Taste The Rainbow!

Good day to all!  This past week has been pretty awesome and the beginning of this one has been pretty great as well.  Not only did I get one large order last week but I also got ANOTHER order today, so praise God because he is GOOD.

Well the project that inspired me to write to you today wasn't only the sunshing blanket that I'm 4 rounds away from completing but this awesome batch of multi colored pancakes that I made for the kids.  I'm always making them different types of sandwiches and what not so I decided to give them a breakfast remix today and they LOVED them.  Even my momma got a kick out how festive they were. 

I used the target brand pancake mix, which made it super easy for me because all I had to do was add water, and the target brand food coloring and powder surgar.  The "orange" pancakes came out more salmon and he more I tried to make the orange the pinker they got, BUT the blue pancakes came out pretty awesome.  Momma never colored these for me so I figured I would try it for my babies and by the way the reacted to them today I will be making these again:->  Well I still have plenty of crocheting to do so I will be back to share my projects with you.  Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

Nostalgic Bliss Is Complete!

I am pleased to announce that the second afghan that I started for my collection has been completed earlier today!  I love the yarn that I used, which was lion brand pound of love, because it feels so plush and cozy:-)  The pattern took me a little over two weeks to complete and I plan on using this one quite a bit.  I still have to finish the yellow afghan that I started last month and I will once I can get a hold of the yellow yarn that I need.  Well I need to start dinner for the night and go over a song that I need to learn for practice tonight.  Be Inspired & Be Blessed!!

UPDATE:  I never got the chance to explain the journey of this blanket when I last wrote this blog because I was running to head off to go to church but now that I'm back for a short while I will try my best to explain what I thought of this pattern all around.  When I first started this I firs thought that it was going to take me FOREVER to finish this because it seemed to take a very long time to work up after a while.  That was probably due to the fact that this pattern is so repetitive, but it obviously didn't take that long in reality because I was able to finish it up in under two weeks.

The body of the blanket is made up of v stitches and clusters so long as you know how to chain, single crochet, and double crochet then you are all set to try it out.  The only obstacle for me was in fact the border.  It's very lovely and delicate looking but starting it was no picnic and I had to under my work and start again to make sure that I crocheted the right about of stitches and crocheted them as evenly as I can.

Instructions were pretty on point.  There were a few symbols in the book that I'm not accustomed to yet but with the help of the pictures in the book I was able to make an educated guess as to what I was supposed to continue to do when it came to finishing up the border.  And although there were instructions explaining how to read those symbols the instructions just confused me even more!  So I made educated guesses and finished well.

Who can try this out?  Anyone who knows the basics of crocheting can definitely do this project but if you are a beginner you might need to take a little extra time or ask for a little help to get the border started. Or you might just surprise yourself and do a fabulous job on your own.  If all fails you can always go on youtube because they almost always have very helpful tools to get you going.  Well That's my review on this pattern.  I'll continue to try different patterns out and let you know what I think!  Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

Blanket #1 From my Book #1 Is Almost Complete!!

 On round four of the border for this lovely yellow heirloom.  8 more rows to go though!

 Just started this blanket.  I'll get the name of the this blanket on here once I have the time.  So far I love it.

I can't be too long because I have a lot of running to do but I wanted to update you on what the deal is with the crocheting.  I am very close to being done with the yellow blanket that I started because  all I have to do is finish up the border and ALL DONE!  BUT I ran out of yarn so that project is on hold until I can get more later on within the next week, so while waiting for my yellow yarn I started my blanket #2 from the first book that I got and so far I like.  Once this blanket is done I will only have five more blankets from this book to finish until I crocheted my way through it all!  So I am very excited because once I get through this small book I will know for sure what patterns i want to use for my collection AND I will be able to continue to crochet through the second book which is a bit longer to work through but I will do it. 

Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

Another book Is Added To My Growing Collection!!

Yes you have read my title correct because my lovely book from my awesome husband came in today and I'm so excited to have it.  I've been searching the internet for over two years for fun and FREE patterns to try for my kids and collection BUT I always wanted books to reference to as well.  So to have this new one is so important to me and yes extremely exciting. 

The title of this awesome book is called "Best of Terry Kimbrough Baby Afghans" from the Leisure Arts collection and after doing a quick read through of the entire book the patterns look pretty awesome to try.  It seems to be a little more advanced than what I'm used to but I'm sure that I can handle it being that I've been crocheting since the beginning of baby loves life.  Now I'm still working on the yellow heirloom blanket but, being that I'm working through it pretty quickly, I'll be working from the new book hopefully towards the end of this week or weekend.

What pattern will be tested out first??? HMM...decisions decisions!  I wanted to make a blanket for my son and I also wanted to make a christening blanket for my collection so I'm still going back and forth on what to try first.  SO  If I decide to do the christening afghan then I will go with #10 which is named "Exquisite" but if I decide to crochet a blanket for my Bubba then I will have to go with 11a which is called "Lacy Ripple.  If you want to go on ravelry.com and look these patterns up you will see that there are quite a few other people who have tried these patterns out as well so if you want to see what the finished product may look like, if you plan to try one of these yourself, then please go check out their awesome work.

Well I have a daughter who needs to get her pj's on so we can have our story time so she can proceed to head of to bed to prepare for yet another fun filled day at school so please Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

A New Day = A Brand New Book And Pattern!

Yes it does!  Good morning to all and how are you doing today?  I'm doing pretty well myself.  Besides having a rather interesting weekend and morning I'm glad to be here to write to you about what's going on with my knitting and crocheting.  When it comes to the knitting I have decided to take a small break that way once I'm well rested from that craft I'll be well prepared to jump back into the last project that I was working on which happens to be a sweater.  I wanted to make my son a sweater first but I think that it will be best to try a smaller sized sweater instead as my trial that way his sweater will come out that much better once I'm done with it.

Now for the crocheting goodness!  My lovely husband decided to bless me with two crocheting books this weekend.  One book he bought for me on Amazon and the other book that he bought me at the crafting store.  While waiting for the first book I am working from the second book he got me and the project is coming out gorgeous.  I'm currently working on pattern from this book called Heirloom Ruffles and so far I'm liking the pattern.  It works up super fast and is super simple to crochet because the body of the blanket is very repetitive, but from what I've read from other people who have done this pattern before myself, the border seems to be pretty tricky so I'm anxious to finish the body so I can get started on the tricky part.  Well I have some vacuuming to do and plenty of crocheting to finish so Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

Another Day To Granny Away!

What a week it has been for us as a family!  Between trying to keep up with my little project, the kids and the husband, and not to mention baby girls school work and what not, it's been a pretty busy week and I am looking forward to a weekend of peace and quiet.  At least  little taste of peace.

I took the time to reflect on how fast time can fly by because my baby girl is now 4 going on 5 and it seemed like she just came into my life barely  year ago!  And now she's in school and is making us so proud of her so reflecting on how much she's been a blessing to us is what I've been doing for a bit now.  And of course it doesn't help that she has two younger siblings because they seem to be catching up to her fast which just makes me want to cringe sometimes.  Of course I know that kids are due to grow up one day but I would prefer it to be one day a LONG time from now lol.

ANYWAYS!  I wanted to share a project with you today so here it is:-)  I started up a surprise gift that I won't post till later on this year, due to the fact that I don't want the recipient to see it before the right time, and that project inspired me to do a baby version so here it is:->  I thought that I was going to due traditional granny squares and have them all uniformed but then I went ahead and started to make the squares different colors. I'm more than sure that  I will start to add different types of granny squares and different types of squares in general because I think I'm going to want this to be a sampler baby afghan.  But I can always change my mind!  Well I must get ready for church so Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!!

My Very Own Sampler Afghan In Progress:->

 Square #84

 #19

 An Idea as to what this afghan is going to look like:->

Well so far I have two red squares completed and I just started the first navy blue square for the blanket.  I wanted to try something a little more complicated than the last square that I did but I didn't want to just jump into something complicated so I opted to knit up square #35 from the book "99 Knitting Stitches".

I love me some red, white and blue!  I don't plan on knitting any white squares but I do plan on bringing all the red and white squares with white yarn which will complete my patriotic spirited afghan:)  Well I have to get ready for church so I will be back to update you on my knitting progress.  What knitting/crocheting projects have you busy??  I'd love to know:-)

Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!