Half Moon Shawl- Sneak Peek

I seriously could not understand the fascination with the new yarns that come in "cakes". I just couldn't understand how you would use a yarn that changed colors itself.

 Mainly because most of the things I make need a certain color at a certain time. And then someone posted on one of my groups this beautiful shawl made with Mandala yarn and our Wal-mart has just now gotten Mandala yarn and I couldn't resist giving it a try. Unfortunately, I can't find what I did with that pattern but I looked up more shawl patterns and found the "Half Moon Shawl" on the Lionbrand site. There are lots of free patterns on the Lionbrand site and I may try more of their shawl patterns with the Mandala yarn since this first one is turning out just beautiful. I just love the colors together! I had heard the yarn wasn't very soft but I found it to be just the opposite. I actually have never had an acrylic yarn be quite this soft. Anyway, here is a sneak peak of my shawl. It is only about half done and is going to take just two "cakes" when it is done.

Crocheting Getting Ahead of the Blog

Yeah, my crocheting kind of took right off and got ahead of the blog and now I need to do some catching up. I tried out a few crocheted dish clothes out off cotton. I made one for us to use but I can't say we were real impressed with it. It seemed a bit thick for s dish cloth but  I guess that is what people like to buy.
Anyway then this CAL came along on one of my facebook groups and it was such an easy looking thing to make....so I made it. I meant to make more of them but....yeah...didn't happen...

Then I was asked by a neighbor to make a pink horse with purple hair. I used the "Lucky the Horse" pattern as I already had it. Well, he's (she's) been finished for several days now but he's still here. Soon to be listed on Etsy, I guess.

Then there were cabled hats. I love cabling when knitting and had done some of the owl hats in crochet that are cabled but these hats were REALLY easy! I plan on making more colors...eventually.

The pattern is free here on Ravelry.   

Then lastly (not counting the Celtic blanket that I will do another post on...soon) I made these little girls owl purses. I changed the  handle however, as I couldn't do the handle they gave instructions for, instead I just did a braided handle. These are really cute and turned out nice. Also a free pattern and has 3 more purses as well (working on the cat one tonight).

So that catches us up now. Hope you enjoy the free patterns!

Holiday Chick

Isn't it cute! I hope to make several of these before Christmas but you know how that goes.....I already have another project I want to make.....and then there is the finishing of the Celtic blanket....etc. etc...
Here is the link to the free pattern for this chick. I made mine out of regular worsted weight yarn and made my own mouth out of orange yarn instead of orange felt (which I didn't have).
Please comment if you end up making your own little holiday chick!

Free Bird Pattern!

Had to take a break from all those squares. Besides I only have room on my blocking board for one large square and I had two made already so I had a day to make something else.  I made a few little key chains

and will likely make more but then I saw this bird pattern and it was just too cute to resist! It looked like it could be done fairly quickly.....and the head and body went quickly and then the next day I got into the legs and to make the legs and feet you had to make 5 different pieces each leg! Ugg, little pieces too and little pieces hurt my fingers. Then there was the tail (3 pieces) and the comb (luckily one piece but lot of loops). It was almost 11:00 p.m. before I finished but he is done and I love him!