Another chance to win!

Just a quick note to let you know that I had written a granny square tutorial on A.Darling. I am giving away one of my granny square necklaces! So head on over there & enter!

Also don't forget to enter Amber's giveaway in the post below!

Cheerful Kleenex

I decided to take my boring kleenex and make it happy.

Free pattern found on Ravelry.

Amy & Janel's Granny Square Pillows

You may remember that I had made a granny square pillow for my new couch. I appreciated all the sweet comments on it by the way! Your comments always make me smile!

A few of us were chatting and Janel & Amy both asked if I would make them one. I had so much fun making mine that I thought "why not?" They each sent me the color combination they were wanting and I found some yarn that I thought matched their ideas from Hobby Lobby and started working on them. I finished them last night and I am pretty pleased with the way they turned out. I love the color combinations they chose!

This one is Amy's. She chose gray, light teal and mustard yellow. At first I thought it was a strange combination until I started working on it. I really love this combination! My mom even commented on how neat the colors looked together.

This one is Janel's. These colors are sooo pretty together. I love the linen color that separates each color.

Janel & Amy: I hope they are what you were hoping for! Thanks so much for asking me to do this for you two. I enjoyed the excuse to make more!

Granny Square Pillow

Right before we moved we bought a couch at the thrift store for $50. It is a mustardy yellow color. I knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted it! It had some ugly coralish color pillows with them. I thought instead of going out and buying new pillows for the couch that I could easily just crochet covers for the pillows that were already with it. I started it last week when I didn't have any power but set it aside when I started the Creativity Boot Camp but since I finished my assignment early today I thought today would be a good day to finish it up. I still have the other pillow to do. I will eventually get to it. :)

Flower Looms & Granny Squares

Just wanting to show you a couple things I have been playing around with lately.

I have been playing around on the flower bloom that Seth bought me. I just love the look of the flowers it makes! I had a few other flowers I had made but I couldn't find them for the picture. Making these is addicting!

I also learned how to do a circle in a square granny square. I am not sure what they are really called but that's what I call it! ha! I had seen these on blankets and pillows in a few flickr streams and I had to learn how to make it myself! It's a little wonky but I still think they are pretty!

This is off topic but last night I bought a couple new nail polish colors to change things up. I love the purple passion color! Can't wait to wear that one!

This Week's Projects

This past week I finished up a couple projects. First I FINALLY finished that baby blanket! I think it turned out pretty nice. I used a scallop edging around two sides.

Remember the owl and frame we got at an auction a few weeks ago? I painted the owl. I just wasn't feeling the gold and red eyes... I had another owl very similar to it so I painted that too. Unfortunately the frame didn't survive. I accidently stepped on it and it broke into three pieces! oh well...





Yesterday we spent the day at an estate auction. The lady that lived there had piles and piles and piles of crocheted blankets. Mostly granny square blankets. I wanted all of them but Seth wouldn't allow that... plus there were some ladies there that weren't going to let them go. But we did win a few blankets. In one of the piles I won there were 2 small blue granny square blankets. We also won a chair for $2 but it was pretty worn looking so I made a cover out of one of the blue blankets and sewed it onto the chair. Now I love my new granny square chair! It's sitting in the living room right now even though it doesn't match anything at all. I love it that much! :)