A Little Bit of Nothing

I haven't accomplished much of anything lately, which leads to the fact that I haven't had much of anything to post about.

I have finished crocheting a couple of potholders...not these ones, but the same "pattern," just different yarn:

I am working on building up my stash of potholders, which I will probably distribute amongst my husband's family as gifts (maybe for Christmas next year).  So far, I think that I have three sets of 2.  

In other crafty news, I haven't worked on any of those other projects I mentioned in my last post.  The baby shower is this Saturday.  I do have some things that I made a while ago, which will be part of the gift.  I anticipate that I will make the rest of the gift tomorrow night.  There is nothing like being on a tight schedule procrastination.

I did go out and buy the material so that I can participate in Little Miss Shabby's Birdie Stitches Block of the Month.  I'm not using the Sunkissed fabric, mainly because...well, I don't know...I just decided to switch it up.  I am using Sugar Pop! by Moda.  I'm sure it will be great once it is finished.  So far, I'm still cutting my 2.5" squares so that I can piece the block and get January's embroidery design traced on.  I got sucked into inspired to do this block of the month when I saw Ellyn's cute block.  Of course, I guess I was "lucky" that it is still only the first month...otherwise, I'm sure I probably would not have joined in.  I also plan to follow Ellyn's lead and go ahead and make up all of the blocks now so that I only have to embroider the stitch design each month. 

In the non-crafty area, I have been sticking to my resolution of wearing my hair down.  That's been pretty much every work day so far.  I've been making it easy on myself the last week or so.  My hair has lots of natural wave in it, especially as it grows longer.  So, if I just add some leave in conditioner and scrunch it up with some mousse, and throw in a headband...and it looks pretty decent.  The thing I love the most about this "style" is that it takes me all of about 3 minutes!

I'm trying to think if there is anything else I want to say, but I don't think so....

Oh, yes!  We are nearing the end of my third week with my student teacher...did I tell you I was going to have a student teacher?  Anyway, it's going along well, but I am exhausted at the end of the day.  I have come to realize that my time in my car, driving from school to school...that's my down time.  Well, add another person to the car and I am talking all day long and I guess it is just wearing me out!

 

Giveaway Day!

I am so excited to be able to participate in the Giveaway day for Sew, Mama, Sew.  I wanted to participate in the last giveaway day, but didn't get my act together soon enough to do so.

This is what I will be giving away:

In this photo I have two crocheted potholders and three crocheted dishcloths.  My plan is to break them up into two groups:  a)1 potholder and 2 dishcloths    b) 1 potholder and 1 dishcloth  and choose two winners.   

How will I choose the winners?  Please leave me a comment, any comment (but only one comment)....let me know about yourself or where you are living.  I've been thinking about changing the name of my blog so if you have any good suggestions for that, feel free to pipe in with a new blog name.  I will ship my items internationally, so all are welcome to comment. Please, make sure you have a blog or leave your e-mail address so that I can contact you if you win.  I want to share the goodness with everyone!

The giveaway will be open until sometime on Dec. 6, maybe afternoonish?  If the comments are closed then you will know the giveaway is over.  I will use a random number generator to choose the winners.  The first person whose number is drawn will get first choice of items since there is nothing in the group that really matches!

Thanks for participating!

ETA:  I really want to be able to contact you if you win, so please, please make sure that I can link back to you somehow.  I have already figured out that there are several commenters that I don't think I will be able to reach if they win. If you are on blogger, check your profile to make sure that you have your e-mail linked to it, even if you don't have a blog.  Pretty Please...I want to give you my stuff!

Hyperbolic Ball

This is the crochet project that I was working on today. It is a hyperbolic ball. The term hyperbolic is a math term, I think, and relates in this case to the method with which the number of stitches increase on each row. Anyway, it makes this nice crocheted ball that I guess could be used as a shower poof. I thought it would be nice for using on dishes, but I think I made it a bit too big for that.

Last Minute Gift.....complete!

I know this isn't a great photo, but it is dark out and I wanted to get this gift wrapped...so I did the best that I could -- because I also wanted to post a pic of this on my blog. I just decided, today, to make this hat for my brother for Christmas. I am on the e-mail list for Lion Brand Yarn and they send out e-mails maybe once a week or something like that....and they almost always include some sort of pattern. The e-mail I received on Sunday had this pattern. They said it was a fash-finish gift, which was true! I crocheted the hat this evening, very quickly, and I don't actually crochet all that quickly. I think it turned out nice enough.

Baby Afghan Number Two

This is a photo of the new baby afghan that I just started crocheting last night. I made one other afghan for a baby, but it is blue. No one I know has had a baby boy since I finished it.



I received the pattern for this one in an interesting way. Recently, some of you know, I had jury duty. Well, while I was wasting away in the jury duty room, just waiting to be called (which never happened), I started talking to some of the other potential jurors. Actually, I had seen this lady crocheting earlier in the week. On this particular day, I went to talk to her to see what she was actually making. She nicely offered to send me that pattern. And now, I am working on a new afghan--never mind that I have several other unfinished crochet projects going. At least I used yarn that I already had in my stash!