Crochet Me Crazy

I used to be good at getting the sizing right on hats but I've been having a little trouble.

Both of these will have to be infant hats because they don't fit any of my grandkids! HA!



I was going for the look of tha Crochet Panama Hat that's all over the internet. Not quite but still cute...It's too big for my granddaughter so I may try again on this one. I like the colors.



This was my next try and it actually fits my almost 2 year old granddaughter. I plan on taking some more pictures with her wearing it. It's much cuter on!

This first picture is of the hat on the blocking board...I'm including it because the colors are truer in this picture.



Here's another picture of it...

I have been crocheting a little bit again. I had time to organize my yarn in the spare room and I have a LOT of weird yarns so I'm attempting to do a little stash busting to get rid of some yarns. I'm going to be making hats and slippers. Here's a few hats I've made....

So I got Alison to model the black and blue hat tonight when she came over to bring me my dinner at work....

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I actually really like that hat pattern. I will be making that one again!

I made this hat today....The is called the Mara Hat. It uses tunisian crochet for the hat band. That was fun for a change. I liked this pattern alot as well.

I finally jumped on the mermaid tail bandwagon! I got these two baby sized cocoons finished. I really wanted to get pictures of them using the baby as a model but I haven't been able to get over there.



The rest of these are things I have made between yesterday and today while I'm at my long weekend at work...



This is the same pattern baby hat in three different sizes...infant, toddler and child. I plan on having flowers pins in different colors people can buy to add to these.



I really liked this hat pattern. It's a free pattern online called "Picot Friendly Hat"...



Lastly, I have this Tassel hood in a child size. I made an adult version of this too but oops I guess I didn't take a picture of that one. I still have to make a pompom for this one but I ran out of the pink yarn here at work. I'll have to add that at home where I have more of this yarn...



So anyway...all that and I have another night, day and another 1/2 a day here until I get to go home! I brought a whole suitcase of yarn with me! LOL

I brought these hats over to get them modeled by my granddaughter's today. Luckily I have a grandchild in every size for sizing...an infant, toddler, and a year old!

I convinced my daughter to model some hats for me today!



That's a lot of hats and I even forgot one!

Well, here are a couple of hats I had taken pictures of that I had finished....









and another pair of boot cuffs....



I have more stuff made up to take pictures of but I don't have a camera to take pictures with at the moment. My daughter and husband took it with them on their trip!

I made two pairs of slippers last night and today at work I made two cupcake hats...one in a baby size and one in a toddler size. Those should be popular sellers.

Well Alison and I went to San Antonio on Tuesday and I knocked myself out at Hobby Lobby buying yarn....seriously, I went crazy. I took samples of all the colors that I already had on hand and I bought one of every color that I didn't have. It's hard living an hour away from a yarn store! I also bought a couple of extra balls of some chunky yarn to make this set for Alison to wear while she's in Illinois next week....





Lastly, here are the pictures of the other small projects that I made over the last long work weekend...

This little sapsucker is DEAD now!


I've lived in the Hill Country for the greater part of my life and I've never been stung by a scorpion. Today was the day! OUCH!! It hurts like Hades and for a LONG time too! I was pretty stupid and was being careless being in a hurry to get a few things done before I had to go to work today. I was moving some pots on the front porch making room for a table and I stepped on him. I didn't realize it at first...I mean I felt a big pain but I thought I had stepped on something sharp and was expecting to see blood. Then I saw the scorpion. I grabbed my toe and started squeezing as I felt the pain getting worse. Squeezing it was helping so I just plopped down and squeezed it and called for Alison. She brought me ice and I sat there squeezing and putting ice on it. It HURTS!!!! My lips and tongue started tingling and getting numb. I had Alison look up what essential oil to use for it on the internet. It said Frankinsence...I have it! I put the Frankinsence and it helped. Then we added another blend of essential oils Alison has and it helped with the pain. I sat for 30 or 40 minutes in ice water. I needed to go to work so I decided the oils helped enough with the pain that I could wrap it up in guaze with oils on it. I limped off to work. It's been almost 3 hours and it still hurts...it's bearable but it feels throbby. I'm sitting her at work with an ice pack on it. What a pain in the FOOT!!

We spent the day moving stuff out of our storage in Leakey yesterday to bring here. Mr. S let us borrow his trailer so it made it easy to get everything we needed. I'm switching to my own bed and got some Alison's scrapbooking hutch and dresser. I got all my yarn and just a bunch of other stuff I need. Especially my vacume cleaner!! I can't wait to get after my house with the vacume! Sweeping doesn't cut it for me.

I finished another hat on Saturday. They still need ribbon weaved through them. Colors aren't right. The one hat that looks pink and blue is actually pink and purple and the one that looks yellow and red is actually yellow and a dark pink!

Here's what I've been working on...I'm making these hats in various sizes and colors. Quick project to give me something to do at work. I figure I'll get a little stash saved up and I can try to sell them at the Trade Days one weekend.

The dress is for Treelyn but it's not quite finished. I have some trim to add around the arms and embellishments to add to make it look "patriotic" for the 4th of July. Come to think of it...maybe I better make a hat to go with it.

Well, I'm sure you've seen those adorable Panama hats on the internet. I have had so many people send me that picture it's not even funny...even people that don't crochet have seen those hats!
That is what has inspired me to make this hat. This is a picture of what I had laid out on Friday night...



I've made some changes to it since then...it's been a process. I had three long, straight 15 hour days at my caretaking job and I spent a lot of time working on this. Finding the flower patterns and trying different ones was time consuming.

Anyway, I'm still working on it but this is what it looks like now.



I plan to make the spiral one next after this one. After that I think I will have had enough of these hats for awhile.

We've been iced in since Friday night until today. I don't know what it is but the weather is always ALOT more severe out here where we are. We are 15 miles out of town and it thaws in town before it thaws out here.

I forgot to post the picture of this hat when I last posted....This hat is supposed to be for a lady at church that requested the green and the scallops...

I got some crocheting done since I was elderly sitting for so many hours! I saw this pattern for this hat and I had to make it! I made the black one first and I loved it so much, I made another one in pink. The hat pattern is designed to look like knitting but it's not. Those are slip stitches!



It's so similar to this knitted hat that Alison bought at a shop here in town.



I see these on people everywhere! I can tell you I wouldn't be selling mine because I would have to charge way more than the $15 that Alison paid for hers that was made in China. This hat is a lot more time intensive because of all the slip stitches. I can't whip this hat out as fast as a normal crocheted hat.

What a beautiful day today is! It's very crisp today but it's sunny --- the sun makes all the difference in the world!

Well, I finished this hat with crocodile stitch edging yesterday. A lady at church wants a green hat. She wasn't specific but she said warm and feminine. I made this but I'm not sure if this might be a bit "much" or not! It was fun to make though! I'm going to start on another hat today or tomorrow and I'll let her pick which one she wants.



When I was making this I thought this technique would be cute on a boot cuff so I started making some Crocodile Stitch Boot Cuffs and I'm writing the pattern down as I go. I'll share that in a few days!

I started this hat yesterday and finished it today...



This project has been on my "To-Do" list for some time now! I finally sat down and made this awesome scarf. I just couldn't resist!



Here is a pair of boot cuffs I made. Boot cuffs are a quick little project. I like to get some small projects going while I'm working on something larger like the horse scarf! I need my instant gratification!



This last project I have to show is part of an order for crochet slippers that I received. I have made two of the 3 pairs of slippers that I am supposed to make. The other pair, I still have to weave in ends....trying to get motivated to start on the 3rd pair!