Crochet – Gracious Rain

January 3, 2025February 11, 2025

Hollow Knight

A few years back, my son played a game called Hollow Knight. He would play, I would read or crochet or work on a puzzle.

What I didn’t actually want to do very often was to…look up. The game gave me the creeps. Not for any violent or evil thing going on. It was actually pretty tame in that way.

But the music was sad and creepy and there were a lot of bugs. Tons of worms and centipedes and assorted crawly things–many much bigger than I was comfortable with. Perhaps I haven’t shared with you how I feel about bugs.

Perhaps I have.

Barf-o-rama.

ANYway, the hero of this game was a little white rabbitty looking dude with a sword that I was ok with. Rhen loved the game so much that out of the blue, I decided to make him this little fella.

Quite pleased with myself if I’m honest.

That is, until my son thanked me for making Knight… the big, white…

beetle.

*gag*

December 25, 2024February 1, 2025

Crocheted Wind Spinners

I’m going to start this by saying that my daddy was a pastry chef.

He passed away about 17 years ago and we’re still at this very moment, trying to figure out what to do with some of his things.

That’s always the case, right?

You want to keep a thing but there’s really no room for it.

Or you don’t want to get rid of a thing but have no idea what to do with it.

Well, that is exactly the dilemma I was faced with. So many of daddy’s cake things that were a billion years old and not really usable but still had so much of him in them. You know?

That’s when a lovely idea struck me.

My dad loved decorating cakes.

Not me.

I’d rather poke myself in the eye.

But give me a crochet hook any day and then we’ll talk.

What if there was a way to smush the best of both worlds into something clever and unique for my entire family?

Could I possibly doooo that?

Turns out, I can.

Everyone chose their favorite color and POOF!

A little bit of Grampa and a little bit…

of me.

See those pretty wind spinners? Me.

See those ancient piping tubes turned into sweet little bells?! Grampa.

April–our color expert–didn’t tell me what colors to use. She sent me a few swatches so it would be perfectly perfect.

Lyndi chose green and blue. Kind of Earth Day-ish colors.

Jillian has always loved pink and yellow. They were even her wedding colors.

Of course Dane, our very patriotic patriot chose red, white and blue.

And Rhen–the die hard Vikings fan picked purple and yellow. The green and black are a nod to Bob Marley, no doubt. Haha.

Merry Christmas my sweethearts.

With love from Mom…

and Grampa.

November 20, 2024February 14, 2025

Crocheted Turkey Place Cards

I’ve made a million different kinds of Thanksgiving place cards–pilgrim girls, pilgrim boys, turkeys and Indians. What I haven’t done is make more permanent ones…like this.