Yarn-Bomb #2

The other day I went to run some errands in downtown Waukesha (candy cigs anyone??), and I was immediately drawn to this yarn-bombed garbage can. Someone took A LOT of time to create this bomb. I feel if I made it, I would want to keep it since I would have invested so much time and money into it, let alone it could be a nice sized afghan. Whoever made this must be quick and talented!

Yarn-bombed garbage can, and yes that is a
massive turd next to it... covered with flies.

I think we should start a new blog series on yarn-bombing that we've seen while being out and about. If you see one, please take a picture and send to HDH!

HDH Does Centerpieces!

A few weeks one of our long-distant HDH members came to town to celebrate her bridal shower! While home our other members joined her in some good old fashioned centerpiece making... complete with frappuccinos! We even watched Richie Rich and slept over in her parents living room. Now that's some quality craft-bonding time!

Hookers do time

About 2 months ago I adopted a wonderful dog from the humane society. The adoption process take a little bit of time and while I was waiting decided to look at the cats.  I was thrilled to see every cage had a crocheted afghan  in it!  This would be a great volunteer idea for any fellow hookers out there!

Finger Puppets

Last week the HDH girls ventured out to Summerfest to enjoy opening day. We all enjoyed some good eats, good drinks, great music and even a marriage proposal, but perhaps one of my favorite parts of that night was what we found walking around from tent to tent...

...FINGER PUPPETS!

While AGAIN these were knitted, we clearly could crochet some of these. Perhaps they'd make for some nice gifts for our friends with little kids. Or maybe we should make these for the WI State Fair coming up. So far, I've personally failed to start a project to submit.

If you login to the LionBrand site and search finger puppets , you even can find a pattern for a Barack Obama and a John McCain one to make!! Looks like the possibilities are endless!

Heather was so excited she had to put one on every finger!


Don't you want to make one??

Yarn Bombing!

Perhaps I was able to answer my question to my last post with "yarn bombing." Up until today I hadn't heard of it, but looking at one of the pictures in today's Oddee post seems to answer my question as to what was going on at Lyndale park. Also a quick google search provides the following image:

If you're wondering the date of the wedding at Lyndale park was indeed June 11, 2011. I think I may now get some good sleep because of this, and think we should "yarn bomb" something in our neighborhood too!

Turtle Neck Warmers?

So this isn’t really a blog-worthy blog, because numerous Google and Bing searches do not give me answers to the questions I have. Anyhow I shall write about this “amazing story” idea anyways. Two weeks ago I travelled up to Minneapolis for a cousin’s wedding. The wedding took place in front of Turtle fountain at Lyndale Park, and I couldn’t help but immediately be drawn to the turtles. They were wearing hand-crafted neck warmers. They looked like they were knit, but still it was June, so why on earth would a metal turtle need a neck warmer??? Could a random person (like the members of HDH) make a crocheted neck warmer for these turtles, or other statues perhaps closer to home??? Alas there are no answers to this blog and I guess this is yet another one of my crochet fails…

It's about time...

So I know I am way overdue for making a post on here, which makes me happy that I actually have two things to blog about (no you don't get them in the same day, so stay tuned). Although I have a million projects started that I never seem to finish, I actually have started and completed this one in a fair amount of time. MORE BABY BOOTIES YAY!! Booties are such fun projects for two reasons: 1. Everyone loves someones else's baby, the one you get to play with for a while and send home at the end of the day so you still get your full nights rest, and 2. They are quick projects!

So my same friend that I made the cowboy booties for is now getting ready for her first Granddaughter. I didn't want there to be any sibling jealousy right from the start so I had to make some special booties just for her. Now cowboy booties wouldn't be proper for a darling baby girl, I had to do something different, something feminine, so I went with the pink dress shoes with white ankle socks. Now what baby girl wouldn't love a pair of these??