Just wanted to share...

I just wanted to share some of the items I have in my new shop... 

I started making these cute flower coasters and have fallen in love with them... I have been using "I Love This Cotton Yarn" from Hobby Lobby and it really is super soft and easy to work with!

Blue Flower Coasters

Blue and Green Flower Coaster

Green Flower Coasters

 You can never have too many cotton dish cloths. I love making these Granny Square ones. They work up so fast and it is fun to change the colors to alternate the designs...

Navy and White Dish Cloths

Yellow, Violet, and White Dish Cloths

Yellow and White Dish Cloths

Patriotic Dish Cloths

Pink, Blue, Aqua, and White Dish Cloths

I am not sure how long it will take me to get my first sale in my shop but I am so excited to see what happens. Maybe it will be successful enough that I can stop working my second job... Who knows, I can hope, right?

A Few Little Bumps

A few little bumps on ETSY

You can find a few little bumps on Etsy... It is not totally set up yet, and I only have one listing, but it is a shop nonetheless... I will have an awesome banner in the next week or two.

I hope to list more dish cloths next week. I finally found my camera cord, so I will be using my good camera to take some better photos soon too...

Crochet Blogs... I Stalk...I Mean, Adore...

I find myself stalking, I mean, browsing these blogs for ideas... 

Most of these blogs I have found from links on Pinterest

Crochet with Raymond

Crocheting the Day Away

Lost in Stash

Cozy Things

Little Tin Bird

Bunny Mummy

Bunte Nadel use Google Translate

Spud and Chloe

Inspiration comes from so many avenues... Color, texture, emotion, events, individuals... This post is just a little tribute to those who inspire my creativity...

On another note, my lovely new cousin Sarah, 

(yes new because be married my pain the @%& cousin Ryan bless her heart for loving him...) 

has created a wonderful blog Blissful Bucket List herself. One of her post is Flaunt it Friday where you can show off your hand made projects! 

I did and so can you!

Rub-A-Dub...

I needed a break from the big BYU afghan project... so, I made some more dish cloths... 

I absolutely love working with cotton yarn... It is so soft, and the colors are so bright and fun!

I love making these little gems up because they are finished so fast... 

and, they always come out different one from another...

I have big plans for the bright tri-colored ones... We have a wedding to attend this weekend and I already have an awesome gift! Woo hoo!

Much to my husband's dismay...

I started another project!


To all my friends on Facebook, it isn't a surprise that my husband laments my new found love affair with the crochet hook. Simply said, I think he would rather I devote all my attention in his direction... So, I thought I might convert him to crocheting by deliberately making something that would appeal to his love affair with BYU! I know it is shameless, but I just couldn't resist... 

It is hard to tell by the picture, but  this is a project with hexagons... in BYU blue... After joining my last project, I learned that I can join using the same method as I go. Once I get the third round finished I can just join it with the navy blue yarn onto the afghan... This method works up really quick and I am enjoying the simplicity of working the same hexagon after working with so many different combinations in my last project... 

I finished it!

I did it! I finished this huge afghan... Here are the completed pictures...

This blanket is huge... It covers my California King bed...

This is it folded in half and draped over our chair...

Here it is on the floor at the office...

I learned a lot about crocheting and granny squares in general...

First, I learned how to correctly change colors... 

Second, I learned how important it is to secure the squares with a couple of slip stitched when finishing them off... 

Third, I learned how to join squares into a completed blanket...

Most importantly, I learned how addicting it is working with granny squares and that there are countless possibilities... 

Sneak Peak...

The edge of my afghan is almost complete!!! Yes, I am so excited that I cannot wait to post pictures of it... 

I am on the last color... The gray will finish out the afghan's edge once then again with the Picot stitch... I am so happy with how this  blanket turned out. It is so snuggly and warm. 

I am amazed at how big this afghan is... We have a California King bed and the blanket actually covers almost the entire top, even falling over the side a few inches... I cannot wait to make more of these awesome Granny Square Afghans for all around the house...