Crochet Dreamcather

Happy Saturday!

I hope this post finds you well.

I just want to start out by saying how much I love Pinterest!  Yes, I am on Pinterest!!! You can find me by clicking here.  

About a week or so ago, I found this crochet dreamcatcher, and it even clicked through to a lovely blog.  The blog is in German, so google helped me out with reading it.  

There was no tutorial for the center of the dreamcatcher, but I knew that I had to make one!

My mom loves Native American inspired decor, and Mother's Day (here in the USA) is coming up fast.  I know this will make the perfect gift for my mama.

So, I winged it.

Of course, I started out with a crocodile-ish stitch flower.

Then I secured the flower to the wooden ring - I used the inside of an old embroidery ring that has been in my closet for over a year.

I think the hardest part was wrapping the yarn around the ring, and trying to space out the dangly bits, properly.  I am hoping that part will be easier next time, now that I have some knowledge of how to wrap the yarn easier.

It's not perfect, but I love it!

I know my mama will love it too!

Best Wishes,

Alison

Star Trek Blanket

Bonjour!

I am learning French - but that has nothing to do with my post today...

So, I finished my second Star Trek blanket - early last week, but I am slacking on blog updates - and was actually able to take some photos this time!  The first blanket I made, I barely finished before I had to hand it over to the customer that ordered it - as it was a Christmas gift, and she was on her way out of town.  This blanket, was ordered as a Valentines Day gift, and it was delivered, and I got a picture of the happy recipient - it can be found in the 'Customer Photos' album on my ChirpinBirdie Facebook page.

I am pretty happy with the way it turned out, and already have an order for a third Star Trek blanket!

For this blanket, I used all Red Heart Super Saver yarn, and the pattern for the communicators is based on this free Ravelry download!

The background colors I used is Gold, Soft Navy, Teal, and Burgundy.

For the outlining I used Black, and I used Heather Gray for the communicator symbol.

For the plain squares I used Light Gray.

It took one skein of each of the background colors, and the light gray.  A little less than one skein of the heather gray, in the communicator, and almost two skeins of black.

I chose to crochet a simple granny stripe border, using all of the background colors, broken up with the black.

Of course, Jixer made sure I got the blanket done on time!

He is a wonderful supervisor!

He also had to test out the 'cuddle factor' of the blanket, before I shipped it - he approved!

That's it for now!

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Best Wishes,

Alison