2013 NC State Fair Crochet Entries

It is never too soon to start working on my projects for this October.  I am almost done with my second project as we speak, baby sweater, done in pink, brown and white.  Here are some progress pictures:

 

I was good on this project and went shopping for the yarn in my stash which made honey very happy.  When I told him I did not have to by any yarn for this project I believe he said "thank god!"  Is having a bunch of yarn such a big problem????  :)  I am going to have to block this project for sure to make sure it looks perfect.  I am so wanting another blue ribbon.  It has been since 2007 so please, please, please.

Yesterday I went to AC Moore and purchased the yarn for my next fair project.  Used my gift card I got for Christmas and a bonus point coupon and came home with 5 skeins of Homespun in a pretty purple color.  I plan on making the Seraphina shawl that can be found on the Crochetville website.

I took Monday off for my birthday and plan on starting the shawl.  From reading the pattern it looks like I could maybe finish it in one day if I am lucky.  **Fingers crossed**

What I am working on today

Brought UFO #3 with me to work today. Going to try to get some rows done on my lunch hour. I looked up the dimension of a shawl online and they range around 65 inches wide by 33 inches deep. Don't think I have enough yarn to go to 65 inches plus an edging. Think I will go to 60 inches and then edge the puppy!

The next UFO I work on should be the Mondrian inspired afghan since there are so many little red squares to make. Maybe I will start this monster and work on one of the smaller UFO's at the same time so I can see a color besides red.


This is the piece I drew inspiration from for my afghan.

UFO #3 (2010 unfinished State Fair Project)

Pulled the bag from the UFO pile this weekend and rolled it down the stair to take a picture. I have never made a shawl before and feel in love with some yarn I saw in a magazine so that was the birth of this UFO. It is made with lighthouse Waves, a wool and soy blend yarn. I don't remember the name of the color but it is a varigated yarn in shades of pinks and browns.



The shawl is currently 57 inches long and 48 inches wide. Not sure how big a shawl is suppose to be. Will have to look that up and see when I can stop and put a simple edging on this thing to put it to bed for this year's 2011 NC State Fair.



Have to list some boxes of product on Amazon before I can start working on this UFO. Must increase the listings to get the sales in so the toy army leaves my dining room...lol Love you honey in case you are reading this post.

What I have been working on lately

With school and other stuff, crocheting has been a mini luxury. I finished this hat to send to Mary at Online Angels. I held a strand of white and strand of a cool varigated with purples and pinks. It turned out really cute.

There is also the neverending shawl I working on for the state fair this year. I found a really wool/soy blend yarn on sale online. It is called Lighthouse Waves and the color is called Dusty Rose. I originally bought 13 balls and that was not enough if you could believe that!! So luckily it was still on sale so I bought 5 more balls and I hope that will be enough to finish. If not, then where it ends will be the end...lol I will take a picture of it later once I have a flat space to lay it out on.

School is going well. I got a 87.5 on my first eye anatomy test. The average score was 88 so not bad. I know how the instructor tests now so I know what to expect. I am learning the metric system in the math class. It has been years and I boo booed on my last test putting the decial in the wrong directing when doing some conversion between m and mm. Need to work on that a bit more.

I has snowed twice in the last 3 three weeks here in NC. It is pretty to look at and thank goodness it does not stay too long. Here are some pictures on the snow.

This was at work in the parking lot.

This was my car with snow on it.

What a night bowling!!

Last night at my bowling league I bowled like a crazy woman. My current average is 150 but I have been lucky to get in the 140 range back before Christmas. We had two weeks off for Christmas and New Years. I ended up bowling a 191-177-193. My team won 3 out of four games. We have almost caught up to the first place team. We are now only 1/2 a game behind them. The league goes until the end of March so there is still time to catch them.

I have started working on a shawl out of some cool yarn I got online. It is called Lighthouse Waves and it is a wool/soy blend. I did not see the blend when ordering it online and was going to make a baby blanket out of it but since you can not wash this stuff in a machine decided to make the shawl instead. It is doing a neat striping effect and reminds me of cotton candy in a way. Will have to take a picture of my progress so far. Did a bunch last night at bowling while waiting for my turn.