Surf's Up!

It is still amazing how I can find new needlecraft ideas and patterns practically every day on the internet. Yesterday was one such day. I started with downloading the latest patterns from Crochet Me and ended up finding some great stuff on other needlecraft blogs. Crochet Me contained this Amigurumi link, which led me to look for an Amigurumi cat pattern. I found it on the Ramblings in a Little Black Dress blog. I definitely want to make one when I get the chance. Sarah Jane also had a link on another blog to a baby blanket pattern using a modern granny square. I plan on modifying the square to make a copycat version of Stitch Diva's crocheted handy hobo. We'll see when I can get to that. There are so many projects, I'd like to complete, but I just don't have the time! In the meantime, I'll still search for patterns to put on my someday to-do list!

If Only I had Known

It turns out that I didn't have to buy the Stitch Diva pattern after all. I recently found out from my local SnB group that it is in Debbie Stoller's Happy Hooker crochet book. For a mere $3 more I can get that pattern and 39 others! Oh well, I'm going to buy the Happy Hooker book anyway. I saw on the back cover it has a crochet version of the jacket like the pattern I wanted at Annie's Attic, which also costs $7, so the book will save me there.

Catching Up

Well I haven't been as regular with posting to this blog as I'd hoped to be, but I'm doing better than I did last year! This time around I have more of an excuse. I had a baby. Now that he's 3 months, I'm getting more of a chance to pursue some of my crafting hobbies.
Nevertheless, I was able to get a few projects finished over these 3 months. I just had to be content with working on them in smaller increments and working on smaller projects. On the sewing front, I managed to take in a PJ top I made my dad last year, patch my husband's ripped jeans, and monogram some towels as a late wedding gift. On the knitting front I completed two scarves--a skull scarf for my stepson out of doubled Woolease and a garter stitch one for my mom using various black yarns in my stash. The skull chart I found on another blog, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore. I unfortunately didn't take a picture of my mom's scarf before I gave it to her.