Crochet Projects and Playing with Pictures
Forgive me, but this is a post to experiment with my skill at posting pictures. Wish me luck!
We are cloth diaperers around here, for the most part. I’ll admit to using an occational disposable on a bad day. Or if I don’t have the cloth folded and ready to go for Hubby he will grab one. But the majority of our diapering pollutes the waters, not the landfills. Some time ago I gave up on cloth covers and went to wool instead. It’s wonderful stuff; RM has the healthiest skin of any of my kids. We have no problems with rashes at all.
Being the poor family we are, I of course couldn’t shell out $20-$30 a piece for wool covers, but I’m a big do-it-yourself type person anyway, so crocheting my own was no big deal. I can’t knit though, I’ve tried many times over the years but I just don’t have the skill for it, or the patience to develop the skill. But searching the net reveals a wealth of patterns and ideas, and I made our first set of covers using the Tickle Turdle Wool Wrap Pattern.
Here’s a picture of a wrap that I finished recently. This is a great neutral color, I’ve used it for several things. It’s Paton’s Merino wool.
A weakness of mine, as I’ve mentioned before, it watching crafting shows. The dress here is based on a pattern from the website for the Carol DuVall show. Luckily, this was from materials I had sitting around, some crochet cotton and a scrap of fabric. The boys actually have a stuffed cat made from this same fabric. RM looks really cute in this, although she still needs to grow just a bit more. I’m hoping it will look good with a T-shirt under it and maybe some tights when the cold weather rolls around. I’ll probably have to make another, slightly larger one in the spring.
So there we have it - another successful picture post! Sometimes I amaze myself with the cleverness for figuring things out. Or should I be ashamed that it’s taking me so long?
My site name is Crafting made easy.
I see that you have work in progress a navaho stripe afghan.
I am working on a navaho afghan. The directions I found in my mothers files from years and years ago. I was wondering if you had a picture of your afghan so I could see if it is like mine or not. Don’t know where the directions came from, they are hand written. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
Carol
Comment by Carol Sherman | January 21, 2007
I just ready you into on this page and you sound so much like myself. I watch the crafts shows and just love to make things myself. I’m going to bookmark this site.
And come back often.
Carol
Comment by Carol Sherman | January 21, 2007