New Year, New Resolution

This year (2013) I have decided to focus on service and making a concerted effort to forget my sorrows and focus on something good...

So, between Christmas and New Year's I started working on infant beanie hats to donate to hospitals... My first donation of 19 little beanies went to Dixie Regional Medical Center on New Year's Day.

The goal I have set is to make 250 baby beanies for charitable donation... Let's see how it goes...

50 Granny Squares Complete!

I need to learn how to take better photographs...

I finished 50, 8 inch Granny Squares.... 

One of these little babies is going to be left out of the 7X7 afghan I have planned, although, I am not sure which one yet...

Now, I need to actually stitch them together!

Five of each multi-color square...

I have several thoughts buzzing around in my head...

Can I do this? 

I have never done this before...

I think I can... 

I have been watching How To videos on You Tube... 

Now if I can just follow directions...

Who knows... 


I hope I didn't just crochet 50 squares to sit in my closet for years on end...

Five of each tri-color square...

I don't think this was a waste of my time... 

If I did, I don't think I would have invested in several skeins of Heather Gray yarn.

The plan is to use this yarn to connect all my squares...

I just need to decide on the style I want to use and then I can begin...

I wonder how long it is going to take to get these connected?

Wish me luck!

Oh boy... Crochet Blogs...

I am addicted.... I have all these ideas for projects and the one I am working on is turning our super cute and taking too long...(I cannot start a new project until this one is competed...) The culprit of this massive creative surge, you ask?

Pinterest  started the problem and now... I have discovered an amazing assortment of crochet blogs. They are adding to the growing list in my brain of things I must make...or have to try and make...

Here is a list of a few that I have been fequenting during slow moments at work...

Petitevanou

Maybe Matilda

Paper, Wool, and Yarn

Hooks and Yarns

Egg Bird Designs

Attic 24

What am I supposed to do with all these ideas? Working two jobs, traveling to Cali, little kids, a husband... I need some more time in the day so I can complete some of these awesome projects...

I guess for now I need to be content with the little bit of creativity I have time for and save up my ideas for the months to come. I have gifts rolling around in my head... I hope they someday come to fruition...

My current project, a bright granny square afghan, is taking shape... I have finished 25 tri-color squared and have 3 of 25 six-color squares completed. I love the bright yellow, pink, green, blue, and purple yarn... Eventually all the brightness will be toned down with some heather gray to bring it all together once I join all those squares... Don't worry, I will keep you posted...