Tuesday's Tallies, November

Hello everyone,
I can't believe it is Tuesday again. This week was super busy. Four parties, trick or treating and finding time to work on my One-a-Day. Other than the two hats and scarves I made, I didn't get much crochet done. Here is my Grandala blanket.

I actually made 18 squares this week, but I am sewing them together now and that takes sooo much time.

I did a little work on my Happy Ripple too. I think it may have ended up being a stripe a day. I have added it to my One-a-Day goals.

It is folded in half, There are half made blankets all over my living room. Lol. Check out everyone else's work over at Gingerbreadgirl's blog. I love seeing what everyone has done.
 I hope everyone had a great weekend and Halloween. I will close with pictures of my favorite work in progress..

This was on the way to the last of the four parties. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Happy Halloween Weekend!

Hello everyone,
  We are in the middle of birthday madness this weekend. My little one went to her first birthday party yesterday. It was a costume party and it was a lot of fun. She went  as Little Red Riding Hood.

  I made the cape last summer when I was still mostly on the couch after knee surgery. I didn't have a pattern or a plan. It turned out cute though. We bought her little friend a gift and then Friday night I made this to add to the present.

  Hats and scarves are always appreciated in this part of the world. It gets really cold here, below zero is nothing new to us. Then I came home and started making party food for another one of her little friends who is having a party today. Her Mother and I used to work together. She is in nursing and I used to be an activities director for the local nursing home. Planning parties was one of the things I did on a regular monthly basis. Sometimes we would have two or three parties. Anyway, she asked if I could make the food for her daughter's party. Lilly and Autumn are only 10 days apart in age and have been friends since they were two. I was happy to say yes. I made Mummy Dogs, Rice Krispy Treats, 50 cupcakes, bread fingers and pizza dip (it looks like blood, but I didn't get a picture) Worms in Dirt, fruit punch and chips and dip and a big bowl of candy. I will try to get more pictures at the party if I am not too busy.

  The bread rose a little too much and the bread fingers look strange, but all in all I think it turned out pretty well. We are getting ready to take the food over and plate it up on spooky platters and all the fun Halloween decorations. When I finished that I made Lilly a hat too.

  My daughter is a ham and was happy to model it for the camera. I love making hats. It only takes about an hour of my time and they look so cute.
  I really want to thank everyone for all the really nice comments I am getting on my posts. The biggest question I get is how do I get my crocheting done. Well, I am a very fast crocheter. I don't know why. I started crocheting 3 years ago and have never looked back. Lol. The other thing is, I don't really sleep as much as most people. I get up at 4 most days and have an hour or two to myself before I have to start doing anything else.

  This is what it looks like here around 4 or 5 am. Sunday is my favorite. Knit and Crochet Today is on at 5 am and I am on the couch with my Happy Ripple. At 6 I started making food for the party. Now we are getting ready to go and I have a little bit of time. Autumn is going to be a Fairy Princess, yes another costume party. I haven't gotten her dressed yet, we still have to set up and all. I will try to get pictures later. It is a crazy weekend. Thursday night was a costume party at the local library. Autumn was photographed for the local paper, it hasn't come out yet. Party Saturday, party today, party tomorrow at school and then trick or treating tomorrow night. Lots of fun.
   I hope everyone has a great Halloween. I will talk to everyone soon.

Tuesday's Tallies

Hello everyone,
How is everyone today? I have been busy this week, but as always, I have made time for my projects. My Grandala blanket is coming along nicely. I have finished all the solid rimmed discs and now have only got to finish the multi-colored ones and then I will be finished with this project. I am really loving this blanket again. I have 100 squares left to do, but that really isn't bad. I have made 188 so far. I am going to start to sew them together now with every 8 multi-colored discs I complete. I have a pattern for the colors, it isn't random. Every solid is followed by a multi. Like this...

This is what I did this week...

Here is what I have for this blanket so far...

The folded up piece is what has been sewn together already. If you just landed here, this is all a part of the One-a-Day group over at Ravelry. It is hosted by Gingerbreadgirl. She does the Tuesday's Tallies and links all the blogs participating. If you want to see everyone's awesome work go visit her blog.
I also worked on my husband's scarf, I am upset that no matter what I do you can't see the cable stitch. I am going to try to take pictures of it outside next time to see if it shows up...

I put in a little time on my Happy Ripple too, it is part of a ripple along hosted by Little Tin Bird and Attic24. I probably work on this the most. It is very addictive...

Lastly, I spent an evening working on the Christmas Blanket. It is for someone I love who doesn't know I am making it. The person may read my blog, so I call it the Christmas Blanket. I have it's real title on my project page on Ravelry. The person in question is not a yarn head like I am, so I think it is safe on Ravelry. I want this blanket to be perfect, so I spend loads of time trying to decide which patterns I am going with next. I do know what I am doing next and am going to devote some serious time to it this week. It doesn't look too much different than the last time I posted about it, but here it is...

This blanket is massive also. It is for a queen size bed, like the Grandala. My Happy Ripple is huge too, but it is for our sofa. I think all three of us will fit under it. Lol. I am also working on a little girl's birthday present and will post about that one in a day or two. Thanks for reading my blog and I will talk to you all soon.

Weekend

Hello,
  I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. We had a good one here. Yesterday I made a bag and lined it with my winnings from the giveaway that Deb hosted. I also sewed the pretty little flowers on to the bag and here is what I came up with..

  The flowers and pink fabric were perfect for the bag. Thank you Deb!
  I spent today cleaning and cooking and, of course, crocheting. While I was cleaning a friend stopped by and offered to take Autumn to the pumpkin patch. They carved pumpkins and she is really proud of this guy.

 She carved it all by herself, I am a little impressed. She is 5. She made two more, but took them to her room and then fell asleep. I don't want to try to get them out of there to take a picture.
I usually make a big dinner on Sunday. Today I made roast beef, mashed potatoes and steamed veggies. Then, because I LoVe to bake, I made a cake...

 I went all out on this cake. Chocolate devils food with chocolate mousse filling and chocolate frosting. We like chocolate just a little bit in this house.
  Then I worked on my One-a-Day...

 The last thing we did this weekend was get 22 goodie bags ready for Autumn's class. They are having a Halloween party and even though it is a week away we had to get it done today. I am partnered with one of the other class Mom's, so we got half of the stuff and got it ready then I am handing the whole thing over to her tomorrow for her to finish. I am glad I had someone to help with it. 22 goodie bags can get pricey. They are all boxed and ready...

And yes those are records in the stereo cabinet. Shows our age. Lol. All in all it was a nice weekend. I will see everyone on Tuesday for the One-a-Day update.

 

Happy Friday!

Hello,

 How is everyone today? I am glad the weekend is here. I came down with a rotten cold this week and felt pretty cruddy until today. When I got home from work yesterday there was a lovely little package in my mailbox. A few weeks ago I won a giveaway. My first one. Deb at A World Of Imagination sent me these goodies.

My daughter has already decided that the little bird is hers, and I already know what I am going to do with the fabric and the pretty little crocheted flowers. I filled the pincushion up right away.

I will use the little notebook to keep track of some of my projects. Needless to say, I was pretty happy when I opened my mailbox. I will show everyone what I have done with my goodies in a couple of days.
 After work today I did way too much laundry. I haven't even gotten it all put away yet. I was too tired, so we ordered a pizza and I sat down to work on this...My Happy Ripple...

I started it last Friday and I have 34 rows done. I think it may be the biggest blanket yet.

I am really proud of this blanket. Except for the two balls of yarn I bought, I have used only my stash yarn for this project. I may clean out the baskets on this one. Room for more yarn? he he. I am really happy with this one since I wasn't sure if I wanted to join the Ripple Along with Heather and Lucy. I have two big blankets on the hook already.
After the huge blizzard we had here in February, when it was about 16 degrees below zero and it took my husband 3 hours to get home from work, Will asked me to make him a scarf. He has only ever asked for two things. A hat that I made for him early last winter and the scarf. I also made him a blanket. I make lots of things but have only made him the hat and a blanket. What do you make for a man? So when he asked for the scarf I was more than happy to oblige. I have had the toughest time trying to figure out which pattern to use for it. I tried knitting one, frogged it about 6 times and gave up. I am not that skilled at knitting yet. Then I started looking for ideas for a crocheted scarf. I liked the cable crochet scarf pattern that I saw on tv. Knit and Crochet Today is on every other day here at 5 in the morning. The pattern is also on Ravelry. I like the way it looks. I have added a few stitches to make it wider, but here it is so far...

It is really hard to see the cable pattern in the middle. Maybe I can get a better picture in the daylight tomorrow. I love the yarn though. It is Lion Brand Yarn Tweed Stripe. Tundra is the name. I love the self striping.
My husband is a really good guy. He is so good to me and our daughter. I hope he never tires of me because I really don't know what I would do without him. It hasn't been the easiest couple of years for our family. Will  lost his Mom two years ago and my stepdad passed away last winter. My knee replacement surgery turned out to be a really long and painful thing to go through. He never complained and he took care of me through the worst of it.  A hand made scarf is really nothing to show how much I appreciate and love him. I hope he likes it.
Tomorrow morning I am going grocery shopping and then coming home to finish putting away all the laundry. Then I have plans to work on my Christmas blanket. I was blocked on trying to figure out which pattern to do next. I think I have a plan. I will post pictures at the end of the weekend. Talk to all of you later. Thanks for stopping here.

It's Tuesday!!!

Hello,
 I have come to LoVe Tuesday. I look forward to seeing everyone's progress and reading everyone's blogs.
 Since I went back to work I have had a hard time finding my groove. I am not even working full-time yet, I don't know how I did it before. I am pretty organized, usually, but I have been struggling to get dinner made and straighten up the house, not to mention laundry. On days that I have to work I get up really early and have about an hour to myself before anyone else gets up, or before I have to get ready for work. I have a huge cup of coffee and spend some quality time with my yarn and hook. Here is what I have gotten done this week...

I completed 24 squares for my One-a-Day project. Gingerbread Girl hosts this group over at ravelry. It helps to keep me motivated. I wouldn't have attempted a blanket this large otherwise. I have 6 more purple discs to square and then finish the blue ones. 22 more of those. Then 100 multi-colored discs, then sew together. I am about 2/3 of the way done.

I also worked on my newest project, the Ripple Along with Heather and Lucy. This blanket is pretty big too, I love all the different colors and how it doesn't look like they will work together until you start to stitch them all together. Blanket Madness around here.

I joined this group against my better judgement at first. I felt it was silly with the other two blankets I have on the go right now. However, I am proud of the fact that I only bought two balls of yarn for this. I am using stash yarn for the rest and have even started adding colors I wasn't sure about. Maybe I can get my stash down to a workable level. These are my only wip's right now. That is ok since I do work on all three regularly. Nothing has been put aside and forgotten about, which is a habit of mine I have been working on fixing since I started on the One-a-Day group. I will never be a one project at a time person. I hope everyone is having a great week so far. Talk to you soon.

Sunday

Hello,
 Hope everyone is doing well. I have started a new blanket. I don't really know why. Lucy and Heather are doing a Ripple Along and I thought about it for a couple of days and then joined. I didn't want to go buy a bunch of new yarn (well, I wanted to but that wouldn't have been responsible). I went through my stash and only ended up buying two balls of yarn. I may need a couple of more but maybe not. Here is what I came up with.

I bought the dark purple and the huge ball of rose. I think this will look good. I am thinking of adding honey colored yarn that I have to it also. Not sure yet. It will be bed size, I am following Lucy's pattern, except I am using worsted wt. yarn and an I hook. It will be pretty big.

I finished up Autumn's little dolly blanket too...

Then I worked on the Christmas Blanket...

I am getting ready to spend a little time on this one right now. Just have to decide which stitches I am going with next.

Autumn and her Dad went out to the lake and took a few photos... I don't know what kind of birds these are, but they look kind of spooky..

Most of the leaves have already turned and are blowing off. It was so cold in September and so hot at the beginning of October, but it is still pretty outside...

I have also made great progress on my One-A-Day blanket, I will save that for Tuesday's Tallies. I aim to be on time with that post this week. I hope everyone has a great weekend. See you Tuesday.