peacock track mystery scarf CAL

hi -

i'm very excited to be joining/starting my very first CAL. it is being given by the stitchstud :) [i met him at chainlink, so nice and he's mentioned in the talking crochet with carol alexander :)] it's called peacock track mystery CAL. here is some more info on ravelry on it :) i can't wait to start. i'm very curious about this CAL. what attracted me to it was the fact that stitchstud is going to give us the instructions in audio format first then chart and text instructions once we've completed the section. this CAL is going to be just too interesting to not try it!! if you want to join me and about 100 other people on this quest, click here to sign up on google groups by sept 13th :)

once he says we can talk about it, i'll post more :)

and as for chainlink pics, i still have to upload them on flickr/photobucket and link them to here...i'm just still moving stuff out of my 'new' room at my mom's (see previous post) and moving my stuff in....slowly....ugh, i hate moving!!

chao!

what's been going on....

hello --

oh alright already....it's been way too long since i last posted, but life had just not let me have a moment to breathe. here's a little explaination... :)

for all of you that don't know, i lost my dad in july and i've been traveling like a mad woman since. we buried him in puerto rico cuz that was his final wish, to be wherever my mom was going to be. we stayed there long enough for the 'novena' (catholic custom of 9 nights of rosaries then a mass).

then off to the knit & crochet show in buffalo for me and tracie. mind you, i got in from puerto rico on a sunday, and left for conference on tuesday. had a blast there, learned new things, and met lots of very important people. i possibly will have a job with mary beth temple!! woo hoo!! i love connections that are made at conferences :) most people know me as tracie's tagalong :) LOL!! but that's ok, i'm good :) i was just happy to be away from everything.

we left sunday, and on the following tuesday i left for panama (the country where my dad is from, i say country cuz most people think i mean the city in florida). and here i am, my last nite in panama, and i don't want to go home, but i do a the same time.

i don't cuz i'm moving back in with my mother. she just can't be alone, she hates being alone, and i'm the only child :) she spoiled me, now i can spoil her. and i don't want to go back to work!! 3 months of not working and i think i could be a housewife with no problems :) LOL! with all the changes going on in my personal life and the changes apparently happening at my job, i'm considering leaving my job and going for another....but in this economy i almost don't want to risk it, what if what i have in mind doesn't pan out for me....but someone else gets hired?!? then what?

oh my, lots of changing and cleaning to be going on in the next couple of weeks.

i will definately post lots of pics from conference and what i made from my hairpin lace class :) i'm so proud of myself for finishing! and i've found a new love, hairpin lace!! it's so beautious of a stitch, and complicated looking, but it's not!!

ok, enough for now. i'm gonna pack some things this week and talk you all in a few days :)

chao! (my new way of saying bye, it stuck from here in panama. they don't say adios or bye, it's chao!) :)

it's official!

i am all registered and paid for!!
i bought the crochet 2009 hook.
i'm taking the beginning hairpin lace class and with it i'll have the homework done for the beginning hairpin lace join class in the afternoon!! :o)
i'm also taking the pushmi pullyu class, cuz i think it'll help with the filet crochet i like to do....i hate turning work! :o)
tracie and i are going to go to the dinner, fashion show and silent auction! woo hoo!
and we will be shopping all in between! :o)
i'm so excited! i can't wait for august!

gift exchange at cgoa

hi -
so there is gonna be a gift exchange at the cgoa conference.... and i want to exchange something.... if you look at my previous posts, you'll see the bmc that i made.... i decided that i'm going to make another one. i know i said i'd never make on again, but i'm already on round 40 of 60 and i love the color combo. ocean blues and white. tracie says that i won't give that one away, but instead give the one that i made months ago.... we'll see about that... i love blues... so maybe she is right.... lol!
let's see if i can get through these last 20 rounds, cuz the further i get the longer it takes to do one round. :o)
i'll update pics as soon as i take some :o)
talk to you later,
me

cgoa conference, knit and crochet show, happy easter

i'm going! woo hoo! i finally picked out the classes i'm taking. flight is paid for, hotel reservations made, all i have left is to actually register! :o) for those of you that don't know, it's in buffalo new york. i've got family there and in rochester (45 minutes away) so i just might call my cousin so we can have lunch or dinner :o) i really need to sit down and get this blog up to date! i've made lots of mini doilies and i have to update ravelry too....maybe later this week.

oh by the way, happy easter! i've had a lovely day with my parents. we went to mass at 11am then came back to the house, had a light lunch. i started washing clothes. we watched 'west side story'. then we had lasagna for dinner and i'm stuffed!

ok enough for now,
see ya,
margarita

1st post of 2009

hello -
so i know it's been many months since i last posted...but it's been busy for me....
i still have been crocheting, but i just haven't posted about it all....
i am working on the '99 little doilies' by patricia kristoferson. my goal is to have all of them made by this year's cgoa conference. i want to cover 2 pairs of jeans with the little doilies! i can't wait....
i will be posting more often so that i can show off what i've done so far, but give me a couple of days to get it all organized. i moved recently and i can't find all of the ones i've done so far....lol...i know they are somewhere in all of my boxes...
type to you soon.
margarita

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my bmc and afghan

hello -

i finally finished my between the meals centerpiece and it took me about a month to post about it. but here it is. the 1st pic is of the whole thing, 2nd pic is of the center, and the 3rd pic is of the edge.

i also have been working on my afghan.....but something has been stopping me from completing it....every time i try to work on it, this is what i see....

well that's about it for now....

see ya!

stupid me

ok so i made another purse, but this one was for my friend, jen that saw mine, loved it and wanted one for herself.......i finished it, washed it and gave it to her. but, i didn't take a pic.....i'm so stupid....now i have to ask her to take a pic of it and email it to me....

stupid me.

between the meals centerpiece and teaching ;p

hi - so i'm a little bit tired today....work was just a little too much...i'm off to my mom's to wash clothes (cuz i'm cheap, lol) and have meatballs and spaghetti....

i'm on the very last round of the between the meals centerpiece!! i'm so excited i might actually finish this one soon!! woo hoo!! maybe i'll finish it tonight and i'll be able to post tomorrow that i finished!

tomorrow my best friend, jodi is coming over to learn how to cro-knit (tunisian) a teddy bear for her son (wolfie), he's 2 :o) we'll se how it goes. she knows basic crochet stitches, i just have to teach her the actual things about tunisian (thanks tracie for the know-how)...i might end up making it with her :o)

ok i'm off,
see ya
margarita

dish soap dress

wow, i so can't say that fast!! tracie knows, she heard me trying to say it last night and i kept stumbling over my words!!!! hahaha!!

ok on to the project! i decided about 2 weeks ago to buy a couple of grab bags from elmorepisgah.com to just see what it was about....i wanted to get a good amount of the same type of colors so i ordered 10 grab bags.......wow!!! that was a lot! i got 10 gigantic balls of white thread, 10 normal balls of camel colored thread, 10 skeins of sugar n cream khaki colored and at least 10 skeins of white cotton yarn and more than 10 skeins of different colors of cotton yarn!!

so i thought to myself the other day, "i want to make something with the cotton i got!" so i was looking through a couple of mags that i have gotten in the past month, and i came across the dish soap dress in crochet world june 2008 issue.

i thought, ok, this is a different type of project for me and i've always wanted to make one, so here we go..... well, it was quite simple to make, basic stiches and a v-stitch. it was the first time that i made something with hair bands!! 1 hairband for the neck and 1 for the waist :o) i think it turned out quite nice :o)

so here are some pics....enjoy!!

yarn tasting

hello -

this past wedsnesday, i went to a yarn tasting with tracie and john at a yarn outlet. what's a yarn tasting you ask? let me explain....it's like a wine tasting, but with yarn. hahahaha!


prism yarn hosted this yarn tasting. prism sent debbie (owner of lys) lots of different yarns for us to play with, and purchase :o) there were about 20 people or so, all sitting, eating, knitting and crocheting with these lovely types of yarn. we were all able to crochet with all the different kinds of yarn that prism sent!


manhattan was my favorite. then i tried trieste, i liked that one too. i liked the way it felt running through my fingers...it was soft, very soft. there were a few yarns that the moment i touched, i knew i didn't like, so i passed those on. i found out that ribbon yarn is not so nice to crochet with....the stitches get lost in the folds of the ribbon yarn, but that's ok.



i will definately be returning for the next tasting!! i did have lots of fun.


i was able to meet and talk to vashti. she's great! she showed us a bunch of jewelry she's working on and stuff like that. i also talked to her about different threads and beads and such.


i didn't buy any prism yarn, cuz i want to make sure i have the right project before i go spending more money.....but, i did buy some more wool for fulling/felting. my friend jen loved my bag and wants one....and she's willing to pay!! woo hoo! so i bought the colors she picked out and 2 new colors for me to make a spring bag. i think the blue/grey bag is more for winter time....i want a brighter purse for the spring/summer.

anyways, enough for now,
see ya!

remembering new york

no crochet in this post....just a quick memory of when i lived in the big apple....

i lived in manhattan, new york, back in '99, '00, right before the whole 9-11 thing....i had a couple of friends from puerto rico always coming to visit and hang out/go to concerts and stuff. well, one of their trips up, i decided to take the day off cuz i was going to actually do the "tourist" thing. lucy, wilmy, and me **and their friend that came that time which i don't remember her name** went on the red tour buses all through new york. we took the upper route first then the lower route....we had a blast.... we went to the empire state building and then we went to the statue of liberty via ferry. i remember the fun we did had!and the laughing and the shopping!! and the henna tattoos in battery park....

so i just wanted to share with you the pic. i hope you liked it.....

*friend, lucy, wilmy and me at liberty island with the towers/new york city behind us*

peace! :o)

felted purse done!!

hello -


i finally finished crocheting my purse this past saturday and i went to dani's on monday to felt it....i have never felted any project, so dani was my teacher for the day!! a big thank you to dani for taking pics of the felting process. (my mom stole my camera for her puerto rico trip, thanks mom!!)


it always seems when i go over to dani's, there is always something going on. i love it!! dani had a PTA thing to do, so we took a car trip to a friends house to pick up some candy bars. dani had to make a wrap for the bars with school stuff on it. we cut, wrapped, and taped the bars together!! then after that we went to take the bars back to her friends house!


in the meantime, *during all the cuting and wrapping* dinner was made. poor ava *one of dani's dogs* got sick and poor puppy threw up her dinner....and besides all that we picked up jesse from school and then from soccer. ate dinner. but we felted and put together our bags.....wow what a day!!


dani found out, after the felting washes, that one of the yarns she used was not wool and that part of the bag didn't felt. i'm sorry that happened to you dani!! but i think it still looks good!


so on with the pics....i'll show you the before and after pics....

i know, i know

i know...it's been a while and a bunch of stuff has happened....but this post is about my socks that i finally completed....my first pair!! with the help of dani and tracie, i did it!! i actually made a "wearable". the pattern calls for a higher cuff, but i don't like my socks that high...i like them sporty, so i made them that way...and tracie showed me how to do a cuff and it looks great in my opinion, thanks tracie!!

i'm already on my way to making another pair. but, i'm gonna stop for now, since i want to make a felted purse...

anyways, here are the pics of the finished product....

well on to more posting projects on ravelry....see you soon...maybe LOL