Wooly Wednesday

 Ok so you saw the snowy pictures.  Well that was mostly Saturday, although it has snowed a bit every day since.  And Saturday was Wool Scrap Saturday.  Well, I slipped and slid my way to the yarn store.  And we had fun.  I finished working on my ginger man from the Fa la la la felt book.

 The facial features were not showing up because of the wool I chose...so we chose some beads and well....he's kind of scary looking!  I do laugh when I see him though, so I guess that's good!

 I spent a lot of time cutting up a bunch of wool...so we decided to have Wool Scrap Saturday again today, on Wednesday!  So you can come in and make a Christmas tree for $5.00.

 Debbie did make it in on Saturday and made three cute trees.  She said she lives two minutes from the yarn store, and that included the time it took to scrape the snow from her car!

  And these cutie pies, Mandy made me for my forest!  A fox and a mouse.  Adorable!

What does the fox say?  Seriously.  It' actually a loud kind of scary sounding scream.  Click here and listen!  I heard the Vixen's Scream last fall and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.  Oh dear, I seem to have gotten a bit sidetracked.

 Mandy also made this cell phone case.  Love the beads on it!

 

Dixie Doodle and I have been working on a Christmas present, so I can't divulge much info about it.  Except that it is being made from wool scraps too.  I asked him which color of wool for a tree...light brown or darker with stripes.  Him...being the tree expert and all...he chose the darker with stripes.

 And this is the Bee Lady Bag I made a few years ago from wool.  We've been having a lot of fun with the wool scraps lately.   What we like about it.  No rules! You just do what you want.  No patterns (although I do have some books) you just do your own thing!

 I hope some of you can make it to Groovy Girl Yarn today between 1:00 - 6:00 to make something wooly and have some fun.  I'll bring some home made cookies!

Cindy Bee

Wool Scrap Saturday

I hope everyone can come to WOOL SCRAP SATURDAY Saturday, at Groovy Girl Yarn!

 

You can make one of these trees for $5.00!

Cindy Bee

Make a Wooly tree!

 I've always been a nature girl.  Most people have little Christmas villages, I have a woods. 

 I try to add a tree every year.  I have these crochet trees my MIL made years ago.  She told me they needed decorated when she gave them to me.  I left them empty, and put them in my woods.

 

I've made these wooly trees several times, for different occasions and just love them. They all turn out different, and they are so cute.  You don't need a woods for them.  They look cute on their own.  The pattern came out of a felt book, called Fa La La La Felt.  Anything you can make with felt, you can make with wool.

 I made this bee with wool, and did some felting on the wool for the stripes and the hat.  It's my own pattern.

 Here's another woolly tree (top left) that I bought at a craft show. It was this year's addition. 

 This Saturday, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm I am going to be at Groovy Girl Yarn with a wool stash.  For $5.00 you can make one of the above woolly trees.  They are great teacher gifts, hostess gifts, stocking stuffers, ornament exchange gifts, etc!  Perfect, easy and inexpensive.  Who could ask for me.  I have been hoarding wool sweaters and jackets for years.  I've been very busy this week cutting up the wool into pieces and  I will have the pieces for sale on Saturday.  I will also have felt books available for you to look at.  (I will not be selling or copying the patterns, but you will at least get a sneak preview of a book before you decide to buy it somewhere!)

The wool possibilities are endless!

 

Stop by and say HI!

Cindy Bee

Crochet update

  I wanted to give you a crochet update two weeks ago, and I'm just now getting to it. It seems I cannot keep up lately.  I need a routine.  I have none.  Another subject for another time.

This is Barb's pillow.  She was running a tad behind us.  As you recall we were doing a crochet-a-long, and some (ahem) crocheted ahead rather than along...and then Barb....well, she crocheted behind! (teehee)

 And here are our finished pillows...minus Barb's...because that is hers above.  

Unfinished...but getting there.

 This is an Alexandra Mackenzie pattern...and she had a crochet-a-long on facebook and we all joined in.

 I think they turned out great.

 
This is "K"s pillow.

 This is my pillow.

 This is Groovy Girl's

 And I happened to do the buttons correctly...(just though I'd throw that in)

 Then we made these owls.

 ..

 Aren't they hilarious?  I must say, I missed crochet group when these were made, so I made a couple of them at home...and I got mercilessly made fun of.  Or at least my owl did.

He is so much bigger than the other owlettes.  We got this pattern from Bunny Mummy.

And while I'm showing you crochet projects, I thought I'd give you a ripple update.

And I have to admit I'm so glad I'm a yarn hoarder, because the other day I needed more white, and I had it in my stash! This ripple pattern came from Lucy at Attic 24 (see my side bar).  And Mel (Day to Day - side bar again) got me motivated to get it back out and get busy on it.  She had a crochet a long.  Love those crochet a longs!

And lastly...

Last week, Groovy Girl Yarn had a lot of sales.  And Cascade 220 was on sale for 20% off!  I've looked at that yarn since I started my ripple months ago

....and when it went on sale, I took it as a sign....

so I bought the colors I was going to buy for my ripple originally, before I changed my mind and bought the colors above... (did that make sense?)

And now I'm trying to decide what to make with it.  It'll be another blanket.

I don't know if you remember this book, but it had a pattern in it that I really liked.

It's not this striped blanket, but I do like this.  And it would be easy to do.  Simple garter (knit) stitch.  Just turn your computer sideways to see what it looks like....it's too late to fiddle with the picture!

This is the afghan that I really liked.  Thing is....I don't know if I'd be up to all of that color changing and crocheting those squares together. 

Here is another pattern I found...

And although I love this one, I read the pattern and every one of those squares are four triangles sewn together....not gonna happen.

Do you have any ideas for a knitted or crocheted blanket with several colors of yarn?  I have time to research and I've been looking through books.  I just really like having a blanket going while I'm watching tv in the evening.  Something simple, that I don't have to pay a lot of attention to details.  Lemme' know.

Cindy Bee

Emergency Meeting for Groovy Girls of Anarchy

 So.  I called an emergency meeting of the Groovy Girls of Anarchy.  And here's the thing...our Groovy Girl closed the yarn store! 

NOT TO WORRY...she is relocating.  

Moving to a better location on the West side of town.  It's gonna be nice.  She plans on having her grand opening on April 1, but might open sooner if she has it all moved and ready.  This new place is going to be cute and cozy.  

 So, we had our emergent meeting at the Big Ben Coffee shop.  And here's the thing folks....I'm a little concerned because Groovy Girl's new location is going to be right by this coffee shop, which happens to serve the best latte's in town.  (try a Winter Wonderland or a Cabin Fever if you don't believe me)

 So, four of us showed up and Groovy Girl says, "Bee, why did you call this meeting?"

 I'll tell you why, Because I decided our friend Kristi needs crochet heart bunting for her bed.

 And I thought it would be more special if we all made it.  So I called an emergent meeting, brought the yarn and the pattern, and Lordy was there a bit of grumbling.......Bee do you know what you are doing?  This can't be right?  I'm going to try it this way? Have you made this pattern before? I have too many meetings today for this.   Get out of my space?  This is my space, this is your space...
blah blah and blah...

 Then Ben walks up...our Barista...I said to smile.....and what does he do,
he holds up muffins in front of his face!

 Better.

 And we needed an odd number of hearts...but there were only four of us, so each of us crocheted a row on the last heart.  It turned out a bit wonky...but

 what do you think?  

As we were decorating the bag, the Granny Bee got a text.  Kristi can have visitors.

See you Wednesday Kristi! 

 

With some crochet heart bunting for your bed.  We love you girl!

Oh yeah...the other thing....Groovy Girl Yarn's new location is right by a chocolate shop too.  YUM!

Cindy Bee