Aubrey's Projects

Awhile ago, I taught my friend Aubrey to crochet. Since then she has really taken off and she is doing REALLY well with her projects. I needed some new things to post about on my blog, so I asked her for pictures of things she's made. She sent them right away (it was like she had the email ready and she was just waiting for me to ask for them! :-)). Below are pictures of the things she's made.

This is her first project - a scarf

This is her second project - a hair scrunchie

This is her third project, a baby hat. She has also made a baby hat for her teacher's new baby.

This is a square that Aubrey made for the Block Party next year

This is a granny square that Aubrey made

And this is a granny square that Aubrey and her mom made while Aubrey was trying to teach her mom to make one :-)

Great Job Aubrey on all of your projects!! Keep up the good work!!!!

My Afghan!!!

I haven't posted in a while about what I have been making lately, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been crocheting. I have been doing plenty of crocheting. Fair is coming up soon - it's in August. Since I will be gone most of July on my trip (see previous post), and the week after that we have things going on, so there won't be much time in July for fair projects. So that leaves the rest of this month and June for fair projects. So I have been working on fair projects lately (I have a lot of them to do). One of the things that I had decided to make for fair was a afghan. So on the 7th (of May) I started it. I have been working on it a lot since then, and today I finished it!!! The pattern I used can be found here. I used a size N hook (very large) and Homespun yarn from Lion Brand. Even though the pattern called for Red Heart Light and Lofty, I used Homespun, because when we went to Joann Fabrics (that is my favorite yarn store - can you tell?) to get yarn for my afghan, the only colors they had in Light and Lofty were browns, blacks, and whites, and I didn't really want any of those colors for my afghan. So we picked out two Homespun colors - Colonial (blue) and Barrington (purple). We would have chosen two different colors, but it was hard to find six skeins of the same color with the same dye lot. It took me awhile to figure out the pattern when I first started, but now I could almost do it in my sleep. :-)

Me with my afghan

A close up of the pattern

My New Blog and Our Trip to Ukraine!

I recently made a new blog! Don't worry, I will still be posting on this one about crocheting and everything I have been posting about. But, on my new one, I will be posting about my upcoming trip to Ukraine! Yes, my dad and I are going to Ukraine in July on a short-term mission trip. You can visit my new blog here at (http://ukrainemissiontrip2010.blogspot.com/).

"Lampy"

Have you ever wondered what a creative way to recycle your yarn scarps is? Here is an idea. We love Veggie Tales here, and one movie that we have had forever is Larry Boy and the Angry Eyebrows. The other day, my sister Anna was playing with yarn scraps (because they are all over here), and she decided to to make a smiley face on on of our lamp shades. That reminded me of Lampy on Larry Boy and the Angry Eyebrows. If you haven't seen the movie before, you can watch the first part of it here on Youtube. You have to go 3:20 minutes into the video to get to the Lampy part. :-)