Thursday, October 22, 2015

Welshies love Dragons


Welshies love all dragons, especially red ones. I started this back in March, but it was always too big for my liking. Finally, I restarted with a finer yarn and I am happy with the result. Once a month I join a group of wonderful ladies who make and donate chemo caps in memory of a woman named Liz.
I first heard of them through my friend Sandy, back when Carl was in the hospital in 2013. I made and donated some monster hats for children at that time.
My personal goal was to make 12 unique hats styled for children in 2015. This is my donation for October's get together. This is my 15th hat for this year.
My hat was photobombed by the cat, Whisper.

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Susanlacewing/dragon-hat



Monday, October 19, 2015

Information on "Róisín Dubh" Shawl

The pattern for the shawl in the previous post is available on Ravelry.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/vining-roses
Then I used the edging from this pattern:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/teasdale

There are project notes on my Ravelry page here:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Susanlacewing

Thanks for the comment, It is much appreciated.

 Had to share this wonderful picture on this chilly Canadian autumn morning.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Róisín Dubh (Black Roses) Shawl

Kicking off the month of October by finishing off another project. I knit the body of the shawl from June to July 2014. Then I started the edging on the shawl  Aug 2014, knit some more in Dec 2015, then more in Jan 2015, put it aside, back at it in July 2015, finally in September I said, " I have to finish this." Ta Dah!!



Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Doll Making

I have been making dolls for the Feel Better Friends Project. More information will follow. in the mean time go to www.fbfdolls.org.
for Skyla Rose, she wanted a princess.



for Alejandra




for Faith


Designing a mermaid. A special request.

Caps for cancer kids

Bumble

Oscar & Slimy

Ice Princess

Princess Rose Petal

Princess Buttercup
Some of the chemo caps I have made lately for children. The crowns are crochet from cotton and stiffened with a mixture of 50% white glue and 50% water. I tied them on with ribbons so they can be removed.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

She's baaack!

I have been away for far too long. Something happened and most of my pictures disappeared from the blog. I have no idea why but will try to reconstruct some of them.
I have been tremendously busy over the past year with the Feel Better Friends Project.
More on that later.
Suffice it to say. I am going to be posting at least once a week from now on. I have some patterns and ideas to share.
To those of you who have hung around, thank you for stopping by and checking up on me.