Gourmet Crochet

I just crocheted 2 cupcakes for my Etsy store. Making food is a lot of fun.

Charity

On June 9, 2006, Jo from the American Cancer Society met with the angel Knitters and Crocheters at Micheal's in Buena Park CA to pick up the blankets, hats, scarves, purses and other items we had ready to donate. The donations came from drop offs to the Michael's store and also from the regulars that meet monthly to stitch all the squares together and to make new items. In the 6 months since the last pick-up, we had accumulated 145 items to donate. Lori keeps the program running at Michael's. It's a chain wide program however so check your local Michael's for details.
(Or google up their website).

Elephant Amigurumi

Here is another view of Peter the Purple Pachyderm Circus Elephant.

Elephant amigurumi

I just finished my second elephant to sell in my Pigglewiggins shop on Etsy. Here is the first elephant.

Flickr

I made a pagan crochet group and a pagan knitters group over on flickr and I'd love to have more members if you are interested. http://www.flickr.com/groups/pagancrochet/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/paganknitters/

Georgia On My Mind

Another cool knit/crochet blog. http://onmymind.blogdrive.com/

Hat in muted shades of green and brown.

A meeting to meet other fiber artists

I'm looking forward to the charity knitting and crocheting class at Michael's Craft store on Friday night. I am almost done with a knitted purse I want to take. I also want to work on putting together a vest from granny squares to prove to the instructor I can make an actual garment with crochet. Besides, I need to use up some of these piles of granny squares I have sitting around. It seems I like to make the squares but not join them together. Haha. That's me, queen of the unfinished projects.

Crocheted poi balls around a tennis doggy ball base. 

Here she is wearing the hat she picked as one of her graduation gifts. She picked exactly the same color scheme as her sister, even though she didn't know about the other hat. 

My daughter is crocheting another scarf after selling the first two before she even finished them. 

Like mother like daughter.

I was crocheting on the Amtrak bus coming up from Santa Barbara, and I called my daughter in S.L.O. to tell her I'd be there in an hour so she could pick me up, and she was already there, crocheting. I held her curly white yarn project while she put my suitcases in the back. When I went to hand it back, I said,"Here's your poodle."
While I was here I went to the Michael's in S.L.O. and the one in Atascadero and got yarn. I also got yarn at Beverly's. Everyone has yarn on sale right now for the holidays. One lady had about 20 pairs of knitting needles in her basket and I said you must really like knitting. She laughed and said they were for Christmas gifts.

Hat with crocheted flower. 

Crochet a flower.

Another view of crocheted hat. 

If you'd like the free pattern for making this flower, go here: http://www.moonarts.com/blog/free_patterns/pages/crochet-flower-print.htm

Hat with crocheted flower. 

Here I am at this year's Morro Bay Harbor Festival! We had a blast. 

Crocheting hats

Orange and gray crocheted hat. For more hats visit my hat blog at http://hatitude.blogspot.com/. 

This will be a hat someday soon. 

This one is called Mermaid's Dream and is the start of a belly dancing costume. 

Free Form Crochet

I've started playing with free form crochet again (aka organic crochet). You know how great chefs never measure...they just use a little of this and a pinch of that? In free form crochet you use your intuition to combine all sorts of colors and textures and stitches into a one of a kind creation. It could be a poncho, a cape, a hat or whatever strikes your fancy. You are no longer stuck with following someone's pattern. Can you handle that kind of freedom? It's a lot of fun. Someone even wrote a book on it called Scrumbles.