Crocheted Bag

Today my crochet project turned out to be a bag. Most likely one of my girls will get it. My oldest wants it because she collects purses and bags and because she thinks it is not fair that my youngest got more doll clothes. My youngest wants it because she wants something to carry the doll clothes that I have been making in. Guess I can decide a little later for now it is back to seeing what I come up with to crochet while I still have yarn and am in the mood to crochet.   

Christmas Pajamas (finally posting)

I finally got the pictures of my kids Christmas pajamas that I made for them. Only my two oldest kids did not get a pair of shorts and a top for their pajamas. My oldest daughter got a nightgown. While my oldest son just got a pair of pants since he seems to prefer sleeping with out a shirt now, must be him being a preteen now or something.

 

Crocheted Doll Clothes

The last two night I made more doll clothes for my girls. Last night I made a skirt and a pair of shoes for my daughter's doll. This evening I made a dress and another hat which my oldest daughter has claimed for her doll. I think I like this second hat a little more then the first. I was not planning on making more doll clothes it just turned out that is what I did. Kind of funny when I start asking for my daughter's doll or taking it out of her room after my daughter has gone to bed so that I can try the clothes on the doll and get pictures of them. I may need to just get myself an eighteen inch doll so that I do not have to keep doing that if I keep making doll clothes of any kind.

Crocheted Pillow

This is the pillow that I made to go with the purple afghan that I gave my husband for Christmas. I started it after Christmas got it to the point of needing a center pillow, which I was able to get around to making today. He has a nice afghan and pillow set for when he is watching television in the evening now. He as already hinted at wanting a second pillow if I have enough yarn, but I am not sure I will since I am just about out of the dark purple and I have been using the light purple to make doll clothes. I think he is happy with it even though it is just one pillow.

Doll Hat, Vest, Backpack, and update

Last night while watching television I picked up my crochet hook and yarn and just started crocheting. After a minute I decided to make a doll vest and asked my youngest daughter for her doll. Still wanting to crochet I played around some more and came up with the hat and then the little backpack. Guess I just needed to crochet and let my mind create. None of the projects were started with any idea of what I was going to make, I simple just stared and decided after I had something to look at. I think it helped me sleep too, which is a good thing.

I wish I could say that I have been so busy that I have not had time to craft or update my blog but I can not. While I did have plenty to do for the past while I have not had all that much to do. I managed to have a rather calm Thanksgiving and Christmas which in itself is amazing. I think I may have just been avoiding doing things so that it seemed that way or something. I did get some Christmas gifts made and embroidered Christmas stockings for another family, and help a friend get some of her Christmas gifts started and done. I did have a post of a purple afghan that was given to my husband for Christmas all though he did steel it a few times to use before then. I also posted an embroidered pillow case that I helped my friend with. (Proud of her for finishing the bags that we started for her girls, the embroidered pillow case she did, and the toy puppy that she made for kids too.)
Since those posts, I managed to make the pajamas that my kids got for Christmas this year, it is the one present that they get to open Christmas eve. I will have to get pictures of them posted later since I don't seem to have them on my camera card. Either I have taken more pictures then I thought I have been or I forgot to get the pictures of them and have to scan though the Christmas pictures to see if I have any good pictures of them on the kids or just go get them from the kids and take some. One way or the other those pictures have to get put up later. Just better get them posted before New Years since they were made this year, ha ha. Over all this year has been good, a few ups and down but over all good. Still hope that next year will be better then this year but it has been a great year.
Chicken update: Shortly after building the Chicken a play yard my husband bought four more hens. We have let one of the hens sit on a few eggs, two of which hatched. One two days before Christmas and one Christmas eve. My daughter and other kids are taking good care of them but now and then I am the one being left to care for them, it usually only lasts a day then my daughter remembers that she forgot to take care of them the day before. So over all she has done a great job with them. Though she will not be getting any of the other animals that she keeps asking for, my husband seems like he is more then willing to add to her flock of chickens. This coming year we will be building them a proper permanent coup so that the shed can be torn down.

Pillow case

A friend of mine started working on a set of pillow case cross stitches to give as gifts to two of her girls. Just she is kind of new to cross stitching and so it is a slow processes. She is doing great with it and will get faster as she does more of them. To help her out though I took one of the pillow cases to work on for her to make sure that she would have both of them done in time for Christmas. I am sure the girls will like the pillow cases.

Afghan

With the weather getting cooler I wanted to make a new afghan. So on one of our date nights my husband took me to the store to get me some new craft supplies. He picked two shades of purple and we bought out the last of those two colors. A day or two later I was looking for a pattern to get started. I found one that I liked but then after starting I decided to change the pattern. It ended up being a twin size afghan once completed. The entire time I worked on the afghan my husband told me I was going to fast, I am suppost to go slow and enjoy myself. I told him that I was going slow and enjoying my self but I was still done faster then he liked. Guess he did not want me asking for more yarn for another afghan. I was thinking of giving the afghan as a Christmas gift but my husband has already laid clam to it and been using it every night since it was finished. So he just might have to buy me more yarn sooner then he would like.