Thrift Store Treasures

Finding yarn-crafted items at thrift stores it my favourite part of thrift store shopping. I love finding a knit or crochet item and imagining the stories behind it of who made it and why and who for. Anyways, here are some pictures of a lovely shawl I found in January.

I found this lovely knitted blanket about 2 weeks ago, and a soon as a saw it, I knew I couldn't leave it there. I just love the crochet ruffle in the middle made with sparkly yarn! Can you imagine all of the time put in to making this?

Happy Hooking!
~Tater

Sneak Peak - Flower Blanket

 

I'm halfway done!

Organizing

I'm so sorry I haven't posted in such a very . long . time! I've been pretty busy recently, and I have a lot of projects to post about. I hope to get pictures of them all and post about them very soon!

A few days ago I decided to organize our yarn tote. About halfway through it, I regretted ever starting. But when I finished, I was very glad I did it!

I took this:...














...to this:
















and this:...
















...to this:...















...to this:















It's a scrap blanket. It's something you can do with all of those skein ends that are too short to make anything out of but too long to throw away. I'm basically making a giant granny square. Of course, it is far from finished, I just work on it as I get scraps. I basically took a disorganized, tangled pieces of yarn, untangled and organized them, and then put them into a very disorganized blanket. I love that it's crazy, weird, and random. Like me ;-)

I promise I will try very hard to post about all my other projects soon!

Later,
~Tater

Edit ::: Sorry the words are funny between the pictures. I don't know how to edit it :P

Of Blankets and Head-bands

At the Young Ladies Meeting (YLM), the crochet lesson was a pillow. We were going to make eight of the squares with flowers on them, so that's four on each side of the pillow. Well, I decided to turn mine into a blanket, making 56 flowered squares, and 56 granny squares, so, that's 112 in all. For one blanket. I'm making two. These blankets will be twin sized. I have a bunk-bed, so I have two twin beds. That's why I'm making two blankets. I have around 15 flowered squares done, and 3 granny squares done. I've a long way to go!






























Of course, I can't just work on the blanket non-stop, so I do a couple other projects in between.
The picture on the left is a white head-band. The picture on the right is some flowers I made to pin on the head-band. This way, it matches pretty much everything.

That's it for now! Tomorrow I'll post about the little purses I made for my 3-year-old twin cousins, the cutest kids on the planet.

~Tater

Edit: When I said "Tomorrow" in the last sentence, I wasn't thinking it was Sunday, and that it was the first day of Tent Meetings at our church, so we were gone all afternoon. Anyway, I didn't post. So I am posting today (Monday) instead. Sorry 'bout that!