My day and yarn yo-yos
Labels: yo-yos 4 commentsIt was Alison's morning to feed the horses but Alison was sick this morning so I got up and did it myself. I started to get Michael to do it but I figured I needed to try to do it myself. I used to do it when we first moved out here but I've got intimidated when they moved the 3 extra horses from next door. I don't really like dealing with many horses...I'm more of a one horse at a time person! I was a little sneakier about it to avoid dealing with some of the pushier horses. I put out a flake of hay by the barn at our house to distract the greedy ones. Then, I was able to get each horse in its stall one by one. I don't like putting grain in the baby Andrew's stall when he's in there because he's got no manners. I did it though. I let out the horses and scooped the stalls today myself too. That's Michael's job but sometimes it's just easier to do stuff yourself. Alison was feeling better today but she still felt kinda weak. I made her take it easy today but then by the afternoon she was wanting to go to dance. She didn't want me to make her have to miss YOUTH tonight!
I also gave Michael a badly needed hair cut today. Even he finally admitted he needed a hair cut! I find it difficult to cut his fine, blonde hair but since he generally wears a hat all the time, I figured I could get it done if he could just be patient enough to sit there. In the end, it looked really good...maybe one of the best jobs I've ever done on his hair!
Michael helped Mr. Grain do a bunch of stuff today. They filled feeders and unloaded a bunch of hay. Yesterday, he helped Mrs. Grain do some stuff up at the cabin. They are doing a bunch of work and cleaning up around here from some big shindig they are having out here this weekend. Apparently, they are going to have people staying in all available housing.
Well, I played around with making some crochet yo-yo's. 
I saw this Crocheting in Georgia: Miss Golie's Bedspreads. You should go take a look at this bedspread! It's amazing and completely handmade!
It inspired me that you could make a crochet version of this. I did a sample of two different versions to see which one I liked better.
This one looks better but it uses more yarn. 
There is a free tutorial for this online here: Yo-Yo Puff
I actually prefer making this one but it's not quite as pretty. 
However, on the 2nd round, you need to replace the CH2 with a CH3 so you don't get that goofy indention on your yo-yo. I'm sure you can see it in the picture. It's pretty noticeable to me. I got the pattern for this yo-yo from the book
25 Throws, Wraps, and Blankets to Crochet by Melody Griffiths
Anyway, I ended up making 4 yo-yos today but I'm not sure about this project because I don't know how I would join them. I guess you could just plain old sew them together but that would be no fun at all. I'll do a little searching to see if there's something on the web about how to join them.
9:42 AM
hello! Love the tales you tell about the horses! I chuckled about the one with no manners!
Love the yo yo afghan. I just borrowed the same book from the library.
your hats that you have made are interesting.
I am making the aran hearts afghan from red heart, finally figured the darn thing out. I half to use super saver yarn because it is cheaper than the soft yarn.
Have a nice day!
7:02 PM
That yo yo puff is really neat looking! I've never seen one before.
I am big on join as you go methods, and usually just create my own way of doing it however it looks good. An easy way to join those yoyo's is, choose 4 equal stitches around each yoyo where you will join to 4 others. Complete the stitch, with loop still on hook, go through the same place on the same stitch on another yoyo, pull up a loop, and either slip stitch it, or single crochet it, however you want it to look, and go about your next stitch. Just make sure the count of stitches is the same between joining stitches. hope this is understandable :)
I have one greedy pesky horse, he is a 15 year old Quarter horse, and I have trouble feeding him. I can imagine you feeding all those horses! I've had my horse for 1 1/2 years now, but have no prior horse experience. We did find out he is blind on one eye, which is why he would not turn left. So he is not ridable for us now.
Good luck with those yoyo's!
Nancy
11:18 PM
As you can see, I'm having fun with the yo-yo's! "Interesting" is the perfect word to describe my hats! HaHa! Well, the kids visiting this weekend went ga-ga over the hats and the cupcake hat went home with the little girl.
9:04 PM
Nancy,
Thanks for the explanation on how to try to join them! I'm trying to understand what you said...my yo-yos are already made so and I would have to crochet around the posts because they are dtr crochets that sorta fold over to make the yo-yo. So I couldn't really join as I go but I know there has to be some way to crochet them together. Could I still do it by adding a round to around the post? I'll try to play with it and see if I can get it to work.
Yes, we had never been around horses in our lives until 2 years ago and now look at us! But I don't consider myself the "horseman" in the family. They intimidate me a bit but I still love them. There is a horse at the stables who is blind in one eye.