Busy, Busy Week

Hi Everyone,

It's been a while since I've had time to sit at the computer for a bit.  Missyboo is a Brownie, and I had the good fortune to be "Cookie Mom" for the troop this year.  This was the week for all monies to be collected and deposited from the girls, have cookie booth sales, and get all orders logged into the Girl Scout cookie system.  On top of my work hours changing (and not for the better!)  Most of my computer time has been spent this past couple of weeks on cookie emails!  Too bad they weren't edible.  But then, I guess it's a good thing they weren't.  I might not have been able to get out the chair!!!  lol

Anyway, I turned in three more chemo hats for my local guild club's collection last Sunday.  There were 118 new hats collected!  I'm guessing that should put us around the 500 mark since January.  We had a visitor late in the meeting who came to learn how to make chemo hats.  She's going thru it herself, and wanted to make hats for herself and others too.  She was told to go thru the hats gathered at the meeting that day and pick one out for herself.  And let me tell you, there were some absolutely gorgeous hats made!!!!  It ended up she picked one of the three I had turned in!  I was so amazed that she did that, considering how many pretty hats were in the bag!  To me, mine were just there, and I drooled over the other ones.  Is it that way for everyone else too?  lol  At least this time I got some pictures of the hats I turned in.  I kept forgetting to take my camera with me, or to take pictures of the other hats I had made.  One of the women at the meeting was nice enough to take these pictures and send them home for me to add to my collection.  Now let's see if I can get that picture posted here!

I made these using Lion Brand CottonEase, and I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to make 4 adult sized hats out of just one skein each of these three colors.  I plan on submitting a picture and pattern for the fourth hat I made to the Crochet Liberation Front group that started on Ravelry as they are in the process of putting a few of their own crochet pattern books together to be published.

So who knows, I've sold one pattern, now maybe I'll get one pattern published!  Now wouldn't that be cool?!  ;-D

I'm still plugging away on my mystery top that's a mix of knit and crochet.  The upper portion is now done.  I had to take both the left and right sides apart and frog them twice since I know so much about knitting.  They were a bit on the big side.  The front portion of the arm hole area just barely covered to the middle of the breast.  That's a bit too "open" for me!  Rip-it, Rip-it.  Downsizing in progress.  LOL  But it's good to go now!  Just need to finish up on the lower portion, add a sleeve or two, and viola, one done top.  Hopefully it will be done in time for the CGOA conference in July!

Well my computer time for the day is up.  I need to get some pictures taken for Missyboo's science fair project, and put a hem in a couple new pair of work pants before going to bed.  Especially the pants part.  I kinda ripped a hole in my last pair getting into the car to go home on Friday.  I'm just glad it was after work!  It would have been em-bare-assing otherwise!  LOL

Have a good night.  :-)

What to Make!

Oh, what to make?!  I've started on my top from my new stash buy last week.  It was originally going to be Hubby's, but after getting a few rows, there was NO WAY he was going to wear that shade of green!  I think its great, but it's definitely on the feminine side of the green family!  lol  Guess that means I get to go do more shopping!!!!  YAY!  I don't know about you, but usually some other "stuff" follows me home when I go yarn shopping.  I'm always glad to see who/what decided to come with me!  lol

After a few false starts, I decided to make a top that was a combination of crochet and knit.  But nothing like this one!  Mine is, and will be, a very simple one in comparison.  Only one main color, and maybe another "background" color.  So far, it seems to be coming along really well.  I'm hoping to have it all done in one piece, or I should say in several pieces that are put together as it goes along.  No seaming at all.  It starts at the bottom front waist area and goes up and around to the back waist area, all in one piece.  Then each side is added.

So far there are only two problems with it.  #1: I didn't make the shoulder connector from the front to the back quite long enough.  That's what happens when you're at work, no mirror is around, and neither is anyone else for the time being.  It felt right, bottom front even with bottom back.  When I got home and showed Hubby, the real deal was "laid" out.  I did 20 chains to connect the front shoulder to the back, should have done at least 30.  So instead of the bottom edges stopping just above the natural waist, it will be more of an empire waist.  But I can live with that.  #2: I can't figure out (or remember how I did it before!) to get a part of my crochet trims to intertwine with each other.  I had planned on using this trim to connect the center front and back to the left and right sides of the top.  Like I said, no seaming!  I know that doesn't make much sense right now without seeing a picture, but I'm not taking any until I'm done with the project, so you'll have to wait to see!  lol  And that's all I'm telling you about it, too!

I needed an off-white to compliment this shade of green that was a bit finer weight than the green, so off Missyboo and I went to AC Moore's.  We ran into a couple of ladies from my crochet group there at the check out and laughed about the supplies we each had.  Yarn and more of it!  lol  I only went for some off-white.  But some grape and rose colored chunky followed us to the checkout.  I said ok, you can come home with us.  Visions of sugar plums turned into tops are running thru my head.  Colored cables, raised textures..............can I make the picture come out into my hands?  Only time will tell. I know I won't!  ;-D  (yet)

Have a good night.  : )