A Round Blanket with Square Corners

Hello Again!
I bet most of you thought I forgot to blog? Nope! I've been really busy with family, the group, and VBS week at our church. Presently we have 18 preschoolers..60 children in all! What a Blessing..Praise God for this!

I want to tell you all about my round blanket with square corners..first its coming along quite nicely. One of my group members, Karen, came over one day and we sat for a long time chatting, crocheting and playing with my puppy, Rita! Ok, now you know she had to have equal time so we took turns .. I noticed something just before we ended our visit..first..well, I guess I began to notice when she first got here. She was on the same row as I was..so laughing about it..thinking wow, that's really kinda funny, we continued on with the visit..About the end of it, I counted the clusters between the corners only to find that after she counted hers, we were still on the same row! lol I thought that was pretty funny. I've never worked on anything at the same rate as another crafter.. until then..
She also brought me some Amish Bread starter..wishing some of my friends lived nearby because one day this week after I get home from VBS, I will have to bake some bread..would love to share the starter too!

Above is a picture of the blanket so far..as you can see its a pretty yellow with a blue stripe in it so far..I'm thinking of continuing on with the blue for awhile to see how it comes out..I've had so many nice blankets that the group has made. One of my members who crochets like the wind just knocked off three of these..Amazing talents and colors..

I wish you all an awesome week!

Until we meet again!
Hook's Up!
Leslee
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/craftersintheattic/

Round Blanket with Square Corners!

Good Afternoon!

I nearly forgot I was going to jump on over here and tell you all about what is going on in Crafter's in the Attic.
We are all pretty busy with summer vacations, projects for our events and personal fun. One of our members told us about a pattern she found on a the Bernat site. Its called a Baby Sport-Round Blanket to crochet.
Here's the url for it:
http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=3833

I fell in love with this blanket..first its a bit tricky..Its a round blanket with corners! lol.. I can just see the faces of those who read this blog..it is something like WHAT?? who ever heard of a round anything with corners!..lol... it does have corners..and guess what? This blanket is so easy to do you could actually watch a new tv program or even a new movie while doing it..Its sort of a mindless crochet..most of us who know about this love the idea..It means you can crochet while keeping your mind on something else..so you then have busy hands.. Above is a picture of mine that I started..its in a soft baby yellow..I'm hoping to add a blue round and then border this blanket in white..It will make a great blanket for a baby boy!

I hope you all have fun with this one..we sure are!

Until we meet again!
Hook's up!
Leslee
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/craftersintheattic/

We are back!

Wow.. has time flown or what?
I must apologize for not posting in a long while. Life has its own way of interrupting well planned intentions.

Crafter's in the Attic has now moved back to yahoo. We were at Nexo because yahoo couldn't seem to keep up with demand and continually went down in the process. Or it wouldn't let some of our members log in saying that they were not members..lol.. that was hard as they were definitely on our members list. So after playing games there we transferred for awhile to a beta site called Nexo..unfortunately Nexo was purchased by Shutterfly and the quality went down. I was afraid that our members might be hasseled to purchase their products..and quite frankly not many people knew we existed. We had changed our name from Crocheter's Attic to Crafter's in the Attic as we wanted to acknowledge our knitters and sewers. Well, now we changed back to yahoo only to find they have improved!! Like who woulda thought that they would huh?

We are a small group of ladies who crochet, knit and sew for charity. We have six events in a year. They are two months long. It helps juggle life, crafting and donations. We have events for cancer, seniors, newborns/preemies, shelters, etc. I felt a long while ago that there are so many people who need help. Not just babies..So here we are ..a small group of 15 ladies. Its cozy and warm here. Currently we are working on things for newborns/moms who need. The event is for Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California. I'm a bit partial to this one as I've several grandchildren born in their birthing place.

I'm working on a ripple ghan for a baby. Its nearly finished which I'm really happy to report as its been on the very warm side here. I noticed I seem to work on blankets during the heat..I'm a bit backwards I guess.. as soon as I figure out how to put pictures at the right places in my blog I will show you..hmm, maybe at the beginning for now..So, above is the picture of the ghan I'm working on. Its in a really nice creme color.

Have a happy crafting day!
Hook's Up!
Leslee
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/craftersintheattic/