food, crochet, merriment
Awwww…little Tarmac is off to school!
Don’t you just love his sweet back pack?!!
My favorite parts of this squirrely “get-up” are the teensy books hanging from his arms. Heehee.
Perhaps I have too much time on my hands. Perhaps my priorities are a bit mixed up. Perhaps it’s just freaking fun to imagine how people smile when they see this little guy each month. Pretty sure that’s why I do it.
All I know is I sure giggled a lot with this one.
That’s always time well spent.
Oh, my goodness do I ever have a new LOVE!! I mean, seriously–just look at these cute little crocheted “paper” chains!!
Yeah, it started out innocently enough. I found the pattern for these red, white and blue ones and tweaked it in a few crucial places–as is my style–and we ended up with these pretties.
Then, try as I may, I couldn’t stop. They just kept coming and coming and coming. These “summer” ones looked more like Easter sooo, I finished them and put them downstairs in the box with all the baskets.
Then the quest for the perfect real Summer colors began and ended here. What do you think? I lovvvvve them. They just scream beaches, hot sun and ripe peaches.
Now, you would likely think that I’d be done by now but noooOOOooo. Considering my yarn stash is about nine miles wide–I have SUCH plans…
starting right here.
Heh, heh, heh.
Enter Tarmac– our newest beach baby–searching for the perfect place to lay back in the salty waves and float off into tropical paradise oblivion.
We won’t tell him that this is Utah and we’re one of those pesky land-locked states without a proper beach. Water? Sure, plenty of that, but not the picking up seashells and building sand castles type of place from my childhood.
I guess it’s the backyard floaty pool for you Mr. Tarmac.
It’ll have to do.
Remember getting those little packs of paper strips with one sticky side and one regular side? We’d spend all afternoon making them into the most lovely paper chains to hang around the room. My daughter also makes beautiful count down paper chains for people that have a big event coming soon. Point is–we LOVE paper chains around here!!
So, when I saw a pattern for a more PERMANENT “paper” chain to crochet–I was smitten!
This is the first thing I have made in a long, long time that actually made me giggle as it was coming together. Isn’t it adorable?
The minute this one was finished and hung, my mind started spinning with other color scheme posibilities. Autumn, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter, Valentine’s Day, Easter. Groundhog Day. Harry Potter’s Owl’s Birthday. I could be doing this FOR EV ER. Heh, heh.
No end in sight.
Send Cheetoes.
Oh, my goodness! The red, white and blue festival never ends!!
Maybe it’s the crazy state of the planet these days–but we’re just feeling dang patriotic around here. So much so, that I’ve been gathering 4th of July patterns and yarn scraps and making anything and everything that catches my eye.
And as you will see– there’s plenty that catches my eye.
Simple granny squares fitted over a Styrofoam wreath circle. What could be easier?! What could be more patriotic? What could be more Land of the Free and home of the Brave-ish?
Nothing, I tell you.
If you’d like to make this pretty little thing–I found the pattern at Eyeloveknots Patriotic Granny Wreath.