Black History Month

February is Black History Month

I wanted to celebrate Black History Month and I chose these four women. I crocheted the outfits for three of the first four dolls for the Barbie Conventions.    The Queen Nefertiti doll is a Candi Girl by Hamilton Designs.


Pauline Cushman - union spy

 Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen Jones

Florence Mills- Actress/ singer, Flapper

Queen Nefertiti

Barbie Convention

Every year I go to the Barbie Convention and bring several crocheted items to wear during the four day conference.  Some are old, new and remixed.   This was last year's  2014 conference in Nashville Tennessee.  The dress is completed crocheted in Red Heart Yarn.

Fashion Show Outfit:

New Year 2015

Who am I?  This year, I will share with you the items that I  have made over the years.  Some have been great and others have been a miss.  I love my blankets and have made many over the years.

          When I was around 8 years old, I received this Potholder kit with this heavy pink yarn . There were quite a few of my friends who received the same kit.
          We watched the older kids learn to crochet and we want to do the same.  It made it kind of easy for us because we went to Montessori School, which allowed us plenty of free time to be creative (your choice).
          I was determined to make a circle blanket.  The first part of the potholder came out round but the subsequent rows refused to cooperate.  My friends took their circles out because it was turning.  I refused and just knew it would work itself out.  Well, it did not.  This blanket became my comfort zone when I wanted to crochet and needed something to do as I was growing up.  I continued to work on it until college.
  I would just pull the blanket out and start working on the rows.    I learned the chain stitches between stitches from my grandmother because that was the only stitches she could do.

Here is the blanket now and I have not worked on it for a very long time.

Scarves for 2014

My goal for 2014 was to place 365 scarves on this blog for the year.  I fell short of this.  Sometimes, life gets in the way but you continue on. I took a break for three months on the blog, but I will be better next year to at least publish once a week.

Santa Game Christmas Party

I went to a Christmas party and everyone was asked to bring a gift for the game.  Everyone chose a number.  Then the game began. When your number was called you could pick a gift from the table or steal a gift from someone who already had picked and opened the gift.  If your gift was stolen you could take from someone or pick from the table.  The gift could only go around  3 times and then it was yours.

I crocheted a scarf for the game.  The minimum was $25.  I created a scarf where I used 100% wool  from the Wool Company, Shepherd's Wool and Brooks Farm.   I used yarn from my stash that took the scarf over the minimum.

Thank you gift

 I had left my cell phone at work and a co-worker was supposed to meet me in the train station  after work  to give me my phone.  When I arrived, she was not there and I waited an additional 30 minutes for her.  I told her that I had another engagement to go to and that she could hold the phone until the next day.  However, she did not listen and took an additional 30 minutes from her time to bring me phone around 7:30 at night.  Good thing she did not listen because my dad had an emergency that night and he called me and I was able to get to him.   So, I made her this scarf to Thank her for doing me this favor.  I used Lion's Brand yarn.

Bowling

On the Saturday after Halloween, I went bowling.  I was still in the Halloween mood since it was Friday.  I created a vest using sock yarn that had Halloween colors.