Posted in WIPs, crafts, creativity, crochet, friends, jewelry, wire crochet, yarn on August 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If the image at the left looks like a large blob of grocery bags, you’re halfway correct. It’s plastic bags cut into strips to make a “material” suitable for crocheting.
This weekend I went to another craft day at Lissa’s house with two other craft-a-teers. Learning to make plastic bags into a big ball of [...]
Posted in crafts, daughter, family, life on July 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My daughter is growing up. She recently celebrated her sixteenth birthday. We didn’t do any of the “sweet sixteen” stuff because she just didn’t want it. Instead, my sister and her husband sent her fifteen gorgeous red roses, with one white one to commemorate the year, and her step-dad and I bought her an iPod, took her out [...]
Posted in crafts, crochet, how-to's on May 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Materials:
Silver Coiless Pins
Small Plastic Faceted Beads (or other beads of choice) - 2 for each pin
Letter beads - in letters representing your hook sizes
How-To:
Bend the base of the pin until it’s almost straight, being careful not to break or weaken it. (Yes, it’ll snap in half, believe me. I found out through trial and error.) Place one [...]
Posted in crafts, crochet, swap stuff on May 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I signed up for a crochet-related swap on one of the forums I play around in and just got my package sent out today. This is what I sent:
There’s a denim project bag, with a “lacy” crochet trim that I made then sewed on by hand (the bag itself was premade), as well as a Crochet [...]
Posted in accessories, bags, crafts, crochet on April 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I decided to do a quick project this weekend, as my attention span was too small to do anything intricate. (My carpal tunnel was acting up, too, which didn’t help any.)
This is the On-the-Go Bag from the Spring 2007 issue of Interweave Crochet. Instead of using the yarn specified for the pattern, I used a bulkier, [...]
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