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

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)

1st pattern is up

What I have been putting off for about a year now, is now done.  My Etsy store is up and running and my first pattern has been tested, tested and retested, made into a pdf, pictures done and it is now listed for sale. Yipee!!!! Why did I put this off so long?


I have a few dozen crochet patterns that I have designed and written, but that does not mean that they are done.  That just means that I can use it.

In order to offer a crochet pattern for sale, here are the things you must do:

1. Come up with an idea.

2. Work on creating the item and write down the stitches and steps used.

3.  Write, re-write and make changes to get it the way you envisioned it.

4.  Make up a sample.

5. Get someone or a few people to test your pattern.

6.  Get the perfect picture (the picture is everything)

7.  Type up your pattern in a professional manner using some type of desk top publishing program.

8.  Covert your pattern into a PDF

9.  Place it for sale, cross your fingers that someone else will think your baby is as cute as you do.

If you would like to see this cute little loafer in my store Check it out here.

I want to thank everyone who wrote to encourage me and all your kind words on the baby penny loafer pattern.  Stay tuned, the best is yet to come.

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.

   

Swiffer Sweeper Cloth Crochet pattern

What kind of crochet pattern would be appropriate to be the first on Crunchy Crochet.  Well,  this one represents our families goal to use less, waste less and make more instead of buying mass produced things.  Want to see what I mean, go on over for a visit at my house.


I know there are so many already online but this being a product close to my heart, I designed this one to have a few functions, sweep, mop and dust really well.  It glides across the floor so easy and even though I made this one in organic unbleached cotton yarn, you could make it out of any kind of yarn and the acrylic ones (though I don't really use them very much) would probably attract dirt because of static electricity.

I have a patent pending on a similar product at my Etsy store the green market  which we sew and have been selling for a few years.  I thought the best way to combine my two worlds would be to make a crochet version.

So, you want to see if it works huh?  Here the dirt shot,  I do have dogs and kids but we vacuum constantly and I will still able to pick all this up.