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Rick and Morty is one of my guilty pleasures. The first episode I ever saw was the Pickle Rick one where Rick becomes a pickle and can still do amazing things. Rick is so arrogant that it’s weird to say how fun his character is to watch. As with a lot of cartoon characters, I…
Continue ReadingFor 2022, I wanted to do a temperature scarf by taking the high temperature from each day in 2022 and then knitting a row in a certain color to represent that temperature range. The first roadblock is that I’m not a knitter but thought this might be a good opportunity to learn. The second road…
Continue ReadingFor Christmas, I made several plain crocheted snowballs adding safety eyes and a little orange nose to make adorable snowmen. One niece loves cows, so I took that plain crocheted snowball and did a few freehand modifications to come up with a cow snowball. They made a perfect little Christmas happy.
Continue ReadingNow that I’ve been back home for a few weeks, I’m slowly going through everything that I wanted to share of Christmas projects. One of my nieces loves the color purple and her favorite animal is a cow. When I came across this cute cow pattern, I immediately bought it thinking this would be a…
Continue ReadingThis year I have been working on Halloween goodies to give trick-or-treaters. Usually I make some small amigurumis to give out with candy, making around 20 items. This year we are in a larger neighborhood, so my goal is to have 100 small items to pass out with candy. When choosing to make a Halloween…
Continue ReadingWow. It’s been a while since I have posted and if I’m being honest it’s been a while since I crocheted. I did do a lot of crocheted items for Christmas which usually burns me out for a few months. Here are the Halloween goodies I made for the trick or treaters: I love using…
Continue ReadingCrochet Mae is on You Tube! First video is a speed crochet. My daughter watches a lot of speed drawing, so I thought, ‘why not speed crochet?’ I’m working on my setup and plan to do another one very soon.
Continue ReadingIt’s wonderful to crochet for family. My daughter has challenged me several times to crochet her stuff. I love doing this as it not only keeps me on my toes but it is nice to make her something she absolutely loves. There’s no better reason to pick up the hook than putting a smile on…
Continue ReadingHere is a little Zero amigurumi I did a while back. I didn’t have a pattern, and it was one of the first times I had used felt with one of my creations. I wanted the ‘ghost cape’ to be flowing and thought crocheting it would make it too heavy. The felt gave it more…
Continue ReadingEach year for Halloween I make a small crochet happy to pass out to the trick or treaters. With the success of Pokemon Go and Pokemon mania in our house for Pokemon Sun and Moon, I decided to make more Pokeballs. I had made some back when we went to Gen Con. In all I…
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