SLOW ON SUNDAY

Another paint-by-number is ready to be hung on the wall! 

To tell you the truth, I am running out of space!

I'm on the last bit for this C2C blanket but I think I will run out of yarn first!  I am hoping if I do run out, I can use some dark gray I have from the other blanket and use that since the first corner is a dark gray!  I will know in the next day or two!  This is what I will be working on after we get home from church today!

ANOTHER ENDEAVOR

I wanted to make name tags for Mary and I for our QOV sew days.  I much admit, the machine embroidery unit for my sewing machine had a lot of dust on it--it has been years since I have used it.  I did take way too long to figure out how to make these but I persevered!  I just need to purchase some pin-backs 

so we can wear them!

I need more Mandala yarn for the granny blanket I am making so I dug this skein out of the stash to start a new one 

but the color changes are too close 

and didn't look as good as those long color changes!

I decided to make a C2C and it is so very nice in this DK yarn!  

 

PICTURAL C2C

 I've moved from dishcloth to a blanket 

using the C2C (corner to corner) stitches.  

You just follow the graph diagonally in a kind of intarsia method.

  It is harder to describe than it is to do! lol

As I worked along, I wondered if the graph would also work for a quilt; using different shades of the key elements to produce the design!  I think it will make an interesting study to compare!

  There are several free patterns available for these newer crochet patterns.  It's good to learn something new!

IT'S A WRAP!

I  crocheted right through the basket filled with balls and partial skeins of dishcloth cotton!

Now the basket is filled with twenty three 7-8" dishcloths

 in the C2C pattern!

And I wanted to share that I added loops to the hot pads I had made and hung them on the end of the kitchen island--now the color really pops and makes me happy!

 

CALL ME!

I made my first Call Me! bag yesterday and it was a good project!  I can see why Chris makes so many! 

It is a free pattern, too.

The front.

The back.

The front has a vinyl pocket for a class name tag or a ship pass, with a zippered pocket for credit card or cash.

The back holds your phone. 

 This might be my first but will not be my last either!

And I think it's become an obsession! 

 They work up so quickly and enjoyably,

 I am using up my dishcloth cotton!!!

 

TOSSED ABOUT THURSDAY

I'm a bit late to the C2C (corner to corner) Crocheting Fad

 but I just learned it by making a dishcloth! 

 Yes, I liked it enough to make a second one!  

And another batch of rocks is finished! 

 This one is from The Rock Shed and includes several new-to-me specimens with fun names like sunstone, opalite, tiger's eye, amethyst, moss agate, and bluestone to name a few!!