Chocolate Covered Yarn

Chicky Pot Holder

2010-02-15T16:36:00.000-08:00

I made this for my mother. It was a newer pattern on Lion Brand and can be found here and a matching one here. They're super quick and easy to make and just so cute!!! Though my mother doesn't like to use it because she's scared it'll get dirty, so it mostly just hangs on the oven.

Watery Hat

2010-01-18T14:25:00.000-08:00

I finished the hat with the leftover yarn from the Watery Scarf! I really like it~ I used this pattern from the Lion Brand site. I like it because the brim comes out just enough to shade my eyes and it's warm. Sadly, I probably won't get to wear it much once summer comes. Yay! My first hat and scarf set. ♥

Watery Scarf

2010-01-16T22:51:00.000-08:00

A new scarf just for me! I love it. I didn't follow a pattern, I just single crocheted the entire thing using Lion Brand Homespun yarn in in the color "Windsor." It's really pretty! It goes from a nice blue-violet to a blackish blue then to a green and repeats. Though... I might've added too much fringe... you can't have too much of it can you? I'm going to make a matching hat since I have most of a skein left. ♥

Dad's Hat

2010-01-09T22:37:00.001-08:00

Dad works offshore on oil rigs and it's really cold here (Freezing weather in Texas!?!?), so I offered to crochet him something. He requested a hat, since he can't wear scarves offshore for safety reasons, and I found this pattern at Crafty Christina's blog and decided to make him one because I was sure he'd like the simple but nice look over something frilly because, well, he's a guy. It's a bit longer than the one she made for her husband at my dad's request. The wig head makes it look enormous, but wig heads are smaller than actual human heads and it fits a human head wonderfully. Hopefully it will keep his ears and his bald spot warm.

The black yarn is Lion Brand Wool Ease and the brown is the same Loops & Threads Impeccable worsted yarn in chocolate that I used in my previous hat. ♥

Cloche Hat

2010-01-07T22:02:00.000-08:00

I've always loved to wear hats, which is convenient since my eyes are very sensitive to light. While I was in Macy's doing some New Year's sale shopping with my mom, I tried on a cloche hat because I thought it looked cool and discovered that I look OK in them. Sadly, it wasn't discounted enough to get, but I found a very nice pattern for them here. This is modified a bit because of a screw up and me being to chicken to try back post double crochet. I want to make a grey one, too, and I'll probably try doing the bumps with that. I really like the way they look.

Anyway, I finished this during game night and sat around at the table like an idiot wearing it. I love this hat! Mom had the flower pin on hand (it came with a shirt of hers and she didn't like it with the shirt) and I think it goes really well with the hat. She also has a purple and, if I remember correctly, a black one? I may also get a cream-colored ribbon to put around it, too.

I used Loops & Threads Impeccable worsted yarn in chocolate for this. ♥

Mom's Scarf 2.0

2010-01-02T22:18:00.000-08:00

When I was in high school and first learned how to crochet I told my mom that I'd make her a scarf and got the yarn and stuff for it, but since I got stuck on The Badly Crocheted First Scarf I never got around to it. I actually started this before her owl, but I'm ADD and can't work on just one thing and the owl was quicker. This was originally wider and was going to have a cream stripe on each end, but then my mom and I were in the mall and she saw some short scarves with buttons and declared that she wanted one like those, so I wound up undoing the whole scarf and starting over after having two feet done. I did, however, learn how to make a yarn ball. Once it was unraveled, I finished this while watching two movies.

The yarn I used is Lion Suede and I used single crochet using the back loops for the cool texture. The toggle is something we had laying around in the button collection. I'm kind of jealous because it's so much nicer than The Badly Crocheted First Scarf, but now I'm working on a crazy fuzzy scarf of death.

Amigurumi Lizard

2010-01-01T22:53:00.000-08:00

This is so far the only crochet pattern I've spent money on and the only reason I did is because lizards are my favorite animal... but there are hardly any patterns for them. I bought it off of planetjune.com, which has several other cute patterns as well. This guy was kind of hard. I didn't have any trouble with his body except that I wound up making his tail slightly shorter than I should've. The hardest part were probably his legs. Crocheting tiny tubes is hard! And one of them is inside out because I forgot to flip it before it was too late. I enjoyed making his feet, but the last one didn't want to come out right so I got it somewhat decent and declared him ready to stitch together. However, he's still cute despite his flaws and he's my favorite. ♥

Now I want to alter him for an iguana or something.

Amigurumi Owl

2009-12-31T20:33:00.000-08:00

My mom absolutely loves owls. Owls and wolves, but she's loved owls for longer. So I found this adorable owl pattern. It's super quick to make and super cute. There was a bit of a delay in completing him because I had to find some eyes. I should've gotten the 20mm ones... but oh well. The stores around here have a very small selection of eyes, only brown ones and green cat eyes. I may have to order different ones online.

Amigurumi Snail

2009-12-30T19:13:00.000-08:00

My somewhat ambitions second project! After finishing my Badly Crocheted First Scarf I decided to do what I always wanted to do: make an amigurumi plushie. In order to get myself leveled up enough to pull it off, I brought some yarn and hooks with me to game night (we play Exalted) and practiced basic stuff and attempted to figure out how to crochet in the round. I failed. It wasn't until later that night when I was at home that I figured it out and decided to make one for a gift. I came across this handy amigurumi pattern directory and found the snail pattern I would use. Thank you very much, Knotty, for making such a wonderful pattern!. The next day I went to Michael's because they were having a yarn sale and bought a bunch of little skeins of Sugar 'n Cream yarn for 4 for $5 and began work! I had no real trouble except that I lost count a few times and I failed to use markers as much as I should have. Thankfully, it turned out decently in the end! Except... that I didn't know there was a right and wrong side for these things... so he's inside out. But he's still cute, right? So it's OK.

By the way, the recipient loves snails and she thought it was adorable. Merry Late Christmas!

The Badly Crocheted First Scarf

2009-12-29T03:30:00.000-08:00

My very first project! It's also very badly crocheted. But before I go too far into that, I'll go ahead and thank my friend, Destiny, for ever getting me interested in crochet. When we were in high school she was always doing it and finally, when we were in the car to go to A-kon one year, she taught me the basics. Sadly, I didn't really start crocheting right away. Later that year I was stuck in bed due to illness and I had a grossly overdue library book on crochet out and started this scarf. Sadly, it was so badly crocheted I didn't work on it much after I was ill. Finally, I decided "I shall finish that scarf!" and did at last and now I'm strangely proud of it because it is The Badly Crocheted First Scarf.

I used Lion Brand chenille yarn on it because I love chenille. Sadly, that's a poor choice for someone new to crochet because it makes keeping the tension even even harder than normal. It spirals since I gradually got tighter as I went. I also used a hook that was a bit too small for yarn that thick, so even where it's "loose" it's still quite tight. Overall, it is a very dense scarf, not only because of the small hook but also because I used back loop single crochet because I liked the somewhat ribbed look.

I only ever really wear this to work because my coworkers already know I'm weird. I don't really wear it elsewhere much...