Where I have been and a bunch of giveaways including Holland Designs

Hi everyone, is anyone still here?  I need to really apologize for completely abandoning this blog!  As many of you may know I have a main blog, you can find it here and that is where you can ALWAYS find me (if you were looking tee hee)

This week over at my other blog Crunchy Catholic Momma, I am celebrating two years of blogging and I have a giveaway every day from all types of different people.

Here is a list of whom I have had so far:

Day One: Me!!!!  and I am giving away a pair of beautiful 100% wool Mary Janes in your choice of colors and size from baby to womens sizes. Check it out here.

 baby Janes

and for us big girls

and for anyone who follows my other blog (make sure to sign up),  I will be giving away a free pattern of my crochet mushroom toadstool pendant (just email me at cruchymommashop@gmail.com and let me know you are following at Crunchy Catholic Momma)

Day two: Blog guest is Anais from Path to Freedom.  Check out this most amazing family and how they have turned a regular city lot of 1/5 of an acre into a thriving self sufficient farm.  They are giving away a Path to Freedom t-shirt, too cool!  Head on over and enter the giveaway here 

Day three: The very talented Lisa of Holland Designs is giving away your choice of one of her patterns.  Don't miss that one, enter here

 too cute!

Day four: Tracy of A Slice of Smith Life shows us how to make a Saint Joseph altar and really cool breads. Click here

Today:  Janet from Felt on the Fly (the best place to buy pure wool felt I have found) is giving away a set of 5 100% wool felt sheets.  If you have never used real wool felt, you will not believe how much nicer it is than craft store felt. Make sure you sign up for the giveaway here 

The rules for entering are at the bottom of each days post and you have until Tuesday to enter.

The rest of the week until Sunday there will be more amazing giveaways from ReSweater and The Clover Dilly, don't miss all the fun!!!!

Make sure you sign up as a follower even if you do not want to enter the giveaways because in a few weeks I will be incorporating this blog to be one with my blog at Crunchy Catholic Momma and shut this one down.  There is so much that I do other than crochet (thought crochet is always top of the list) and I can manage one blog but two just don't get the attention they need.

Candy corn goodie bag and booties... it must be fall

Candy corn is my all time favorite candy well besides the really bad for you circus peanuts.  When I was little my mom would tell us to throw away any unwrapped candy from my trick or treat bag.  I would secretly eat all the unwrapped candy corns and then spend the night thinking that any minute now I was going to die. I still eat my candy corns one color at a time.

If you love it as much as I do then you may like my latest projects.  I put aside my pile of finished but not yet tested crochet patterns as well as my guilt, to work on these in time for fall.

These booties are so comfy that Olivia did not take them off for pretty much the entire day.  She did forget about them while I was washing them but once she saw them it candy corn shoe love all over again.

It is hard to tell from the pictures but I designed these booties to be shaped just like the real thing.  These are worked from Lily cotton yarn and with one ball of each color you could easily make about 4 pairs or a pair of booties and this candy corn goodie bag which I first made for my Livie and then decided to make the pattern to offer in m Etsy store along with the pattern for the booties.

This goodie bag is super easy to work up and it can fit quite a bit of loot.  The handles are soft enough for your little one to carry on their own (until you become the designated candy holder). 

Here is a picture of it laying flat and a special offer only for my blog readers... Buy one pattern and receive the other for $1.  Shhh its our secret but you must remember to mention my blog in the checkout and I will refund the difference through paypal right away.

And after a few days of being her favorite shoes they are looking a teeny bit fuzzy but still good.

What's your favorite fall candy?

Happy Fall everyone

Toadstool hats, mushroom pendants and toadstool slippers...cute!

These crochet projects came from Olivia's first birthday party.  I wanted to do a Waldorf, woodland fairy party theme and so I spent a few weeks writing and re-writing crochet patterns to fit.  I love it when I can think of something and create the pattern without too many headaches.  These patterns came really easy although some of them are being tweaked as we speak.

I saw a toadstool hat in the winter edition of Living Crafts magazine (my favorite magazine right now) sewn from wool felt and I thought I could come up with a crochet version.  The pattern is being tested at the moment and then will be available at my Etsy store, crunchycrochet.


This tiny mushroom pendant works up really fast and makes a really cute party gift.  I am probably going to offer this one as a gift with any crochet pattern purchase.

And last but not least, some toadstool shoesies to go with the toadstool hat.  I am still working on this pattern to make it perfect so hopefully it won't be too long until it is ready for Etsy also.  I had to take these slippers apart because I forgot to stuff the shroom and it went flat as you can see.

I have so many projects I have done in the past months and just have not had time to post but I promise to update more regularly.

Wooly Buns Diaper Soaker Pattern

Here is my newest baby.  This baby has been in the works for longer than my real baby and it has finally come to life.  The pattern is done and redone,  the pictures are taken, the Pdf has been created.  All I need now is a tester before it can be posted for sale.

This pattern has a nice drawstring, adjustable waist band with the cutest flower pulls, a crotch insert to stretch with baby and accomodate thicker prefolds or inserts for nighttime use, a very special insert in the back bottom portion to really fit babies bottom well and a cute delicate scallop edge.  This pattern comes with the directions for the oriental poppies design as well as direction to make them look more simple for a baby boy.

There is also a pattern for a flower I came up with which I call a bell flower (you can see it on the natural colored diaper baby Olivia is wearing in the previous post).

I would love to hear your comments on my project, good or bad (don't worry... I can take it)

What I've been up to...

So.... I have been MIA from Crunchy Crochet for a few weeks because... I have a life...  No, no that is not the reason.  I have a very cute little baby who takes ALL my time... No, no that isn't it either but actually that very cute baby did need some things.


I cloth diaper, of course I do, I am Crunchy remember?  Well,  although I have really wonderful easy to use cloth diapers, they have been through alot of babies and it is time to start replacing them.  I was introduced to the idea of using a wool cover (soaker) with the old fashioned prefolds.  Though this seems archaic I have been giving it some thought since I was expecting that really cute baby.


Number one:  The cost is so much better.  Indian Prefolds are the most absorbant and cost less than $1.50 each as oppossed to the $15 per diaper I have paid in the past.
Number two: You don't have to use pins anymore,  you can use these things called snappis which grip the diaper and won't hurt the baby.
Number four:  Wool is natural, (not itchy I promise) and it lets the skin truly breath.  Now think about it, if you were going to spend 1.5 to 2 years of your life in a diaper,  wouldn't you want your skin to breathe?
Number five: You need a wool cover and so an excuse to do some crochet.   After an exhaustive measure I was not able to find a cover that I loved so began another pattern.


This one was inspired by an Oscar the Grouch green, wool soaker from the 60's or 70's.  While the soaker was too ratty, I loved the panel that was worked into the but portion to give the babys bum some room (mine definetely needs this).  The rest of it was just experimentation and lots of ripping apart my work and redoing it until I liked it and now I LOVE it.

Next I will be working on a long pant version called a longie and a skirtie which is a soaker with a skirt attached to it.  Cute!!  and very cost effective.

So that is what I have been up to and the next post has the pics and a request.

Baby Pennies- Babies Penny Loafer

I have been working on this for a few weeks even though I started it before I was pregnant last year (I told you I was a procrastinator)  It feels good to have it done.  Here it is.  I would not recommend you actually put pennies in the holders (choking hazard) but I made the pattern so a penny would fit.  As soon as I have it tested it will be in my Etsy Store- Crunchy Crochet.