Baby quilt for the Crafter

 

Another great Quilt Cave creation

Her

Dad’s quilt , wordless Wednesday

 

Spring wreath

 Took a spring wreath that belonged to my late grandma and added some extra foliage to the middle. The first wreath was also constructed by me with some extra input from Grandma. 

Beading collections

Red dress day pins ( the Olympic collection)

Pins in the making. ( the my dad is in the hospital collection)

Treaty six flag inspired pin

Poppies ( the I’m worried about my dad collection)

Wild roses, ( the I’m sad about a former student , in Grade eight this year, passing away this month)

  I’m loving seeing the painting and crocheting creativity happening. Keep it up! Her

Paint by number banners

 These banners were part of the Advent box that I got. They are about four feet long.

They have hangers that uses magnets to hold the canvas between to pieces of wood. That is shown in the second picture. Now to figure out how to store them.

Bulky Yarn Afghan

 I was asked to make a bulky yarn afghan so I did!! I did some research on how to hand crochet and got to it!! 

I ordered 12 balls of yarn but wasn’t sure that was going to be enough. You know I have an issue with making things “big” enough so you won’t be surprised to know I have 4 more balls of yarn sitting in my shopping cart! lol!! Guess I won’t need them! 

All tied up and ready to be delivered!! 

The most challenging part of this was weaving in the ends of the yarn. Chunky yarn doesn’t really weave well!! So I sewed the ends down using the centre of the yarn - there’s a thread or something there that holds the yarn together! I hope it didn’t wreck the yarn.  

Another project done and blogged!! I am in a roll!! 

Happy Sunday all, 

ME

Crocheting Continues

Good day ladies, 

I am still on the crocheting train these days and it is all Hook and Fibre Made’s fault! Her patterns are so easy to follow and work up quick! I love her colour choices, too!!

I started the Chunky Waves Throw a while ago. It is 8.5/11 done!

It appears that I don’t have enough of the blue-ish colour. It is called Night Sky! And guess what???  I can’t find another ball of it in Canada that isn’t going to cost me an arm and a leg. I am going to get Raivyn to pick up one ball of it in Minot for me. So, until that happens, this one is on hold. 

In true Christa fashion, I have started another afghan. I took a chance and ordered some thick, chunky yarn. It is very polyester like. Will probably fall apart or disintegrate if it is washed but it is going to look great! I think I made it too big! Can you imagine? Me making something too big!! It is the length of our oversized couch! I am seeing a theme here!! 6 balls of yarn used by hand crocheting and 6 to go!

The colour is sage green, however it sure doesn’t look like it in the pictures. 

I am going to try to finish this one today! I have to figure out how to crochet upside down to do it or have arm extensions! I have to lay it out on the island to work on it. It is now too wide and will have to fall off the side for me to finish it. It is going to be a challenge but worth it!!

I’ve discovered that trips to Regina go much faster when I am doing something so I started another afghan. It is called The Painted Snowdrift Throw by Hook and Fibre Made. It is a fun pattern to the wave develop as you go.

It is going to be a double sided pattern - emphasizing different yarn on each side.

Not sure the espresso colour was the right one to use with the other two but it is what I had. 

Other than crocheting, I’ve been watching lots of hockey lately!! Two games at once, at times! 

What have you two been up to??

Happy Sunday!

ME

The Original Chunky Evergreen Throw

 Hey all,

February 8th and it was +9C here today!! 

This weather is so odd this winter. 

I finished this throw last night! The pattern is by Hook and Fibre Made and is called the Original Chunky Evergreen Throw.  Once I figured out the pattern, this throw worked up fairly quickly. 

I think I missed the last stitch somewhere in that dark green row. 

The yarn is so soft. It is Yarnspirations Bernat Blanket Perfect Phasing in the colour forest green. 

I’ve started another throw! The pattern is called The Chunky Wave Throw and is by Hook and Fibre Made, too! You can see the wave starting already - only on the second row!

The pattern used Woolease - Thick & Quick but it is not in production anymore. I decided to use RE-SPUN Thick & Quick instead. It is soft but hairy!! 

I hope this pattern is as easy as the last! I have a lot of Olympics to watch!!

I’m hooked!! lol!!

ME

First finish of 2026

 Good afternoon ladies,

Here’s my first finish this year. Admittedly, it was mostly done over break but I stalled out at the binding. No destination yet, it might go into the retirement gift pile. What have you been up to? Her

Tunisian Crochet Afghan

 I have no idea when I started this afghan but that doesn’t matter because it is done!! I did enjoy Tunisian crocheting for this one. I also love the colours in it. 

I wasn’t 100% sure how to finish the edges so I single crocheted around once, then added 2 rounds of double crochet and finished it off with one round of single crocheting. 

Honestly, I was just trying to use up all the yarn I had!!

ME!

Blue Jean Christmas Stockings

I was experimenting with the idea of making a Christmas stocking out of an old pair of jeans. I whipped these up - did not finish the inside because I was just experimenting. I had saw a few stockings made with the back pocket as the main part of the front of the stocking. I wanted to give it a try!

                                                    

I had some left over buffalo plaid to put on the back for both of the stockings. 

This one is made out of the pant leg.

They looked pretty good hung up. I think I will add some greenery and some ribbons to them next year and may hand them on the front door!

I shared them on Facebook and before I knew it, I was making 9 more stocking for a friend of mine. She is a fellow barrel racer. She asked if I needed jeans to make them and I said sure! She dropped off  just enough pairs of jeans so I could make them all using her jeans. 

As I started to make them, I soon discovered that I wasn’t going to be able to make them with the back pockets on them. Her pants legs were too small!! I change directions and decided to make them stripped instead.

I did the quilting as a sewed the stockings together. 

I tried to make the all a little different but the same! The back of the stocking is similar to the front. I didn’t have enough of her blue jeans to make the back so I added a chunk of the jean material I had left over from the Patchwork Flying Geese quilt. 

The inside of the stocking was either more buffalo plaid or a combination of red material with the buffalo plaid. I wanted the cuff of the stocking to be buffalo plaid so they could be turned over.

To finish off the stockings, I added each initial to the front of the stockings. 

I am always worried when I make things for people that they won’t like what I’ve done or they thought they would turn out different. I wasn’t able to deliver these directly and had to wait to hear what they thought of them.  This is the message I received: 

“Omg. These stockings are above and beyond. You did a superb job with them. So much work and craftsmanship went into them. Thank you so much.”

Then I received a video on Christmas Day that showed them all hung on the fireplace and a message that said “They were a hit! Thank you again”.

 They looked fantastic with her decorations!!

I love making things like this for people!!

Happy New Year!

ME