Morning every! hope today finds you well. Well I need you help with my next video. I need to know what kind of craft videos you want to see. I can knit and crochet. I can do some beading, I can loom, I can papercraft. So Watch my video and tell me what you want to see in the comments
Like I said in my last post I have been wanting to get my youtube channel up and running. Well guess what? It’s running. There will be a little bit of everything in this channel. Everything from 3d printing to crochet to knit, to loom knitting, to card making, my new life with dentures at the age of 31. That has been one hell of a road already. Me and the kids and the fur kid and maybe even the husband out on adventures. So this is going to be my welcome to my channel Video. I will always post my videos here. So you can have a way to not have to search youtube. But come here. So here is what my channel is all about.
HELLO AND GOOD MORNING!
It has been many moons since I have been on here. I have been super busy. Things are starting to change again in my neck of the sandbox. I have lots of changes coming to me and my family.
Me lets see I finally am getting my teeth taken care of. Sick of the pain I was in because of bad teeth. in 14 more days I will get my new set. I am super excited about that.
I finally said it’s time to get in front of the camera and I am finally making videos like I have promised for years.
And there are more changes to come you will just to have to check back to see what’s new!
We are ranchers as well as I am a crafter. But it is summer time and it is the busy season at the ranch. Between riding lessons, chores and just tending to the animals there is no time left in the day to craft. Even on rainy days there are still things that need to be done. But like I said we are a ranch it is G&T Diamond Horse Ranch in our small town in Colorado. And we have fallen on some hard times and need some help. So I made a gofundme page to see if we can get everything ready for winter here. If you can donate please and thank you so much. Our family is greatful! If you cannot I understand there are many of us out there having hard times. Can you please just share the link to the gofundme please?
Here is the link gofund.me/5k22s9xw. If you can help ot please do! And I want to thank everyone now for even just sharing!
And this is our mare Diamond. Just one of our horse babies that we love so dear!
So Like i said earlier I would be sharing where I found the original pattern. Click the link below to find her pattern. And thank you for sharing with the world!
Now What I did to tweek this pattern because I was finding that with the size hook and my tention when I sewn them shut it would curl so I did my own patterns and I will write it below. Sorry No pics for this one.
FOr this pattern I used an H or 5.0mm hook
Ch – Chain
SC – Single Crochet
BLO – Back Loop only
2SCTOG – 2 single crochet together.
FO. – Fasten Off
Chain 21 (just like in the original pattern.) Leave a nice long tail to use for sewing it all together.
Row 1. 2 sc in the second Chain from the hook. (Now I work in the back of the chain in the spine part to get a cleaner finish. But that is totally up to you.) Then sc in each stitch to last 2 stitches. Last 2 stitches 2sctog. Ch 1 turn.
Row 2. Working in BLO from this row to the end, In the next 2 stitches 2sctog. Sc to the last stitch. In the last stitch 2 sc. Ch 1 Turn.
Row 3. Repeat row 1.
Row 4. Repeat row 2.
As you can see the odd rows start with an increase and the even rows start with a decrease. Just keep track of your rows until you get to row 24.
This is where I changed something with the pattern. In the original pattern it says to crochet 21 rows. And I did that and was not happy with the outcome. So for the second batch I kept going till I hit 24 rows. Now when you end you on an even row the tail will be on the opposite side of the starting tail. you have 2 choices. You can either weave the tail to the ride end of the project or just throw one more row in there. It is totally up to you. I did both and I could not see the difference. I will show you in the picture below.
Ok the one with more stripes I did only to row 24 and FO. With the one with only 4 strips I did 25 rows. So ok you still with me?
Now the sewing part. Grab your darning needle. and join the 2 ends up the starting and the last rows. I used the whip stitch to sew them together good and tight. Then I turned it inside out and on the same side you end up with the opening of the scrubby, I wove the yarn in and out around that opening and when I went full circle I pulled real tight and sewed it shut, knotted tight and hid my knot. Now that side is done. Just thread the other tail through your needle and repeat the weaving in and out for the other side pull tight to close everything up and make your knot. You just made your scrubby.
Note if you want the spiral color change like you see with mine. The scrubby with more stripes I changed every 3 rows. All I did was fasten off weave in the tail and worked it into the next row and color. So I got 8 different color changes in that one. For the scrubby with less stripes but thicker stripes. I did the color change ever 6 rows to get 4. Yep I did some mental math on this pattern lol. And like I said for the last row I just threw in that extra row so I would not have to weave 2 feet of tail to the right side of the project.
That is it any questions please feel free to ask. See any mistakes in the pattern give a shout I can fix it. I am writing this on the fly while it is quiet at my house. Enjoy your scrubby and as always Happy Crochet!!!
The Pet Expo for the ranch was a great turn out. And made the long hours and hard work well worth it. But now it is time to jump into the next project. And for me it is a craft booth at the next horse Show. I was honored to be asked to sell some of my crochet goodies at the horse show that the Ranch will be hosting. I was floored that I was even asked. So now I am busy trying to find patterns with western themes, and horse related crochet goodies. But I was also thinking lets thow some household goodies in there too. So I started making kitchen and bathroom scrubbies. then I ran out of cotton yarn. And a real hooker knows that if you want to use something for cleaning cotton is the way to go. But being that i ran out I grabbed the good old RHSS and said lets just give it a try. I will not sell something if I know it will not work. And to my shock and surprise acrylic yarn worked great and dried so much faster than cotton. I am talking got stains off my counters Ya know those coffee stains behind the coffee maker that ya forget every once in a while and you can never seem to get off short of using an A Bomb to get them off, or really harsh chemicals that I cannot use because they react to my Asthma. Well with this little red scrubby and some very hot water. The stains are no longer there. My fridge handles are whiter than when we moved in. I have been scrubbing them for months and they still were not as white as I would have wanted them. But 5 minutes with this scrubby and hot hot water they shine whiter than my teeth! So for the people who say you cannot use acrylic yarn for kitchen scrubbies have never done so and saw the results. I will write a pattern up and also post a link where I found the original pattern later today. Here are the cotton ones I made yesterday in pink purple and mixed purple.
Now for the acrylic yarn ones I made
(Note I did not get a shot of the red one before I used it. I was too excited to see if it worked)
And yesterday we welcomed to the family Walter. He is our pet Turkey. Or as I call him Big Bird. He is the biggest turkey I have ever seen.
Hey everyone. I am still kickin in the high desert. Enjoying the sun while it is around. But my craft table has a good layer of dust on it. Being that my entire family including me wants to be a self sustaining family. IE food, power, work, So we have been working to get that started. Between getting our turkeys and chickens to grooming the horses to riding lessons. To just being together. And now it is planting time. CAN YOU SAY YUMMMM!!!! Nothing like growing veggies. I love doing this. And this year I will be learning about canning. I cannot wait till harvest time! But we still have school to attend to. Minds to enrich with as much knowledge I can shove in their sponge like brains. So while they are schooling I have a bit a free time not much. So I will try my hardest to stay vigilant to making posts and patterns. I do miss making goodies and I still have plans to make videos just need to find the time in the day. I am starting to think 24 hours is just not enough time to get things done. I hope this finds you and yours well. Time for me to take a minute to create something fun! HMMMM maybe even a new pattern I create. keep your eyes peeled for something fun to share!
Ok so yesterday was crazy here. people had to be here and there. Projects needed to be finished. Ya kow life in general so I did not get to post yesterday. Well I finally finished my Corner to Corner blanket last night. And I was a very happy duck. It was nice and warm. So what are you working on?
The pattern I used for this can be found over at The Crochet Crowd’s youtube page just search corner to corner afghan and you will find Mikey’s video. Thankys agaon to the crochet crowd for the tutorial. This was a fast easy project.
This year I made a promise to myself that I will finish every project I start. But the granny squares are just not in my cards this year. Maybe net year but this year nope not gunna happen here. And I love to use my Saturdays for starting new projects. That is about how long it takes me to finish a blnaket. So this is now Blanket start Saturday. I will post the finished project of last week and then I will share what the new project is for the week for me.
So this week I am just about to finish the C2C and I will post pics tomorrow and today I am starting the pattern fromm redheart.com called dusty snowflake. There is a video for right and left handed uploaded by the Crochet Crowd. And on the video MIkey will walk you threw the entire pattern. I will post a link below for the written pattern and the video.
I hope all is well with you and have a wonderfully crafty weekend!
Link for written Pattern
Video Tutorial
Great news the new laptop is here and it is up and running so now I can get back to my blog. But I still need to wait for the craft supplies to get her Friday. Then I can start posting tutorials again. I have missed that. And I got a new phone with a better camera so I can now make videos. I cannot wait to get my craft area set up and get this party started!
confesstions of a backwoods mom n crafter 