Stuff on Sunday: ABC It’s Easy As 123

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I love the crafting community!!!  I’ve learned much about myself and about people through my experiences with the online crafting community.  I’ve learned about perseverance, practice, technique, caring, selflessness, giving, kindness and sharing.

While some crafters require that you pay for any tips, tricks or techniques they share, there are others out there who are selfless with sharing information and DIY techniques they’ve developed.  Knottygal is one of them.  I found her blog through the popular W.I.P Wednesday and F.O. Friday memes on Tami’s blog. 

One of the F.O. Friday posts Knottygal shared was how to make some easy peasy stitch-markers.   With pretty stitch-markers costing so much money and with it being hard to find stitch-markers for a “big needle knit loving girl” like me, I made the ones below for my larger needles (sz 11 – 19).  To make mine more or less symmetrical, I cut my tiger wire at 6 inch lengths and rounded out the tops by wrapping the wire around a candle holder before adding the crimp and regular beads.

My first go-around …

And then some more …

I found a great craft case at a local store in my neighbourhood.

The perfect place to store my new stitch-markers.

Now go make some!!!!  😀

For My Munchkins

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I love babies … I really, really do.  With a lot of my friends and family adding these little munchkins to their families, I have more than enough opportunity to hand-make items for them. 

Two more W.I.P.s to my already long list will be this crochet blanket —  Rainbow Ripple Baby Blanket. 

These shouldn’t take as long as my Dr. Who scarf   — crochet just goes faster for me regardless of the project.  My goal is to have these done and shipped to the recipients by Christmas although my girl munchkin aka “Flash” isn’t here yet.  😀  

I’m thinking of adding black to the colour scheme for my boy munchkin but I’m not 100% sure yet.

It must be the cooling of the weather and the coming of Fall that has me going crazy with all these decor and yarn projects.  🙂