Crocheting & Watching the Olympics

I have been seriously into the Olympic Games these past few weeks. It's been so much fun to watch, I've been happily losing sleep by staying up past midnight each night to watch the games.


I've been so hooked to the point where I won't go out past 8pm, because I need to be home to watch Michael Phelps swim...lol


And I've been crocheting as well. I worked up this set, it's a variation of the pattern from Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker .
The orange yarn is worsted weight and the cranberry colored is wool.




There's lots of TRC's going on here...but I do like the way the set came out. It's very soft and airy.


So I made another hat.




I'm definitely liking this hat and will probably make a few more.

Starting to crochet

I posted before that my daughter(8), is just now beginning to crochet. She made this first... it's meant to be a dollie blankie...


And then, of course, being her mother's daughter, she put the first project aside and wanted to make something else. So she started it all by herself...she wanted to surprise me.


The funny thing is, I didn't show her how to crochet in rounds...so I don't know how she managed to make this ball. She began with a row of sc's, then I guess she skipped a few sts and it curved. So I told her it can be a ball. When she worked a few more rounds, I showed her how to sc then sk a st, then sc to decrease. She did it all around, and stuffed it then closed it up. She added a string on top for hanging. We glued eyes on it and viola. Her first amigurumi.

New Blog Find

Happy Monday. It's rainy one here. Perfect 'stay home and crochet' weather.
I came across Geek Central Station's blog...who is also on ETSY. She does some really cute character ami's.
Um yep...that's Gandalf....


And Jack Sparrow.


And this would be the Star Trek cast...


She's got some free patterns at her blog. That's what I call cute!

Thanks Sandy for the link.

Baby Ripple-Ghan complete

The Baby Ripple-Ghan I was working on for a friend is finally done...*yay*
I used Caron's in teal, white and tan.