Knitting Dragonflies

I’ve been crocheting lately, a good stash buster, and fun and fast. Well you get the idea, you don’t have to have dreads to wear this, I love them for camping, and gardening, anytime I need to cover my hair and look good. Here are two patterns for headbands. Rasta Headband Made with just a small amount of acrylic yarn. Crochet hook: size advised on yarn label, I used a G. chain 72 stitches, 80 if you want it loose or have a lot of hair. Single crochet all around, joining chain, begin careful not to twist when joining. Continue single crochet until you have about 5 inches or more, depending on your need or amount of yarn. I think it would look cool with strips, bright ones! Ta da, now weave in ends and no bad hair days for you! Hippy Headband I made this from 100% natural cotton yarn, soft and pretty. As above but make this only 4 or 6 rows wide. And my favorite, my colorful hippy-Rasta headband! I crocheted this one like the turquoise one above but added a row of dc ch

Just a peak of what I’ve been up to… My brother is getting married and I’ve been busy… No knitting has occurred, well that’s not entirely true, I have been knitting some dish cloths. I find that is good knitting when I’m stuck on my projects. So I still have the Iced sweater, with not enough yarn to finish it. I’m frowning at it, as I don’t want to frog it, I have found more yarn on EBay and may buy it. (what else am I going to do?) I still have my toe up socks that are in the knitting bag, not sure why I stopped those. Evidently I’m getting surgery, my thyroid nodule, has now grown . Not sure when, still haven’t seen the surgeon, you know how that goes, precertification etc.…. I’m hoping for some energy out of all of this. More later Get your knitting needles out, and I’ll try to also.

I have felted purses and bags before, but that was the extent of my felting journey. I saw Claudia on The Knitting Blog by Mr. Puffy the Dog blog felt an adorable bunny and knew I had to try it. With the help of instructions from The Daily Felt , and some You Tube Videos ( I like this one by Brookelynn Morris ), I was off. Wet Felting with a resist, to make a 3D item. I cut this shape out of some packing material to use as my resist. This will be placed in the middle. I’ll layer pieces on the top and bottom, wet felt and then cut them apart to stuff it. Sounds easy? Let’s see if it is…. I need some bubble wrap, use it bubble side towards your felting, If it is not wide enough, you can duct tape it together to make it wider, (duct tape on the smooth side) Follow the instructions on the Felting lessons site 1- Very warm water, and quite a bit of soap , work this into the bunny, on both sides, until the “pinch test” does not produce fibers. ( see video) OK not looking very bun

Check out the story that goes with this famous photo And the men in the photo.

This month’s Etsy Blogger is NajoDogz by Nancy Richardson. NanjoDogz features polymer clay Pandora beads, sculpture, pendants, tiles, beads and more with our main concentration on the dog in various breeds. Although our main focus is on dog related creations, we also create various other critter beads. We have a variety of whimsical and unique items. Beagle Polymer Clay Dog Pandora Bead / Charm $28.00 Australian Shepherd Pandora Polymer Clay Dog Bead – Charm $28.00 Don’t see your dog? She also does custom orders! (below from her shop policies) Custom Orders: If you see anything in our shop that you would like in a specific breed just let us know and we'll be happy to create a piece for you. Please note: There is an additional charge for custom orders. Charity: A percentage of proceeds to my favorite animal charities including HSUS, Anti-Cruelty Society, Illinois Doberman Rescue. She blogs here

I bought a package of white Onesies and decided to tiedye them for a baby present. A fun summer gift for any little one! Drying on the line. Materials: -package of Onesis (I found mine at Joann’s, all ready to dye) -acid based dyes, or if you are a first timer, there are tie dyeing kits that are cheap, see WalMart -plastic bins, and metal spoon -rubber bands or string to tie, I used rubber bands 1- I looked here to see some different folding techniques for dyeing for my Onesies. The ones I chose were; (From left to right 1-The Bunching, green, bunched up and I used about 5 rubber bands to secure it all. 2- I used a combo of a small spiral in the middle and pleats on the top and bottom from side to side, turquoise, one rubber band in the middle and one one the pleated top, one on the pleated bottom 3- The Spiral, used on the middle blue one, about 5 or 6 rubber bands to secure it all, placed in all different directions. 4- Pleats, the turquoise is pleats folded from bottom

Watching the Preakness and sketching a bit. Inspired by the moving horses. Interesting Horse related facts: In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for cowboys to walk through a hotel lobby wearing their spurs Horses younger than 4 years can concentrate for a maximum of 10-15 minutes A horse typically sleeps two and half to three hours a day A zedonk is the offspring of a zebra and a donkey Horses generally dislike the smell of pigs I’m planning on getting back to my knitting soon! Seriously!! LOL