Recycling Yarn

Have you ever fallen in love with a color or combination of colors and started something knowing it is not just quite right, but you crochet on just because you want to crochet? Long sentence, glad I am typing. Well, I have. Last year I fell in love with the color combination of pink, green and white. Found the right shades, yarn and thought I found the right pattern. I got the afghan 3/4 done and set it aside.
Last week I was going through Pinrest and stumbled across a pattern that was just perfect for the colors I had found. I made a swatch and it is glorious. My husband pulled the first afghan apart for me and thought I was crazy, but once I told him it saved me from going out to buy more he was happy. I told him I was recycling. Have you ever done this?

It is slow going as I am very busy right and really only get to crochet at night. But it is so pretty. See photos. You can see my Pinterest "Crochet I Love"

 Russ so enjoys taking my stuff apart.

The new pattern is coming out well.

Pattern can be found at Red Heart

Flowers in a row pattern

I am in the process of selling a lot of stuff on ebay.

Where did all this "stuff" come from? I think it comes from my "I can buy any thing I want days", and I look at it and say, "what was I  thinking". I am sure we have all had those moments.

Most of it is from the attic and some from my office. I am turning my office back into a bedroom and taking over my husbands office, he doesn't use it anymore since I bought him a laptop. He now runs our household  empire from his lazy boy.

I am selling my beloved crochet magazines, again I look at some of these and say, "what was I thinking". My how your taste does change, but it does take me down memory lane. I am making copies of the patterns I could not possibly part with and sell the rest.

My husband calls this nesting; when I start cleaning house and organizing everything. I am just doing it on a larger scale this time. I guess it is all this new found time I have. But I just can't start another project until everything is in its place and organized.

Things are a changing in a new phase of my life.

Riding out the storms this week.

We always get the leftovers from tornado alley, but they have been tame by the time they get to us here in Memphis.

Here are some of the afghans I finished this past year. I really am into trying new patterns and color mixtures.

This green and brown one is actually from a kit, my first kit. I wanted this pattern so bad. Couldn't find it anyhwhere, until after I bought it. Go figure. It was fun to make and very nice having all the thread figured out for me. I looked on the Hershnners site and they don't have it anymore. Well it was a year and a half ago that I bought it.

 

 

Liked it so much I made another; called this one my sock monkey afghan. This was made from thread I had bought to make sock monkey hats...long story, starts with pancake craving at IHOP. I am rambling.

 

 

I used Patons Classic Wool. This was so luxurious to work with. Pretty sure I got it on sale.

 

Will post more another time.

 

 

It has been a while...I think I have said that before

I am one of those people that if I can't do it perfect I would rather not start at all, hence, blog with no words. I am going to make it my therapy to write something once a week...baby steps. I love to put my thoughts down  and I will.

I had been so busy working out of the home that I always had an excuse. Now I have been unemployed and I am going to try to work more on my crochet to make my money. Boy, it is hard, but I have never been afraid of hard work.

I am currently working on getting my books on Kindle and as eBooks. A lot of my programing background comes in handy. Almost there.

I have been crocheting afghans.  I think when my Mother passed I spent most of my time at the hospital needing something to do and crocheting was my first go to and an afghan was easy to carry around. After she passed I just kept going. It was my therapy. Moving on.

My sister Liz and I have put some crocheting on Etsy, My Etsy Store  and I will be redoing my website to include some as well. I want to do so much, but I have to focus on things that will make money for now.  Check back soon.