Flowered Tea Cozy

This is my own design. I knitted the body in a rib with beaded rayon by Blue Heron Yarns, the color is summer meadow. The flowers are crocheted in various yarns.

Oswald the Octopus

J asked me to make him an Oswald from Nick Jr. I made some modifications to a pattern by Ana Paula Rimoli in "Amigurumi World Seriously Cute Crochet"to make it look more like Oswald.

Blue Bird of Happiness

I made this for my Mom. I saw something similar and put together other parts of some designs to come up with this.

Wrap

I made this wrap using a pattern from Crochet Today and some Moda Dea bamboo yarn in blue velvet. It was pretty easy.

Amigurumi Penguin

I made this penguin for J from a pattern in "Amigurumi World Seriously Cute Crochet" by Ana Paula Rimoli'

Beret

I've wanted to make myself a beret for a long time. I found a great pattern in the winter Interweave Crochet.

Green Scarf

I crocheted it with Misti alpaca/wool/silk sock yarn. Though soft, it was a little itchy so I tried hair conditioner. It really does work. :)

Kids' Art Project

My Mom and I painted a long mural background and the kids drew, colored and cut out buildings on construction paper.

Snowman gifts

I made these Snowmen for the kids in my son's class. They hold a candy cane and have a pocket in the back for more candy. They are made from felt, a pipe cleaner, snow glitter, and sequins, and held together with Fabri-tac.

Another Scarf

'Tis the season...for gift scarves. This one is knitted from a superwash wool. The yarn strand itself is woven in a kind of braid, Nashua vignette. I used a pattern of knit 3 purl 3 repeat, row two purl 1, knit 1 repeat. It makes a very stretchy fabric.
Update: If the recipient finds this wool itchy-try this remedy: Rinse it in a few cups of water and a couple tablespoons of hair conditioner. Don't rinse the conditioner out, squeeze out the water (press out the rest of the water in a towel if its not too much trouble) and dry flat. :)

Man's Scarf

I knitted this scarf for my sister's father-in-law. It's warm without being itchy because it's made from a bamboo yarn. I chose subdued colors, heather gray and tiny blue stripes just at the ends, colors which I hope will remind him of RAF blue. I knitted it in stockinette and then doubled it over and sewed it closed for a thick and flat look.

Xmas Gifts

I needed a small gift to give my friends in my Skeptical Society. It needed to be something I could put together fast as I needed 10 of them and I only had two days. So I made my coffee cup cozies. It's something to keep from burning your hands on hot paper cups and you can reuse it and save the world some paper. I crocheted them from a fairly thick but nice yarn. My favorite is Berroco "Love it colors," 58% cotton with 38% acrylic and 4% polyester. It has a bouncy feel to it. With a slightly too large size J hook it works up thick and fast. I placed them on a clean paper cup and added cellophane bags filled with chocolate, a home baked snowflake shaped cookie with piped icing and white crystals also in cellophane bags, and a candy cane.

Pouch

I crocheted this pouch in purple and pink cotton for one of Julian's classmates (just because she asked.) It's pretty simple, you just work rounds off of a base chain made the width you want the bag to have. All single crochet, reducing a few stitches on the side for the last couple rows until a row of double crochet, chain, skip stitch, repeat. One row of single then finish. Make a chain for a tie, weave into dbl crochet row.

Hat and scarf

I crocheted this hat and scarf from (mostly) cotton yarn for my sensitive-to-wool sister. The scarf is done with a self fringing pattern that starts a new piece of yarn with every row leaving an 8 inch tail and leaving 8 inches at the end of the row too. I tried to match her green and fuchsia jacket with the stripes.

Crocheted Flowers for Slippers

T knitted these very smart slippers in a lovely pink shade for her mother-in-law for xmas. They have very nice lines with excellent shaping (they really look like loafers!) and are skillfully done. But she said they needed just a little something extra. I thought about embroidering a flower on the toe but chose to crochet these flowers for them instead.

Pumpkin Spiral Hat

Begun with an exercise in creating a double spiral, I finished by making it into a hat.

Granny Square Poncho

I was going to make a blanket but a need came up for a girl's poncho and coincidentally I had the perfect number of squares done! After I took this picture I added a woven-in cord to make the top fit better.

Skull Hat

I made a hat using this new glow-in-dark yarn from Bernat. I used a skull design from a potholder pattern in "stitch n' bitch crochet the Happy Hooker". I also adapted my hat pattern from a hat pattern in the same book.

Autism Walk

Here I am with Julian and a Storm Trooper! Thanks to pcfrost for the picture! After we painted lots and lots of little faces (and some big ones) we scrambled over to get our pictures with the storm troopers. It was a great reward for our hard work on a very hot day.

Apron

I made an apron for face painting. I've been doing a lot of face painting lately, I just did it for the Ice Cream Social at Joseph Sims Elementary School and next weekend I'm doing Walk Now For Autism. I used a denim stripe fabric and red bric-a-brac and then I used a couple dozen iron on patches like the designs I paint on the kids.