Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Daily Blog Prompt & more...

Awesome...found this...they are also on facebook...
http://www.dailyblogprompts.com/
Dream Date: BloggerEdition                                                                             If you could invite any two bloggers over for dinner, who would it be and why?
Hmmm... well the first one would be my knitting friend, Jayme, whom I don't get to see very often... http://knitrageous1.blogspot.com/  Her blog is a joy to read...she is an excellent writer, changes up songs to her fancy, just alot of fun!  Well, I miss her...
And the second one...oh dear...so many...http://thisismeinspired.blogspot.com  she is so talented and her world seems so beautiful...would love to see some of those dresses in "real"...

ok, just a note from Psalm 133 v.1
How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

What I'm working on Wednesday :)  for my niece... shhhh

Thursday, September 22, 2011

great find...

I love looking at blogs...and when I find a recipe or a pattern i want to use I hate trying to figure out how to print it...
JOLIPRINT is awesome...  you can put it on your own blog posts...or plug the link into the little box on their page...awesome!
Did I say AWESOME?

Monday, September 12, 2011

awesome quote…

Started listening to “Off Love and Evil” by Anne Rice this morning.  Wonderful quote at the first part of the book…

“We are all angels with only one wing, only when we come together can we fly.” – Luciano De Crescenzo

guardian angel

…so to go with that quote took a photo of my guardian angel to share…  this was painted by sharae several years ago…

Saturday, September 10, 2011

My First Crochet Pattern…

yeah, exciting isn’t it…lol…anyway, thought I’d share just in case you wanted to try it…
Tulip Around 9” square by Brenda
007
Materials
Vanna’s Choice Solids & Heathers yarn or any heavy worsted to aran-weight yarn
As shown
A—2 yd Pink
B—15 yd Kelly Green
C—20 yd Bubblelicious
D—2 yd White
E—10 yd Sweet Pea
Hook US I, or 5.5 mm
Stitches Beg trc cluster—ch-4, work 2 more trc, each time leaving the last step out so there are now 3 loops on hook, yo and draw through all three loops on hook.
Trc cluster—Work 3 trc, each time leaving last step out, so there are now 4 loops on hook, yo and draw through all four loops on hook.
Instructions
Round 1: Using Color A, ch-4 and join to first ch with sl st, then ch-3 as first dc, work trc, dc, ch-1, (dc, trc, dc, ch-1) x3, sl st to first ch-3. Fasten off. (4 three stitch groups and 4 ch-1 spaces)
Round 2 : Join Color B to any first dc of any cluster. Ch-2 as hdc, sc into trc, hdc into dc, then [corner in ch-1 sp as (2 hdc, ch-2, 2 hdc), then hdc in dc, sc in trc, hdc in dc] x 3, then work corner in final ch-1 sp and sl st to the top of first ch-2. Fasten off. (4 sc, 24 hdc, and 4 ch-2 sp)
Round 3: Join Color C with a sl st to any corner ch-2 sp, work beg trc cluster, ch-3, trc cluster, then corner as (cluster, ch-3, cluster), then (ch-3, sk 3 st, trc in next 2 st, ch-3*, corner in ch-2 sp) x 3, then work to *only and sl st to top of beg trc cluster. Fasten off. (8 trc, 8 clusters, 12 ch-3 sp)
Round 4: Join Color D with a sc to any corner sp. Work 4 more sc into corner. Then 3 sc into each ch-3 sp, 1 sc in each trc, and 5 sc into corner sp around. Sl st to first sc. Fasten off. (52 sc)
Round 5: Join Color C with a sl st to any corner sc (center of the 5 sc corner groups) Work into that sc(beg trc cluster, ch-3, trc cluster), then [ch-2, sk 2, trc cluster, ch-2,sk 2, trc in next 3 st, ch-2,sk 2,, trc cluster, ch-2*, sk1 work corner as (trc cluster, ch-3, trc cluster)] x 3, then work to * only, sl st to beg trc cluster. Fasten off. (16 clusters, 12 trc, 4 ch-3, 16 ch-2)
Round 6: Join Color E with a sl st to any corner ch-3 sp. Ch-3 as dc, then in same sp, ( 2c, ch-1, 3 dc), then [(3 dc in ch-2 sp) x 2 , dc in 3 trc, (3 dc in ch-2 sp) x 2* , (then corner in ch-3 sp as (3 dc, ch1, 3 dc)] x 3, then work to * only and work dc into first ch-3 sp. Sl st final dc to top of  first ch-3. Fasten off. (84 dc, 4 ch-1 sp)
Round 7: Join Color B with a sl st to any corner ch-1 sp. Ch-3 as dc, then work in same sp (dc, trc, 2 dc), then work a dc into each dc around, and work corners in ch-1 sp as (2 dc, trc, 2 dc). Sl st last dc to top of ch-3. Fasten off. (100 dc, 4 trc)
Round 8: As desired to get to size. If making a sc or hdc round, work 3 sc or 3 hdc into each corner trc and sc or hdc into each st along sides. If making a dc round, work corners as (2 dc, ch-2 , 2dc) or (2 dc, trc, 2dc) and dc into each st along sides.
I want to thank my good friends at Vanna’s Choice Fan Club on Ravelry for all of their help writing my first pattern…Love ya girls!
PDF here... http://bknits.weebly.com/