Well HELLO Friday!!

Beautiful outside today. I have been working on the baby gown, and so far, Even I am impressed with it LOL>

Have the pics to post that I promised. I need to 'lighten' the one of the poncho. But for now this will due.

Need to run to Wal-Mart again today. So I will 'snoop around' the yarn department. I think I am becoming compulsive about my quest seek out yarn.

On an exciting note, My new coffee pot that I ordered from Amazon arrived a bit ago ( 2 days early!) So I will be entering the fascinating world of french press coffee very, very soon. I am sure it will take some getting used to , but I am ok with the whole guinnie pig thing. I love coffee, and have been drinking it since I was 2.5 /3 yo. I guess when you think about it, I could have taken up smoking a pipe...so Coffee drinking isn't THAT bad LOL!!

Ok, going to post pics, so I can get this day started.

Hello!

A very nice person notified me that my link wasn't working, so I came over here to see what was what. I have NO IDEA, but now it works and in the end that is all that matters.
My husband come home yesterday from a business trip to Philly, so my crochet time will be less now. But while he was gone I finished the Round Ripple I was making for his mother for mother's Day, and have part of one completed for My mom. Funny how different all the afghans look depending on the type and colors of yarn that is used. I have also started a baby gown for a woman who is expecting her first child in August. I don't really know her, but she seems very genuine and kind, so I want to make this for her. I am trying to do the booties and hat with it also. I have been working of a stitch that I learned from a local woman who I have met thru a 'knitting group' at our library. I love it, it works up fast and looks great. SO if I have extra ( which I doubt) Or get so inclined, I will purchase more and make one up to go with the gown. Now it has occured to me that I need to take and post the pics of the bird bath and my poncho. While I am at it, I will take one of the MiL RR....perhaps even one of the one I am working on for my mom. Ok, Off crochetville!

Time for an update!

Well, LONG time no post. Since my last visit. ( If I could REMEMBER how to log in and navigate this place things would go SO much faster LOL)

I have finished the Tank top. I have a pic in Crochetville, I'll get one and put it here too.

I have made a hanging bird bath

I have made an Orange fuzzy poncho for myself, that when I wear it, my husband says I look like a big pepper, Boy is the bugger WARM tho!!

However, I am now in a perdicament........I need a new project!!!!

I will post pics of the Bird bath and the Poncho soon.

I have been away from computer

But not away from yarn LOL. I have made a very soft scarf with a small blue loom, and a baby hat since the last time I blogged here, I also have been working very hard at the tankini top I had decided to make. I have the cups done. FINALLY!! I made them per the directions, and they looked like big banana boat sundae dishes, so I remade them... but altered the pattern until I thought it looked like the pictures in the book. Now I am working on the 'tank' part. Not sure I will like it in the colors I am using, but then again... This one is a 'trial' one, and I do not plan on swimming in this one LOL. Posting here is such a bugger, I am thinking of heading over to 360. That place is easier to navigate.
Well, I have my corned Beef on the stove already, Happy St. Patricks Day!!!

What a difference a day can make!

Well, I finally sat down, took a moment and re-read the pattern. It is a very easy pattern. I just was not reading it correctly. Must just be me, because today I picked this up this am and just flew thru it. I love it. Thank you to Dot Matthews for sharing the pattern.... She has many beautiful patterns in her blog.

I am going to try again on the 'Lacy Top' tomorrow. Tonight we have family game night and then the dh and I are going to go play cards............So crocheting will have to wait.
Have to run.

hey, I was the statue today. Cool!
Beth

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH

At the moment , I am not sure what I am more frustrated at. the crochet projects I am attempting or my husband. At least with the crochet.I can just rip it out and re-do.

I have recieved a book from Amazon in the mail.I can't remember the exact title ( and I am in a pinch with time @ the moment) but is is something like expert crocheting ( alluding to the fact that a beginner can become an expert) I will get the correct title maybe tomorrow if time allows. Anyhow, I am attempting the Blue Camisole top in said book :::: and right now the bra cup portion resembles a BOAT instead of a triangle shaped cup. I swear I read and followed the pattern exactly. The strange thing is , if I fold up the bottom protion of the 'cup' It looks FINE. Maybe It is to be done like this for added support?? and they just don't mention it??? I am so lost.

I tried to start a tiny 'bag' when I met at the local library with a bunch of ladies for a knit/crochet gathering. I couldn't get the bottom of the bag pattern to lay flat. I am not getting a great average here. I have ripped the bag out twice. I don't really mind......It just is a bit frustrating when I have just made 4 things in a row with out a hitch. Such is life.

My husband was just on the phone with me, says I need to make a list of what I don't like about him and what I want him to change because ( his words) "I feel like we are not communicating anymore and I can't say anything to you without having to worry if you are going to get mad"

I am trying to figure out WHO he is talking about.

Just when you think things are going along 'ok' someone rips the carpet out from under you. sheesh. I guess when he asked me this am if I clean the house by what I have on the calander ( Today I had "Clean fridge", mind you that is the ONLY cleaning type notation on the entire years calander) I looked at him and said "Don't Start". He must have got hurt feelings.( and since when does he worry about making me angry?? ) Oh well. So I need to get off here, clean the blessed fridge, run vacc. and get the kiddos dinner make my "list" ,THEN I can actually get to crochet today. Thinking of starting another 'cup' and see if that one comes out like a BOAT also. Zowie. Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.

Maybe tomorrow I can be the STATUE
ROFL

Starting a 'Tankini Top' soon...

Well, I have decided to 'take the plunge' so to speak. and try to make my own swimwear for this upcomming season. I have found a top that I am absolutely in love with that I will modify ( hopefully LOL) and make it work for swimwear. I emailed the designer, and she says she never wrote the pattern down... however, the great ladies at crochetville.org have notified me that indeed a pattern does exist out there and in in a book at Amazon, not quite the same top, but will do. So I have purchased the book, and I have been notified that is was shipped yesterday....... now the waiting begins. 4 to 14 days to arrive. I think the pony express was faster, but that is ok. I don't even have the materials purchased yet! I have been trying to design my own top. This is WAY out of my league, but somehow has not stopped me from trying. I have the 'cups' done. but they are two different shapes LOL. I will 'add on' and make it work somehow LOL. The loacl library is trying to start a knitting / crocheting group .... they had a sign up list, but my name was the oly one on it > Huge dissapointment there........... but I will show up today and see what comes of it. Can't hurt to try. Here is a pic of the top I wanted to make..... It is gorgeous isn't it???

Friday morning. 3/2/07

Well,

I didn't get to post any pics yet. I ended up rushing the husband to the ER .................But I took my crochet with me ;-) Don't think ill of me for it. think of it as great time management. I started a 'net' for my dd to place her stufed toys in and hang in her room. I got quite a bit of it completed just sitting there waiting. I have not heard back from the designer on the top I am interested in making. I realize people usually have much busier lives than my own LOL. This am I am heading over to CGOA to look into a possible membership, and get thru some emails. Depending on how the dh feels, that might be all I get done today LOL.
Beth

FIrst day with new blog.

Wonderful! It is nice to devote a blog just to my interests. I just have so many that I kind of 'flutter' all around .

My current quest is to make a crochet top. I have recently finished a camisole ( 2 actually. one for the SiL also ;-) ) Leg warmers, a cardigan & a shrug for my dd. Mittens for my youngest ds.

As I get used to this new format, I will be adding pics. For right now, I am on a hunt for a pattern that had been a winner in a charity auction. It is just beautiful.