The things I forget these days

It seems the pregnancy has really taken over my befuddled brain, it's not bad enough that i was already a scatterbrain to begin with :) It seems these days all I do is forget things. Like the fact that I finished a new pattern about two weeks ago and was planning on blogging ti that very night, which I just now remembered I didn't do.
So here it is in all it's tardy glory, my newest pattern: the third installment of my Bug Eyes Bugs series the Butterfly

As always you can find the pattern for this guy and all my other critters in my Etsy shop

Win a Silhouette SD craft cutter

Over at Dollar Store Crafts, a great site I only just discovered today, they are having a contest to give away one of these little bits of awesome,

And plenty of goodies to go along with it, the best part is how easy it is to enter. You get up to four chances, one is a freebie, the next you need to be a subscriber (totally worth the two minutes it takes to sign up).

The third is to tweet it or put it on your facebook, and the fourth is to blog about it (which I would have done anyway, cause it's awesome :)

And if you aren't lucky enough to win, they still offer some pretty nice savings and goodies if you buy one with their promo code.

And just in case I haven't enticed you enough to run over and enter, check out so of the amazing things you could do with the Silhouette SD craft cutter.

 found on flickr

from Scrapbook Boutique

and

from Belle Papier

And a video demo I found on youtube

This is my next christmas/birthday/everyother holiday request (or I could wait a few months andsave up for it I suppose :) 

So stop by Dollar Store Crafts and sign up for the giveaway and cross your fingers!

Finished at last...on to the next

I am so proud of myself for finishing this project, it took a couple of weeks and plenty of distractions and interruptions, but it's finally done and hanging on my wall.

here's a side by side to compare

it's a bit small, but you get the gist.

And now for some larger closer images.

Almost done

My scalded hand is almost all better and only hurts if I run it into something (which I do surprisingly a lot). But I've managed to keep on crafting through the pain, mostly because the pain is more tolerable than the boredom. So here is my project so far, it will be done by tonight - barring some sort of disaster, but I probably won't get to take decent pictures of it till tomorrow.  Bear with me there are lots of pictures

Once I've the added the girl I'll fill in the bubbly spaces with more french knots and it will be completed. I'm thrilled with the result and yet a little sad because I have no idea what to do next :)

A bit of progress and a hot hand

I've been making good strides with my 3d-ish embroidery project. I'm thrilled with the girl turned out I used woven picot for her hair I love the way it feels.

And then tonight whilst making taco shells for dinner I did this to myself, it hurts so very badly and worse I can't do any kind of crafting

A treasury of corn

Check out this awesome summery food inspired collection on Etsy
(plus my corn pattern is there :)
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c38dc9a4fcf6d91c40fb3f0/sweet-summer-corn

I'm still kicking!

So it's been a reeeeeaaaaaalllllly long time since my last post, my wrists and hands still hurt too much to do a lot of crocheting. But never fear, I have discovered I can do embroidery with very little pain (until the end of the day, but thank goodness for tylenol). So I've been working on that and teaching the kiddies how to embroider as well. They are having a ton of fun, I never thought they'd like it so much.

I also have an announcement  my husband-to-be and I are expecting a little squirming bit of cuteness come January, though he swears it's twins at least. So for the past few months I have been dealing with crippling morning sickness and some serious baby blahs. But I promise to be on here more and I'll still have some patterns and such for you. I'm hoping I can trick my mom into making them while I tell her what to do :)

And some pictures of my current project:

I'm taking this picture I drew and turning it into a 3d-ish embroidery project

not the best picture but I almost forgot to take one at all

 the bits of her body

 some the path of the star, ideally you won't see any white or black under all the stitches, we'll see how that goes.

I'll be back with more later, sooner than that hopefully.

Pain and Apathy

So I have been suffer from a serious case of the blahs, it seems like nothing is holding my interest. I think part of it is the pain and tingling from my hand/wrist/elbow. Crocheting isn't fun when it hurts :( I'm hoping I can find some other crafty things I can work on until my hand is better. First on the list in Ceramics, i really really want to get my hands dirty (pun intended) with the medium and my step mother is trying to help me out with that, thank goodness for family! Also I think I'll be getting back to some scrapbooking and maybe even paper cutting again.

I just really hate sitting around feeling like I'm accomplishing nothing...

Spring ATC Swap

I decided to take part in Hand Embroidery Network's Springtime ATC swap. I've never done anything like this before (mostly because deadlines scare me). But here's the one I made, early and everything. I'm quite proud of myself, I didn't even use a pattern it was all free hand on the spot. You can check out some of the others over at the HEN Flickr group. When I receive the one from my swap partner I'll show it off here :)

Well damn...

It seems I have lost the pattern for my Crochet Hook Holder, I've turned my house upside down and still haven't come across it. So while I continue to lifting furniture and flogging myself for not putting somewhere I could find it again, please enjoy these embroidery patterns instead.

 download here

download here

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