WIP Wednesday - Learning to Knit!!

I have been so inspired by many of my Ravelry friends and bloggers lately. So I have finally decided to take the time and teach myself how to knit. I have this "Teach yourself how to knit" workbook that came with a dvd. Well, it wasn't sinking in so I went surfing and found this great video tutorial by Expression Fiber Arts on youtube. She is a little corky, but very good at showing you the basics. I love her personality! This is as far as I have gotten because the casting on was quite a challenge! Man, crocheting and knitting to me are night and day!

Yeah, I have been at it for an hour and a half and this is as far as I have gotten! I will get there eventually. I decided to use cotton yarn so I can turn practice swatches into dish cloths. Brilliant idea I know!! Everyone have a wonderful week!

I'm linking up with Tami's Amis blog again this week. Go check out some true WIPs!!

Joining Squares and Enjoying the Changing of the Seasons!!

Hi everyone. My extended weekend has been about joining my African Flower squares and enjoying the touches of the changing of seasons. We have had rain everyday, but there has been some moments in between the rain fall where I could catch some outside time.

I took the crocheting outdoors and enjoyed a mug of spicy chai tea. While enjoying the cool morning air, a few leaves began to fall around me. I had to take a moment and capture the falling of the first leaves!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Hopefully the rain lets up soon so I can do some hiking on the mountain trails!

FO Friday - Peacock & Oyster Potholder & Dish Cloth

TGIF!! I will have a three day weekend for labor day! I am so needing the extra day this week. It seems as if it has been two weeks in just this one. Probably because of my daughter started back to school this week. Plus they started school on a Monday! So it has been a long week for me.

I completed my potholder this week. It didn't turn out as gorgeous as the one I had pinned from Finding Clarity blog, but I am pleased with it. I just love the colors. They are the added color I needed for my kitchen!

My lighting was not the best today due to rain clouds, but I hope you can see how well it turned out. Two of the pics were taken outside on my newly painted rocking chair. You might remember it from this post. The bottom right picture shows you how the potholder is a perfect size for my large stew pot [and it matches my cookware perfectly ;-)]

I am definitely going to make more of these dish cloths and potholders. I do like the Martha Stewart Cotton Hemp yarn. I also have some Sugar n Cream cotton yarn that I can use. I do believe I will be ordering more of the Martha Stewart from Lion Brand though.

I am again linking up with Tami's Amis this week. Please take a moment and check out other FO Fridays!

Wishing everyone a great weekend. I will be square dancing all weekend...joining all my African Flower Squares, not actually square dancing. LOL!!

WIP Wednesday - Peacock & Oyster Pot Holder

Since I ventured into the dish cloth realm of crocheting, I decided I needed a matching potholder. I had pinned a really pretty motif potholder a few weeks back. I really loved the color combo and thought maybe one day. The pin took me to this blog, Finding Clarity. Which in turn, sent me to the original pattern on this online PDF. Whew, it was a lot of internet surfing, but I attained a really pretty pattern for a matching pot holder.

Courtesy of Finding Clarity blog

I haven't yet completed the center motif. The pattern is a two sided pot holder (of course you don't want to burn yourself or counter top), so I still need to do the backing and then join the two sides with that lovely border.

I have also began joining my African Flower Squares! Yay, I am nearing the home stretch. I decided to only make 24 more squares. I was allowing this project to become much bigger than it was suppose to be, so I stopped myself and began the joining process. I hope to show the finished blanket soon!

Please take a moment and hop, surf, click (you know the drill) over to Tami's Amis blog and check out other WIP for this Wednesday! Check back on Friday for my FO on the pot holder.

Dish Cloth Fun

I purchased some Martha Stewart Cotton Hemp yarn a couple weeks back. I was trying to decide what I should make with it. I came across this pattern on Fromm Me To You blog. It looked rather easy and quick. I used the peacock color as the main part of the dishcloth and did the border in the oyster.

Finished results:

This is such a quick and easy project. It's nice to be able to start and finish a project within an hour.

Nature Walk

We had a break in the rain today. I decided to take a nice long nature walk instead of crocheting. Enjoy the few pictures I took along my walk.



Beaver Dam. I kept looking for one but it was too late in the morning.

FO Friday - Another Granny Square Scarf

I have actually completed something for a change! I had this soft adorable scarf yarn that I had purchased from Hobby Lobby along with some coordinating I Love This Yarn. I just made a few mini-granny squares and joined them with the scarf yarn. Then I did a border around the entire scarf and added some tassels. It's a very quick and simple scarf. I do love the colors. So this quick project took care of some of my scarf envy from Pinterest. It is also satisfying when I work on a project that I designed myself (even though it wasn't a very complicated design). :-)

Click on picture to view in a larger screen to really see the gorgeous color!

Take a moment and check out other FOs at Tami's Amis Blog. Have a great weekend! It is forecasting for a rainy weekend so I might be able to finish up some projects.