Craft supplies

Good morning, as you might have already realized we love to create whether it is crochet, knit, sewing or just about any craft. That being said we are also thrifty love to shop for bargains, clearance racks, thrift stores, church bazaar/rummage sales & now, we have craigslist.....I have a post that asks for yarn, thread, buttons, material etc...unused that is either free or cheap. I have had a couple really good bargains.

A couple months ago a young man responded with all his Granny's yarn. He said he had recently lost his Granny and knew she would want it to go to someone that would put it to good use. It was a huge rubbermaid tub stuffed full of yarn....$20. Then, a lady just gave me two of the plastic grocery bags full of yarn. Then, a gentleman responded that buys out abandoned storage units...another freebie. Last night I picked up 122 6" hand crocheted granny squares, 6 full skeins of "i love this yarn", 3 partial skeins of "i love this yarn", 20 crocheted needles various sizes, 2 plastic tapestry needles in a case & 2 yarn holders one hard plastic and one soft plastic that has the little hole so the yarn can (should) be kitty safe...all for $20 ; )

I'm so excited...as if I were a little girl at Christmas ; ) not sure what I will work on today. I almost forgot to share this, yesterday I got an email from one of the photographer's that I am working with. She is planning an event on 2/11/12 and has invited me to join her bringing some of the articles I have for sale...hopefully, bringing in more sales. So, I probably should get busy (on something)

Thanks for your interest.
Have a great day & God bless you,
Jamie

Carrot cocoon and stork sack progress...

Hi, I'm notusually blogging this late....I'm just so excited I finished the hand crocheted carrot cocoon and
beanie/cap/hat for baby, infant photography....my thought was that there is always an Easter Bunny at the
mall and what have you for photography and, Tammy suggested that I make a hand crocheted
beanie/cap/hat & cocoon that resembles a carrot to display the newborn for first photograph's so,- here it
is....I'm offering it for sale for $15 for photography prop only....so, I finished that much earlier today but,
found out the batteries were dead for the camera I then went to work on the shand crocheted stork sack
photography prop that a photographer asked me to make....(it is availaible for $12.00 and is intended to be
 a photography prop only....we do not recommend that baby be left unattended) & David stopped and got
batteries for the camera so here they are...
Good night....God bless

Hidden amongst the bullrushes -- a basket cocoon!

This has to be a personal record...a photographer that ordered a prop hand crocheted basket cocoon sent
me a picture...I looked at it and looked up free patterns since my first post this morning I wanted to create
my own and used a lacy pattern stitch derived from a Sayelle yarn wrapper for an afghan. I have taken favor
to this pattern using it to create a hand crocheted lacy pattern stitch scarf, and a lacy pattern stitch
beret/beanie/cap/hat/slouch/tam in the past.

I can now add another creation using this crocheted lacy pattern stitch. In 30 minutes start to finish, including writing down the pattern...I made this using bulky Lion Brand Hometown USA yarn...this is for photography prop only we do not recommend leaving baby in this....I'm offering it for sale for $15.00 and it can also be used to present a gift of a bunny, kitty, puppy.....as always all comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.

Have a great day and God bless,
Jamie

Caterpillar? Tutorial in Pictures

View 1 choosing yarn colors



View 2 Beginning chain




View 3 Chain

View 4 Inner Circle


View 5 Changing Colors

View 6




View 7

View 8

View 9 Completion

Good morning ; )

I started on a different design for a hand crocheted caterpillar cocoon & beanie/cap/hat....I made a "pictorial"...so you can see from start to finish(?) I question the finish because I am
still undecided whether it will become the caterpillar as I had originally planned....David helps alot with
opinions and said maybe I should just leave it as it is for Saint Patrick's Day..I tried to arrange the pictures in the order of the steps to completion...

Have a Great day!!!!! God Bless,
Jamie

Hatching Egg -- Babies???

I spent the entire morning relisting on ebay, free today and tomorrow FYI ; ) I decided I would number all of our creations (that took a while : ). We have another photographer interested in us ; ) I'm so excited....I finished the hand crocheted baby bunny beanie/cap/hat with floppy ears and matching diaper cover with a giant pom pom "cotton tail" yesterday and then I started on an hand crocheted Easter egg cocoon & beanie/cap/hat...it's so adorable....meanwhile Tammy updated our Two Needles and a Hook facebook photo albums...she did a fantastic job you should check it out.... https://www.facebook.com/twoneedlesandahook

Well, here's the pics I'm a little tired of typing and would like to start on either the caterpillar cocoon or maybe (as Tammy suggested) a hand crocheted carrot cocoon & beanie/cap/hat.

Have a great day & God bless you,
Jamie

Hippity, hoppity, huh?

Crocheted baby beanies

Crocheted baby beanie

Another crocheted baby beanie

And...the last crocheted baby beanie.....Now, onto........

Easter??

That's right -- ADORABLE!
Easter bunny hat and diaper cover

Complete with cottontail...

Well, as promised, I made a hand crocheted beanie/cap/hat out of the variegated blue yarn I "found" when
organizing my yarn/craft room.
Once I got started, I continued and crocheted a bright green beanie/cap/hat and a white beanie/cap/hat with an added red Valentine's Day heart. I show the green one with the rim folded up.  I am offering them for sale for $6.50 or the bargain price of 3/$15.00 - many colors available, with or without heart applique.

After all that, I really got creative and designed a baby bunny beanie/cap/hat & matching diaper cover with a huge pom-pom "cotton tail" looking forward to Easter Sunday.  I think it will make a great photography prop - selling it for $15.00.  All items are listed on Yardsellr & Craigslist.

Now, I plan to make a caterpillar beanie/cap/hat & matching cape also for a photo prop next, then an Easter egg beanie/cap/hat & cocoon, and maybe......... who knows....
As always any comments, suggestions are welcome.

Enjoy the photos.  Have a great day and God bless,
Jamie

Mission Accomplished!

Multi-purple/black granny square ripple king size bedspread/afghan View 1

Multi-purple/black granny square ripple king size bedspread/afghan View 2

Mission accomplished indeed!  They say two heads are better than one......  Well, my fiance' sometimes has ideas/suggestions about how to make a creation look better or stand out more.  So, he suggested that I put a dark purple border on the king size hand crocheted multi purple/black granny ripple afghan/bedspread that I made.  it looks great to me and, as an added bonus, the pictures are truer to color than the original pics I posted.

Tell me what you think.  Now, to the hat. ; )