Chicken Scarf??

After getting home last night from a long day, I found myself a bit out of place because I had nothing to work on. So I dug into my basket of yarn I keep next to my seat on the sofa and pulled out these four leftover skeins from my afghan and picked up an oversized crochet hook, and started playing. I don't know why I cannot just sit and watch a t.v. program! Anyway, Brad had a rerun of Seinfeld on...which was actually classic, the one with Kenny Rogers Chicken!....I picked up my hook and started a granny. So this is what it has turned into. Maybe I should name this scarf after that episode of Seinfeld...."The Chicken Scarf"? :-D



The oversized crochet hook makes it feel lacy and light. I think it will make a very pretty scarf.

Today is sunny, so I was able to snap a quick picture on my lunch hour. I am anxious to get pictures up of my completed afghan!!! Hopefully Saturday will cooperate with me!

I've been working on being more disciplined in my eating habbits, which I have done pretty good this week. More fresh greens and fish, drink more water. But right now I am jonesing for a Diet Coke...so much as I can't get it out of my brain. So....I am off to get a DC!

Enjoy your day!

Happy Hands!!! Yes, this makes my hands happy, as well as my brain! I am busily working on my afghan and it's very close to being finished!
I love it when I get to this stage of a project. This is when it starts to pop! This evening we ordered takeout, and while waiting for the delivery guy I decided to play with my camera. I just can't master taking pictures at night, especially with a flash. I can't use it! But I was pretty pleased with these. No, I don't have four hands, I had Brad snap this one!




Here's a pretty good closeup of my work. You can see the seaming between two grannies.




Happy Dog! She is full of herself tonight!

Wish I had more to say, but I don't. So I think I will get on some comfy clothes and continue working on this afghan, that is if Phoebe will cooperate with me!

Vanna's Choice Granny Square Afghan

I pretty much had a crappy weekend with some wicked stomach ailment! So I did nothing but lay around and sleep Saturday and most of Sunday. I did start feeling better enough to have some interest in working on my afghan. I had all the squares crocheted so I got them assembled. Last night and tonight I began working on the border.I am really liking this...these colors are totally up my alley!!! I plan on adding a couple more rounds of color in half double crochet before stopping...Hopefully this weekend we will have some good sunlight so I can snap some good pictures of it completed!
Phoebe showed me she likes it in her special way!!!

My new favorite song!! I'm addicted to this right now!

Large Stack of Granny Cakes!

Don't they look yummy??! I am getting close to getting all my squares completed and ready for blocking. These are going to make a nice size throw for the sofa! And yes, I plan on entering my finished afghan into the Vanna's Choice contest.
I do like the colors. They are warm and cozy just as the should be! I am hoping this weekend to get this thing close to assembled so I can finish it up in time to enter it into the contest.

On a different note, it's Friday night, and it has been such a strange week. I've had a hard time keeping up with what day it is...too many appointments, and with all Brad's job stuff going on, we're exhausted. He has taken the contract job in Miami, so things around here are really going to change. My grandmother always said, "life can change in one moment"...and she is so right! No, we are not moving, he'll be coming home about every three weeks. At this point, we are just thankful that there was a job out there for him, and this opportunity is one he cannot pass up!!!

Wish us luck...I imagine I will be scoring a lot more t.v. time to watch some "chick flicks" and getting a lot of knitting and crocheting in. Hopefully it will keep me from being too lonesome!

I Love Me Some Grannies

I think this is the reason I was taught to crochet! To make these grannies! This is my Vanna's Choice project that I hope to enter into her contest. I love her yarn! The colors are great and it's nice and soft. I have four more squares to go, then I will block them and assemble them. I have plenty of yarn, so this is going to make a nice size throw for the sofa! I'm thinking if I can just get my Christmas Tree down and put away, I can focus on this and get it done within the week!I wonder if there are others out there that are as nuts about crocheting grannies as I am! I think these traditional grannies have so much creative potential! I have always liked graphic things, and of course color, and this kind of satisfies both of those. The blanket is mostly in warm tones of reds, oranges and browns, and I have added a splash of blue for contrast, and cream to give it some sparkle.

So, I know I am going to have some leftover yarn when I finish this up, so what should I do with my scraps? Maybe a scarf?? Maybe. But once I finish this up I need to get to work on my crochet class project. Then it will be February! I know this year has just started, but it's already flying!

I have always been envious of those who could write a to do list and actually get those things on the list done! I don't have any of that in me....I don't operate that way. It makes it too much like work!

I love Saturdays!

I thoroughly enjoy Saturday. Especially Saturday morning. I can move slowly...watch a movie, and crochet!!!

My "Vanna" squares are coming along beautifully!!! I have enjoyed having a nice long weekend, it's given be a chance to sit back and crochet. These will go into a small throw/afghan, like the one I made for my little niece. And I hope to have it done in time to enter it into the Vanna's Choice contest! I can just about imagine about all the entries and all the talent...so it may just get lost! But, so far I am liking it. Since this is Saturday night, I plan on cranking out a couple more squares. These will definitely have to be blocked before I assemble them.


Hey...my sister-in-law, Rhonda, and I made our first sale on etsy.com from our Whooville shop!!! We were ecstatic! Rhonda ate extra greens and black-eyed peas on New Year's Day...so she said that's what did it. Either way we were both thrilled...we are not in the red anymore. So we are making plans for our etsy shop and hopefully 2009 will be good to us.

I spent the day at Rhonda's visiting with her and my sister. I had to take my camera along to get some pictures of Maya on her blanket that I made her. Just look at that face! Of course I have a ton more pictures on flickr for my family to oohh and awww over, so I am just posting my favorite one.



My niece, Devin, latched on to my crocheted scarf...what a great model! And she latched on hard...she wore it all day. I didn't have the heart to ask for it back...so she now has a new scarf. She looks adorable in it!



Peace Out!

Day One of 2009

I woke up early on New Year's Day. Fed little Phoebe, took her out to do her business, and we came back in and settled in. I picked up my crochet hook and started on a granny square. I'm using Vanna's Choice. I'm thinking of making another granny square throw to enter into her contest...it would be so exciting if it won something!


The past couple of evenings I have stayed in and watched movies...I just can't sit in front of the t.v. without something in my hands or I will fall asleep! This little crocheted scarf is the result of that. I will probably put it in my etsy shop. It's just a simple crocheted scarf with some of my leftover yarn in those warm colors that I love so much!





Can you believe it's 2009?! Wow, time is zooming by so fast. I spent the day at my mom's and we had the traditional New Year's Day dinner, pork, greens and black-eyed peas. I ate extra greens...let's see if it brings me fortune!