[Nfb-krafters-korner] What Crafts Are You Doing Now?

Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 11:15:52 UTC 2014 

 Oh wow joyce.
that yarn sounds fabulous 
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On 16 Feb 2014, at 2:55 pm, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:

> Well, I am doing the same thing over and over, but...
> 
> I am making mittens.  Hobbie Lobbie got in a new supply of their "Love  
> that Yarn" self striping and self patterning flower yarn.  I ordered up 25  
> balls of yarn which I can get 2 or 3 pairs of mittens out of each ball 
> depending  on what size I decide to knit.I have made 4 1/2 pairs of mittens so far 
> and  working on my 4th skein of yarn.  I can't wait to get someone to take a  
> look at them and let me know what colors and what they look like.  Forget  
> asking John, he will tell me they have lines in them.  That is how he  
> described some of this yarn I had gotten before.  Now my crafty friends  told me 
> it was wide and thin stripes with a line of colored design  pattern.  When I 
> asked if it looked like a flower, they agreed.
> 
> I showed my oldest son last night the pair I was working on and he wanted  
> to know how I got those different stripes and zig zag design in it.  That  
> one was called natural stripes.  He told me it was browns, black and  tan.  I 
> wish they would tell you on their website what colors are in their  yarns.  
> I don't think they have worked up swatches on the website  either.  I had 
> my friend take a look at them for me before I ordered  them.  They even have 
> blue camo stripes and camo stripes which I think must  be the greens and 
> browns.
> 
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
> 
> In a message dated 2/13/2014 10:38:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> lilliepennington at fuse.net writes:
> 
> Your  projects all sound really cool. Could you send me the heart pattern? 
> Thanks  for the newsletter suggestion.
> In terms of projects for me, I am mainly am  working. On my blanket and it 
> is coming along rather nicely. I hope to finish  my quilt soon. I took a 
> bunch of fleese squares and hand sewed them together.  Now I have to put the 
> back on. I also hope to finish my safety pin beading sun  catcher this 
> weekend. I.  Also want to finish a scarf on the 24 peg loom.  On my todo list are 
> the wrist warmers, snowman earrings, learning hairpin and  broomstick lace, 
> knitting a dishcloth, crocheting a granny square, and the  purl afghan, if I 
> didn't mention it along with learning the long  loom.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 13, 2014, at 4:49 PM,  Lisamaria Martinez <lmartinez217 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi  all,
>> 
>> Just because ... I thought it would be nice to share  what current
>> projects people are working on.
>> 
>> I've  recently signed up for emails from All Free Crochet. They send a
>> ton  of emails, but some of them are really fun, and fast, stuff you
>> can  make.
>> 
>> recently, I learned how to make a 5-minute crocheted  heart. I've made
>> a handful of them and have been giving them to my son  to play with. I
>> also slipped one into my hubby's jacket pocket the  other day. My son
>> took one of his hearts to school and played with it  like a yo yo since
>> I kept a long string attached to it. He asked me  for a big blue heart
>> so I made one from the Bernat Baby Blanket  yarn.
>> 
>> I've been looking for patterns for baby sleep sacks or  cocoons. I've
>> thought of designing my own on the loom, but I think I  found a crochet
>> pattern I will try via crochet and then adapt on the  loom (or the
>> other way around). So, this is not a current project, but  a future one
>> I hope to do.
>> 
>> I also just bought yarn  for a Puerto Rican flag lap blanket I want to
>> make for my grandma who  is the crocheter in the family. I have to make
>> two because my great  grandma is turning 100 in June and we're going to
>> the party. I can't  make my grandma a blanket and nothing for my great
>> grandma.
>> 
>> So, I've got two future projects, but am currently working on two  as
>> well...no three...
>> 
>> I had to rip out about 9 rows  of the heart afghan Debbie taught in
>> January. I just started looming  it again.
>> 
>> I am two fifths of the way done with a star-shaped  blanket I'm making
>> for my son or the family. It's in preparation of  making the white star
>> on the Puerto Rico flag.
>> 
>> And  finally, I found an easy scarf pattern on All Free Crochet that is
>> called a Classic Strap scarf. I'm making it 1 in a half times wider
>> since I felt 8 chanin stitches across using a K hook was too narrow. I
>> started it last night instead of going to bed. I'm using Denim Mist,
>> which is from Lion Bran, I think it is Jiffy? Anyways, it uses a
>> unique pattern of single crochet and then double crochet repeated
>> across the row. I've done about two inches and will keep working on
>> that as my BART ride craft project.
>> 
>> Okay, what are all of you  doing?
>> 
>> LM
>> 
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