tmcknit » Crochet

Be careful what you wish for….

tmcknit — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:43:43 +0000

Hey Justin……….be careful what you wish for. Keith and Justin sent me a picture months ago of a hat and they said it was a “gift idea” for Justin for Christmas. It is supposed to look like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Carribean. By the end of that night, I had it finished and couldn’t WAIT for Christmas to surprise Justin with it. Here is Justin, in all his Davy Jones splendor……

Congrats to Darrell and Danielle

tmcknit — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:43:05 +0000

My nephew and his fiance’ are getting married next weekend. This is their gift I crocheted for them – a Round Ripple Afghan – made with I Love This Yarn……..

Zachghan

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:53:06 +0000

This afghan was supposed to be to keep at our house for Zach when he visits us and spends the night, but it’s too special to not be with him every day. If you look close, you can see lots of things represented in this Zachghan. It is all scrap yarn. His first sleepsack yarn, rows that represent Christmas, his family, Halloween, July 4, etc. It was fun to make and he loves it.

The blanket that anticipation built…..

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:38:27 +0000

When Danielle was pregnant with little Mr. Zachary, all six of us (Corey, Danielle, Mark, myself, Keith and Justin) were at Hobby Lobby and we all picked out yarn for a blanket for this little fetus. It’s not the colors you would normally expect for a one-year old, but who wants to be normal? He grew out of his baby blanket I crocheted for him, so this is his next blanket made with the yarn picked out with love before he was even born. Here he is chillin’ – watching tv……….

…….and at bedtime in his playpen during an overnight visit……..

Happy Mother’s Day!!

tmcknit — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:26:51 +0000

Happy Mother’s Day Mom! Here’s Mom wearing the shawl I crocheted her for Mother’s Day. It is with one strand of Homespun and one strand of baby yarn – brown. The pattern is a crocheted feather and fan – very nice pattern.

Prettiest……..dress…………EVER!!!

tmcknit — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:03:07 +0000

This is the prettiest dress I ever saw in my whole life!!! Why?? First, it’s just super-cute. Second, my darling daughter-in-law crocheted it. She knows how proud I am of her for learning to crochet but really Danielle, I know you will read this and I hope you really do feel my pride in you. This dress she made to donate – more pride!!!

Zach’s new blanket

tmcknit — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:19:44 +0000

Danielle made Zachary another blanket. This is our trip to Hobby Lobby to pick out yarn, the finished product and the most beautiful baby in the world (he’s my grandson – yes, I’m partial to him). The yarn is Simply Soft – the baby is Simply a Joy…….

Sweet!

tmcknit — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:27:54 +0000

Danielle and I store our crochet hooks in these baby wipe containers. Since they match and we usually sit together when we crochet, we asked Corey to make us labels that say “Danielle” and “Teri”. He took it one beautiful step farther………..

Snuggie baby

tmcknit — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:04:54 +0000

Here is a snuggie I crocheted and a hat I knitted for Zach for his car seat. He is also wearing fleece mitts I custom-made to keep his precious hands warm.

Here he is testing it out before I finished the sleeves……..

Here he is in the shape of what he stole from my family when he was conceived…….

………..and playing shy…….

…….yet still being patient………..

………….and “please can this be over with”……………

The “Snuggle Up” pattern is here but I made adjustments. I did mine with a sc/dc stitch to make it warmer (Corey loves sc/dc – when he was a kid he called it “the warmest pattern” so I chose that stitch for mine). I also made it longer – do what you want to make it work for your child of choice. This one was custom crocheted for Zach.

The hat pattern is a combination of patterns that I found – again, custom knit to be perfect for Zachary.

Bears, bears and more bears

tmcknit — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:30:55 +0000

AC4C is a Yahoo group I belong to. AC4C is actually All Crafts 4 Charity. The current project I’m working on is clothing for bears. There are 5,000 bears for the Salvation Army’s Womens Auxiliary Club to donate to underprivileged children in the Hampton Roads area in Virginia during Christmas. Volunteers make or buy clothes for the bears. Our group (AC4C) is trying to dress as many bears as we can.

These outfits are very fast and easy to crochet. Think of the kids. Can you dress at least one bear?????? There are more details below but here are pictures of some clothes.

The pattern I used was created by Joan Martino. It is very very easy. It is here: Salvation Army Crocheted Bear Dress and Sweater.

The measurements for the actual bear are as follows:

Hip to ankle – 4.5 inches
Waist to ankle – 6.5 inches
Tummy circumference – 14 inches
Crown – 12 inches
Shoulder to wrist – 4 inches
Nape to hiney – 6 inches
Neck circumference – 9 inches
Neck to belly button – 5 inches