Olympics

Hallo Friends! The weekend is here. Do I hear many "Yay, finally"?

Well the time has come again for the Olympic Winter Games. Are you watching? Personally I love the winter Olympics better than the summer one. So far I have been glued to the TV since Thursday night, when they had the first competitions started. Last night I than watched the Opening Ceremonies. Quite a beautiful show and very Russian, I thought.

Now my dilemma. As some of you may know, I am a German girl living in the USA. So who do I root for?

 Hmmm, tuff decision. Or maybe just simple......Let's just root for both!

Both countries have very large teams

and it should make for interesting competition.

Either way, I am just very much looking forward to seeing it.

My favorite is Ice Skating.

What is yours?

But I am not just sitting idle watching the Tube, but I actually got something crocheted for my house. I needed some new one's. The old one's were showing a lot of wear and tear and started to look plain yucky. Well you probably guessed it already, it was some more pot holders. I always seem to make them for other people and it was about time I made some to pretty up my own house.

Now I would like to wish you all a wonderful and relaxing weekend!

Till next time.......

Stash-Buster #3

"Happy Saturday" to all my Bloggie Friends! We currently have wonderful spring weather outside. Everything is starting to bloom. I just love this time of the year, when it stops being so cold and before it gets to hot. For me it could be like that year round.

Sadly I seem to have injured my Lumbar muscle in my back, which means quite a bit of pain, unable to sit, lay or walk. Not to much fun. It's making it a bit hard for me to sit and crochet, but I have been trying.

So with that said, here is one more stash-buster project, another set of potholders/hot pads. This time in yellow.

And than I baked some Blueberry Muffins.

Wish you can smell them.

Absolutely yummy!

Don't all three look pretty together?

A little close-up

These daffodil's are gorgeous, are they not?

Ok, time for me to get up and do some more walking.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

and see you again on Monday.

Stash-Buster #2

 

Well, I am back!!!! For the last few days I caught up on much needed sleep and I got to say, I feel so so much better now. It's amazing how some sleep can make us feel so much better and give us a better and happier outlook on things. 

So I got back to crocheting and working on my stash for the stash-buster project. I really have a lot of yarn to work with.

My project this time was a dishtowel, two dishcloth/potholders and one coaster. Once again "I LOVE THIS COTTON" was used. When I took the pictures, I realized that I didn't have a cabinet handle to hang it on, neither a stove handle. So I took the pictures on the kitchen table, which almost made the towel blend in. But sorry that is the best I could do, as I am really limited on bright spots in my apartment. Hope you can see them well enough.

The whole Towel

Than I added these little buttons

One little coaster

The two dishcloth/potholders

A little close-up

The whole set

One last close-up

While I was taking the pictures, these two rascals kept watching me.

I think they were wondering what the heck I was doing.

"Mom" how about a close-up?

Now I am fixing to go for a walk, as the weather is so nice and I need to stretch the back that is starting to hurt from sitting to much and than I will move on with my next project. So see you all on the flip site. Bye, bye for now!

Stash-Buster #1

As promised yesterday, here is my first Stash-busting project. It is made with I LOVE THIS COTTON from Hobby Lobby. The pattern for it you can find in a previous post.

This time it the color is Orange

I even have some yarn left over and will most likely

make another coaster or two

"Happy Sunday" everybody!

Hot Pad, Potholder or Dishcloth

Good Morning Friends,

It's gray and overcast in my neck of the woods and ice is in the forecast. Not really something to look forward to, but maybe we get lucky and it misses us all together. One can hope.

Well that don't stop me from sharing something I made yesterday with you all. It has many different uses and we all use them every day in some way or another: The Hot Pad, Potholder or the washcloth. For some reason I always enjoy making them and keep coming back to them. Hope you enjoy this one. Pattern follows.

I keep having this problem of my pictures turning when I upload them

to blogger. In my picture file they appear in the correct position.

Anybody able to tell me what I am doing wrong?

Help would be appreciated. Thanks!

MATERIALS:

Hook: Size G

Yarn: I LOVE THIS YARN COTTON
Stitches used: ch, sl st, sc, dc.

Difficulty: EASY

ROW 1: Ch 40, (dc, ch 2, sc) in 4th ch from hook. * sk next 3 chs, (2dc, ch 2, sc) in next ch. Rep from * across.

ROWS 2-18: Ch 2, turn. (Dc, ch 2, sc) in next ch 2 sp. (2 dc, ch 2, sc) in each rem ch 2 sp.

FASTEN OFF.

WEAVE IN ENDS

I also Made this little coaster (from left over yarn), that I found this morning with pattern on Debi Y's blog. Here is the link. I think it is very cute. Thanks for sharing Debi.

For now I hope you all have a great day and "Happy Hooking"!

Erika

Tuesday Question & a Square?

Good afternoon Friends! Hope everything finds you well in your neighborhood.

As to our Tuesday Question: 

As many of you know I have animals in my house. Two little dogs and two cats. All of them have quite a bit of hair and do tend to loose it, sometimes a lot. If you have animals yourself, how do you keep this hair from getting into your yarn while you are working on your project? I always seem to crochet or knit some of it into each project I make and it is very annoying to me. Anybody have a good tip here?

As for the Square, well there is no new Square today. Instead I made a little dishcloth I found on Pinterest in honor of Valentines day. It's in the shape of a Heart. I thought it was kind of cute and wanted to add it to the many I have already. I made it in my favorite colors so it will match other things in my home.

You can find the pattern here

I found the pattern at time a bit confusing, but

I think it turned out ok.

A little more detail

Thought it looked cute with my Red Mug

How about now with the little coasters

I made a while back?

I will leave you on this note and off to work I go. Have a lovely Tuesday! Hope you can all help me with my little hair dilemma.

Erika

Trivet / Hot Pad

Last night I took a little break from my Giant Granny. Every so often we need to do that if we are working on something bigger. Will continue working on it some more this evening while watching a movie or two, with my feet kicked up in the easy chair and doggies by my feet. Can it get better than that?

So last night than I crocheted this little Trivet I found in the last Crochet World Magazine. There are a few other things I am planning on making from this issue. So expect to see more coming up in the future. So what do you think? Personally love this color. It's pinkish/orange cotton yarn.