Awesome Arm Warmers

I LOVE <3 tall socks especially striped tall socks!  I bet your wondering what the heck does that have to do with arm warmers?  Well if you think out side of the box like me it means awesomeness!  LOL
Anyway some of my favorite tall socks have gotten quite worn.  I started getting irritated with my toes popping through them…ahhh!  NO NO NO!  I don’t want to through away my AWESOME socks, I say!!!  LOL kind of comical huh? Soooo how do I save my tall socks?
I cut off the bad part (heel down) and slipped them over my arms.  LIGHT BULB! DING DING DING!  So I looked up how to so the edges so they won’t fray out all over the place.  Through my research (I don’t know how to sew anything more than a straight stitch…LOL) I found what stitch to use.  Looked in my sewing machine’s instruction manual to learn how to do the stitch modified the length and width directions a bit for what I had envisioned.
Ok so using the double-over-locking stitch pattern with a length of 2 and a width of 4 I sewed the edges of my arm warmers.  I then cut a tiny slit where I wanted my thumb to poke through and used the same stitch around the hole the slit created. In the future I will probably use the button hole directions for the thumb slots though.
Drum roll please….here is the result:
Not bad for my first time sewing something other than a straight stitch…huh?  I like the way the main opening ended up kind of frilly too.  I think I might buy 2 pairs of matching socks from now on so that my socks and arm warmers will match.  Yea!

Jewel of an Afghan

Update:  Sorry this is taking so long...the government shut down really affected me in a bad way (lots of stress).  Well now that I can take a break from those worries I have picked working on the blanket back up.  Here is where I am at now:

My cross-stitch project is on hold.  I reference the pattern on the computer using my one-note program so that I can make it as large as I need and mark it off as I complete it.  I never loose the paper or my eyesight this way and if I mark something incorrectly I can fix it with out a bunch of scribbles.  Well since my laptop has no screen it is confined to my desk hooked up to a monitor.  This has caused the problem of feeling secluded from my family.  So I picked up a book my mother-in-law gave me some time ago called Woman’s Day Crochet Showcase published by Columbia House in 1980.  I decided to start an afghan in this book because it is something I can do while I’m chillin in the chair listening to what ever show my family may be watching.  It’s hard for me to just sit there and watch t.v. with out biting my nails, fidgeting, or wanting to fall asleep.  I am in the same room with them and can be a part of their conversations this way.  I started this Saturday evening.  My son was sick and had a fever all day yesterday so I worked on it a bunch yesterday while I was keeping an eye on him.
This is what I have done so far.

I chose this one because I had a lot of left over colors so all I had to buy for right now was black.
If you like this pattern and would like to try it yourself comment on this blog and I will email it to you.  If you would like to try to make this for yourself and do not know how to crochet comment stating just that and I will try to schedule a hang out to teach you how to make this afghan as well as email you the pattern.  If you really like the blanket enough to want one but do not want to make it yourself comment on that as well for I may go ahead and set this page up to accept pre-orders on the basis and understanding that it does take quite some time to make blankets.
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Tommy’s Car Painting

If you thought what my 7yr old son did on Microsoft Paint was impressive then you have to check out what he can do with real paint.

We love painting together.  He did this all on his own one day.  Just thought I would share…what mother doesn’t love to brag about her child.  LOL

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Cross Stitch Emerald Heart

I have been working on this cross stitch…It has been taking me a long time.  I have just been getting a few colors as I need them though because this is the first cross stitch that I have worked on that didn’t come in a kit.  I really like fairies so I wanted some fairy décor.  Since everything is so expensive these days I figured I would make my own…LOL.  Anyway here is what I have so far.

I wasn’t comfortable enough with my cross stitch skills to do it on 25 count white linen so I got 22 count regular cross stitch fabric.  This may not look as nice but it was a heck of a lot cheaper.

This is what it is supposed to end up looking like.  I got it from the source listed below for free.





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