I forgot how to forgetful granny!

Hey! Wow.... long time, no post. But I've been making stuff! Most recently (for Christmas), I made this adorable mile-a-minute afghan for my li'l chinese roomie! She's so adorable and it covered her completely despite being so small!!

I love it! I'm going to make another one I think.  love mile-a-minute afghans because they work up so quick and you don't have to take much with you if you want to make a few strips... you just put them together when you're done!

just some lil' guys

so, i bet you thought that we had flown the coop right?  let me assure you that even if we're not posting, we're still crocheting.  because it's how we stay sane.  coincidentally, the problem with this time of year, it's hard to share projects because most of them will be used as gifts.

but i do have some lil' things to show ya's.

this is a baby hat that i made for a friend at work.  it's black/white striped with a turquoise flower.  it's probably my most favorite baby hat ever.  i've jumped back on the baby hat makin' train. not to be confused with the baby makin' train.  this is my own pattern, including the flower.  :)

adorable halloween necklaces.  this is a twofer, there's a choker in there too.  very simple, chains with flowers attached. easy peesy rice 'n' cheesy. 

any my most favorite: the crocheted pills.  these are sitting on my desk at work....where i need then the most...  

just kidding.  sort of.  

You're gonna have to face it....

....you're addicted to YARN!

Well my friends, another one bites the dust.  As Shannon and I attempt to spread the yarn love across the Universe (or the SLC, which we lovingly call "silk" because that's what it sounds like when you sound out SLC), we have sucked in one of our bestest friends in the whole wide world.  

Ladies and gentlemen, our good friend Alair has completed her first BAG.  

Yes indeedy, her first project that is not a washcloth.  

Now, we started this endeavor last summer during the week 'o crochet and she's been hookin' ever since. She's incredibly busy so the fact that she completes projects completely impresses me.  AND she has given me something to blog about, as my crochet mojo has gone missing.  

Ta-da!!  I'm so proud.  She's all growed up. 

And speaking of growing up, here are a couple of new baby hats that'll give some wee ones a warm head in their first few weeks.  

I think we finally have sizing down, it took a lot of work.  It's difficult to know how big a baby's head is when you have no access to babies.  

Just sayin'.  

Crochet on. 

Where has all the yarn gone?

Did you all miss us? 

Mans, life happens ya know? While Shannon was off saving lives (literally), I have been spending a lot of time with the yarn. More organizing than crocheting, but I do have a project to share today.

My adorable niece is has just turned 8 and has chosen to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  To help her commemorate, I wanted to give her a small gift. 

A small adorable gift. :)

Ran across this pattern a few months ago, but never had a reason to try. My wait is OVER!

Cutie patooty bag with a fancy schmancy bow!  

A break from your regularly scheduled crochet posting

Ok so this is way out of the norm for us but totally indirectly crochet related :) Kami needs some help! She's entered a contest to get a room makeover and desperately needs it. Kami knows I'm not trying to offend. She just has a tiny space that could use another set of eyes for some organization. AND this chickadee has got great taste so she's willing to put her house in someone else's hands. Check out Kami's post about it here and then PLEASE go to vote for her here. Help a sistah out pretty please!

Pursuit of Purses

Hello class, today I would like to discuss purses. Raise your hand if you love them. Oh good me too. Now raise your hand if you love them so much that you constantly print out crochet patterns thinking, "I'm going to make that for me!", but then never actually make them. Oh and if you have multiple purses but you're too lazy to switch all the junk out so you just stay with the same one and people look at you with confusion when you profess your love of all things purses. Just me? Really?! oh dear...

Well in any case, I got around to making a couple and I have to say I'm kind of really thrilled. Even though neither ended up being for me. It was such an easy pattern and came out looking so good that I want to make one in every color now. For me of course. If I could just find the time! The first one was a present for my boyfriend's sister who had a birthday recently. What do you give your boyfriend's sister? That was a tough choice. I wanted to make something age appropriate (read: not for a child) and I wanted it to be something she would want to actually use. Not something to throw away in a closet corner then donate to the DI in year. I hope I succeeded but I'll have to remember to scope out the DI in her area. kidding...sort of.

Super cute eh? I found the pattern on ravelry and if you're not already a member there, I highly recommend you join. It rocks my socks off. (no I've never crocheted socks)

I got some feedback from my sister that her girls had both claimed the last little Easter looking purse and heart hat as their own. No share-sies! So I decided to make another purse to partially even the score. And I'm working on my first article of clothing, a skirt, for them as well. I think I like making things for the nieces because it's alway smaller and takes less time. There, it's out, I'm lazy.

Ahhh, crochet. Ain't nothin' better.

I promise this is an IMPORTANT Yarn Clearance post

Do you see this yarn? DO YOU?! It's made out of bamboo. It's addictively soft and the colors are so beautiful, you forget about it being handwash only. You have to just sink your fingers into the skein and nuzzle it against your cheek....

SHUT UP, I KNOW YOU DO IT!

I moseyed over to Michael's to discover it's ON CLEARANCE! It will soon be no more! At least in the colors that exist. Maybe forever! I bought up 5 skeins to make an adorable granny-square afghan. I might go back and buy more.

This is your alert. If you want some awesome bamboo yarn, get to your local Michael's store right away. I found mine in Draper.

I need validation.

This may tell you what a giant dork I am, but I get so excited when I see crocheted items on blogs that I know a ton of people follow. 

Apartment Therapy is certainly one of my favorite places to blog stalk. I'm in the process of searching to a living room and bedroom inspiration photo that I can copy in my house. You know, like on HGTV.  Which I currently don't have but will when the government stops taking all my money. Bastards.

What was I saying?  Crocheting! Apartment Therapy!  I read up this site every night.  EVERY NIGHT.  I wish that there was a way that I could take all the information they give and input it into my brain, like on the 'Matrix'. So when I go to do something in my home, I know exactly what I want AND I know how to do it and it will look awesome.

I keep forgetting what my point is. 

Crocheting on blogs.  Popular blogs, if you will.  It helps me prove that crocheting is awesome.

In my search for room porn, I came across this house tour that was recently featured.  Check it out here.

But seriously, how adorable is this little place?

How cute is that cabinet in the back full of warm yarny goodness?   And the super cute granny square kick assghan?

I don't even love fabric, but this picture makes my heart flutter just a little.  Anything you want is right there.  And it's arranged by color. I suddenly have the urge to sew something. 

Adorable.

I know I'm biased here and it is possible that I love yarn a little more than the average person, but how cute are those accessories? I need to cover something in granny squares. NOW.

All images found here.



Pretty!

In my bloggy stalking I cam across this little gem a few days ago.  We've been workin' on headbands lately.  Why you ask?  

I have no idea.  

They're quick and easy and adorable.  Those are good reasons right?  

I thought so too.  

Check this action out. 

Yes, it's on my a teddy bear that may or may not be from Build a Bear.  Don't judge me.  Just look at the headband okay?  At least it's not a doll.  That's just creepy.  

And a close up.  That's a KNOT.  Genius!  How cute is that?   

So many "knotty" ideas are swimming around in my head now...hahaha.  See what I did there? 

I have plans for this pattern.  One day.  When I'm not falling asleep at 8 pm. 

And just for kicks, here are two more baby hats that I made for my good friend Jess.  She doesn't know what they look like, so hopefully this doesn't ruin the surprise before she gets them in the mail.  But I can't wait anymore!

Grey and white, 3-6 month size.  I'm a little in love with this one.  

I'm in love with this one too. Because it has a BUTTON. AHHHH!  It's so cute.  This is for a newborn-3 months.  

She gets two because I misplaced the first one in all the house chaos....sometimes I really wonder about myself.  She can keep the one that fits and give one as a gift or do whatever.  I was just pleased to make them because they're fun. 

To sell or not to sell....

....that is the question friends.....

Hey nerds, Kami here. Long time no blog.  It's been an eventful couple of months....

After several discussions about whether or not we want to make money with this blog, we've come to the conclusion that we don't want to get rich from this.  Can I just tell you how much we love to crochet?  We LOVE it.  The thought of not having a Thursday Crochet Night hurts my heart a little bit. 

But the more we do it, the more we've noticed that people like what we make and have even asked us to work some things up for them.  What we figured out was from the things that we sell, we can keep ourselves loaded with caffeine and Papa Johns for as long as we want!  This occurred to us last night and basically, the discussion went something like this:

Shannon: I don't want to get rich. I love doing it.

Kami: I don't think anyone should pay $20 for a headwrap.  Unless they're shipping it to a foreign country.

Shannon: I don't want to screw anyone either. (she's a lot nicer than me)

Kami: *SIGH* Okay, I don't either really. 

...and so on and so forth.

We did however, make a few decisions after asking ourselves the difficult questions:

Do we start an ETSY Shop?

NO.  We were both pretty emphatic about that. Neither one of has has any desire at this point to run an etsy shop.  Maybe at some point. But now is not that point.

What do we charge? 

Both of us have very strong opinions about what people charge for their homemade handicrafts.  We know what it takes to crochet a headband and it's not a week.  Some of the prices are a little outrageous to us.  I know that these people what the right to charge whatever they want, but we're actually not trying to make a lot of money. We just want dollars for dinner and drinks every Thursday night. For now... :)

That said, what we charge is based on a few things: What kind of yarn we use, how long it took us to make, and whether or not we have to mail it.

Example: When I (Kami) make a headwrap, I have timed that I put in about 2 hours total.  There are a four pieces that need to be worked and then assembled.  I use the least expensive yarn for most of these, unless it's for an baby or a chemo cap (they're super sensitive).  I think $8 is totally fair, based on hours worked and yarn used.  Especially when I see the same exact thing going for $20 in boutiques and online. Resist overpriced crocheted accessories.  Chances are, they're out of cheap yarn and not too difficult to make.  Unless they're knitted, which we don't really care about...If you'd like knitted accessories, this is not the blog for you. :)

 What's our "gimmick?"

We are happy to make the homemade gifts that you don't want to make!  That's the whole point of this.  What we make isn't too terribly difficult, but it is time consuming and sometimes the idea of making a homemade gift can be overwhelming. Let us do it for you!  Come on, you know you want to.  Everyone's doing it.  First time's free.....*wink wink*  We're going to crochet either way.

How will we distribute the work? 

If you want a Kami headband or a Shannon pair of booties, we'll each do our thang.  If Shannon's co-worker/mom/friend wants Shannon to make them something, she gets the moola. If someone we don't know wants something that neither of us made, perhaps we'll pool that money and have dinner on you. :D Basically, whoever made the item will get the money.  And then we'll probably buy each other dinner. Because that's what we do.  Well, I buy dinner.  Shannon makes it because she's awesomely domestic like that. :) I just know how to make things out of string...


How will people "place and order"?

Just email us and tell us what you're looking for. If you want something you've seen on the blog, great!  If you'd like us to make you something different, then that's great too!  Esay peasy lemon squeezy. 



You can find us in several places.  We each have a facebook account. If you're a friend, feel free to message one of us there. If you're extra special and have our personal email addresses, feel free to use that!


AND LOOK! We now have an email address just for this very purpose.

notlamecrochet@gmail.com

Ta-da!  We feel so legit.  Too legit to quit.

If the item you want is too hard, we'll be the first to admit it.  Our specialties include:  kickassghans, pillows, throws, hats, headwraps, headbands, scarves, bags, and other various accessories.

At some point, we'll have a page where all the projects are featured and you can pick. We'll also have a way of determining what color you'd like and what kind of yarn you want used.

Should be pretty simple.  And we're not expecting mass orders.  It's just that people keep asking so here you go!

We're easy and so is what we do really.  No one is saying that what we make is special or unique in any way. We just know that there are many times when people want a homemade gift but just don't have the time to make it.  That's where we come in.

*Disclaimer*

Life creeps up on us.  It feels blasphemous to say it, but there are some weeks were we don't crochet at all. The last couple of months have been stressful to say the least.  In this regard, crocheting has saved each of us many times. But it sometimes makes it difficult to finish a project.   We both have full time jobs, relationships that need nurturing, houses to revamp, and karaoke to sing.

Which reminds me, I (Kami) have to give a huge shout out to my girl Christy who waited for her headbands for like, 4 months.  I'm so sorry!! Does your daughter even like them?  They were some of the first ones i ever made so I bet they're a little interesting....

Coming soon: Page for our "shop" with pics and prices.  wOOt!


Thanks for readin', appreciate ya!

**UPDATE**From Shannon: Huge thanks to Denise for being our first official custom order. I hope she doesn't mind I share, but I think it's great. Denise is having me make her some coasters similar to the ones I made everyone for Christmas (did I ever post those?). She's upping the awesome factor by taking the crocheted coasters and gluing them to her sandstone coasters. This way all of the percipitation is soaked up by the cotton, but she still has a nice heavy coaster. I know the most brilliant gals I tell ya.  

It's a Struggle

I know, I know, a month with no cute crochet updates?! It's a crying shame. Sadly it's been a slow first quarter for the crochet gals with major dips in mojo. Hopefully the changing seasons will inspire some more action, but all has not been forgotten thus far!
(although camera batteries have been forgotten thus far so camera phone pics it is...again...I KNOW tsk tsks all around)

After last month's hat fiasco I decided to make a couple more things to send to my nieces and nephew. I got started on an adorable little ruffle purse and then got bored doing the ruffles. Normally I would NEVER tire of ruffles, but it just was that kind of month so the bag metamorphasized into this little sweetness.

Because of the color, shape, and time of year, my coworkers helped reveal its true purpose in life as an easter basket. Works for me!

Now that the girls were covered I couldn't forget the most adorable little nephew ever. Need proof? Ok you asked for it. Prepare to awww...

Notice I said most adorable nephew. No fair saying your own kid is cuter, of course they are. But as nephews go, this guy is tops!

Boys are tough. There are mountains of goodies that are girl appropriate, but far less for boys. At least far less that won't get him beat up at school. Of course my nephew is hardly school aged, but I digress. I decided to make him a pair of these cutie patootie booties. Which are fast and easy and I'm in love with them. One looks longer than the other but I just messed around with the other one more and stretched it out a tad.

So you see, no need to fear. Even when things are a little slow, they're still ahappenin' in our little crochet world. 

Coming soon (I promise camera batteries will have been purchased), we have a new bed for this lovely lady.

She's even dressed up in her Dodge Ram bandana from the rodeo. This chick comes to visit every other weekend and so far, I've only had this meager setup for her. A tupperware container for water, two old pillows and a spare fleece blanket thrown over them. Such a pretty gal deserves a little comfort at least so I'm making a dog bed for when she comes to visit. I really should get at least a water bowl too somewhere along the line. Anyway, here's a sneak peek at the 70's-aliciousness that will be her bed. Good things dogs are color blind. They are right?

I actually think because of the design that it will be cuter than I originally thought. We'll see. :)

 

Baby Hats Gone Wrong

Hey Folks, Shannon here. If you've been following along, you'll know that Kami and I recently became obsessed with making baby hats. It's therapeutic to be able to make something to donate and when it's for a baby, it's EXTRA fun! Somehow Kami was able to master the trick and made just about the cutest baby hats I've ever seen. In...my...whole...life. So I grabbed my baby hat pattern and went to town. My first attempt came out looking pretty cone headed. I know that some babies come out that way, but I doubt anyone wants to emphasize that feature so I took it apart and tried again. This time I got a cute little bucket hat going but it became size challenged. All I can say is that if any woman had a baby with this big of a head, I would feel so very bad for her. So the hat turned into a hat for my nieces. Whichever one's head fits, wins the prize!

Originally these were going to be a flower, but I was inspired by the season so precious little hearts it is!

crocheted things on apartment therapy!

how cool is this?

i'm thinking i need to make something and then go back and let them know!!  time to get noticed.  and what better way than with a kick ass chevron? just sayin'.

hehe.   :)

i love valentine's day

i say it every year and i'll say it again, i LOVE valentine's day.  LOVE LOVE LOVE it. 

that said, here is the first of some valentine's day goodies i've been working on.  

i saw this tutorial on towel belts.  i know, who'da thunk it right?  i certainly didn't.  until i saw it....

now, i could lie and say that i thought this would be useful for me and all my towel frustration. but i don't cook and i have honestly never had a 'towel-always-falling-on-the-floor' dilemma.  

however,  i was intrigued. mostly because i thought, "can i crochet something like that?"

you bet your ass i can!

here's the before: 

and here's the after!  no towels fallin' over here!  

please know that i'm not making fun of those who's towels are often found on the floor. i'm making fun of myself because i'd too have this issue, if i cooked.  ever.  as in, using my oven to cook food.  

i should try it someday i suppose.  but until then, i'm going to sit back and admire the cuteness.  

i just can't get enough

i just can't get enough...of these gosh darn cute baby hats!  now that i've figured it out, i can't stop.

here we have a pretty pink hat.  i was going to leave it plain, but that just didn't make any sense to me.  i made the pink flower first.  too plain. then i made the cream center.  still too plain.  so finally, this little baby ended up with a double flower. i know, it's cute.

and once again to give you an idea of the size, it's on my diet coke can.  which is turning out to be the best hat stand ever.  it's useful AND tasty.

and now for the dudes. baby yarn is traditionally pretty girly.  but my el cheapo yarn is way too tough for new born heads.  a toddler maybe....but not a baby and especially not a preemie. 

so i searched for the studliest color in my stash.  this isn't a baby blue, more of a light grey blue.  with a cream stripe...i was goin' for a sk8ter boy vibe.  siiiiiiiiiiigh.....it's still a tad girly. 

now onto booties.  these, along with the hats, i used to be an expert at.  but then i reached the ripe old age of 25 and stopped making presents for all of my friends who were having babies. (i'm from utah,  there were a lot during my early 20's...).

this is the simplest pattern i was able to find.  and i'm not in love with them.  i tried to freehand some but it didn't work. 

they're not bad.  they just look rather....i don't know, elfish to me?  and really, i don't want to embarrass the little guys.  with the chicks you can slap a flower on those babies and call it good.

there may just not be such a thing as a manly bootie.  just sayin'.

i'll keep trying.

the power of crochet night...

inevitably during the day, i find myself emailing shannon to tell her how irritated, pissed off, and tired i am only to find that she is feeling the exact same way.

i'm not generally pissed off about one thing, it's often a lot of little things that ultimately add up to one big giant pile of crap that i can't do anything about. except for adjust my attitude.  which will come later, after the complaining.

this past thursday happened to be one of those days.

enter email. and shannon. who, can i just say, is probably one of the top 5 funniest people i know.  also, one of the most thoughtful. and if i had to pick my top 5 favorite characteristic traits, thoughtful would be right on up there.

january 13 started out as an 'irritable' day for kami. personally, i'm a little concerned about some things that are going on in my family, i'm disappointed in some people's decision making skills, and tired of everyone in the world being selfish a-holes all the time.

and then, she had a brilliant idea. i think she said something like this:  I'm about ready to give up on people.  i think i'm going to forget about regular projects and do something for a baby.

DING!  a few weeks earlier, a friend had mentioned that local hospitals were always in need of crocheted items for the little ones.

i'm not gonna lie. i started to cry a little bit. because in that one second, i found myself pulled out of all my negative ickiness, and into profound sense of excitement and gratitude that there is something that i can do to to contribute.i think it worked for her too, because before i knew it, we had a million patterns to look at and had decided what we were going to do. crochet night couldn't have come fast enough.

flash forward to crochet night (which, really is what i look forward too most during the week) where we made tiny hats and booties. they are the cutest things i've ever seen. 

sadly, i'd lost my 'crochet hat mojo'...it took me several tries to get something that a baby could use.  i ended up with a 6-month old baby hat and a hat so tiny that i don't know if it would fit anything other than a barbie.  shannon assured me that there are babies of all sizes.  phew!  

fast forward to today, sunday. and i'm sick.  i'm one sick girl.  i'm also mad about this because it's over my three day weekend and i have barely been able to walk to and from the kitchen to the bathroom and back to my bed.  i turned on the tv and they were talking about the tucson shooting again. so i started crying.  again. and then decided to make baby stuffs.  again.  worked like a charm. 

i think i have it back now and today have crocheted the cutest damn hat i've ever seen.  check it yo's: 

i put it on my computer so you could see how small it is. i used extra soft cream and brown yarn. the little ones want to be stylin' too.  that's a little flower. one day, i need to actually learn to take a good picture. 

and here it is on my diet coke can so you can get an idea of it's size. forgive the mess in the back. i'm sick.  although, i'm not kidding anyone.  even  if i was feeling great my coffee table would still look just like this...

i don't have a specific pattern i use.  with me, my hats always come out different and when i try to follow a pattern, they go all wonky. so this is a few patterns put together. just a circle and then rows.  with a flower for adorableness.  easy peasy and cute taboot!

Update from Shannon: Of course I took it upon myself to link this guy up (and I'm sure I'll link some more later) It's too cute not to share!

I Love the Night Life

Crochet night that is...especially when it includes a little Dollar Store craft shopping! (and incidentally I love to boogie on the disco rooooound too) If you hadn't guessed from the spasticness of that beginning, it's long lost Shannon here. I really need to get my act together. I have a zillion projects to post, but I have to get my pictures organized first. In the meantime, I'm just too excited about our crochet night last night to not post about it. My camera is all wonky so you'll have to excuse the phone pics. (not like my camera pics are any better lol) Anyway, check out this little beauty. All in all I spent 2 dollars and the rest of the materials I already had on hand.

I'm totally in love with this sweetness. Let me walk you through its creation. First, Kami sent me an email one day that said "We should make these sometime soon" Of course the first thing I did when I clicked on her link was my signature high pitched squeal. I love the colors and I could just eat up those adorable little felt flowers. Coincidentally I happened to have been reading this blog post and loved the wreath she made too. She used book pages to make rosettes. I noticed that she said she'd made  rosettes out of felt too previously so I was all excited to have a tutorial. I thought, I'll do both wreaths! Where will I put two wreaths? No clue, but I'll do them both anyway! (I'm ambitious like that) The day before yesterday I took a little solo trip to the dollar store and picked up a styrofoam wreath form. I also picked up these little tiny balls meant to be vase fillers. I have no clue what they're made of but they're really staticky. Anyway, I picked up a couple of colors to use as embellishments for lots of things on the cheap.

Now I don't have extra books lying around my house. I usually borrow books from my sister or my mom and then return them. The few books I have at home are ones I want to keep intact. I've looked around thrift shops and the dollar store for books that I would feel comfortable ripping up and I always seem to find books about murderers and politics. Call me superstitious, even if the pages are cut up and no one can read them, just knowing that type of material is hanging on my wall would give me the heebie jeebies. Although we did find dictionaries and thesauri (is that the plural? hee hee) at the dollar store so that is a thought. In any case I have tons of newspaper. I kind of dig the slightly darker coloring they give the flowers. When I started making these little rosettes, I quickly discovered that they take forever. I think it was just hard for me to get a good rhythm. I experimented with how far apart to space the spirals, how big to make them, etc. So all of the smaller ones I made came out looking very different from one another. Not necessarily bad but annoying. I finally figured out how to make one bigger rosette but by that time it was almost crochet night! At this point I was seriously reconsidering making a whole wreath's worth. So last night Kami and I took another trip to the dollar store because I was way too excited to show her the fun things I found. She bought some more balls (lol) and wreath forms too. By the time we got home I'd decided to make the yarn wrapped wreath and use the rosettes as embellishments. A few more rosettes, duct taping (that foam gets messy), and hours of yarn wrapping ended up coming together to make something even cuter than I had envisioned. Add to that a few cream colored balls to embellish the embellishments and I was smitten.

Lastly I needed something to hang it with. So out came my trusty twine. For some reason I really love doing stuff with twine. I crocheted a regular chain and noticed that it started spiralling on its own. What an unexpected, happy surprise! So I glued it to the back of the wreath and realized I made it too long. No worries, just double that baby up and it perfectly covers the ghetto push pin I used to hang it.

Here she is resting in her final home. I'm using the cabinets I got from Kami as my "mantle" for decorations. I'm the type who has a designated decor space in each room. I like the rest of my flat surfaces to be really simple and uncluttered. Hey, I said that's what I like, not that my apartment actually looks that way!

Along the way Kami was going on her own wreath. It's amazing how it can be the same general idea but come out so different. And SOOOO CUTE! I'm going to turn the time over to Kami now to share her adorableness. Feel free to jump up and down and clap. I did.

enter kamcicle: 

kami here!  you'll notice that i'm entirely too lazy to capitalize.  that's how you can tell us apart!

i'm am so excited about this little guy that i can barely stand it.  i had the intention to make some as gifts, but wrapping things in yarn takes FOREVER so i'll have to love you a lot to consider something any bigger than this.  

as shannon mentioned, we bought foam wreath forms to cover in yarn.  this is all fine and good except for that they are floral foam wreaths, which are messy and break easy.  *siiiiiiiiiiigh*  plan b.  lucky for us, shannon had some duct tape. so what you see in these pictures is a labor of love and cuteness.  because not only did it take a few hours to wrap this lil' guy in yarn, we had to pre-wrap the wreath in tape.  

and as she was making her rosettes out of paper, i was crocheting as fast as my little hands could take me.  4 rosettes later, some white balls (haha, can you tell we think it's funny when someone says balls?) and presto!  not really presto, but presto in blogger land!

behold:

i wanted to match the flowers, so i crocheted a little ribbon like dealio for the hanger. i must say, i'm a little in love.  it's on the wall here just so i can take a picture. i'm still debating on it's permanent home.  

stay tuned for more adorableness!  

And because we gals love a good party, check out where we linked!

  

http://www.sugaranddots.com/2011/01/what-i-whipped-up-wednesday-linky-party_11.html

and here and here too!

the inner bitty is now the outer bitty

this christmas was spent making things for other people. 

as i was thinking about what i wanted to make for myself, i realized that i wanted to sew a slipcover for my chair cushion.  but then i realized that my cat would just lay on this new slip cover and ruin it.  like she does everything else. 

she lays on everything.  she especially likes things that have been freshly washed.  i've caught her in my laundry basket...and my jammy drawer. but that was my fault because i left the drawer open. 

i couldn't have her ruin the new slip cover, so i made a slip cover...cover?  let's think of a fun name!

here she is messing with the yarn. she can't keep her hands to herself for 5 seconds. 

it's a kitty cozy!  she wasn't too happy with me at this point. i made her get in it so i could take the picture....

see how she looks like she's about to make a run for it?  she's thinking, "i'm going to murder you in your sleep...."

here she is snuggled up.  a kitty snuggie?  hehe...she got in it on her own this time.  does she kind of look like she has a lazy eye?  she does walk into walls on occasion....she also looks like she's still plotting my demise...

ahhhh.....sleepy time now.  

doesn't she look so cozy?  i'm such an old lady.  because this is my idea of a good time.

and should i be embarrassed that there are 5 pictures of my cat in this post? i promise i do stuff.