I just went to the acrylic. I got a deep blue (maybe black, didn't look very closely) and deep purple for the balls, red and green for the strawberries, and I'll use the purple or red and green for the grapes. I still need to get some wooden beads for the grapes. I'll likely start on the Baby Grab Ball first because I want to make one for the baby to have now and one for Christmas.

My dad's birthday is in July so I'll be crocheting him a remote caddy as well.

Project List for July

I need some solid goals in order to get all my projects finished in time for Christmas. So for the month of July, I'm going to make four projects.

Crocheted Grapes for the boys.

Easy Peasy Strawberries for the boys.

Baby Grab Ball for the baby. At least two.

Simple Crochet Ball for the kids. At least two.

If I still can't find my camera (boo hoo) I'll at least take pictures with my camera phone.

Floppy Sunhat for Belle In Progress

I’m in the process of making a floppy sunhat for Belle from Ravelry. Floppy Sunhat It looks cute in the picture, very Southern belle (*wink*), and I’m loving it. I’m using some basic Peaches & Creme yarn that I bought from Wal-Mart. I think it is the Article 930 Worsted Weight in Winterberry but I threw the packaging away so I can’t be sure. I’m using a size F hook when the pattern calls for a H. Call me adventurous, call me stupid, or just call it like it is: I lost my H hook and don’t get paid until next week but didn’t feel like putting the project off until then. I bought this yarn because it was affordable and I was already at Wal-Mart. It is really soft, though not as soft and yummy as bamboo.

I’m going to get some yarn from Knit Picks when I get paid. I’m also looking at getting some from WEBS on payday. I love bamboo yarn and they have some pretty good prices (Knit Picks doesn’t carry bamboo yarn, I’m looking at cotton blends from them). I’ve got a ton of patterns on my favorites list at Ravelry and I’ve just realized that the year is half over and I’ve yet to get started on the million things I want to get done in time for the birthday/holiday rush that starts this fall.

I recently got a raise at work and little does the Husband know, but I plan to put that towards my “yarn lust” fund!

After I finish the hat I might make some socks to match, if I have enough yarn left.