Branching Out

Yesterday my husband had several buddies over to play video games, so I decided to spend that time crocheting something mindless (since the sound of guns and zombies was kind of loud lol).  I found this cute cardigan pattern and decided that my daughter needed it!  It was really quick and easy so I was able to finish most of it yesterday.  I’ve never crocheted any kind of clothing (hats and stuff don’t count), so I was kind of anxious to see if it would work.  Fortunately it mostly did, although I think I messed up slightly on the decreasing for the top half, but it still works well enough.

Sneak Peek…

Due to the popularity of Mouse, and the many requests for patterns of the other characters, I give you Pig:

I just finished her, and wanted to post some pictures =)  I still have to do the pancake and finish writing the pattern (i.e. making it readable for others lol).  I hope to have it posted tomorrow, or Friday at the latest.

Just What Every Little Girl Needs

So I was at Micheal’s last night, and saw some fun yarn on clearance. So I bought some and made my daughter some slippers for her birthday.

Aww, aren’t they cute? But this yarn has a little secret. Turn off the lights and you get this:

Now she will be the envy of all her friends at her next sleepover! Ok, so the picture is not that great…it’s a lot harder than you would think to take a picture of glow-in-the-dark stuff while it’s glowing in the dark…but you get the idea =)

Adventures in Sewing

I purchased a purse pattern the other day thinking it might an easy project for Christmas gifts.  Of course, I had to test out the pattern first =)

I made it out of material I had at home, the inside is from a pillowcase, and the outside is an undyed fabric.  I am pretty happy with how it turned out, although I definitely could use some more practice, it’s not quite as sooth as it should be in some places.  I also need to figure out how to read the patterns…I just kind of tossed them aside about halfway through!  Oh well…

On a less complicated note, I gave my daughter some of her birthday gifts early as it is getting pretty cold up here in north Idaho.

The Pokeball hat pattern came from here, the fingerless gloves from here, and the scarf from here.  She loved her gifts!  She was quite the envy of her friends because of the hat, and she even slept in her gloves the first night!  I am so glad that she likes getting handmade gifts, I know I certainly didn’t when I was a kid!

Meet Mouse

Mouse has been very busy doing publicity photos for his book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

So Mouse decided to take a little nap.

What’s this…a cookie?!  Yum!

Now, back to that nap!

Pattern available soon =)