Blog Contest Winners!

Here are the result for my blog contest:

The random winner is...... Shelly (creator of the "Flower Shower")!

And the people's choice award goes to...
Nadine McCrady with "When it Rains it Pours"!

Thanks everyone who participated, I hope you had as much fun as I did! I will be contacting the winners by email to set up mailing of your prizes!

Blog Review - Debbi-a1

This week we're looking at Deborah's blog - Debbi-a1. Her site features mainly in-progress and completed shots of her work. Deborah is very active in producing items for charity, like her 100 squares for the cancer comfortghan on C'ville (oh my goodness!) along with gifts for others and a few things for herself too! She can be found on Crochetville as Debbi-a1, just like her blog name.

Charity squares are not all Deborah is up to, she's got beautiful shawls, afghans, scarves, and various other projects. Her sidebar has some great links to free patterns along with other crochet resources around the net. She also has fun info about herself and her crochet history.

Here's even more on our newest friend:

How long have you been crocheting?
Oh, since I was about 8. But stopped, of course. Started again when I was actually a teen. I was very, very shy (still am shy) and so I stayed home a lot and my mom taught me again.

What's the project you're most proud of?
A round tablecloth done in thread. No picture (maybe need one). It’s about 30+ inches around (I never measured, but somewhere around there). I has a few pineapples around it. That’s the one I kept. There were a few others that I’ve given away.


What's your favorite thing about crochet?
The way it reduces stress. Gives me something to do and look forward too. The sense of accomplishment when something is finished. The friendship it creates when you meet someone else who crochets (online or in person), and this is an almost instant friendship with crochet which I don’t see elsewhere.

What do you enjoy working on the most?
I don’t know if I have a preference. At the moment, I’m not enjoying thread, although I haven’t abandoned it. I’m enjoying making purses, which I just started doing this last year (okay there was one a few years ago but without lining, which I didn’t know how to do, doesn’t help).

What else are you interested in?
I also do bead jewelry (just easy items, non crochet too). I’ve done some cross stitch. Some plastic canvas (proud of the 3 Christmas houses I did). Writing. Make up (that’s why I do Avon). Internet and computers. Reading (just about anything).

Is there anything else you want people to know about you?
I’m a very shy and introverted person so that’s why my blog doesn’t have much on it besides crochet. That’s the way I am in person too. I haven’t been married and I don’t have kids, just never happened for me and it’s not the worse thing, and as I’m getting older I’m feeling better about it. Although I do like men and children (for some reason children call me “silly” and I don’t know why…). I do seem to get along better with kids and the elderly then people my own age (not sure why but I’m okay with that). Most of my crochet items go as gifts and I don’t mind at all. I did start making things for me after years of crocheting for others. I have made sweaters and vests that I do wear. I am a religious person. I don’t travel much and I’m okay with that, although it always sounds like fun.

Thanks to Debbie for sharing her work with us and for participating in the review!!

Ripples

Do you recognize this pattern?

How about now?

Now?

Here it is in its full glory!

Its the Chromium Star Blanket by Laura Hanks!

I had so much fun working on this. I have to say, I am definitely not a long-term project maker, and this was stretching it a bit for me. Those last few rows I wanted to call it quits. I love the versatility of this pattern though. Choose any colors you want, do as many rows of each that you want and it always comes out looking great! This was my color variation: 5 rows red, 1 white, 4 red, 2 white, 3 red, 3 white, 2 red, 4 white, 1 red, 5 white, 1 hdc red, crab stitch white.
I also added some tassles to the corners, but they look a little small in comparison with the rest of the blanket.... not sure I'm going to keep them on. They made for fun pics though!

People's Choice Award

Here are the entries for the People's Choice award. Vote for your favorite in the sidebar!

Rainy Day Blues

When it Rains it Pours

Flower Shower
(its hard to tell, but that's a flower dishcloth below the cloud)





Dark Skies

Blog Contest Part 1 is over

Well, thanks to everyone who participated! For those who couldn't find the time to join in the fun, but are curious what the pattern produced, here's my original:

Its a rain cloud!

I was trying to come up with something appropriate for the weather in March in Indiana - and its RAIN. We've had a few nice days this month, but the majority of the time its been rainy and a little chilly.

I will announce the "random" winner at the same time as the "people's choice" winner. Since I only got a few entries, I would like to make sure that 2 people win, and not one! I'll choose the random winner out of all the entries, minus the people's choice. Keep your eyes out for the post containing all the entries and don't forget to vote for your favorite. You can call or text your vote to.... oh, wait, this isn't American Idol. Just look for the poll in my sidebar in the next day or so ;) I'll post when I do put them up!

Blog Contest - Prizes have been added!

I've added the prize info to my blog contest! Remember, you've got till tomorrow afternoon to enter... you can easily get it done in one sitting. Join the fun!

Blog Review - A Little Something Different

Well, it finally happened, after a mere 5 weeks of doing my "weekly" blog review, I just can't get one done this week. I've been super busy trying to get patterns together for my girl's shrug and JoJo blanket. That, coupled with going back to watching my nephew full-time during the week and some other personally time-consuming things, just made this week's review impossible to get done!

I was thinking of what to do instead and, remembering it was Good Friday, I thought I would do something a little different. I'll give you a review of the life of Jesus, whom we honor in this season for his Life, Death, and Resurrection!

Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
“We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
—Acts 10:34-43, NIV- emphasis mine

Jesus is Risen!
He is Risen, indeed!