Crochet catch up!

So I thought I would share a few crochet projects our "little old lady crochet group" has worked on lately. 

I'm in the process of clearing out my phone again.  Too many pics!

 For some quick fun stuff, I made some pom poms with a pom pom maker.  When I was a kid I made them with cardboard or my fingers, but I think they turn out a whole lot fluffier this way.

And here is a group photo taken a couple of months ago!

You can see a blanket, a purse, a pillow and another blanket if you look hard enough.  I think the black and gray was a scarf. 

 So, this is the purse Debbie is working on but it's not "singing to her."  If something doesn't sing to her, she takes f o r e v e r getting it done.

  

This picture shows what it is supposed to look like when she is finished with it, and she almost is finished.  She's working on the flower now.  Maybe I'll have a finished project photo for you next week.

 Cheryl has been working on a pillow. 

 This is the pattern.  I think it's adorable and I want to make one, but I can't until I finish lining all of the bags I've crocheted and not lined.  My own rule.

 

Cheryl just finished her second panel and is hoping it matches her first one, but she is taking a break for awhile and trekking off to Paris!

She trekked off with her daughters.  One of them, Annie,  joins us now and again in crochet group.  I think she was making a scarf for her boyfriend here.

Kay...finishes...everything.

This blanket just needs the ends tucked in and it will be finished.

It's probably done now. 

I started this blanket which is the Coastal Ripple blanket from Attic 24 (see side bar for Lucy's blog) I had to start a new project, that didn't require much thinking, because the truth is, we use crochet as an excuse to get together.  It's more of a therapy session than anything else!  So we talk a lot. 

I can't think and talk!  I try to finish a color a week.

 

 This is the blanket I'm working on at home.

 I'm actually a lot further along than this.  I've sewn it all together, tucked in all the loose ends, and am sewing a border.  Thing is....this is all of the yarn I have left.  It was a project to use up yarn stash, and it did.  I think I just used too much.  Not much left for a border.

 And this is part of the therapy I was talking about.  They say laughter is the best medicine right?  Well, Debbie started laughing so hard that tea came out her nose.  I posted this story a few weeks ago, but at the time didn't have the pictures to show you what we were working on.

You see, Kay is very good at coming up with projects for us to work on.  She makes up these very cute little kits that I love, Debbie tolerates, and Cheryl humors Kay by trying very hard!

And this kit was for water balloons. 

Yep, you heard me, crocheted water balloons peeps.

 

 They are made out of a very thick, absorbent yarn that you put in a bucket of water, to soak up the water, and then fling them at each other.   That way you don't have the broken balloon mess all over the yard.  I made these three. 

I think I'm going to turn them into fish...do you see fish?  I do.  Stuff em....give em an eyeball....they're fish.  

 

So, Annie joined us again a couple of weeks ago.  She's a college kid and is done for a few weeks.  She started this afghan.

 Only her skein of yarn turned into a mess.  How does that happen?  And by the way, Debbie used to seriously call them skanks of yarn.  And when I say seriously, I mean she really thought that is what they were called!!!

 So Cheryl put down her house pillow project and helped Annie with her skank of yarn. (teehee)

 Then Pam helped out....Pam joins us now and again.  I should say we let KNITTER Pam join us now and again.  See Annie back there, just sitting, while they work on her yarn ball.

See the man walking in the door wondering what in thee hell are they doing?

So, my bag rule.  Such a dumb rule I made.....I decided I am NOT doing one more project outside of crochet group until those bags get lined.  Well, this is one of them.

 Ta Dah....one down and about four or five to go!

 Last week at crochet, Debbie wanted us to help her make some more water balloons for friend.  I only made one and it turned out so honkin' big I took it out of the picture!  I know what happened....it was when I double crocheted.  I did it the way I usually do it and not the way Kay explained to us.  No matter....I went back to my blanket.

 

And rumor is Kay has kits made up for us for next week for scrubbies....(sigh)

Just kidding Kay!  She says you can whip them up in about 15 minutes.

hmmmmm

we will see.....

So, My Mom was talking about my crochet group in front of me and my sister the other day and she made some comment about one of my little old crochet ladies and my sister started laughing!

 Seriously Mom!!!!

Yeah.....my 82 year old Mom said that about us!

Cindy

One big honking crochet post!

So.... I just downloaded every yarn/crochet picture on my phone.  I have to clear pics off of my phone, so I thought I'd do a crochet catch-up post.  

Last June....

I thought I needed a project for St. Thomas.  I mean who can just sit on a beach, right?

Wrong.  

All I did was get the yarn out and decide on an order, but I never touched it!  

 

 This yarn is called "Weekend" yarn and it's a cotton blend.  I then took it with me to Kentucky over July 4 holiday,

 and started a bag.  It was supposed to be a beach bag.

 only beach season is now over (insert sad face here!)

and I did finish the crochet part....but the lining part....I haven't even started!

 

 I even finished the handles at our last crochet group gathering.

  

Then, remember this hat?  It was yarn that I had spun myself and I tried using a pattern for the hat.

Well, I do believe I told you I finished the hat

and made some handwarmers. 

 After I finished the hat and handwarmers, I decided to turn the too big hat upside down

 

 and make a bag out of it.

I got quite a bit done on the bag when I realized I switched from half double crochet to single.  

I texted a couple of people in my crochet group and "K" said to go with it that she liked it.  I took her advice and went with it, but now, I think I would like the bag if it were shaped more like the beach bag above.  It's just too long this way.  I could have stopped it sooner, but I was using up the yarn.  So I think I'm going to re-do it.  It's not a big deal really.  Mindless crocheting in the evenings while watching tv.

And, I have been working on a blanket for several years!  Not really.   I showed you a blanket in a post a few months back....you can see it here....I had started it years ago when I was going to teach how to make a granny square at the Winter Woolen Workshop.  I put it away because I didn't really like the colors.   If you check out the post a few months back, you'll see I took out denim and black and added pink and yellow.

So I started crocheting the squares, and realized, I am not going to have enough of the bright blue to make three more squares like the ones I have.

so I started making small squares out of the yarn I had left.

One of the ladies from the "knitting" (not to be confused with crocheting) group at the coffee shop (we are nice to each other) suggested I put the four smaller squares together and stitch around them to make blocks the same size as the bigger blocks.

 So I did!

Deciding a border color wasn't too hard since these were the only yarns and colors I had enough of to go all the way around the blanket a couple of times.

 

 Then there was the decision to do three or four rows of the last color.  I'm glad I only did three,

because that same lady suggested I end the blanket with a "crab stitch" or "reverse crochet stitch."  It's the same stitch but has two different names.  So I looked it up on you tube and started crab stitching away!

I love the cottony feel of this blanket,

and we've been doing a lot of snuggling under it and on it already!

 

 This is his Sweet and Innocent look!

 TAA DA!

 

And I don't think I ever showed you the finished honeycomb bag.

I actually followed a pattern out of a magazine.   

 

Only her bag in the picture is much bigger and I like it better.  (sigh)

I even got it lined and everything.

 And would you believe I never carried it one time.

 Maybe next summer.  Or maybe I'll make a bigger one!

Debbie is moving right along on her blanket.

And we have a new member in our group, Cheryl.  She posted on facebook the other day that it got chilly in her house and she put her scarf on and it kept her right shoulder warm!  She keeps ripping it out.  Kind of like Debbie's "other" blanket....The one we don't talk about it.  shhhhh

 

See the ends....kind of a bit uneven.

 I told her the next time to just keep going, that once she wraps it around her neck a few times no one will ever notice!  She is learning and I sometimes think when you are learning you should just go with it.  It'll come.

Well, it's late and I'm tired.

And that's it for crochet for now, so I'm getting all of these pictures off of my phone!

Cindy Bee 

PS.  Our "K" had another foot surgery.  This is three in almost one years time.  I believe this will be the final surgery and she'll be up dancing soon!  But Lawsy blogettes...she has been through IT with that foot, I tell you what.  Prayers for her if you are so inclined.