I’m falling behind on my posts. I blame my husband. For Christmas this year he bought me the Lego Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters. I’ve been working on it since last week, and I’m still not done! But I love it. I love Legos and this is probably the largest set I’ve ever gotten.
But that’s not all I got for Christmas. I also got lots of Crochet related things, most of which were on my Amazon wish list.
My resolution last year, in a way, was to start a crochet blog. It wasn’t really a resolution, but it was something I had wanted to do for a while. I finally went through with making it a reality, and I still have a backlog of post ideas to keep me going outside of any current projects I’m working on.
So it’s time to come up with a crochet related resolution for 2018. Next year I will complete my big project that I have been planning in my head for about a year now, possibly longer. The project is a big one, and I know it will probably take me 3 months or so to complete, but I want to make this a reality. This will be a project that I will design and make myself. Once I’m done I hope to have my first real pattern available for distribution.
I’m not spilling the beans on what my project is yet. I’ve purchased all the yarn and I have sketches and rough designs ready to start it. All I have to do is finish this one hat I am working on for myself, and then I will start it. No more excuses.
After I made a scarf for one of my co-workers for Christmas, I felt a little guilty that I didn’t make a scarf for one of my other co-workers, so I decided to work one up real quick. I found this free pattern for the Crickets Infinity Scarf by Crochet Cricket.
I finished making my baby hats for Little Hats Big Hearts.
But first, my husband got me this photography tent for Christmas. This was my first time playing with it. Still working on setting up the lighting. But, this is the first time using it and showing off my pictures with it. OK, my photography skills need some work, I admit it.
All seven hats completed
Last year I made these cute little shark blankets for my nephews (one and seven). These blankets are kind of like those mermaid tail blankets for girls, but they are sharks, so they even cooler than mermaid tails. For the yarn I used Plymouth Select Worsted Merino Superwash, colorway Charcoal (67), that I picked up at Kid Ewe Knot.
Last week I was wrapping gifts for my co-workers and I realized that I was missing a gift for one of them. I had a half day on Friday, so I decided to quickly make a scarf for her. I went searching on Pinterest and came across this Noro Windowpane Scarf pattern by Adrienne Lash. I was looking for something lacy, but what I liked about this pattern were the open “windows” through the scarf. Not exactly lacy, but had that openness I was looking for to show off the fluffiness of the angora yarn. I still had plenty of Ice Yarn, that I had used for one of the skull scarves.
The completed Noro Windowpane Scarf hanging off of my awesome bear head. Unfortunately, the lighting is a little dark. I have to wrap this tonight, so no time to wait for natural light.
My co-worker was expecting earlier this year. So I decided to make her a baby blanket. I didn’t want to make my typical baby blanket that I normally make. I found Zig Zag Puff Stitch Baby Blanket pattern on Pinterest. I decided to use my Maxima yarn by Manos del Uruguay that I bought during Yarnapolooza.
I have not been to the Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival yet, but I am definitely going to go next year. Next year’s event will take place April 6, 7, and 8, 2018 at the David L Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
I found out about the Little Hats, Big Hearts campaign by the American Heart Association in connection with The Children’s Heart Foundation. It is a campaign for babies born in February during American Heart Month to raise awareness about heart health as well as congenital heart defects. They are asking for knitters and crocheters to make red hats for preemies and newborns to be provided to participating hospitals in February.
They are asking for hat donations or, for those that do not crochet or knit, monetary donations. Again, all the information is located at their page.
So I bought a skein of red yarn and I’ve made my first hat for the campaign. I plan to make as many of them as I can out of the skein I bought. The page I linked to provides some sample patterns, but I preferred this one that I found on Pinterest called the Apple Crisp Newborn Hat from Salty Pearl Crochet. It’s a quick and easy pattern and I liked the simplicity of it.
I hope everyone that can, participates. It sounds like a worthwhile project, and I figured I could donate a skein of yarn and some time to the cause. Hopefully, you can as well, or if not, maybe some money.
I came across this crochet artist from her brilliant version of Krampus, which is no longer for sale at her Etsy shop. I’ve often thought about buying this Krampus for my husband, thankfully the temptation is now gone. But if you spend some time at her Etsy shop, she has lots of unique and interesting crochet that you probably won’t find anywhere else including a severed arm with a Slayer tattoo, an Exorcist playset, a beheaded Lambchop, and a Sid and Nancy set. 
Unfortunately, she doesn’t sell her patterns, only her finished projects, which is fine because I’m not sure if anyone else could do her crochet any justice. I absolutely love it and I would love to have the imagination and talent that she does. I feel if we ever met we’d be fast friends, or I’d be scared to death of her. Hard to tell. But I do admire her talent.
She also has her own blog, which I just became aware of as well. It doesn’t look like she posts often, but I have some catching up to do on whatever she has posted so far.
If you are like me, and you enjoy things that are a bit unusual and out of the norm, you may end up loving Croshame as much as I do. If not, you may be disgusted and terrified. But I hope at least you can appreciate the uniqueness of Croshame.
Little Bit of Foolishness 
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