The New House

Hello! We are now officially settled into our new house in Connecticut and really enjoying the property we are living on. There have been deer here nearly ever day, it's been a blast watching them!

This is a picture of the mama with one of her babies, they're the ones that are here most often, they're so beautiful!

A couple of days ago the papa was here along with the mama and two babies, we're pretty sure the mama is the biggest out of all of them but it was still neat to see the buck!

 

 

These babies are just too cute for words! I love watching them, they don't seem to be afraid of us either.

 

As you can see, one of the babies decided to lay down in the grass in our yard, it was laying there for a long time while its family was eating.

 

 

One of the babies kept trying to nurse off the mama and she was getting irritated, it was hilarious!

 

 

We also have a lot of bunnies in our yard, they're everywhere, which will make gardening interesting!

 

 

There's lots of pretty flowers around us as well!

Some pretty butterflies as well, they aren't as easy to get pictures of though! =)

 

 

 

 

This is a picture of the road we're living on, it's very private and quiet, praise the Lord!

We have some wild berries growing around the yard and in the woods as well, they're delicious!

 

Here are some pictures of the property, it really is a pretty place, lots of good gardening spots!

 

 

 

I've been enjoying taking some pictures of the land God has provided for us, and also taking pictures of His beautiful creation! It is amazing to stop and really look around at what God has created!

 

I hope to post again soon, perhaps about all the crocheting I've been doing!

Have a great day!

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Drop Spindle Experimenting

Hello! It's been a busy month! The Lord is leading us back to CT, so we've been packing and going through our things this month and now, it's only a little less than a week before our big move! However, between packing, and going through things, I wanted to start doing a little experimenting with my drop spindle by trying to spin different fibers. I've spun dog hair before, and that was really interesting, so I decided to try to spin some of my own hair! Over the last month or so, whenever I brushed my hair I cleaned my brush, washed the hair I got from it, and put it in a Ziploc bag, I didn't realize just how little hair I actually shed throughout the day! It took me nearly a month to be able to spin enough yarn to make a 2 inch granny square!

 

I had a lot of fun using my own hair to spin yarn, it was really neat to see it all come together, and I was very surprised to find that spinning my own hair is VERY easy! =) After my hair was washed, spun, and crocheted it looked a little darker than it actually is, so I thought that was really interesting!

 

This is the picture of the granny square I was able to make out of the few yards of yarn I was able to spin!

 

 

I'm considering trying to collect more of my hair throughout the year to see just how big I will be able to make my square, it'll be very cheap to make. =) hahaha

 

 

 

 

I really enjoyed experimenting like this and want to try to spin other things in the future! I tried spinning dryer lint, but that didn't work well, and I spun a small amount of poly-fil , but not enough to make anything. I'm pretty sure that for now I'm going to end up taking a break with experimenting and spin up some of the wool that I bought.

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 After we get settled into our new house, I'll have more time and feel more relaxed to work on things! Right now, other than spinning, I'm working on a crocheted tablecloth and a small afghan! I'm hoping that after we're settled I'll be able to get my tablecloth finished! I'm hoping that my next post will have more finished projects, but that's it for now! Have a great day!

Log Cabin Afghan and Much More!

 

 

Log Cabin Afghan

 

 

Hello! It has been a very long time since I last posted and I've gotten a lot accomplished, I won't write about all I've gotten done though, just some of the bigger things! Soon after I finished my "Ripple Afghan" I started and another afghan. I have a pattern book filled with different afghan patterns and my favorite one was the "Log Cabin" afghan, so I decided to order some yarn from knitpicks.com to make it. I was able to finish the afghan in under two weeks, it was so much fun to work on! It's been finished since the day before Easter, but I haven't felt much like blogging.

 

Here is a picture of all of my pretty yarn wound up nicely!It's "knitpicks brava sport" yarn, it's really soft and I was really happy with how far the yarn goes, I have a lot of leftovers, even after making and entire afghan!

 

 

 

 

This is my first completed square, the way the pattern worked up was really neat! There were a few things in the pattern that I hadn't done before, so it was great to learn something new!

 

 

 

It was really fun to watch the afghan come together, and I was REALLY happy with my color choices! =D

 

 

At this point in making it, it was time to sew the pieces together, which is always my least favorite part. However, it went super quick so that was a praise!

 

And here a few pictures of the finished product! I was, and still am, so excited about the way it ended up coming out!

 

 

 

I decided to make a different border than the one in the pattern book, I wanted to incorporate all of the different colors in the border.

 

This is definitely one of my favorite things I've ever made!

 

Some Smaller Projects 

 

 

I love to make bookmarks, and try to think of some different kinds of bookmarks to make. A few weeks ago I tried making a cupcake bookmark and this is what I came up with!

 

I like how it sits at the top of the book, I think it looks cute! =)

 

 



 

I've also been doing some wood burning, it's been fun doing something a little different than what I usually do! I find all of my pictures online and try to copy them, then wood burn them.

 

 

I think chipmunks are adorable, and thought this little guy was pretty cute!

This one is a picture copied from a cross-stitching website I like going on. The picture is called "Divinity", it's by Julie Fain. She has a lot of pretty silhouettes! The cross-stitch piece is a little too ambitious for me, so I decided to try to draw it myself and wood burn it.

 

 

 

When I came across this one online, I had to do it! I loved how it looked "black and white"!

 

 

I thought this one was cute too!

 

 

 

 

I also made a couple of baby afghans, this one is done with leftover scrap yarn.

 

This is my favorite of the two baby afghans, I like the looks of the black with the other colors.

 

 

 

 

This here is just something I thought was cute, it's a couch tissue box cover =)

 

 

 

Now for the doilies! I've made three since my last post! And am currently working on a crocheted tablecloth made out of size 10 thread!

 

This is my favorite doily out of the three!

 

 

This is a super long blog post, but it had been SO long since my last post that I had to update it! I've gotten a decent amount done these last few months, praise the Lord! I'm working on a few larger projects right now, so I haven't had as many "finishes" as I'd like, but that's okay! I hope to get better about posting, I had gotten good for a while, but haven't been as good lately!

Have a good day! =D

Ripple Afghan!

Hello! I've been at work with my crocheting, keeping my hands super busy, which is always fun! I've made a few small things, but am mostly excited about the ripple afghan that I started and finished! I got a bunch of  yarn for my birthday, I got eleven skeins of Joanns Sensations Sincerely yarn, it is a very soft acrylic yarn and I LOVE it! I ordered it online, so I had a hard time picking colors, so I did it randomly, and was very happy with what I ended up getting!

 



Here is a picture of my yarn, it looks so beautiful in my
basket!

I got enough yarn to make an afghan that would fit my bed, so I figured that it would take me a very long time to finish it, but as soon as I started, it got addictive and started working up really fast!

Here are the first 48 rows!

This is also the first 48 rows, only it's next to my neatly
wound yarn....it looks so pretty!

 

 

 

Then, the next thing I knew....it more than doubled it size within just a few days! As I worked on it, I loved it more and more!

 

 

It was a little more than a couple feet long at this point!

Then, after a few weeks of working on it, and after using more than two miles worth of yarn, I finished! I was so excited when I finished, but also a little sad because I had a BLAST working on it, and was kind of sad to see it end, I was still super happy though! After finishing it...I decided to take a bunch of pictures of it!

 

 

Here it is! All done! It's REALLY long! I love it though!

It weighs so much!

The afghan is also pretty wide, it came close to touching the ground when I hung it on our clothesline!

Hanging it on the clothesline was Mom's idea!

Taking pictures of my afghan was so much fun! It looked so pretty outside, it was a little chilly out though, so I tried to be quick in taking pictures!



This doesn't really show the size of the afghan, just makes
it look kind of nice!

 

 

I was really excited when I put the afghan on my bed and it looked nice! It's over seven feet long, and almost five feet wide! I added a border on it to make it wider. I think the border gave it a little more of a completed look.

 

This afghan is SO warm and cuddly! I love it!

 

 

Finishing my ripple afghan was a huge blessing! It's always a blessing to finish something you've been puting a lot of time into and have worked hard on, it's such a great feeling!  I love working on things and can't wait to make another afghan!  

 

Have a great day!



Etsy and Yarn Ball Winder

     Hello! I have been busy with my hands and yarn as always, but this post won't have any pictures of what I've been working on lately. I've been working on an afghan, but I want to wait to post pictures until I'm done with it. I've also been working on things to put on our new etsy shop, my mom surprised my sisters and I by opening it for us, we're all super excited about that!

      Another thing I'm really excited about is my new yarn ball winder! For quite a while now I've been wanting to get one, but they are just SO expensive. My sister and I have been waiting to order one until we could get a coupon, then we would split the cost and share the ball winder. A little while ago I was at my friends house using her ball winder, and it made me want one even more! After waiting a little while I decided to go on knitpicks.com to see if they had a coupon...and they didn't, they had better....the ball winders were on sale for one third of the price, and free shipping with any order of $50 or more! So we ordered three because, not only did my sister and I each want to order one, but also a friend of ours, so we got three ball winders for the price of what one would normally cost, AND free shipping! It was such a huge blessing! After wanting one for  a while, it was hard to wait, but in the end it was totally worth it! I've been winding a lot of yarn ever since I got this amazing little thing, it has been so much fun! Plus it makes the yarn stack really nicely, keeps it from getting tangled, and makes it look really pretty!



Here is my amazing yarn ball winder! I love it so much!

    I had a lot of fun this week, my sister and I got to see our friend every day this week, except for Wednesday. When we get together with her we all crochet and knit together, so I feel like I got quite a bit accomplished!! I hope everyone else had a good week too! I'm going to get back to crocheting...or I may wind some more yarn! =D



Kitchen Decorations

Hello! I can't believe I'm already posting again! I've finished a few things since my last post, some of the things I already had completed last week but just now got around to taking pictures and uploading them onto my computer.

           Anyway...in my last post I mentioned that I was working on a table runner, and I finished it! Yay! I could not find a pattern that I liked, so I did a basic ripple, and I like the way it looks. I used a cotton dishcloth yarn... I LOVE working with cotton....whether it be thread, yarn, or fabric...I love cotton, it's so soft! Back in November we visited family in CT, while up there we went to A.C. Moore, (a craft store), and I bought a whole pound of cotton for $4.00, which was a huge blessing! I used that yarn to make this table runner, and still had a lot left!
            

It was difficult to get a good picture, it's cloudy today

                After I finished the table runner I made a dish towel and matching dishcloth with the leftover yarn, and....I STILL have some yarn leftover! Praise the Lord, this yarn is going SO far!

For my birthday I got a crochet book to make kitchen stuff,
these both are patterns out of it.

            For Christmas I had gotten two skeins of cotton dishcloth yarn, so I made four dishcloths. I decided I wanted to practice knitting a little more, so I knitted two, and crocheted the other two. I also made a little scrubby, but don't have a picture of it. They were all a lot of fun!

I LOVE the colors! But I tend to be partial to anything green!



Lastly, a few years ago my grandmother had given me a cross-stitch kit to make a "Messages" board, and on Saturday I decided I was in the mood to cross-stitch, so I started it! I finished stitching and putting it together on Sunday....it was fun to make and it felt really nice to cross-stitch again!

I love this, I think it's really cute!

Here is a closer picture of the stitching

I absolutely love working on things, it is one of the things I never get sick of doing! I praise the Lord that I have the time and ability to work with my hands, and enjoy doing it! Hope everyone has a great day!

Sewing and Socks

Hello! I've been meaning to do another update, but I hadn't gotten pictures onto my computer, and kept forgetting! A few weeks ago I got into a sewing mood and decided to make another dress, it was a pretty chilly day and overcast, so it was PERFECT for sewing! I've done this pattern before and it's really easy, so they were no complications while making it, praise God for that because I really do not like when I have crafting complications, but who really does? =)



Some of the sewing process.... =D

   I really do like this dress pattern, I'm wanting to look for a new pattern now though, perhaps one with buttons or a zipper, just to try something new!

The finished product!

        I'm pretty new to sewing so I'll go through phases of wanting to sew a lot, doing things I already know how to do, and then phases when I feel like learning how to do something new....last week, I was in the mood for something new! So I took an apron pattern I got a few years ago and learned how to sew with bias tape around curved edges....it was actually my first attempt at bias tape in general! It was super fun!





I'm not sure how much I like this apron yet,
I guess I'll have to see.

        Right before I made the apron I was really wanting to make myself another pair of socks! So I did! I like this pair a lot better than my first pair, they fit better and just look nicer. I was able to finish them pretty quickly, it helped that there was one day my sister and I went over a friends house a worked on our crocheting/knitting, for several hours! =) It was icing that day and the day before that, I could not believe beautiful it made everything look, God's creation in general is beautiful, then He went and made it sparkle with ice crystals, it was a great sight to see, especially while crocheting!
    Working on my socks with other people was a lot fun, but of course... it's always fun to work on stuff with other people, it  can be very encouraging too!





I love my socks, they fit really well,which is a plus! =D

       Now I'm working on a table runner, and hope to have it done to post a picture soon! I've made a few other  things too, some baby socks and stuff like that, but don't have any pictures of them. For a little while I was only wanting to make socks, so I made all different sizes of baby socks because they work up so super quick! Working on baby things is always so enjoyable, baby stuff is so cute that it can't be anything but enjoyable
      Well I hope you enjoyed seeing a little of what I've been up to!