Almost May

Here's a look at what I've been up to this month and a sneak peak at your free pattern coming soon


I found these great swatches (looks like they used to be in a book) at the local Salvation Army around the same time I saw the square-a-day samplers floating about in cyber space. So I decided to combine the two minus the one square per day rule, mostly because I'm a bit compulsive at times :) 
I'm going to make a stitched 'book' of 4x4 square samplers inspired by days that make me happy. I've got four planned out and a few more in rough sketches. 


Take a look...

Also I finished a few commissions this month (made harder by the odd tingling in my pinky, any ideas?)

And I managed to whip up this Crochet hook holder which will be this month's free crochet pattern. (look for it around Tuesday-Wednesday)

And some of the goodies from our one and only thrift shop outing this month. {saving money can really be the pits sometimes}

This is the tiniest crochet hook I have ever seen, smaller than the one I tried to make myself using a broken needle. I can't make wait to make something ridiculously tiny with it

This is a combo latch hook/needle punch, which was an awesome find because I've been wanting to try needle punching but wasn't really interested in spending 20 bucks on a tool that may get used a handful of times.

The creepy doll is for my sister, cause she likes that sort of thing. The other two you will {most likely} see in future posts.




Till next week


Erin

Getting Back in the Swing of things

I took Easter weekend off and apparently derailed my train of thought in the process. It took me two days to get back to the things I needed to do. But get back I have, I've a pile of monkeys and monkey parts laying around.

And I've decided to commit some random acts of crafting. There's this house I walk by on occasion, completely gorgeous house, great yard, and in the windows are chickens. A large amount of folksy type chickens, so I decided I wanted to make her some very tiny crocheted chickens. This is what they'll look like >

I'll make the pattern available soon on my etsy. The monekys are available now here. Also my monsters and a few teddy bears plus a new monkey will coming along shortly. I hope anyway, I've got my son's birthday and a family get together all at once at the end of the month. So cross your fingers for me and lets hope I can get some of my huge workload finished.

Monkeys for charity

So I've been comissioned by Gorbella's to crochet ten of my Sweet Monkeys for a fundraiser. Yay! I'm so excited I busy working on them right now (between tpying). It's an excellent orginization and I think every town should something like it, so give them a hand : either make a donation or get them something from their wishlist. Or start a group like it in your area.

The pattern for these cuties can be found here : Voodoo Maggie's Etsy Shop