What's Cooking

No, not in the kitchen, sillies. What's cooking on the crochet hooks.

Most of you know I have adopted Natalie's Second Chance Shelter in Lafayette, Indiana, about 30 minutes from my hometown, as my crochet cause.

Whenever I sell a pattern, I list the date, name of the pattern, buyer, and price on an Excel spreadsheet. Then, every month or two I send them a check with the amount of money I have made from the patterns.

This year, I just sat down and made a few for their Second Hand Shop. Since I found the pattern on the Red Heart site, I fell in love with it. By now, I should have the pattern memorized. They had never seen them before and were thrilled with receiving them.

So, now my quest for this year is to make a bunch for them to sell this year. 

Right now I have four made, and one front sitting on my belly while I type, all made out of my scrap stash. It is so much fun pairing the mix-matched colors together and ending up with something cute







Then, I found the simplest pattern for a crocheted Danish Heart. I have loved them forever . . . this is the one I made for my nephew's wife to carry on her bridal bouquet.    




Her colors were pink and black, so I had her go to a craft store and pick out two DMC Colors that were as close to her colors as possible. I used the floss as a color guide for the cake we gave them for their wedding gift. Then, I made the ornie out of the colors. 

Ever since, I've wanted to find a crochet pattern I liked, and I found it.  So, now, besides Christmas Stockings, I'm going to make these for them to sell for Valentines Day. Can you just see them with Doggie Treats stuck in them . . . kind of like the May Baskets people hang on doors, only these will be Doggie Baskets :)

Sock Monkey Socks

I'm in a swap on Ravelry called Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe. It's a swap of Christmas Stockings . . . hum, I wonder "toe" "sock?"

Anyway, my partner wanted a sock that reminded her of the grey work socks her dad wore that they hung up at Christmas. She said they were the type of socks used for sock monkeys.

Here is the result.

Not breaking my arm patting myself on the back, but I think I did pretty good. Specially when I started using a pattern on this latest Crochet Today. But, I didn't want a flat sock joined at the back . . . and a sock where the foot was made and then attached to the leg.

I started with the ribbing, joined it, then started the stocking in rounds . . added the heal, then started the foot in rounds .

It was easier than I thought . . . even though I frogged it a couple of times because my back seam was crooked.

Then, I decided to use the leftover yarn to make Christmas Stockings for Natalie's 2nd Chance Shelter, in Lafayette, Indiana. Hoping to have at east 5 made by the end of Nov to send to them for their gift shop.