Spring Crochet Along: Wrap Up

Good morning!  I trust you had a nice Easter. Mine was relaxing, A fun day with Matt's family. Good times had by all. Anywho, I wanted to share a final wrap up with pictures from everyone who joined in the Crochet Along (or at least those that I know of).

My Eggs:

Mindy's Carrot Egg Cozy:

Bethany's Eggs:

Rengawk's Bunny:

Each and every project is just adorable! Thanks to everyone who joined! The winner of the yarn giveaway is Mindy at In the Loop. Congrats!

2012 To Do List

I like lists. A lot. I also like to start projects and then get distracted and not finish them.

For instance. I started this post in January. It is now April and I am just now getting around to posting it. Sigh. At least I can update it a bit! Let's see what I can actually finish this year...

Megan’s 2012 Craft List

• Wine Cushion Chair Covers
• Two Skirts (Reversible with 2” elastic, other) - finished Reversible in January 2012
• Anthro Top Remake (Happy Together tutorial)
• Hawaiian Shirt Coffee Cozies
• Felt Ornaments
• Sushi Kindle Cover for Mari
• Business Card Holder
• Baby Blanket for lil Clayton - finished March 2012
• Blankets for Door of Hope
• Cross Stitch – Two Ornaments
• Coggins Doily
• Organize Fabric / Craft Room
• Crochet Fruit &Veggies -finished January 2012
• Mat Photos (gallery wall)
• Etch Pyrex & Spice Jars - labels on spice jars Feb 2012
• Patch Jeans
• Towel Rug / T-Shirt Rug -finished t-shirt rug March 2012
• 2012 Calendar for Hallway / Matt Desk - too many calendars in the house!
• Finish 40 31 CED projects [Octoberfest Doily Blanket, Gryffindor Beanie, Granny Beanie, Fruit & Veggies, Gingham Blanket, Pinecone, Easter Eggs, Baby Mary Janes, Chocolate Covered Cherries Afghan]
• Sew a dress for myself
• T-Shirt Braided Headband
• Bleach shirt (tried March 2012, will suceed someday!)
• Coasters for Sarah's wedding
• Scrubbies for Joy's wedding
• Blankets for 3 new babies (whew!)
• Crochet Slippers - April 2012
• Crochet Flip Flops
• Ripple Blanket for us / the kittens
• T-Shirt Sandals (Pinterest)

Last weekend

This past weekend went by way too fast. Matthew was in school on Saturday and I worked on Friday and it totally threw our schedule off. I did, however, make these cute little slippers. Third time was a charm -- I should have read the pattern completely first. I was supposed to be crocheting each one with two strands. Whoops!

Halvsies taking a nap in the shade!

Close up of my slippers!

New slippers and the Mentalist were a great way to end my Saturday! (ps. I love Rigsby)

Hope you have a great week!

Seattle with the Moms

Last October I made a quick trip to Seattle for a wedding with my Mom. I thought I posted pictures here, but apparently it was just on facebook. I found these pictures on my phone and wanted to share them with you all.

Wine corks at Robert Renzoni (I had a Groupon)!

Mom and I in the car. I can totally see the resemblance here!

The bride (my former college roomie) and her new husband!

In case you were wondering, I found a bunch of old pictures and posts in the draft format. I'm working to get them all posted -- no more drafts! Bear with me, and hang tight for some patterns that were in the drafts too!

Spring Crochet Along, Part 2

It's Wednesday and we are halfway through this Spring Crochet Along. I know there is already one of you who has completed the task! Woo hoo! Actually, two if you count me! Make that three of us so far -- that's just those who posted. I know there's at least one more who has not taken pictures yet!

I finished up a bunch of little Easter Eggs last weekend. I'm glad I opted not to go with the wreath, because these mini eggs make great cat toys! You should see how crazy the kittens go when they bat these things around!
You have one more week to finish up your egg cozy or egg or bunny and tell me all about it. I will try to remember to add links as you guys finish projects! Starting now...

Carrot Egg Cozy from Mindy at In the Loop:

Bethany made some Eggs:

Who's next??

Last week

Randomness ahead! I take a ton of pictures with Instagram, and then forget to post them here. However, I want to look back on all of these days, so here are some pics from my past week (end).

I grew a carrot. What?

T-shirt headband with bottom of old shirts from Rag Rug.
I have worn these almost daily for the past two weeks.

Better picture of that rag rug, sorry for the dirty floor!

Friday morning I woke up to coffee and a rose by my bed.
I am so greatful for my man!

Have a great week!

Currently

This weekend was quite productive. For starters, I put up my Easter decor and painted my nails. Woo hoo!

Easter Decor 2012

Fun Pink & Purple Polka Dots

 I also started, and finished, a t-shirt rag rug. I have been wanting to make one of these for ages, but just never got around to it! My sis in law gave me a bunch of old clothes, so I decided to cut some of them up to make the rug.

T-shirt yarn & yarn to be

The rug!

I know the lighting is horrible, but I REALLY wanted a picture when I finished it at 9 pm. My plan is to take better pictures and write up a little tutorial / pattern. If you want!

Spring Crochet Along

Easter is just around the corner (less than 2 weeks away) and I want to get a little project completed before we celebrate. I thought some of you might want to join me in this quick challenge. Originally, I was going to make an egg cozy, but I have finished all of the ones that I challenged myself to make!  

Egg Cozies (minus the sheep)

The patterns are awesome, but I want to make something different this year. My plan is to make an egg (or two) from this wreath. You can either do that, or make one of the cozies that I wrote about before.

Here are the pattern links:
Easter Egg Wreath
Chicken Egg Cozy
Bunny Egg Cozy
Lamb Egg Cozy
Carrot Egg Cozy
Ducky Egg Cozy
Bunny (if you're adventurous!)

I LOVE this little bunny!

Here are the details: This week, pick out the pattern that you will make and the supplies you need. Either write a post on your blog and leave the link in the comments, or just leave all of the details in the comments.


Next week we will share our finished products! You have until Wednesday, April 11 to post about them. That's two weeks from today! I hope you join me!


Oh! The best part! There will be some sort of spring giveaway to go along with this. I'm not entirely sure what yet, but probably something from my shop and some yarn. Because I just received a giant lot of yarn from a friend. Who doesn't want free yarn??

St. Patrick's Day 2012

This year our annual St. Patrick's Day celebration with Kevin and Lindsey was a day early. It was really low key, but I did make corned beef and cabbage for the first time. I used an amazing crockpot recipe.

I also made Guiness and Bailey's cupcakes. Oh man. So good. Pinterest is so bad for me!

This was all a day early because we were celebrating my grandpa's 80th on St. Patrick's Day proper. So great to see my whole family together (except my bro. :( We missed him).

Previous years: 2011 (Chocolate Stout), 2010 (post rehearsal dinner Guinness), 2009 (Irish Car Bombs), 2008 (Green Beer). I keep trying to remember what we did each year, so I have to write it here to remember. 2008 was the weekend we got home from our Honeymoon and I NEEDED to see people!

I just realized the pictures from 2008 have dissappeared. Where are they, google? You were my photo keeper. Grrrr. Anyone know how to recover pictures or what happened to mine?? Yeah. So all of my old pictures have re-appeared. That's awesome. No idea what happened. Did google hear my plea??

Finishing things up

I have not posted in awhile, and luckily that means I have lots to share! I finished that Gingham Baby Blanket that I was working on. I actually finished it a week before the shower. Woo hoo!  I also adorned a onesie with a crocheted heart, sewed up a fleece hat, and made a golf onesie (sewn on "green" and vinyl flag). You can see more (larger) pictures of the blanket on the project page.

I also made a pinecone. Because I started it last fall and wanted to get it finished. Not really the season, but I just do not care. It feels good to get something finished!

I have also made some more progress on my ripple blanket.

Oh yeah! And Matt and I celebrated four years of wedded bliss!  Woo hoo!

I am thinking of a doing a little Easter crochet along. Anyone interested?