European Soccer Championship 2008

To get prepared for some public watching and major soccer parties I crocheted myself a little purse with just enough room for my mobile, a little wallet and a keychain.

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Busy as the Bees…

I feel the need to chime in with a “I’m not really gone!!”  just trying to wrap things up!!  I’ve been working on several projects, and have only got one to full completion, but no pictures yet!!
Here are my current projects:
A summer hat for me, that I just got finished, but have yet to take [...]

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get ready for some changes!

Jaime is right, our site has been pretty quiet over the last month, so we’re going to shake it up a bit around here to get things going again!

As of June 1st, the Crochet Along theme will be expanded to include ANY amigurumi as well as Summer Crochet. So start taking pics of any ami [...]

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Cleo the Cat *pattern added*

This is my new little friend “Cleo the Cat”.  She likes to hang out in the bookselves and spy on interesting new characters.
I made Cleo out of some vintage varigated yarn that I found at a thrift shop and she is wearing a little off white t-shirt with vintage buttons sewn on the front.  I [...]

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Not dead…yet!

Hi all!  It’s been so quiet around here… must be all that spring cleaning (or fall bundling-up-edness for you southern-hemisphere folks )…  I haven’t been slacking, I swear… I have been embroiled in battle!  Over on Ravelry, I got drafted into Killer Bunnies, a battle royale (http://www.ravelry.com/groups/killer-rabbit) and I’m on my second victim!  I [...]

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100th Post Give Away!

To all my friends at Crochet Along…..stop by my blog and enter to win!
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Fat Bottom Bag and Mums pressie

I finally finished the FBB, well all but one handle to stitch on. I’m really quite chuffed and can’t believe it’s turned out so well, with no pattern to look at. I kind of thought the black handle/decrease part would look quite nice as there was a lot of pattern going on in the main [...]

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Crocheted Shell Bookmark

Crocheted shell bookmark for all of your poolside summer reading.   Has a nice large bead  and tassel and works beautifully in almost any size book. Measures 15 inches tip to tip.  Super fast and super easy project.  I will post my pattern on my blog. 
 

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Summery Bag

Here’s something pretty and functional – this is from Lion Brand’s pattern list: click me!
(In the interest of smallifying this post, the pic here is teeny… look in the flickr pool for a much better look!)
This bag holds SO MUCH. Seriously. I’ve made this pattern a few times now, sometimes with longer handles [...]

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a couple jellies…….

These fall under Summer….seeing these little guys at the beach make me cringe but these 2 cuties have no stinging power! The pattern is on my blog………

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one last small crochet…..

Here is one last book thong for small crochet. I hadn’t had a chance to load the pictures.
I didn’t want to do amigurumi as I wanted the mushie to lay flat…..I like the way they turned out.

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