Suessology Bracelet

 The customer that bought my first Suessology necklace really wanted a bracelet to go with it.

 I have had the idea of what I wanted to do for a while but not being home I hadn't found the time.

She is a really great customer and knew it was going to take me a while.  After sending her pictures yesterday she says she loves it.  I know I really like how it came out.  It looks like a little sculpture.

Crochet Necklace

 This is the last new necklace for this week as we are headed out for The Tucson Bead Show tomorrow.  It is the first necklace in another new series, this one is called Necklace #1 in the Suessology series.  I just think it is not going to tell me a name other than Necklace #1.  Sometimes that is just the way it works.

These new disc beads make great buttons and I just love the texture.  Anyone that is going to be in Tucson next week please come by the Windmill Inn and say hello.

New Necklace

 Well here is another new piece.  I have been working on the little crochet circles on this one for a while.  I love making them I just hate dealing with the ends. 

 The lampwork beads in this one are big about an inch in diameter so this makes a nice chunky necklace.

I have also gotten a nice pile of necklace boxes all painted and ready for the spring shows. I really like how they cam out and plan on doing some more when we get back from Tucson in another color family.  I need to find a deeper box as well because pieces like "Wilma Steps Out" are too big for this box. 

Yarn bombing in South Dakota.

We have a winner of the September Give-A-Way.  KayzKreationz won the four red, white, and black disc beads.  I can not wait to see what she might do with them.  I am pretty sure there will be an October drawing but although it is the 3rd of the month I have not decided what it will be.  Check back though to find out the rules and what fun thing I might be giving away.

 While we were at the Sidewalk Arts Festival a couple weeks ago I noticed that the Pavilion was yarn bombed.  I didn't get to see it all but what I did see appeared to all be crocheted.

All sorts of things were wrapped the stair posts and lampposts.  Then I noticed that the trees around the museum were also wrapped.

Jeff went to take pictures for me and I guess touched something on the screen because all of the second batch of pictures ended up in black and white even though the colors were all so bright and fun.

I keep thinking that I have some fiber UFO's that would make the greatest wrapping, and it would make me feel like they had served a purpose.

52 hats created........

...........and delivered.  In August while we were at Stitches Midwest I delivered my sack of finished hats.  If you follow my blog you know I had a goal of making 52 hats in a year and I made it.  I made a hat for each week of the year.  I have to say that I would go weeks without making one than make 5 but I did the 52 in less than a year.  The hats were donated to a group called Halos of Hope an organization that provides hats for cancer patients.  In the picture is Alexandra Woloszyk who they call the Hat Queen of Stitches Midwest she is wearing one of the last hats I finished up. I would like to make a new goal for this year but have about decided I need to make other things (like the sweater I bought yarn for in April which is still in the sack.) So I think I will just make what I have time for and see how many I get done.

Crochet around a glass cab!

What a fantastic idea!  A friend and customer Gwen Blakley Kinsler the Crochetkween visited me at Stitches Midwest last month and bought this glass cab from me.  I had read that she had taught a class for one of the crochet conferences about doing this and just had to ask her about it.  She has instructions for sale on Ravelry which is very easy to purchase from and downloads right away.  You can also find her on her Blog Crochet Queen: Royal Ramblings or on Facebook at Crochetkween Designs.  She also has a fantastic new book out "The Fine Art of Crochet" that you might want to look at it is fantastic.  Amazing Art all done with crochet.  Now to get time to work on the cab I have picked out for myself. 

52 hats in a year

52 Hats in a year was my goal starting last August.  I have a couple months to go and I am doing well with getting them done.  I counted today and I have 45 finished hats.  Since I keep a bag with something to work on while I wait for things like the dentist and the oil to be changed and I always have something going by my chair in the living room, I have 2 more half finished.

Last fall when I went and stayed in Florida with my parents for several weeks, a really good family friend and their next door neighbor gave me a big box of coned yarn that she had from when she did a lot of machine knitting. Some of it is very fine lace weight so I have just been combining several strands as seems fitting to make a hat.  I finished several hats while I was staying in Florida and then I had to fly home so the yarn stayed at mom and dad's until we went down last month.  

 

These are the hats I have finished the last couple of weeks since we got home from our trip.  Thank you Miss Betty for the yarn for these.  I didn't even put a dent in the cones to make these and my mom sent yarn home with me as well so I will have to just keep making hats until August when the show is. Of course I did buy some yarn for myself a sweater while we were at Stitches so I might just have to stop when I reach 52 and make my sweater.

 

This is one of my favorites from this batch.  I almost forgot to tell you what the hats are all for.  At the Stitches Events that I am a vendor there is a group called Halos for Hope that collect handmade hats for cancer patients.  The hats will all go to this project and the group sends them all over the country to where they are needed.