Tuesday Craft Day

 

Lucy found the perfect place to supervise her humans today!

I gave up on the idea of a full size afghan and decided to make a smaller one with the squares in the center. I will finish it by crocheting a border around it later.

Wow! Nancy's afghan is stunning!

And as usual, Lucy was a big help!

Tuesday Craft Day

 

I dug out my yarn for today's Tuesday craft day and joined two other crocheters, one knitter and one embroiderer for a fun day of crafting.

I started this African flower granny square afghan months ago, and don't expect to finish it anytime soon! But it's fun to have something like this to grab and go for days like this.

It didn't take long for little Miss Lucy to find my bag of yarn, do her balancing trick along the top of the chair and try to drop her fuzzy purple mouse inside.

From there she thought she should investigate a little closer and hopped down to inspect my stitches.

We had another successful crafting day, filled with live entertainment, good food, and great friendship.

 

Tuesday Craft Day

 Every Tuesday I get together with a group of friends and craft. All day! We start in the morning with coffee and a morning snack, craft until noon, take a break for lunch, and continue working on our project into the late afternoon.

Each of us does our own thing. This week we had two crocheters, one knitter, one embroiderer, and I sewed faces onto snowmen. But the main event every week is Lucy!

Lucy is a sweet, curious, mischevious kitten who rules the house. If she's not getting tangled in yarn or hiding in the plants, she's climbing on top of the cabinets so she can plan her next attack better. 

This week I finished a group of snowmen who needed their faces stitched and glued onto their heads.

These little guys are fun to make, and are a great way to use up your scraps.

I used off white felt for their bodies, orange felt for their noses and pieces of felt and fleece for their hats.

Their rosy cheeks are colored with actual powdered make-up, their eyes are half round black beads, and I use three strands of embroidery floss for their smiles.

They are weighted with about 1/4 cup of plastic pellets or kitty litter, then stuffed with fiberfil.

Looks like I need to make one more nose to complete this batch. And I think I will sew little jingle bells to the ends of their hats.

I make a lot of my snowmen and gnome patterns myself, but purchased this pattern on-line at QBPN.

Check back next Tuesday to see another photo of Lucy and to see what I made.