Illinois Crafter

I know that I am a little late for the puff stitch band wagon and I know that their are patterns and tutorials out there but this is how I did mine. I used 2 colors of  Caron-Simple Soft(white and blue[Go Colts]), but you can easily use only 1, and a H hook. With White,  Row 1: Chain 10, Sc 9 across. Turn Row 2: Sc in front loops only.  Repeat row 2 for a total of 70 rows.  Cut yarn and sewn ends together.  With Blue, Row 1: Sc in between each side row around band sl st in beginning sc (70 sc)  Row 2: Pull up ch 1, Puff stitch in 1st sc, ch 1, skip stitch one sc, *puff stitch in next, ch 1; repeat from * across, sl st into top of first puff stitch.  Row 3: Sl st into ch 1 sp, pull up ch 1, puff stitch in same ch 1 sp, ch 1, *puff stitch into ch 1 sp, ch 1, repeat from * across, sl st into top of first puff stitch Repeat row 3 for 10 more rows (12 rows)  Cut yarn with 12" of end For closure fold in half and draw yarn up in a sti

This is a basic granny square with some flare, or should I say some ruffles. Is it fairly easy the only difference from a regular granny is the last two rounds...  The best part about this motif is you can make it as big or small as you want... I choose to do only 4 rounds of granny square.  Like I said above its you basic granny, but in case you don't know how to make one here is how I make my grannies... Make a double magic ring;  (but you can use your favorite joining method) Round  1: ch 3, 2 dc in ring, (ch 2, 3 dc in ring) 3 times. ch 1, sc in top of beg ch-3. Round 2: Ch2,2dc around sc.*Ch1,(3dc,ch2,3dc)in next ch-2sp.Repeat from* twice. Ch1, 3dc in next ch-1sp.ch1,sc into top of beg ch-2. Round 3: Ch2, 2dc around sc.*Ch1,3dcinnextch-1sp.Ch1,(3dc,ch2,3dc)in next ch-2sp.Repeat from * twice. (Ch1, 3dc in next ch-1 sp) twice. Ch 1, sc in top of beg ch-2. Round 4: Ch 2, 2 dc around sc. *(Ch 1, 3 dc in next ch-1 sp) twice. Ch 1, (3 dc,ch 2, 3dc) in next

Here in my is the month of January of my temperature blanket 2016... I decided to work this blanket in Corner to Corner (c2c), I am working it this way just to be a little different then how most people are working there projects. If was a tough decision to make on what pattern to use. With c2c I can stop the width/length when I feel like the size is right. I was loving the color scheme of all the Robin's Egg and Berry Blue, until we have a heat wave around the 24-25 and put the odd greens in there. Up next is February, lets seen where that leads us... For my temperature color palette, you can look a few post back:  COLOR PALETTE HERE I decided to separate the months with a single row of black yarn.   For c2c pattern : CLICK HERE Until Next Time!

I  know a couple of weeks ago I posted me temple for my temperature blanket color guide, but me indecisiveness got the best of me so I changes it again. as I looked back at what I had I realized I wanted more colors. This is my final decision... I have already started my blanket and have 2 weeks done so I can not change again. Yao here goes   99+ Burgundy  93-98 Soft Red 85-92 Watermelon  80-84 Pumpkin  74-79 Orange  67-73 Sunshine  60-66 Super Duper Yellow/Lemonade  53-59 Dark Sage 46-52 Green 40-45 Sage 32-39 Robin's Egg 26-31 Berry Blue 20-25 Grape 14-19 Iris 8-13 Prefect Plum 2-7 Deep Country Blue (-4)-1 Heather Grey Below -5 Off White Special Date:  Snow Fall: White Rainy Days: Soft Ball Holidays: Silver Sparkle 1st of Month: Dark Grey Special Date colors will be used in the 3rd round of the Hexagon Granny Motfis I am using for the Temperature Blanket Pattern I am using.  If you look back at my last post about my

As if I don't already have enough projects going I had another idea... Everyone that grew up in the 90's loves Mario! Just need to laminate it to help protect it. Going to make a corner to corner afghan with this graph. plan to start later tonight with it.  Until Next Time!

After much deliberation and a lot of searching for ideas on google, Pinterest, and many different Facebook groups, I finally made a pattern decision!!! I can't even begin to tell you know exciting this makes me. I had no idea how many different ways you can go about making temperature blankets. Between choosing colors template and picking out the pattern, and it doesn't just stop at blankets possibilities are endless.  Any way let's get back to my pattern that I am doing: Granny Hexagon Motif Okay, so this is not the best photo I know that. Darker yarn is always difficult for me to capture, and turn out to look decent. I probably should have made a different motif for this, but since I am already in the middle of this post I am just going to go with it. This is a much better photo then the first, but I just wanted to show that I will doing 3 round when the motif is finished. The first round will be the low of the day, second round will be the high of t

This is my first completed project of 2016! I am going to try to keep count of every item I make this year. My cousin requested a Slouchy Hat, I am not a huge fan of how this one turned out. So I tweek aroundn with this hat to make the slouch, longer aso it looks "slouchier" I will repost a picture oncenit is finished. I hope someone likes it, because I am still unsure. Until next time!

2016 is here!!! So many goals, so many ideas, so many projects I want to complete. Hope I can show you some of them here. Here is my idea for a temperature blanket. Okay, complete on honesty it is not really my idea. I am just jumping into the band wagon. I first saw the idea on Facebook, the first place I saw the idea came from  Repeat Crafter Me Facebook . If you don't already follow Sarah you should check out her work. Here is her actual website  RepeatCrafterMe . I wasn't a huge template that was used in post  Bernat Colors . So, I decided to change it up, many times! Stage One: This is a few of the many colors that I have of Caron Simply Soft, plus more. I decided I wanted more colors to make it as colorful as possible. At this point I was going to do 10 colors red(hot) to purple(cold.) Stage Two:   This is what is came up with, but I didn't like it. So, back to the drawing board I went.  Stage Three:   Here are a few more changes, the