Beautiful Crochet Scarf

Check out this beautiful scarf. The pattern is free at Coats and Clark! It seems like a great way to use up yarn bits making the flowers...

http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Crochet/Projects/Accessories/SN0126+Belle+Fleur+Scarf.htm

and a second headband

Here is a look at the second one of the braided fabric headbands that I made. It is flatter than the first try as I wound it differently.

update!!!

Remember the Valentine ideas I mentioned? Well here is one of them! I made a felted coffee sleeve. I found the blue fabric on sale at Hancock. It is a wool / rayon blend of unspecified percentages! I washed it in hot sudsy water and one side of it then resembled boiled wool. I cut 2 of my pattern and felted the top layer with wool roving and a felting needle. It was not hard to felt, but the hard part is making the roving do what you want it to do. For the finishing, I used a blanket stitch to join the two blue pieces together. I think it turned out pretty well for a first attempt. I hope to make a few more for teacher gifts as well. Thanks to Anne Peters for the great photo!

It is January 25th but I have a Christmas post to share

I found this site while stumbling and was absolutely charmed by this tree! They spent 6.98 on lights and that is it!!! What a beautiful way to spend Christmas! Making ornaments with children out of recycled materials. Love, love, love it! Please go check it out!

http://www.marchenstudios.com/profiles/blogs/im-dreaming-of-a-true

Update: Sadly this site has disappeared from the net.

Stumble!!!

I love to Stumble! No! I do not mean falling down, I mean the great internet tool that lets you stumble onto a great web site. Here is a link I found today for a pocket advent calendar. Totally cute and totally affordable! That's a double win in my book!

http://mylittlemochi.typepad.com/my_little_mochi/2008/11/pocket-advent-calendar.html