From A Land Down Under - Ugg boots

I recently took a trip over to Australia where I was immersed with all their culture and style. Despite being their summer where the average temperature was in the 80's and 90's, the Australian made Ugg boot was everywhere. While I didn't see anyone wearing them, the stores were full of them. When I was at one of these stores, I noticed how they modified the Ugg boot with a rather stylish crocheted ruffle around the calf portion of the boot.

I took the above picture and then checked my camera screen to see the picture. Right away I was distracted over the sign underneath the boots - "Genuine Australian Kangaroo Scrotum $29.99." A few things immediately crossed my mind:

1) Genuine Kangaroo Scrotum, why would anyone want this?
2) It costs $29.99?!? Again, why would anyone want this?
3) This must be a cultural thing, and these crocheted embellished boots must be in prime real estate at this store!

So do you think the GENUINE AUSTRALIAN KANGAROO SCROTUM, helps to sell these enhanced Ugg boots? I certainly do!

Yarn Bombing Big Time

One of my New Year's resolutions this year it to participate in some yarn bombing. We've posted a few blogs on this topic allready, our first encounters with it. It seems as if yarn bombing is just getting bigger and better. If you're looking for some inspiration check out these big time yarn bombs:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/outdoor/yarn-bombing-the-guerrilla-knit-graffiti-movement-151393

This article talks about the yarn bombing movement. Unfortunatly it gives all the credit to knitters, maybe we can do something to change that.

This is one Magical School Bus. Now thats what I call yarn bombing to the extreme.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/06/wool-rise-knitting

Once again giving all the credit to knitting :/ grr.

This one is my favorite of my findings. Lion Brand has developed there own yarn bombing tutorial!! How awsome is that. Now this is something anyone can do. My favorite thing about this is that it shows both knitting and crocheting stitches!

http://www.lionbrand.com/yarnBombing.html

Let it snow

Happy New Year hookers! Hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday and has had a chance to relax, and recharge maybe even do some crocheting.

So we may not have had more than a few fluries of snow this year but that doesn't mean you can't have a little fun and make some snowmen! You may recal "A Lovely Christmas Gift" one of our posts from 2010 about the gift of a crocheted snowman. I came accross this pattern for an adorable snowman family!

All though it's not exactly the same as the one featured in our previous blog but they are so cute! Should be a quick project, would love to see if anyone tries it out! The pattern can be found here: http://www.favecrafts.com/Christmas-Crafts/Crochet-Snowman-Family-from-Bernat/ct/1#

Christmas lights

Tired of buying christmas lights only to have them burn out and have to replace them the following year? Why not crochet some lights that will never go out?  Love this idea...
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/holiday-lights-2

Perfect for indoor use or outdoor.  Hang them outside and people can see the "lights" during the day.  Hang them in a child's bedroom and have holiday lights without worrying about the kids playing with electricity! Make them to any color scheme you like. You no longer have to go from store to store to fine the right lights, make them in the summer and you wont have to stand in any long checkout lines.  This would also be a great project to use up all your left over yarn from previous projects!

What I Want For Christmas!

While shopping at Joann's this week, I came across this very fitting sign!

Crochet School

Happy hump day, all you hookers and hooker wannabes.  It's half way through the week and it's our official meeting day so I thought it would be a good to to share some info and everyone excited to crochet tonight!

This post is more for the wannabes, for everyone who has been thinking they would like to crochet but just don't know how to get started.  This site has a great tutorial of all kinds of crochet stitches starting with the basics!

http://issuu.com/lesliss/docs/crocheting_school

I got started in a similar fashion by picking up a basic crochet book and practicing some basic stitches until I felt comfortable jumping into a pattern.  I still reference that book from time to time when I forget a stitch.

V-Stitch Afghan

A few months ago my sister-in-law got me a bunch of yarn at a local garage sale. I think it was about 12 skeins total, however there were only 3 of each kind and color of yarn, which meant my projects couldn't be the huge afghans I'm used to making. That's probably a good thing since they take so long to make and I really don't need any more blankets. So I decided to make my niece a small child's blanket with the yarn her mother got me and give it to her for her third birthday, which was yesterday. For this project I decided to use Red Heart's Banana Berry (blue-green) yarn since she loves green so much. This was a super quick afghan to make as it used a V-stitch which allows you to crochet in a space versus a stitch... therefore you fly through the project.

I enjoyed the way the variant yarn created it's own pattern.

I didn't get to see my niece open this gift, but I heard that she wanted to sleep with when she went to bed last night!