christmas came a little late for richard!!

hello -

i'm so happy!! richard's afghan is finally done!! i finished it last night about 1am!! i walked into the office and asked him if he wanted me to wrap it ~~ LOL!! it was supposed to be a christmas gift, but at least he finally got it!! i also put up a pic of the stitches up close. i got the pattern from this website, http://iamtotallyobsessedwithyarn.blogspot.com/2006/01/granny-square-pattern-with-pictures.html

ok, that's it for now :o)

i'm horrible

hi -
i've been horrible lately to this blog...i haven't forgotten about it, and i have lots of excuses :o)

1-i got into ravelry and have been spending lots of time there, http://www.ravelry.com/people/bluebutterfly

2-it was richard's birthday this week and we've been busy

3-i went to a halloween party for tricia (friend from work), it was her 7yrs old, camryn's party :o) we had lots of fun

4-i've been working a lot (as usual)

5-i've been crocheting :o)

so anyways....to update on richard's crocheting, he has now moved on from chaining to single crochets :o) he's working them in the chain right now then he will learn how to turn the project and work in the the actual stitch to move on the the double crochet :o)

the blue rose filet that i've been working on is finally done, BUT, i don't like how my increases look on the filet, so i'm thinking i might just put a white border of sc or crab stitch all around so it gets a good border, and the squares look like squares :o)

ok that's it for now.....i'm at my mom's right now, so i'm not able to put up pics until later.....

i'll be back....i swear :o)

i'm lazy and richard is learning crochet

hi everyone -

i've been lazy these past couple of weeks and tracie can attest for me how i've been lately with my crochet work.....at the last tbc meeting i just couldn't decide on what to work on....i pulled about 3 different projects in my bag to work on and when i finally started on one, something came up.....*drum roll please* richard decided that he wanted to finally learn to crochet!!! i was so excited. i was going to teach him how to do a granny square, but since he's a lefty, i sat in front of him and i decided to just go step by step: show him how to get comfy with the yarn and hook, and how to chain. here's the pic that tracie took at the meeting...

so then the next day, i went online and found a couple of sites that show lefty videos and he continued with his chain :o)

he's done a great job. i went ahead and made him a newer, even, shorter chain so that he can learn sc and turning....then we will move on to dc :o) i'm so proud of him :o)

ok that's it for now, i'm off to my mother's house to help her with some stuff.

i promise i'll come back and update you on my progress in crocheting :o) fo's and stuff :o)