Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

W.I.P. ADD

So many ideas so little time!!!

Ever get excited about starting a new project? Then weeks later...you come across an awesome pattern and you decided to start it just to see how it looks? Then a few days later you're at the yarn store and you come across this beautiful skein of yarn that you have to make it into something beautiful?
Before you know it, you're surrounded by half finished projects.
This is what I call my WIP ADD= Work In Progress ADD. 
I have so many ideas and I get easily distracted. 
Don't get me wrong there are times when I don't move from my couch all day and can't hear anything when I'm working on a new pattern. 
My husband will leave in the morning and I am just starting a foundation chain. He comes home and I am counting the chains between tr shells. He says "Hey babe" and I say "3,4,5." 
Hahaha. You know what I'm talking about!!

So how do I focus on one project at a time? How do I decided which to finish and which to put to the side? Well if I'm making something for someone I usually try to get that done before touching anything else. However if I'm just randomly making something because I love the pattern...its hard not to get distracted. 

So what do you do? Do you have WIP ADD? Share with me. I'd love to hear from you.

Here are a few pics of some of my WIPs:

Blanket for baby


Endless Granny Square Throw


This was going to be a flower halter top

But it didn't work out

So I started a new pattern

A pineapple tank top





Booties for baby


Baby beanie for a friend


What do you guys think? Let me know. Hopefully I will have some finish pictures for you all in a few weeks.

Have a great week! Be blessed!! Love to create!!

Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Gift

Hello Loves!

I think we forget how lucky we are as women!
We get to be apart of the amazing gift of bringing another human into the world. 

Made through love, this little being comes into our lives and is totally dependent on us. 
To them we are their world...they look to us for love, warmth, food, guidance. They only know how to love us, despite what we think of ourselves, all they know is that we are theirs. 
They developed within us...their lives depended on our lives.

This is truly a gift that the Lord has given us. Think about how strong we are to have an actual human being growing inside of us, becoming their own person. 
Sometimes we don't always make it through...sometimes we suffer a loss but we never give up. 
How strong are we that we can try again. Whether we make it through the first time or this is our second, third time, we give our bodies over to the gift of carrying another. 
Whatever fear we may have will not stop us, what ever obstacles we may face will not deter us.

As I enter into my 30th week of pregnancy and feel the movements of my son, I become overwhelmed with joy of being blessed by the Lord with this gift. I thank Him for allowing me to be apart of something truly amazing.

We have been given the gift of motherhood, rebirth but remember the world was given the gift of women. 
Know that you are a gift, live like you are special because you are. We are important! We are here to love, nurture, support and to live life beyond ourselves.

Me at 28 weeks


Here are a few pictures of dresses I made and sold this past week. My first time making dresses and I loved them!




Next project: granny square afghan

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Hello Hello

It is crazy how time flies!
So much has happened since my last post. As of today I am 26 1/2 weeks pregnant! Yay! Unfortunately I have been put on bed rest...well more like couch rest. Yes, I guess its not as easy this time around as it was 13 years ago when I had my daughter. But by the grace of God we are here and our baby boy is growing nicely. Every week we get to is truly a blessing.

I had to take off from work but fortunately it has given me more time to do what I love...crochet!! It was pretty hard working, going to school and taking care of the fam while trying to finish any WIP, which I'm sure you all can relate to. Now I have all the time to focus on one project at a time and actually complete it. While our baby is developing so are some beautiful project!!

Here are a few of my finish projects.

This is a blanket and beanie I made for our baby boy...pattern from redheart.com


This is an endless granny square blanket I made for my goddaughter...she's been waiting almost a year for this!




Poncho I made for my neice...pattern from lionbrand.com


and last a slouchy hat I made for my cousin...pattern also from redheart.com




Stay tuned for belly shots and my new WIP... another blanket for baby.

Ta ta and smooches!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

It's been too long

I've been gone so long...where to begin...

I had to step away and get somethings in order...

Well I'm back and will try to post something at least every week.. I have missed my blog world friends.


Here is a bag I made for a close friend...it is a very large tote bag...with purple cotton blend lining



adding in the lining...first for me




4 granny squares on each side panel



I absolutely love this bag!


So proud that I did this lining...love the color!


Sooooo...there it is...I hope you like.

Come back and visit.

Thanks! Smooches!