Playing around

As I mentioned yesterday, I have been playing around with a little bit of crochet this past week. Mostly little things. I am trying to decide on what my goal is for this month. On June 7th I will participate in a Crafts Show in a nearby town. Two of my crafty friends and I will share a big booth and we will certainly have many different items for sale, from weaving, knitting and crochet.

So now preparations have to be made, from having a pop-up tent, to chairs, table coverings, displays, baskets and much more. Everything has to be neatly washed and priced.

At this point I would really like to ask all of you for your opinions. From your own experiences, what kind of things sell the best at crafts shows? I have some basic standby's like Dishcloth, Potholders, and such, but otherwise I am just not sure what kind of things I should still be making up this month. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks!

Here are a few of the things I have been playing around with:

 Some Dishcloth

And some key holders,

but I think they are a bit to large.

And than I made some more coasters

I think they are nice, bright and pretty.

For this I found the pattern here

At the moment I am roaming around on Pinterest to find some more things I might like to make. Hope I can find some quick things.

Looking forward to hearing your opinions.......Till next time

52 Week Crochet Challenge Week 6

Week 6: Spring Cleaning. This week it is time to organize your yarn. How do you do it? By color, type, weight?

The timing of this challenge is very good for me, as I am currently turning a second bedroom in my apartment into a crafts room. At this point it has been going along rather slowly because I don't have all the storage shelving I would like to have. I have plans on fixing that in the next few weeks by going to yard sales and open/outdoor flea markets. We have lots of them in our area.

 Here are a few of the storage solutions I am using right now.

Currently I have 6 of these rolling drawer storage's.

They are filled with the yarn I am currently using,

and yes they are organized.

1 is filled with nothing but cotton yarn

1 is filled with projects I have finished (going to crafts show)

1 filled with smaller projects I am currently working on

3 are filled with all the yarn I am currently using (not color coordinated)

The rest of my yarn I am keeping in storage bins,

like the one below.

They are wonderful to use, as you can see what

you have in them without having to open them every time.

I also like to use different kind of baskets, some to

keep the yarn with which I am currently working,

or with yarn and my current project.

This way I can take it to any room or location easily.

How do you keep and organize your Yarn?

As soon as I have finished organizing and setting up my crafts room I will give you all a tour. That will be an exciting day, don't you think?

Till next time from my neck of the woods........

Easter Crafting

Today I thought we would enjoy to look at some other crafty projects that we can make and enjoy for Easter. Doesn't that sound like fun? So have any of you made any Easter crafts yet?

Personally I am running a bit behind on making something, but I will most like still come up with a project I can enjoy and share with you.

1. The Little Fabric Blog

2. Crafty Sisters

3. Design Mom

4. Clare's Craftroom

Till next time from my neck of the woods.......

52 Week Crochet Challenge Week 4

Hallo my Friends!

How did you learn to crochet, or who taught you?

Crochet has been in my life for a long time, over 50 years. When I was a wee bit girl of about 6, my grandmother Poldi, who was a seamstress from profession, gave me my very first own crochet hook and a ball of yarn and declared it was time for me to learn to make things for myself. Until than I loved to watch her work on many different things, from sewing, to knitting and of course crocheting.

My Granny was a very patient woman, even so her schedule was very full with a big family and also with the sewing she did for other people and her family, but also a huge garden. I really don't know how she managed it all, but somehow she did.

Well from that ball of yarn my first potholder came to life. It looked pretty bad, if I remember correctly, but my Granny had nothing but praise for me. You got to love her just for that. So a new passion had been born, as I from that point in time never put down my needle again, well maybe for a minute or two, but never for long.

Granny also taught me to sew and knit, which I still both do from time to time, but my passion will always be with Crochet. Thank you Granny!

Now a little update: This has been a rather hectic week for me and continues to be that way, but I did manage to crochet quite a few more rows on one of my Hall of Shame projects, the Granny Stripe Afghan ala Attic 24. I think the colors are starting to really pop out and I am having fun once again working on it. It might become a finished project yet, lol.

Thought I would leave you all today with a couple more pictures that speak of Spring time finally being here.

See me initials spelled out in Daffodils?

How cool is that?

Till next time.......

Valentine's Day and My "Grow Your Blog" Give-away Winner

Hallo Friends! Today is the big day for my Give-away to the "Grow Your Blog Party" Winner. But first I would like to wish everybody a wonderful Valentines Day. Hope you have a Sweetheart to spoil you rotten.

And without further ado......

Here is what I have decided on giving away:

A handmade by me Wreath (Americana)

And.....

The Winner will get:

One red Coffee Mug,

A Mug Rug

A red crocheted Heart

Two Heart Soaps (Lavender)

Two Yo-Yo Adornments

and some pretty Heart Buttons

And now to the drawing of the Winner

27 Names are in the Bowl

I had wanted Grumpy Cat to pull the name,

but you guessed it.....

She was being grumpy and uncooperative.

So Here I go drawing the Winner.

Ta-Da....... and the Winner is:

Michele Hebson from "By Hook and Needle"

Congratulations to the Winner!!!!!!

Michele, if you would please send me your information

to erika@erikascraftscorner.com

I will get this of to you in a jiffy.

Hope you will enjoy it!

It was total fun participating in this Blog Party. I have visited over 600 blogs in total, which took some time, let me tell you, but was also totally awesome. There are so many talented people out there, from Crocheters, to Knitters, to Quilters and also Cross-Stitchers and more. Thank you for letting me participate and Thank You to my new Followers. I hope we will built many new friendships along the way.

Until than...... "Happy Crafting"

Hallo and Welcome to this "Grow your Blog" Party

Welcome and please come in. First I would like to say a big Thanks to Vicki at 2 Bags Full for hosting this wonderful Blog Party for us little Crafters who are still in need of growing our blogs. It's very much appreciated.

My name is Erika and I for the moment live in rural northern Arkansas. I am single (divorced) and in my mid-fifties.I share my house with four lovely critters, two doggies, a Yorkie named Gidget and a Shit-Zhu named Seffi, and two cats, one boy named Picaso and one female named Sissi (my little grumpy cat).

                                                          

                      

My adventures into crafting started when I was a wee little bit, around 5 or 6. I was very lucky to have had a loving and very patient Granny to take the time to teach me things from sewing to crocheting and knitting. They have become a live long love for me. Originally I come from Germany, but I have enjoyed live in the USA for over 35 years now

For a living I work as a Caregiver for Alzheimer, Cancer and Heart Patients. For that reason I work a lot of odd hours and also can't blog as much as I once did. But I love what I do and so that is ok.

I started blogging to keep a record of some of the things I was making and doing in my life. I also just loved to browse through all the other lovely blogs out there with their wonderful colorful crafts. They inspire me and encourage me to do better. My first love is crochet, but I also knit, sew, loom and yes even a little painting.

One of the things I collect is Coca-Cola and for that reason you will see many crafts on my blog made around the colors of red, white and black. My living room is arranged around this collection, which is steadily growing. I just love it!

So now how about it little give-away for all the lovely people joining this blog party? You want to know what it is? Well I think I will keep that a secret for a little while longer, but I promise it will be something everyone will enjoy. Hint: it will be something I have sewn or crocheted. Everybody is welcome to participate.

The Catch: Please leave a comment at the end of this blog post by February 14, 2014 and hopefully I will pull your name out of the hat that day.

Now I will grab a good cup of Java and go browsing around all your lovely blogs. Hope you stay a while on mine and look around. I hope you see something you like and it makes you come back for another look.

Wishing you all a wonderful day! Until we see each other again..........

Just a Note

     Hi, I hope someone in the blogging world can help me with this little issue. I have been going through the list of other blogs that I liked and many of them are not active anymore. It says you can hide them, but they don't go away that way. Does anybody have any knowledge of how I can delete them? I would like to add others to my list that are more current. Any help in this issue would be appreciated. Thanks

A Welcome Trip out & Stash-Busting

Yes, this girl had a very welcome and nice time out yesterday. It was so needed. Sometimes we just got to re tank, don't you think?

My friend Karna invited me out to lunch to a little town called Hardy, in northern Arkansas. This little jem of a town is filled with many crafts people and also other little shops.

This is my friend Karna

First we went to this little restaurant called "Words / Afterwords"

I would have probably not found this nice little Restaurant on my own.

It was kind of on a back road and I never saw it on previous visits.

I was told at time they have Live music here

Nice Artists were featured here.

These paintings are for sale

Look at this beautiful coffee/tea bar

There was also an added porch with this wonderful stone fire place.

Wouldn't you love to eat there on a cold day?

Some kids from the local school painted these table.

I see some future artist.

As we were sitting there, to our surprise we ran into some more of our crafty friends,

Penny and Melissa. You can find Penny's blog here

All in all it was a very enjoyable lunch. Really hope we can do it again sometime

soon. I felt much more relaxed afterwards.

Before we went back home, Karna and I visited a few more of the little stores around 

town. The last one was "Hardy Pottery", which is one of my favorites.

After lunch it was back to work.

Now on to my Stash-Busting. Yes, I have decided, a little late I admit, to participate in the Stash-Busting Challenge:

As you will see momentarily, it is a very much needed event in my crafts room. Sometimes you don't even realize how much yarn one girl can stash. To top that of, I have a fabric stash and also a painting stash that need to be worked on.

This is just some of my yarn stash. Holly Molly! There are a lot of future projects in there, wouldn't you say.

This is the first drawer I will be working on: The Cotton Yarn. I have already started and will share my first finished project with you tomorrow.

Wow, that was a long post, huh? Would like to wish you all a nice and relaxing weekend now. Hope to catch you on the flip side.

Blog-Love Friday

Hallo Friends! It's nice to see you all back for Blog-Love Friday. We will feature 4 more blogs, that hopefully you will go and visit and share some Love, leave them a comment and maybe even become a follower of. Have fun browsing!

The first one for today is "Color 'n Cream". Here is the link

Are these colors not beautiful?

And she has a tutorial to go with it.

The second one is "HANDICRAFTS missy"

Link here

You will love the many different crafts she makes

Here now the third: "Arctic Strawberries"

Link here

You just got to see the beautiful little Roses she crocheted

Last but not least in the number 4 spot is

"Little things made with Love"

Link here

Well that's it for today. Hope you liked my choices and please do go visit with them and enjoy their wonderful crafts. 

Wishing you all a nice evening!!!