What a month it's been! I have been busy working on my webpages instead of doing as much crocheting as I would have liked. I created a whole new template, for a new look at Cute and Country Crochet. The pages are not complete yet, because, of course, when you create a whole new look, all the pages have to be updated before you upload them! It can be alot of work! But, I am finishing up the last of the pages now, so I can see light at the end of he tunnel. I am hoping to be able to upload the new pages with some new updates by the end of October!
In the meantime, I read on a Knit List that Microsoft has a new version of Internet Explorer. I am so glad this happened before I finished my update and uploaded all my pages! After my update, I noticed some pages are viewing differently on the Internet, which apparently was expected. I like the new look of Internet Explorer 7. Just go HERE to the Microsoft website to download your update.
Felting
OMG!! How much do I love felting! I am in the middle of creating a new felted project for my column in Crochet World, and I can't tell you how much fun felting can be! I don't know what it is about throwing a crocheted piece into the washing machine and watching it transform into something totally different. I love it!
When I got done with the bottom of my piece, it was so large, I thought it could not possibly come out right. But, true to the art of felting, it shrunk almost perfectly!
I did decide I wanted to make the crochet piece just a bit smaller, so I am going to make it over, but that is what the trial and error of designing is all about.
My first published felted project was the Golden Fleece Handbag in the Crochet World February 2006 issue.
Here is an example of one reader's handbag.
Didn't Cindy's purse turn out nice?
The most recent issue of Crochet World has my pattern for a
felted pillow that is very simple to make. It would be a great project to start with, if you have never tried felting before.
Well, there goes my timer, I've gotta run! I have to check the progress on my latest felted project!
Try felting, maybe you will love it as much as I do~!
When I got done with the bottom of my piece, it was so large, I thought it could not possibly come out right. But, true to the art of felting, it shrunk almost perfectly!
I did decide I wanted to make the crochet piece just a bit smaller, so I am going to make it over, but that is what the trial and error of designing is all about.
My first published felted project was the Golden Fleece Handbag in the Crochet World February 2006 issue.
Here is an example of one reader's handbag.
Didn't Cindy's purse turn out nice?
The most recent issue of Crochet World has my pattern for a
felted pillow that is very simple to make. It would be a great project to start with, if you have never tried felting before.
Well, there goes my timer, I've gotta run! I have to check the progress on my latest felted project!
Try felting, maybe you will love it as much as I do~!
Crochet Seasons
What a horrible blogger I have been lately! I get so frustrated, mostly because this is a crochet blog, and I don't have much to report on the crochet front. Of course, I continually have to work on designs for my bi-monthly column in Crochet World.
I am also working on some Spring designs for cutecrochet.com that are not finished yet, and it is almost time to start on designs for Christmas! Where does the time go?
Recently the owner of our local Ben Franklin asked me why yarn sales were down in the Summer. I explained that most needleworkers did not do as much knitting and crocheting in the summertime as they do in the other seasons. I told him several reasons for this is that kids are out of school, the weather is nice and people want to be outdoors, and heavy yarns are too hot to work with in the Summer.
So, I ask............do you crochet or knit in the Summer???
If so, what kind of project do you work on?
I am also working on some Spring designs for cutecrochet.com that are not finished yet, and it is almost time to start on designs for Christmas! Where does the time go?
Recently the owner of our local Ben Franklin asked me why yarn sales were down in the Summer. I explained that most needleworkers did not do as much knitting and crocheting in the summertime as they do in the other seasons. I told him several reasons for this is that kids are out of school, the weather is nice and people want to be outdoors, and heavy yarns are too hot to work with in the Summer.
So, I ask............do you crochet or knit in the Summer???
If so, what kind of project do you work on?
Catching Up
Well, I DID finish Evan's Easter Basket and although I was two months late, I am proud of myself that I did not wait until next year to complete it! I could have used the excuse that he did not need it until then, but I did not! I forgot to take a picture of it, so if I remember tomorrow, I will take a picture of it.
I have been so busy with the house, work and family issues, I have not had time to do much of any crocheting except for my monthly column. I just mailed my last column on June 13, so I have time to do an inventory of which crochet projects I would like to work on next.
I would like to do some things for Annie's Attic, since I missed the deadlines for my website for the fourth of July and my Americana projects. I think Annie's Attic will be excepting items for Spring next, so I need to be thinking along those lines. I also have some new dolls in mind. I just have to get started! Sometimes that can be the hardest! Getting started.
One of my most favorite sayings is:
"Begun is half done"
I am constantly saying that to my family and I even cross stitched that saying on a small plaque a long time ago. It is hanging in my kitchen.
I believe it is so true.
Can anyone else relate to that?
So, on that note, I hope to get started this weekend!
Good luck to me!
I have been so busy with the house, work and family issues, I have not had time to do much of any crocheting except for my monthly column. I just mailed my last column on June 13, so I have time to do an inventory of which crochet projects I would like to work on next.
I would like to do some things for Annie's Attic, since I missed the deadlines for my website for the fourth of July and my Americana projects. I think Annie's Attic will be excepting items for Spring next, so I need to be thinking along those lines. I also have some new dolls in mind. I just have to get started! Sometimes that can be the hardest! Getting started.
One of my most favorite sayings is:
"Begun is half done"
I am constantly saying that to my family and I even cross stitched that saying on a small plaque a long time ago. It is hanging in my kitchen.
I believe it is so true.
Can anyone else relate to that?
So, on that note, I hope to get started this weekend!
Good luck to me!
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