Endless Diamonds Shawl

 Happily Hooked Magazine, Issue #9, December 2014

The latest edition of Happily Hooked Magazine went online yesterday.  Sooooo many beautiful and cute designs!! I was especially happy to have my Endless Diamonds Shawl included in this issue.

 

This time I was behind Barb's camera and she did the modeling for me... And did an excellent job of it!!

This shawl also would make a great table runner pattern as well. 

 

The magazine is a digital magazine and the link to it is under Joyce's Link's above right if you are interested.  Also it is available on Ravelry at: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/happily-hooked-magazine-issue-9-december-2014

I hope you enjoy the magazine!! 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving !!

 

Many many things to be thankful for always !!

Especially all the crochet ideas that pop into my head.  The most recent are this silly turkey, candy corn and pumpkins. 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! 

And now for the rest of the story.....

As previously mentioned things are not always going to be what they appear to be.....

 

So here is what the black "doily" turned into......

 

The snowman's hat which is a candy holder!!  I need to tweak the pattern a little bit but over all I like how it turned out.



 

 

 



Things are not as they appear.....

While waiting on a load of beans yesterday I was doing some crochet in the truck 

 

A black doily you might think? It's not Halloween!!! Things are not always as they appear......stay tuned to see what this turns into......

Happy Halloween.....

After making those Easter and Snowman stiffened projects I came up with some for Halloween and fall, too.

 

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First off is a lighted stacked pumpkin.

 

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It's got a string of battery lights inside.

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It's very pretty with all the lights out!!

 

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Then there is this one in the middle that sits down over a battery tea light.  It's worked over a 6" Styrofoam ball.  The other two are 4" and 2".

 

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This one the painted one from my earlier post.  Love this face on the 2" one!! I had an idea for a ghost, too but didn't get around to that yet.  Oh well there's always next year!!  Now on to Thanksgiving.....

 

~~~~~~~~~Happy Halloween everybody~~~~~~~



Painted Crochet

 I was working on some patterns for crocheted pumpkins and thought about this "globe" I had made a few  years ago with the original idea as a Christmas tree topper.  That didn't work out as I thought so it was just sitting in a box until I could figure out what to do with it. 

 I thought about using the design to make a pumpkin which turned out really well. 

I just used the same 6" foam ball to form it only I cut off opposite sides flat and dished them out to form the pumpkin shape.  It sits down over a battery tea light. It got me to looking more at the original crochet piece and the idea hit me to try to paint it!!

 

 

Turned out pretty well!!!  If you don't know it you can't tell it from one crocheted with orange thread.  I just pushed the top down a little and the bottom up some before painting and when the paint dried it held the shape.  The opening that was in it anyway on the bottom fits down over a battery tea light. 

Very cute during the day.....

....and at night!! 

 

Beautiful Yarn

 

 

Found this beautiful yarn at Michael's ON SALE!!!!! 

 

Can't wait to get to working on the project I have in mind for this!!!