crochet free sunday - have you ever made a hammock?

   

Some days, i just dont feel like crocheting. Today was one of those days. This is what i did instead-all day. Hung out on my hammock. <thats it over there. Oh & read a basket full of  magazines, while lying IN my hammock. YAY for Sundays :) Later, tonight i have to work on a new custom order! Headbands again! While i was flipping thru magazines, i came across this really cool Facebook design app, FREE. One is called http://www.pagemodo.com/ The other is Shortstacklab.com. Will be sharing more on that later, once i figure it out...looks like a doooozie...

Has anyone ever crocheted a hammock? I'm totally thinking of making one. I'm wondering how much work it really is...let me know if you have!

granite coasters

Ho Hum, OFF topic once again...

Who ever heard of crochet granite? YOU just did. Have you ever seen crochet granite? YOU just did that too! With wedding season just around the next corner, I wanted to make something really unique and I think I accomplished that with these pretty coasters. I made a set of 6 resin coasters, handcast; poured into small butter dishes on top of handmade (by me of course) crochet doilies.  I let them sit and harden for several hours - then shook them out of the butter dish mold. By first coating the molds, they were able to slide out oh so easy. Voila!

my set of granite coasters all bundled up for gift giving!

Eye've really lost it

I have no idea what got into me today. Are you kidding me with this? Instead of sitting my keister down to work on a black shawl I started weeks ago, this is what I did instead.

get your WINE - ing on

I know I mentioned this up top a little ways and it has absolutely nothing to do with babies, but I just love this so much i wanted to post it again. Since June starts tomorrow, and that means wedding season is upon us again, I wanted to post this... I have no clue where I came up with this idea.  It could have been one of the books I checked out of the library. I actually come up with alot of inspiration from my local library.  Anyways, I designed/made this and I'm darn happy with how it turned out. WEDDING GIFT ALERT!! If you like it, let me know, i have it stashed away somewhere.

it really IS possible to stiffen yarn

One of my favorite projects. I decided I wanted to make my own little wicker basket. I had a ton of jute twine lying around, and matching oatmeal colored yarn; begging to be made into something PLUS I needed a little catch all on my sewing table. This was a gooey, sticky mess but with an xtra dose of patience and loads of EnviroTex Lite later, this is what emerged...

my little thread basket, perfect!