Friday, August 6, 2010

Current Crafting Crazes

Ok. I have to confess...I'm a crafting junkie. I am always starting a new hobby or resurrecting old ones I haven't touched in years. The latest craze: crochet. Now, I have not ever truly given up crochet, in fact in the last few years, I have finished some really nice baby blankets for friends. Now I have convinced myself it's time to move on to something more challenging. Like sweaters. Yeah, I know that makes me a grade-A, number one dork. But hey, it gets cold in NC and I know for a fact my cheap-*&^ hubby (love you!) will have the heat down at some ridiculously low temp and I don't want to freeze to death. Nor do I have the cash to go out an buy a bunch of new sweaters. So in an endeavor to save money for the greater good, I plan on branching out and trying something really ambitious and seeing if it's worth it.

All that being said, I've been looking up patterns on the internet. Wow. There are some doozies...


Oooohhhh yyyyeeeaaahhhh................

How about a little something for the kiddies?



This one is called, no joke, Bartleby the Rat Creature.

And I have found towel toppers, scrunchies, jewelry and headbands...makes me feel a lot less geeky for only wanting to make some sweaters...