How Time Passes By..

 Hello Friends,

How time passes by before we know it.  I haven't been doing a lot of crafting over that time but have made a few doilies that I haven't blocked.  I've recently been crocheting Delsie Rhodes patterns from the book Touched by Nature.  There are 6 designs in the book.  Believe me those designs are not for two colors, so the best is the stick with a solid color you choose.  

I made a mistake while crocheting the design Nature's Bounty.  I am not sure what she intended for the design to represent but I am thinking a pineapple, and if you look closely, you will see it is in the petal at the top of the one pineapple. It did not change the stitch pattern, and I didn't even notice my mistake until I was blocking the doily.  I was sad that I didn't notice it.  Had I noticed it I would have corrected it.

If you are first time visitor you are welcome to go through my blog and look at the snowflakes I've designed and make a few.  I also have a doily I designed you are welcome to make it too.  It is so pretty in different colors, and variegated colors too.  

Here is the doily and if you should visit my blog leave me a message and tell me where you found the mistake?  Thank you.

Doves in Flight

This design is not supposed to be round, but to have 6 sides, but I think it looks better blocked round.  

Flight of Fancy..  I also love this design.  It is butterlies.

I am working on the design Garden Symphony now.  I am using the color Wood Violet, a very pretty color.

Hope you enjoy visiting my blog and looking through it at my snowflakes and things I have crocheted and maybe find something I've knitted.  

Have a nice day!

KrochetGurl/ Melva C. 

Tealight Lotus candle cup holder

Tealight Lotus candle cup holder.  You can get the pattern here.  It is on Ravelry.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tealight-lotus

Let me know you came by to visit.  Thank you,

Melva 

Made another Pillowcase Doll

Hi Family, and friends,

Sorry, I haven't written in a good while, but I have been busy making dishcloth's for the church sale.  We have a learn a stitch weekly in my group, and I've been making them for a few month's now.

A friend gave me a couple pillowcase doll kits, and I made one of them yesterday.  I bought some 8X8 squares from a friend to embroidery, and may work on them this winter when we are snowed in.
There are 6 pkg's of 6 squares each.  Should be enough to make a small quilt.

We got a new grandson October 15, 2016.  He sure is sweet, and had so much fun taking his cup cake apart at his 1 year old party.  He loves to ride on his papa's scooter, and golf cart.  He just loves to ride.

Sharing a couple pictures.

DISH CLOTH'S I'VE MADE THIS YEAR..

This stitch is called CRAZY SHELL STITCH.  I made it into a dishcloth.
https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-crazy-stitch-in-crochet-4061423

This stitch is called FAN TAIL STITCH... it is in a graph.  Also, made into a dishcloth.  I crochet a border around the cloth.

http://www.marlybird.com/fan-tail-crochet-stitch/

This stitch is called BEAN STITCH.  Also, made into a dishcloth.  Did not need a border.  It seemed to create it's own border.   http://www.crochet-basics.com/crochet-bean-stitch.html

This stitch is called BLOCK STITCH SQUARE.  I really enjoyed making this square, and takes

variegated yarn really well. 

This stitch is called the BOX STITCH.  I couldn't find a pattern just a video to follow.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=box+stitch&view=detail&mid=8715A31C0C87F6565AF58715A31C0C87F6565AF5&FORM=VIRE

This stitch is the INTERLOCKING STITCH.. I liked it so much I made two in different variegated colors.  The tutorial the lady is using different colors and creating a beautiful cloth.  I thought the variegated yarn was just as pretty.   The beginning chain if you don't know how to make it she has
a site you can go to and get her tutorial. 
http://crochetstitches.info/crochet-interlocking-rows-tutorial/

This stitch is the V STITCH... There are different ways to make the V STITCH, but this girl made it so simple I just had to try her method out.  I used two colors of cotton yarn, and had oodles of tails to work in.  I bordered it to help with those end.  I think this pattern would be also great in a variegated color.  It is also in a Tutorial.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=V+stitch+tutorial+crochet&view=detail&mid=3A4887E69C2B0F1C6E083A4887E69C2B0F1C6E08&FORM=VIRE

This stitch is the DIAMOND TRELLIS STITCH... If you are game for learning a new stitch by all means you should tackle this one.  Again there was oodles of tails to work in.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOuDqJ57LAg

The next two cloth's I am going to share with I knitted them in a KAL in Facebook with  Lisa and Alli at Knitwits Heaven.  We just finished a KAL, and made a cloth with a Rooster design.  Anyone can join in the KAL's if you are on facebook.  She hosts them every other month, and the next one will begin in September if you are interested. 
In May we made a Flower...

This month we made a Rusty Rooster Cloth..

This next cloth I crocheted myself, but have not written up the pattern.  I got the idea from a friend that had also free handed a cloth similar.  This cloth is excellent for a scrubby.   When I get the time I will make another one since this one was gifted to a friend this week.

One more cloth it is knitted.  I had never knit a round cloth, so I invited a friend to make this cloth too.  It is a free pattern on the net, but I don't remember the name of the cloth, but you might recognize it, and the designer. 

I have made several other cloth's this year, and gifted them already.  Hope you find something you would like to try yourself.  A friend help me find the link.  https://www.favecrafts.com/Kitchen-Knits/Doily-Style-Dishcloth-from-Bernat


Thank you for stopping bye and visiting with me.

Melva Catherine

Hello Friends..

Hello friends,

I have been coming to my blog and checking to see who has been visiting me.  I have been making dishcloth's in my group with a lady that is sending links each Wednesday to LEARN A NEW STITCH.  I capitalized that so you could see the name of what we are doing.  I'm not screaming. :)

I am going to try and match up the link to each cloth I've made, and share pictures to you all, so maybe you would like to make some of them yourself.

I think I told you all that I have a new grandson.  He will be 9 month's old the 15th of July.  He is growing so fast, and learning almost faster than us old folks can keep up with him.   He is still in the crawling stage, but he has been walking holding on to things for a good while now. 

My DH is disabled, and can only walk with support, and our grandson plays with his rolling walker and pushes it around walking.  He sure has fun with it.  He thinks he has graduated his toys, and now our furniture is his toys. 

As you can see we grandma's are always bragging on our grandchildren, and I have 3 in my old age.

Group hug, they are all precious. 

Thank you for choosing my blog and stopping by for a few.... 

Melva Catherine

Mile a minute afghan free pattern by Trish Kristofferson

A beautiful mile a minute afghan by Trish Kristofferson

https://www.allfreecrochetafghanpatterns.com/Mile-A-Minute/Fast-Irish-Panels-Throw-from-Red-Heart-Yarns/


Enjoy

Melva

Daily Links to free patterns

http://www.free-crochet.com/

Kitchen Contest

One of the moderators at Thread'n'Stitches yahoo group is hosting a Kitchen Contest.  I have already added 9 pictures of things I've made to the album.  I will share some of the things I've made recently.  Two of them are home cooked food items which I will not share. Come join in our fun. 

Our weather has been unusually warm and just cool some days.  We had one little snow flurry go through, and so far no ice which is unusual for our area of Missouri.

Spring is just around the corner, and flowers are beginning to peek their heads through the cold soil. 

Take care, and I hope you enjoy seeing my work.  Let me know by sending me a little message.  I love hearing from those that stop by my blog. 

Knit bobble stitch by someone's pattern.  I think it would make a neat scrubby cloth.   

 crocheting the bobble stitch, by Melva in our Learn a Stitch.  No pattern I just stitches this up. 

Basket Weave Cloth knit by Melva in our Learn a Stitch at Thread'n'Stitches yahoo group.

Burges doily designed by Melva, and can be

found on this blog. Very easy to crochet, so if you haven't learned the stitch here is a very simple pattern to learn by. 

 Valentine doily designed by Crochet Memories.

Google for free pattern

 Waffle dishcloth From Homespun Living

Mystery KAL with Knitwitt on facebook .  I hope to join in on the next one.  This is a Pineapple.   

Snowman Granny Squares Blanket

http://www.favecrafts.com/Crochet/Crochet-Snowman-Granny-Squares-Blanket


Saw this pattern on Favecrafts and it is so cute I wanted to share it with my reading audience.

Melva

FIRST SNOW..... FREE SNOWFLAKE

First Snow 2016

Designed by Melva Garner

November 23, 2016

Supplies:  size 7 hook, size 10 metallic thread

Size: 3 1/2 inches

Stitches: ch st, sl st, sc, dc, trc,

Round 01:  Ch 6, trc in 5th ch from hook *ch 2, trc in same 4th ch from hook* repeat 10 times, ch 2 join in 3rd ch.  (12 ch 2 sps)

Round 02: Sl st into 1st sp. *ch 4, sc in next sp* repeat around join

(12 ch 4 sps)

Round 03: Ch 3 *3 dc in first ch 2 sp. dc in next trc * repeat around join in ch 3 (48 dc)

Round 04: Ch 5, trc in same st. *ch 2, skip 1st. sc in next st. ch 2, skip 1 st, trc, ch 2, trc in next st.* repeat around, join in 3rd ch.

Round 05: Ch 1, sc in join, sl st in 1st sp, * ch 3, sc, ch 5, sc, ch 3, sc in same sp. 2 sc in next 2 ch 2 sps. sc in next ch 2 sp* repeat around join....

Finish off

Free pattern for personal use only. Do not share on any website, group, or email without permission.   You can link back here, and copy for your own personal use. 

Crocheting Hats

Hello Family and Friends,

I have been crocheting hats.  I've made 3 adult hats, and one for my grandson.  He wanted an Iron Man Hat, so I did a search until I found one that suited him.  He can hardly wait for the temp. to get cold enough to wear.

School has been out for deer season last week, and this week.  They are sleeping over as often as mom and dad will let them, and of course us too.  They would stay here around the clock if we would allow them. :)  The adult hats I've made you can find the pattern on Ravelry ( free download ) French Vanilla Winter set.  It also has a scarf.  I will be making a couple scarves to go with the hats.  I've also made a couple spiro scrubby's.  You can find the pattern by entering in the search Spiro Scrubby by Judith Prindle 3/05.  I don't have a picture of one, so will make one to share a picture. 

Now to show you some pictures. 

Iron Man Hat

French Vanilla Hat

French Vanilla Hat and scarf set

Last year's Christmas Tree with my snowflakes.

Hat and scarf set for a friend, with scrubby, and dishcloth's. 

Hope you enjoy seeing what I am working on. 

Melva

We have a new grandson!

Logan Eli Garner was born October 15th, 2016 weighted 7 lb. 2 oz.  20 inches long.
He came home with Jaundice, and a fractured collar bone.  Of course we know it is
just a cartridge, but it should have been normal, not fractured.  JMO 

But, he has another problem called
Tracheomalacia - congenital.  The doc. treating him said he has another baby that was born with the
same condition.  

I don't agree with a doc breaking the mother's water, and inducing labor
hours before she gives birth.  God did not intend for babies to come that way.
He break's the water, and then the baby comes. 

Seems like babies are born on a doctor's schedule now days instead
of the way God planned them to be born.  Well, no seems about it; they are. 

They need that extra week to fully develop, and if
there are problems then a mother knows it was to be.

Mother and baby. 

Thank you for stopping by and visiting me, comments are welcomed.

Melva



 

Finished Red Heart Sampler Afghan

Hello friends, and family,

It has been awhile since I posted here, and I see some of you have continued to come visit me in hopes that I have added something new, or designed something new. 

I have been working absolutely month's on this afghan.  12 squares and each one of them are
a different technique other than the usual knit and purl stitches, and not all the same size which poses a problem setting them together. 

School summer vacation for our grandchildren took out 2 month's of that time.  Just can't concentrate with  an 11, and 8 year old in the house, and it was so hot they couldn't be outside long, and most of the time when they could it was late in the evening after the sun went down; by then their parents were home from working.

So, once school got back in session I worked like a mad woman trying to catch up, and get the Afghan squares made, and set together. 

Now I am in the process of making my DGS an Iron Man hat, as requested by him.  I found a real neat pattern, but for some reason the directions are not working out for me, and I am not new to making hats, both crochet and knit, but do like to go by a pattern.   Oh well, I'll look for just a simple plain hat for the back ground and see if this mask will work out right.  I may even give the directions a second try to see if I missed something.  I sure like this hat though.

Thank you for stopping in, and visiting me.

Melva

Christmas Bells Tablecloth

Hello Blogging friends,

Sharing a WIP of my Christmas Bells Tablecloth.  I am using size 20 thread.  The view is just two rounds from the center motif.  I am adding the motif's as I go.   I am using one of my snowflake
designs to make this tablecloth only I am changing the last round on the snowflake.  No Pattern written up yet.
Comments are welcome,
Melva

Hello Blogging Friends,

I was looking at everyone's blog, and realized it has been 5 months since I've posted here.

I hope each one of you have had a good 2016 year.

I haven't gotten to do much crafts in about as long.  I have begun the Knit Sampler Afghan by

Red Heart.  I am on square 4.  If you are interested you can google for it.

I'm also working on my Christmas Snowflake Tablecloth, which I will show you a

picture of WIP when I get one more motif made, and joined. 

As many of you know about Yahoo being up for sale.  I have moved my group to the

io groups, and we are there as KNITTINGandCROCHET, so if you go to the io

groups and do a search you can find us easily (I hope)  We are a busy group.

My Yahoo group is still active too, but not as active as the io group.  

I'll say bye for now, and hope to talk to you sooner.

Melva Catherine

Crinoline Valentine Angel

I just finished a CAL in Threadies, a Facebook group.  The Crinoline Valentine Angel was designed by Cylinda Mattews. 

I Heart You Three Times......

http://rovingcrafters.com/2015/01/31/i-heart-you-three-times-a-free-pattern/

I just finished this washcloth.  There were some new stitches I had never done before as you can see I have holes in the point of the heart, but I did try. :) 

I hopefully will get back to making some snowflakes for those of you that come looking for a new one, but for now I have some other crafts I want to make.  Just keep checking back to see what I've made next. 

I have my August Bells Snowflake tablecloth started, but that will be a long running project as I am only working on it in between projects. 

Come by again and visit.  Leave me a comment, so I will know you were here, and that also lets me go visit your blog.

Katheryn

ANOTHER BUTTERFLY HAT

Sharing another Butterfly hat I made using two skeins of yarn.  It looks a bit wonky because I had to put something over the head to get the hat to fit.  I need to try and find a larger head form for the adult hats. 

Anyway, I like how this one turned out.  It was more of an experiment since I had never combined two yarns like this before, and I didn't want to carry the yarn, but to knit it into the round, and I managed to catch it up with the stitch in the center of each repeat. 

You can see the variegated yarn in places, but I am learning.  I am going to make another one with a Violet background, and the same variegated yarn for the butterflies. 

I am now in the process of knitting a Valentine heart cloth.  I am learning some new stitches making this cloth, and loving it. 

Hope you like it, and be easy on me as I am still learning. 

Butterfly Hat free Ravelry download

I made this Butterfly hat; a free downloadable pattern at Ravelry.  Here is the link if you are
interested in making one.  It is so easy I am on my second hat without even using the directions.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/butterfly-hat

I love this design, and gifted it to my dear sister in law that is going though chemo.  The hat is so easy, fast, and fun to make. 

Katheryn 

THINGS I HAVE MADE RECENTLY

New hats I just finished for my SIL that is going through

chemo treatments. 

Crocheted Valentine Hat I just made this

morning.  It has been entered into the

Valentine Theme in my group at Thread_n_Stitches

Yahoo group.  If you come and request to join

you must return the questionnaire filled out, or you

will not be approved to join my group.  I do have people

request that will not return the questionnaire, I supposed

they do not read the home page, or they would know it.

There is a Yahoo logo on the right side of this page

below you can click on and just visit my home page.

We are a private group.

Not sure who will get this hat, or if I will keep it.

It is a paid pattern called Hats for Healing by

Carri Hammett  I really like this design, and

it can be worn by anyone.

These two hats are Chemo hats I made for my youngest

SIL that is going through treatments.

Made this hat and mitten set for my older SIL, and it turned out too big for her. Oh well, as it is said; "It the thought that counts"

The last picture is a scrubby I knitted with the new Red Heart Scrubby thread.  I could not crochet with it, but knit was easy.  I just CO 17 sts, and knit to the end turned and knit until the scrubby was square.

I plan to start another knit hat soon.  I do love to knit. :)

Have a great day!

Katheryn