Crochet Towel Tppers

Well guy, the "Kitchen Towel Fairy" visited me the other evening and dropped of 2 towels for towel toppers!  Not starting them until 2019 though.  Going to use Emerald Green for the first set, haven't decided for the second set.  My daughter is a big butterfly fan, so understand these.  Fudge Towel Topper getting used again.  Fudge Towel Topper.

I will be getting my Raverly store going in earnest in a few days, got side tracked with severe cold and trying to keep it from turning into phenomena the last few days.  So, haven't booted my machine with all my patterns on it.  Did get one pattern posted -- Plummy Spirit Gift Bag - 0.99 cents.  This is a quick easy gift bag that will easily fit a 750 ml bottle and stretches for slightly bigger.  Great to dress up a bottle of wine or spirits for a New Years Party!!!!   Plummy Spirit Gift Bag.    

Photo not available, moved it off this machine.  Sorry.  Check it out.

Crochet Year End/New Year

I hope everyone had a good holiday.  We certainly did here!  Delicious turkey dinner with plenty of leftovers for today.  Turkey bones boiling to get any meat off them for another meal,

Winding down 2018 this week, and getting ready for 2019.  Seems like yesterday I was getting ready for 2018, time flew by.

Crocheting on the baby afghan now, only have been doing a row here and there for a couple of weeks so now will work on it daily.  About half done at this time.  Have taken an updated picture from when I posted about it the first time.

Also, finishing some graphs for projects that I cannot discuss nor show images of.  But will be doing in a Join As You Go C2C technique.

Other than that nothing on my hooks, so will take some time an write a couple of patterns.

Will be opening a store on Raverly soon as Craftsy is closing me down on the 28th.  Any patterns you have in your Craftsy library will continue to be available.  Received an email just before the holiday about it.  No explanation as to why, but probably because I haven't published  a pattern for awhile.

I will, definitely, let you know when I open on Raverly.  Had been thinking about this anyway, so just need to pursue at this time.

Crochet On

Crocheted Towel Toppers and Scarf

Hooks have been busy finished my daughter's towel toppers.  Pleased with how they turned out.  Used my "Fudge Towel Topper" pattern once again.  Works up quickly and looks great. Fudge Towel Topper .  Daughter really likes them for the Holiday season.

 Last minute gift needed for a teenage girl so crocheted a scarf, just finished and have it hanging to loosen stitches.  Hopefully won't have much or any blocking to do after it dries. No pattern just double crochet shell, chain and single crochet with a double crochet rice stitch edging.  About 305 yards, about 53 X 6.5 inches ( a little shorter than I wanted but still a good size.)  Infinity technique used joined (hdc), turned rounds.  Need to take some time and get several patterns written after Christmas.  

Happy Holidays.

Crochet On.

 

Crochet - Christmas

What a month!  Seems like the days are flying by and I'm not getting anything done, which is not true but feels like it.  My crochet time is still limited and some days non-existent due to other responsibilities.  Have made some progress on the baby afghan that needs to be done by April for the May baby, but have kitchen towel toppers on my hook now, they'll be finished in a day or so. Using my "Fudge Towel Topper" pattern available on my Craftsy store at https://www.craftsy.com/profile/jrubee-design or on the pattern page of this site.  Nice thing about this pattern is it is easy to adjust to get the neck the size you want, is basic stitches and goes quickly.  Try it the next time you want to do a towel topper.

Need a 48 hour day right now, to get everything done I want to get done.   Lost my cost spreadsheet didn't save and lost power so need to start over, almost have the bigger project chart finalized.  Using Excel On-line which is very frustrating as it saves automatically real often so stops what you are doing and saves stuff you don't necessarily want saved (a try and see), haven't found a way to turn that off.  Should have done it on my big machine that has the MS Office Suite on it.  Copy and paste works except for format so not an option to move to the big machine.  Oh, well live and learn.

Did get most of my Christmas shopping done, just have 4 small things to get (lottery scratch its - 5 for each person) and the Holiday dinners.  The Holiday dinners are easy also  just make my list and go shopping when the Holiday sales are out, looks like next week, Wednesday, which is good as that's when I wanted to get the bird to thaw.

Know I posted the baby afghan before but haven't taken a recent picture so posting again.  Right now it is a little over 1/4 done and is looking real good.  Certainly glad I have until April to get it done though.

Have a great weekend.  Only 10 more days until Christmas!  End of year closing in on us fast to only 17 days of 2018 left.   Back to work...

Crochet On.

Crocheting Update

It's been a few days since I've posted so am updating my activities and tasks.  Decided what to do about the Baby Afghan, it's a double strand (#3) using diagonal block (C2C) technique.  I'll make it in one section instead of separate small squares.  Am about 1/4 done as of this morning,  Picture from a day ago.  Multi-color and a white/blue yarns.  Hopefully uni-sex as sex remains unknown and wanted to get the afghan finished so I can move on.  And I'll be splitting my crochet time between projects.

Started plotting another possible project on graph paper this morning also.  Have some changes to make on this -- a geometric pattern.  This will be a Join as You Go using C2C technique.  Will keep you posted.

Was going to do some Christmas decorations but have decided not to.  Need to start earlier for them.
Next year.

Crochet On!