March is National Crochet Month

National Crochet Month

I have been busy during this month crocheting and donating blankets to charity.    I crocheted headbands, scarves and a hat for two different people.

I also created blankets for Warm Up America.  They were collecting for babies for Parkland Hospital  and for  children for Morehead's build a bed program.  I donated two blankets. One blanket was already done and the other one I did in Cowboy Colors.

 

Recap of 2014 clothes.

During the year of 2014, I went to several events such as dancing, birthdays parties and celebrations.

Here are some of the outfits that I wore during that year.

I went to a birthday party and the colors were Sunset.

In Washington, D.C. the Steppers them was Autumn colors:  I incorporated granny squares and  tapestry crochet in the design.

In Connecticut I wore this dress to a Linen Steppers Party.  I thought Linen was 1980's and I was not going to wear in.  So I wore cotton. The bottom of the dress is made with Rowan's denim cotton and the top is cotton.  The back was a halter style design.

 
 The End of the Summer White Party was in Brooklyn, New York.  The theme was all white, so I incorporated the ruffle lace yarn in the dress but left in straight instead of using it as a ruffle.  The dress used various shades of white cotton.

I went bowling with some co-workers during the Halloween Weekend.  I created this vest from Biscotti and Yarn co.  The back is done in black.

I wore  this Christmas Vest the Saturday before Christmas to a Steppers Set in Brooklyn, New York with friends.

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.