Illinois Crafter

So a friend of mine moved from the Northwestern part of Iowa to Southern California a few years ago. I am making this shawl for her to show her that I still think of her and hope that she will remember this ole Corn State when ever she sees this item... I am using Heartland by Lion Brand in the color Grand Canyon, hopefully this color will be able to go with almost any outfit she wears. It has a lovely mix of beige and copper tones. I am using a patternt called Haiku Crochet Shawl By Rebecca Velasquez you can buy her lovely pattern at raverly ravelry/haiku-crochet-shawl  or right from the company she designed it for called quince and co  quinceandco.com/haiku  I have had so much fun making this for her. Hope she likes it! Until Next Time!

I was looking at some old photos and found a shot of the first afghan that I had ever completed. I originally made this as a wedding gift. I forgot that I had ever did this pattern: As a wedding gift I went with their fall themed colors and threw in something white something blue as well. I was a little sad to give this away being my first afghan but I am glad I decided to show off the love I have for my old aged hobby!  I found the idea for this pattern from a challenge from The Crochet Crowd. Mikey has some of the best ideas: Crochet Crowd Challenge  If I am looking for a ideas but not sure what hook up next I scan this page for hints.  Pattern for this awesome  Red Heart Afghan click here Ocean Waves I think that I just might have to make another one but this time I will keep this one! If I do I will keep you posted with updates! Until next time

In my last post I was torn between a couple of different shades of blue, green and yellow. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to use or what to make but here is what I decided to do: In several magazine over the last few months a have seen a couple projects using the "Spike Stitch"every pattern was a done a little differently from the next so I pulled my favorite parts from each and come up with this! Hope you like it, Until next time!

Have so many projects to get started on for this summer, between all the babies due and couples saying their "I Do's" I have plenty to do. There are tons of ideas rolling in my head right now, time to get started. These are the colors I have chosen for a blanket that I hope to keep you updated on. Notice a theme? Yellow to Blue to Green darker to light? I hope you do because that what I going for. I just cant decide if I should put white in with it or a black or brown? I love and have so much fun picking out the colors but I always have so many problems trying to figure out what order to put them in. Once I like how I have put them I seem to change again. Oh, the problems of creativity! Feel like I might do an extended double crochet pattern with these colors! Stay tuned for up dates.... Until next time!

Its been a while since I have made a blog entry! Was beginning to think this was another project that I started and never finished, but I am determined to keep this going. Over the past couple of months I just never had the time to post anything. The reason being is that I work at UPS as a package handler and during Thanksgiving to New Years Eve we have our Peakseason which is hell for us. It is just unreal on how busy we are. Between starting at 1:00 and going until 9:30 so we can load the trucks up for the drivers then meeting up with the drivers later in the day to help deliver packages just tires a person out and leave no time for family life. Maybe next year I shouldn't start something right before my busiest time of the year, haha! Just taking a little snooze while waiting for more packages to arrive, 2:00 AM was just to early for my friend here. My trailer only 1.5 hours into my day, only 6 hours left to go. Had to load over 1000+ packages into this sucker that m...

With many encouraging words from friends I finally attempting to run a store front via Etsy. Now, I now everyone and their mom has shops on Etsy. I mean why not? Its so convenient and everyone does everything with the tip of there fingertips. I have see people order toilet paper online so why not my hats to. Keeping in mind I know that I will not become a millionaire or be able to quit my day job with this shop, but I am interested to see if I can sell a few items and with Christmas coming up the extra $5 cant hurt. I am always making something whether it is a DIY craft or knitting or crochet that I have bought I storage bin to keep all of my finished projects. when ever someone has a new baby I just pull something out and have an instant gift! I love coming up with new project to mainly this store is for an excuse for me to make something new. Here are a few things that can be bought from my shop:  Santa inspired baby booties~ These boots were inspired for the upcomin...

So... Halloween is coming fast! With me + 2 Kids = 3 outfits!!! How am I going to do this. I love group ideas so this is what I have come up with Cat and the Hat + Thing 1 & Thing 2. Here is William's (he will be Thing 2) so far:   After this photo was taken I didnt think there was enough "hair" so I went in and brought it down a few more rows. I will be posting Wyatt's soon and I am almost finish with my "Cat Hat."   Until next time!

So this is me entering the blogging world. I am so far behind on the internet trends! My hope is to use the social world to get my craftyness out there. I learned crochet a very long time ago from my Great Grandmother Halvorson when I was little. I played around with it throughout high school but never really got into crocheting until she passed away in April of 2013. I only wish that she should see what I do now, this is all thanks to her. I also knit but not as much as I would like to, I am still new to that world as well (since late 2012.) This week in the spirit of fall/halloween season I made up a couple of Pumpkin Hats for toddlers. So cute...   My next was going to be making Turkey Hats but I have MAJOR ADD when it coming to my crafting ideas so I started graphing out pattern charts for some of the SuperHero geeks in my family. So far I have made Green Lantern, Batman i had Superman done but I decided I didnt like it so back to the drawing board I go. ...