I've been sick :(

It's been a long few days... I've been sick since Saturday night, and out of a fear of creating small pox like blankets a.k.a. cold infected hats and mittens, I've been sleeping and doing nothing for the past few days... I've been going crazy! Thankfully I seem to be nearly 100% good again!!! Which means I can start crocheting again! woot! pictures will be posted as soon as the next batch of things are made :)

Some more commissions I've finished up!

As I mentioned previously, I've been inundated with hat commissions lately! Here are a few more I finished up, the devil hat was for a co-workers daughter, the actual earflap hat design (not including horns) is a single piece that's worked from top down, I'm hoping to have time after Christmas to actually get the pattern written up and for sale because I LOVE the style of this hat! It doesn't have those earflaps that are crocheted on after fact in back and forth rows, that I find look so different from the actual hat which is in rounds.

This hat was crocheted for the daughter of one my husband's cousins... gotta love those complicated family relationships! Anyway, it's for a two-year old, which explains why, even though my mannequin has a small head (19" circumference) the hat is still too small! but it fit Maria perfectly! I also whipped up a quick cupcake hat to give the mom a few options... she of course bought both once she saw them on Maria. :)

This hat... drove me insane... I wasn't thinking when I took the commission that mohair is from a sheep, much like wool... I'm allergic to wool... I'm apparently REALLY allergic to mohair! After many days of burning and tingling fingertips, which eventually went numb, and working in 15 minute spurts with frantic handwashing between, I finally finished the hat. Many people kept telling me to tell the woman who commissioned it, that I couldn't do it, but it was a sad story, for her father who is sick and the use of mohair to make the hat was paramount as it was an inside joke, that I couldn't stop... I'm actually giving it to her shortly and I hope it fits well and makes everyone smile.

Well... that's all for now... I'm working on some mittens, a few hats based on Angry Birds for a friend of mine and a few Christmas presents... more updates to come as those get finished up :)

Some completed commissions

I've been crazy busy lately between work and crocheting. I've had an influx of crochet commissions, mainly for hats, because people seem obsessed with the hat I made my husband, which is great but means I keep putting off the projects I have in my head.

 And this is the famed My Little Zombie that I made about a month ago and is now happily residing in Missouri.

I have plans for more zombie items but they have to wait until I finish up commissions :)

Rainbow Cowl

So... I still suck at blogging... life is just too busy right now. BUT I did finish up the Time Out Cowl for the Maybe Matilda Crochet-Along! But I did highly modify it :) I used Vanna's Choice yarn, just under a ball of black, and barely any red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple yarn and a 9mm hook. I made the cowl only 5 V's wide and I did 9 rows of each colour. After I blocked it the finished size was 7" x 58" which I'm quite happy with. I'm quite happy with the final product :) I'll probably end up tossing it on Etsy eventually since my winter coat is bright red with ruffles and this would just be WAY too much for me.

Me very awkwardly modeling the cowl.

A much nicer shot of the cowl hanging out by it's lonesome.

I'm a bad bad blogger...

I'm officially a horrible blogger! I annouce that I will start blogging but never do. This is probably why I have 0 followers. I've been working on a ton of patterns lately though and just started a crochet-along so hopefully this whole thing will really get going soon!

It's Alive

I have been wanting to start this blog up for a while and I keep waiting for the perfect moment or event to come to me to start it, but I've decided just to announce that it's up and running, not that I have any followers right now anyway! Things have been pretty  busy crochet-wise right now I've been designing a few patterns that I will hopefully have up for sale in my very empty etsy store and I have recently been inundated with commissions from family, friends and co-workers which always makes me happy and busy and means that my etsy store is even farther from having things on it... oh well!