by Nancy
While I’m working on my Currently Classified Crochet Project (which is nearly done! 🙂 ), I thought I’d post a picture of my little crochet snail, which I made a little while ago from a pattern in Super Cute Crochet by Nicki Trench, which Ann gave me for Christmas.
Shortly before Christmas, Cathy told me that she wanted to start a Nativity set for James. After a bit of negotiating, [Ann: “What do you think of a counted cross stitch nativity?” Cathy: “That would be a lot of work!” Ann: “No, it would be a lot of fun!”], I purchased a fabulous kit for making 12 figures from Janlynn (www.janlynn.com). It was designed by Nancy Rossi for Kooler Design Studio.
I started just after the first of the year with the Baby Jesus. Here is the finished piece:
I am very impressed with the quality of the kit. The amount of detail is fabulous. (Note the belly button!) There are approximately 35 different shades of floss in this one piece. I meant to put a ruler in the photo for scale but obviously forgot. The finished size is about 3″ wide and 3″ high at the top of the halo.
Mary will be next. I can’t wait!
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Just in case you were worried I’d completely switched from quilting to crochet, here’s what I have been working on most recently: two new pillowcases. The snowman and penguin one is flannel, for Nicholas because he doesn’t have any Christmas or winter pillowcases in flannel. The states pillowcase is regular cotton, and is for Andrew.
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Here’s the crochet everyone has been waiting for – a sushi roll! This was made on Christmas Day, thanks to Rebecca for giving me Tasty Crochet.
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My nephew recently got his own little kitchen and enjoys “cooking,” so I decided to make him some crochet food for his culinary adventures.
Apple:
Carrot:
Corn:
Oreo:
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Now that people have opened their Christmas gifts, I can finally post pictures of my classified crackpot crochet activities! The penguin shown above was a Christmas gift for Cathy, who is a big penguin fan. Ann received a crocheted cup of tea:
Rebecca received a crocheted s’more. (The graham cracker is a little floppy – possibly due to my using 100% cotton yarn for this one. Acrylic yarn might have yielded a firmer cracker.)
I made Marty a set of crocheted balls for practicing her juggling, which I forgot to take a picture of! Maybe she can post a picture of the balls in use!
More to come another day…
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This gift bag was made for Andrew’s birthday and will probably be re-used a lot at our house! In fact, I think I will probably use it again for one of the people being honored at the December Triple Birthday event!
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Just for fun and practice, I decided to make this crochet flower. Andrew feels it looks more like a snowflake, and I tend to agree.
I decided to use it to decorate a gift page which is going to my host parents in Germany. International crackpottiness!
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Naaah – where’s the crackpottiness in that?
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Fabric Gift Bag + Crochet Letter = 2(Crackpottiness) = 2 times the Crackpottiness
This is my first bag which features a ribbon for tying sewn into the seam. The ribbon I am using here is one-sided, and the first time I sewed it in, I did it the wrong way, so that the wrong side of the ribbon was out when I got the bag turned right-side-out. But it was easy to correct, and the second time I got it!
I’m getting better at making the bags big enough for the gift that is supposed to go in them. I’ve been keeping a record of what size fabric I start with and how the bag turns out, which is helping me a lot. Ignore the 2.5 times/3 times the height of the gift formula I mentioned in my previous post. I was confusing width and height. (Not a good thing to do!). After writing that post, I made a bag which was way too skinny and much higher than I needed, but I caught my mistake before it was complete and was able to correct it before things were too far gone!
For those wondering, yes, I am still crocheting. But most of the things I am making must be kept secret from at least one Crackpot, so I can’t post them at this time. But I will have lots of things to show off after December 25! 🙂
