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things that caught my eye/ ten

Some things I found this week:

Hope we have enough flowers growing around the yard this summer so I can make one of these.
Love this homemade hat.
Already bought the ingredients to try to make corn tortillas.
Dinner ideas- 50 vegetarian pizzas.
Because sometimes, it is just one of those days.

I spent most of the week being sick/recovering, so I learned a new crochet pattern while laying on the couch. I am looking forward to being back to fighting shape, and enjoying Easter weekend! I have some fun Easter cookies to post tomorrow!

faux spring break

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It’s always nice to spend a couple days back home. My vacation went by really fast, but we managed to make two kinds of pie, muffins, cake, cookies, crochet flowers, a doll, and some quilt pieces. We are pretty busy bees.

One of my very favorite things: my ma’s coffee cake.

We were working to make these flowers into a garland. It will be adorable when its done. crochet flowers

a flower afghan

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This blanket was a special present for my Ma, who likes black-eyed susans (which is a super awesome name for a flower).

I have a couple more crochet projects in mind, but I might start a little scrap granny square quilt too, to use up some of my leftover bits.

all done

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How does it look? After about 4 months, my first afghan is done! I finished all the granny squares about a month ago, and I decided on Friday afternoon to binge finish sewing it all together. So I settled in on the couch and weaved in all those pesky ends all night.

So far, its been a very helpful, cozy extra layer of warmth during the cold nights. It was made for serious snuggling.

Now time to start another one!

my first scarf

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Ta-da! My first crocheted scarf. It turned out pretty stellar, if I may compliment myself. I would totally be wearing it right now if it wasn’t reminiscent of a warm spring day outside.

I am not, by any definition of the word expert, an expert crocheter. But my ma helped me out semi-following these directions, and I got some help from this youtube lady here. After just a couple minutes of watching, I was crocheting so much faster than her (if you watch the video, this would be a joke).

It only took about an evening to make, so scarves for everyone!

getting closer

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I was really looking forward to finishing up my afghan this weekend, but I ran out of yarn! A crocheting nightmare! But at least it still looks pretty good in the meantime.

granny squares

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I have learned to crochet a couple times in my life. But I never really got into it. Then we learned to make granny squares. Granny squares are my jam. Heads up everyone. Guess what you are all getting for Christmas this year.