What I am working on now.

This is the center part of Ethanael's blanket. Since the kids aren't coming for Easter, I have gone back to my deadline in May when he turns a year old.

I'm hoping to have this done by Sunday. I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to even work on it today.

After this I have one more teddy bear to cross stitch.

Ethanael's Blanket

I've been working like a mad woman on Ethanael's blanket. I don't know if they are coming for Easter but that's my new try to get it done by- deadline. This moon took me several days to complete. I'm shocked by how long it takes to cross-stitch. I actually think it has to do with how long it takes me to find my place on the chart again and then my place on the piece, etc... I'm sure by that time a full five minutes have probably passed.


In this particular segment of the blanket, I still have to complete the blanket that the teddy bear is sleeping on and the teddy bear and above that the rack for the mobile. Once that has been completed, I have one last teddy bear to cross stitch in the upper right corner and then I start the process of outlining the entire thing. I hope it wasn't a mistake saving the outlining for last.

After that has been completed. I have to purchase a backing for the blanket and I've already purchased the filling for it. Then it's just a matter of sewing it all together. Which, BTW, I do not know how to sew. Should be fun.

I've been thinking about looking for an area on it that might fit his name and DOB. I'd like to embroider it on there. Of course, I don't know how to do that either. I don't know why I take on such ambitious projects for my first ones. Probably because I don't know any better.

Flowers...

Ok, so I think this baby blanket is coming along nicely. I'm working on various stages of the granny squares. For some reason, I just don't want to sit down and do a whole square all at once. I like to work them by color.

I've completed some squares but I still have a long way to go. I still think things are coming along nicely with this project.

Standstill...

Ok, so I've knitted two full skeins for Sean's scarf. He wants to be able to wrap it around his neck completely once. So that means, I need at least 2 more skeins.



So, this project is on hold until we can get to the craft store for more yarn. As it is now, I'd say it's as tall as me, so that's 5 ft.

More Progress

I've started to work on the baby blanket that goes with the bonnet and booties. Here are some of the grannie squares I've completed. The little yellow and pink star like things are the popcorn flowers that go in the middle. For some reason instead of doing the whole square at once, I like to do stages.


I really like the way these squares are turning out. My gauge is good and I seem to have this pat down. I'm definitely going to redo the bonnet. I sort of like the popcorn technique.

I've done some work on the Care Bear blanket but haven't taken any pictures of it. Ethanael's blanket still awaits my return...

Progress...

Here is Sean's scarf. I finished the first skein and the length isn't that impressive considering he wants it long. I added just about 100 more rows. It totally sucked because I found a mistake about 5 rows down and ended up taking out 40 rows trying to figure out how to fix the damn thing.

This picture down here is of my third attempt at adding the new ball of yarn. I had to pull the sucker out and restart. It was beyond frustrating and I had a few choice words about knitting in general. I guess when you're teaching yourself out of a crappy book, you get what you pay for. Although, I bought a new book that's pretty cool. It actually has real pictures, hence the job I'm showing below.

I had ran into a problem of having a segment of yarn that was loose and didn't seem to be in the right space, which is the reason why I pulled it out to begin with. I just did a little secret something to make it disappear and I am going on my way like nothing's wrong. Since it doesn't look like it anymore. If it happens again, I'm going to take a picture so maybe some one out there can tell me what I am doing wrong.



At least I hope that's right being as I don't have any other examples. In the midst of my frustration, Sean told me to just pull the whole thing out and crochet it.
I didn't even look at him. Only I could suggest and do such a thing, not him. lol I'm worried I didn't buy enough yarn. At least it's not dye lotted or anything.

Here's what is in my basket.

I love this basket to keep all my supplies in. I also have a case to keep my threads for cross stitching and a bag that is currently holding all my care bear blanket supplies in it. Maybe I'll take a picture of those things and add it to this post.

But there are some of my yarns and thread, oh and some angels that I need to complete.

Fun, fun, fun...

Care Bear Blanket

This is my care bear blanket. It's a cross between crochet and cross stitch. It is my most recent project and I was going at it full force until the whole situation with the kids came about. I haven't worked on it since then. I guess that's nearly two months ago. It still needs the rest of the bear and the border on it. I'm happy with the way it's going so far.

Hub's Scarf

This is my attempt at teaching myself to knit. Just the basics. I had actually knitted the entire skein when I realized that I needed to leave some length of yarn in order to add the second skein and I couldn't figure out how to pull it back without losing the stitches. So I pulled it all out and started over again. This time I am making it wider. Unfortunately for Hubs, he was devastated when I pulled it out because he saw a new scarf in his near future. lol

Sorry Hubs... maybe next winter??

My next oldest object...

I thought this crocheted layette set was really cute. I also wanted to learn the popcorn stitch. There's a blanket that goes to it too. I haven't started making the squares for it yet. There are 96 yellow squares and 96 pink ones needed to make it. I'm thinking that might take me awhile.

I'm not too happy with the bonnet. I was happy when I completed it because it was the first bonnet I ever made. BUT.... After I really looked at it. I think my gauge is too tight or something and I'm not too happy with the way things came together. This might end up being some clothes for the kids dolls or something. I think I might need to make a new one.

I'm actually not too happy with these either. These are my first booties I've ever made. I found out that I missed a couple of rounds in the first bootie I made so I need to figure out if it's worth pulling it back and trying to fix or whether I should just make a whole new bootie. I thought it was tiny when I had finished it but I hadn't seen any booties recently so I didn't know.

This object isn't nearly as old as Ethanael's blanket.

New Blog...

I wanted to start a new blog to keep track of my objects in progress.

With that said, I will start with the oldest project that is still in progress.

My Godson Ethanael's blanket.

Ethanael was born last May. My goal is to complete it by his first birthday. lol

When I bought the blanket and the threads, I had no idea what I was getting into. I thought it was adorable.

There are various teddy bears through out. One in each corner and one in the center on the moon.

The words on the blanket say "I see the moon", "The moon sees me", "God Bless the Moon", "God Bless Me."

After I get the cross stitch done. I have to figure out how to do the rest. I have the filling stuff, can't remember what it's called right now and I just need to buy a backing for it. I'm thinking of putting a blue, baby blue, flannel backing to it. I don't know if that would work yet. We'll see as it comes along.