Link-Yourself Monday #29

Well my Friends, it is once again Monday and our next Link-up has arrived. Hope you can join us for this one with all the lovely things you have made of late. Every week I am astounded at all the wonderful crafts out there. But we are not limited to just crafts. You are welcome to post your link to anything you like.

This weeks top three most looked at posts:


1. Nata's Nest

2. Jannies Hobby Corner

3. Julie's Lifestyle

And now it's time for the Link-up.....

Go for it....

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Link Yourself Monday #28 and Mandela #10

Well my Friends, it is once again Monday and our next Link-up has arrived. Hope you can join us for this one with all the lovely things you have made of late. Every week I am astounded at all the wonderful crafts out there. But we are not limited to just crafts. You are welcome to post your link to anything you like.

This weeks top three most looked at posts:

1. Summerhouse Cottage

2. Lunamon Design

3. Jannies Hobbyhoek

As you can see my Mandelitiz problem has not ended. Here now to show of Mandela #10, designed by none other than our own Lucy at Attic24. Who can avoid trying something out that Lucy has made? Not me, that's for sure.

As you can see, I made 4, all in different colors.

This last one I decided to make in red, white and blue and is this one

that is on it's way to England and Attic24 .

For Yarndale!

Hope you enjoyed my newest Mandela's.

And now it's time for the Link-up.....

Go for it....

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Link-Yourself Monday #27 & a little Give-away

Happy Monday my Bloggie Friends!

Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day.

Happy you are stopping by. We are once again having Link-Yourself Monday and we are looking forward to what you have to share with us today.

Here are our top three links for the past week. Thanks for sharing your lovely creations with us.

1. Janie Hobby Corner

2. Lunamon Design

3. Crafty Cucumber

And now to our little Give-away:

Over the last few days I did a yarn inventory,

which I will talk about in a follow up post.

What I found is that I had yarn, that I personally can't use,

since I am allergic to that type yarn.

So with that said,

I decided I would like to share it with one of you.

The only rule here is,

that you please leave a comment at the end

and let me know that you would like to participate.

The Give-away will end Sunday, the 18th, 2014.

So hope you come and join for chance.

The yarn is Patons SWS.

It is not brown, like it looks on the picture, but green (natural moss)

It's a soy wool blend.

You will get 5 (80g) skeins of it.

And now it's time for the Link-up.....

Go for it....

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Link-Yourself Monday #26 & Mandela #9

Hello my lovely Friends!

Once again Monday has arrived and with it our next Link-Yourself Monday. Are you all ready to join the fun and show of your latest creations. As always I am looking forward to seeing what you all have been up to in the past week. So let's get this Party started.

Here are this weeks most viewed Link-ups:

1. Crochet Kari

It's a very pretty Mandela and is on my list to make.

2. Mascha's colorful freubels

This is just cowlious, don't you think?

3. The Lazy Hobbyhopper

Such pretty colors and the pompoms are a wonderful touch.

This last week has been a busy one for me. Had several Birthday Parties to attend, than work of course and the daily things don't want to wait either. But I did manage to squeeze in a few crafty minutes here and there. I crocheted one more Mandela. The pattern once again came from Zooty Owl . This Mandela is absolutely huge. As you can see I am still a little behind on sewing in all those strings, but I will get there.

I am going to call this one my pink Rose Garden.

I am working on writing out the Pattern for Mandela #8

and should be able to post it in the next few days.

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Link-Yourself Monday #25 & Mandela #8

Hello my lovely Friends! Once again Monday decided to come around and with it Link-Yourself day. So come and join us and show of the lovely things you have made of late. Everybody is welcome. Please be so kind and let your bloggy friends know about this, so they can join us as well. The more the better.

Here are this weeks most viewed Link-ups:

1. Natas Nest

2. txmommylady's escape

3. Julie's Lifestyle

Here now is my Mandela #8,

which was made up from the pattern from

Natas Nest (see link above).

She writes her blog in German and English,

which is very helpful.

It was a real joy to make

and I want to thank Nata for the pattern

I made this one once again in spring colors,

as I love them so much.

The yarn is "I Love This Yarn".

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

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Link-Yourself Monday #24

Happy Monday my Friends. Hope your Easter holiday was enjoyable and fun.

Last week was crazy for me. Everything was sort of topsy turvy. First I didn't have any Internet. Usually that happens when we had a lot of rain, which we did. Normally it would come back on after it stopped. Well not this time. So this time we had to call the repairmen and you all know how long that can take. It surely made me realize how much I actually use my computer. More than I thought. But with Spring now finally here, I really need to spend more time outside enjoying the weather, the flowers and trees and being able to go for a walk, before it get's so hot again and we have to stay back inside. 

One good thing came out of all that. My closets got cleaned out. Summer cloth out, Winter cloth put away. Also a lot of other things got done that been put on the back burner. For once I didn't do much with a crochet hook last week, so this week it will get a workout again. Two friends of mine and I will be part of a crafts show in June and there many things I still want to make for it. Will share some of that with you as we go along.

In the next few days I plan on catching up with all your lovely blogs and your comments. Looking forward to seeing what's new and exciting.

So now here we go with our Link-Yourself Monday. Here are your 3 top most looked at Blogs:

1. Polkadotted Rainbows

2. Julie's Lifestyle

3. Craft Hippy

And now without further ado, please come and link your last weeks projects with us, so we can all enjoy them with you. Have a lovely Monday.

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Link-Yourself Monday #23 & Mandela #5

Happy Monday everybody! Hope your weekend was filled with the things you enjoy. Personally I had another super busy one. Hoping that after Easter it slows down a bit, so I can catch up with myself.

It being Monday, another Link-Yourself day has come around and I hope as many as possible of you will come and join us and show of your lovely creations. You are also welcome to link-up if you don't craft and have something else to show us.

Sorry, when it comes to the link-up button to put on your blogs, I have not been able to get one that worked right. Hopefully by next week that will be remedied. 

Without further ado, here are out top three most viewed Linkers: 

1. Grammy Dirlam

2. Crochet Crazy

3. Lanas de Ana

Please kind and show your Love by checking out their pretty blogs and leave a comment so they will know you have been there.

Now, yes this crazy lady has another Mandela to share with you. Mandela #5

Pattern was found here: Cut, nela, cut

Here I am leaving you with a view of a few of the last daffodils 

And now I hope you will join or Link-Up:

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Link-Yourself Monday & Mandela #4

Sadly the weekend is over and it is back to work for some of us. My weekend wasn't to bad, if busier than I thought it would be, but that's ok. I did get to do most of the things that I had planned. What more could a girl want?

Today it is Link-Yourself Monday. So please show of your beautiful works at the end of this post. Starting next Monday, I will tell you which three have been our top viewed blogs. So please be so kind and leave them a comment, so they will know you have visited. I should also have a link-up button for you to take to show where you are linking up to.

Now I would like to show you another Mandela I have finished for our Mand-A-Long. Have you joined yet? They are so much fun to make and can be made in so many different patterns.

The pattern you can find here

from Zooty Owl's Blog

Please check her out. She has many pretty things to share with us.

This time I chose some girlie colors.

Do you like them?

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Link-Yourself Monday & Mandela #3

Happy Monday my Friends! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

After quite a break I have decided it is time to go back to LINK-YOURSELF Monday. So I hope you will join me. You will find the Link-Up at the end of my post.

Today I will share a Granny Mandela Tutorial. Hope I write it in a way you can understand.

We will start by chaining 4 and joining them with sling stitch.

Chain 3 (counts as first dc), follow by 1 dc, chain 1,

repeat until you have 6 clusters.

Rd. 2 - sling stitch in between cluster and chain 3 (counts as first dc),

1 more dc, chain 1, 2 dc in same space, chain 1, repeat around in each space.

Fasten off.

With new color start in any space with a stand-up dc.

Continue by adding 2 more dc's in same space.

Chain 1.

Continue with 3 dc's in each space around.

Fasten off.

Rd. 4 

Once again 3 dc's in each space.

Fasten off.

Rd. 5

With new color crochet 2 dc's, chain 1, 2 dc's, chain 1

in each space around.

Fasten off.

Rd. 6

With new color, crochet 3 dc's, 1 chain in each space around, join with

sling stitch, fasten off.

Rd. 7

Repeat Rd. 6 all the way around.

Fasten off.

Rd. 8

With new color 2 dc's, chain 1, 2 dc's in same space, chain 1

all the way around .

Fasten off.

Rd 9 - Final

With new color crochet 5 dc's in center (chain) of each 4 dc cluster,

chain 1, repeat all the way around.

Fasten off and sew in strings.

Someone ask me where the Mandela came from and that is a question I had ask myself as well. When I googled it, it didn't give much information. Does any of you have an idea what it actually means and if the colors you use have a significance? If you do, please share with us. Thank you!

And now our Link-Up. Please be so kind to visit the other people linking here and leave them a comment to let them know you have visited. Enjoy!

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