I'm trying to make it up to you...

I know I was absent for a long time around here. That's HUNDREDS of pictures of my Monkey you missed out on! :P 

These are from a few months ago.  I crocheted that crown for her that morning.

I've been in stitches all day...

Stud's drama club is putting on it's spring show this weekend. The kids had to be at school at 12:30 this afternoon, which allowed him to sleep in a little after being up late last night for Opening Night.

This is what I did while I was waiting for Stud to get dressed this morning...

...while waiting for the show to end...

...and what I did after the show. (I made the brim a little wider on this one. I like it better than the first.)

I have now made a total of 6 baby hats, and I finally think I have it down. Look at the size difference between the first one I made last weekend, and the one I made today! It the exact same pattern, but I believe the difference is the tension. I think I was pulling the stitches too tight when I first started. Now that I've got some kind of "form," I've learned to relax my hands a bit

Here are the two finished hats for KC's sister's twins. I hate to toot my own horn, but damn, they're cute!!

So far, since I taught myself to crochet a week ago, I've made 6 hats and 3 scarves. How hilarious is that? I made a scarf a day for the first three days. The funniest part of that is that it was in the 80s when I made those! I think I'm going to pack them away for the holidays. Or, maybe I'll make them again, now that I've gotten the hang of it...

I just cracked myself up! (updated)

So, naturally, after school I headed straight over to Walmart to buy some yarn. I was so excited to make the baby hats, I couldn't help myself!!! Like I predicted, it took my an hour to make this.

SO cute, right? I can't believe it actually looks like a hat!!! Now, for the kicker...

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LOOK AT HOW SMALL THIS IS!!!!!

I was just about to pull it all apart, but then it occurred to me that it just might be the right size for a preemie. Anyone out there have any thoughts? I'm starting to think I should just make a whole bunch of them, pink and blue, and donate them to the hospital for all those sweet little preemies. They need to stay warm, don't they?

***UPDATE***

I decided to go ahead and finish off the brim of this baby girl's hat. It has a cute little lacy edge to it.

But, good Lord, it's tiny!!

Oh, and I forgot to mention....

This is what I did while watching Saturday Night Live last night. It's the same lacy pattern as the scarf I made on Friday. I think it's really pretty, and it's really a super easy pattern to follow (obviously!!). I love earth tones, which is why I chose this yarn. I teased Stud earlier, telling him I was making him a camouflage scarf, and I expected him to wear it. Bwah haha!

I went online this morning and found the most amazing baby booties and really cute hats that I'm going to tackle this week. They seem pretty easy to make, and they have videos that I can follow, so I'm pretty confident that I can handle them. According to the video, the hats can be made really quickly. If I could crochet as fast as the guy who made the videos, I can whip a hat out in about 20 minutes. So, I'm giving myself an hour. :)

I'm even more excited about these because I already know who I'm making them for. My brother's on-again-off-again girlfriend (of over 10 freakin' years!) has a sister who is expecting twins in about 5 months. AND, she's having a boy and a girl! JACKPOT!! I'm so happy for her. I figure, if I can't get these right this week, I have a few months to practice, right?

I may need an intervention...

OK, second scarf finished. I was up bright and early this morning to go buy more yarn. I ended up buying 4 more skeins, in different colors.
I also couldn't resist picking up another book. I don't know if I'll actually be able to tackle a project of this size just yet, but what the hell, I'll give it the old college try!

It's official...

...I'm obsessed! This is what I've been doing since the last post:
I wish this picture wasn't so blurry, so you could see how pretty and lacey this scarf is. I'm SO pissed at myself now for making the last scarf twice as long as it was supposed to be, cuz now I ran out of yarn in the middle of this one. Since this is really still a practice piece, I went so far as to use the left over pieces I had cut for fringe for the other scarf, and tied them together to go a little further with this one. But, now I'm completely out. Ugh!! I wish our Walmart was still open 24 hours, cuz I'd be there right now instead of typing this.

Well, you'll know where I'll be first thing in the morning. Oops, it's actually about 1:45 AM, so I should say where I'll be in a few hours. Yeah, I'm a loser....

Look what I did today...

OMG! I can't believe I was able to do this in one day. Now, if you're a real crocheter, please don't enlarge the photo, or I'm certain you'll find a ton of mistakes. But from far away, it doesn't look that bad, does it?

I may have mentioned in the past that I wanted to learn how to knit and crochet. (Strangely enough, I knew how to do both as a kid, but as an adult, I just couldn't get the hang of it again.) I bought myself a little "kit" last weekend that came with a bunch of needles and a book. I decided to tackle the book last night when I couldn't sleep. I started one of the projects, which was a cell phone bag, but I just couldn't get it. The project is done on an afghan needle (which came with the kit) but I just couldn't seem to get it to work. The whole thing kept curling up on me. After the second time I pulled it apart, I was done. But then, this morning, after some refreshing iced coffee, I thought, what the hell, let's try something else.

This scarf didn't seem too hard, although I did get it about a foot long, when I realized I somehow did something to make it wider at some point, so I had to pull literally half of it apart, and start over. But, once I got the rhythm of it going, it went pretty fast. So fast, in fact, that I ended up making it literally twice the length that the pattern called for! The pattern called for a 34" scarf with 1' of fringe on each end. I ended up making a 68" scarf, so I only made the fringe about 7" on each end.

I just can't believe I made it. Now, the real question is, who's gonna use it? You ALL know I would NEVER wear a scarf. Hell, most of the time, I don't even wear a coat! My sister is the queen of the scarves, so maybe she'll want it. If she doesn't, I know my sweet mother-in-law will wear it. Well, she'll wear in next winter. Hey, I just remembered that I tried making a scarf a while back, which I DID give to my mother-in-law. Wait, didn't I do a post about it? Let me check...

Holy crap! I just spent an hour going back through old posts. What the hell is wrong with me!!? If I did post about my last attempt at crocheting, I can't find it. Why the hell I just wasted an hour looking for it is beyond me! Sheesh, I could have spent that hour crocheting!!