Yesterday I talked about how you can spend your money to help Oklahoma. Read about it HERE.
You can also whip out your wallets and get some of the new products recently released from Krochet Kids international and help a woman living in poverty in Uganda or Peru. Check out these projects I helped work on while I was there!
It's time to spend some money and do some good. I was going to have this post just feature some products I worked on at Krochet Kids international, but let's save that for tomorrow.
After the events in Oklahoma yesterday, I think we all want to buy this. Get out your credit cards and buy this shirt here: http://store.shopgoodokc.com/ Thank you to Oikos Handmade for sharing from Oklahoma!
You can also text redcross to 90999 to donate $10.
OK! Time to slip this free DIY in before summer school starts! It's been a while!
I'm loving the fringe trend right now! Here is a cool way to add fringe to some clothes you have lying around that might need a little pick me up.
You will need:
-Cotton yarn (Worsted weight or thinner, but cotton drapes the best)
-Crochet hook that matches the gauge of your yarn
-A piece of clothing that needs a lil something
-Needle and thread
Chain a multiple of 5 plus one that fits the length of the garment you are adding the fringe to. (Remember, the chain length gets a bit longer, once there are stitches in it.)
1sc in second ch from hook and in each ch across. Turn.
Ch. 1, 1sc in each sc across. Turn.
Make one more sc row.
*Chain 9, skip the next 4 sc stitches. Make 1 sc in the 5th sc. Repeat from * across. Turn.
Chain 15. 1 sc in ch-9 space of previous row. *Chain 9, 1 sc in ch-9 space of previous row. Repeat from * across.
Repeat the previous row 3 more times.
Cut, bind off, weave in loose ends.
Cut 10 inch pieces of yarn. Take two strands and a time, fold them in half, and loop them through the chain 9 spaces in the last row.
Sew the sc rows onto the piece of clothing you are dressing up with a needle and thread. If you are really feeling awesome, you could use your sewing machine.
Also, I just had a great customer share how to use a "sharp crochet hook"... WHAT? It's pretty cool! I haven't tried it yet, but if you have a piece of clothing you don't mind experimenting on... go for it!
Finally! A new pattern! Hopefully they will be coming out a bit faster for the next little while. I'm signed up for a full load of summer classes, but semesters always start slow, right? Haha. Fingers crossed.
So this is it... the Pineapple Robe. Perfect for those chilly summer nights when you are out and about and need just a little something to keep you warm.
As always, listed on Etsy, Ravelry, and Craftsy! Email me with any questions! Happy Stitching!
Most of us learned to craft from our mothers and grandmothers. Let's celebrate how awesome these women are and take 15% off all pattern purchases on the day we devote to loving them extra lots. Enter LOVEMOM at checkout on Etsy and Ravelry to get your discount.
Who reads crochet blogs on a Friday night? Probably very few of you (but if you are reading, AWESOME and THANKS). This is the first chance I've had to do a blog post in a while - bad I know.
So... I have had some cool new things in the works, but the prototyping has been held up by back ordered yarn, the photos held up by adverse weather (yeah, we had a blizzard on May Day), and the writing held up by a massive final project for my product development class and working on my graduate thesis proposal... learning some really cool things I will have to get to sharing with you!
ANYWAY... As things are settling down on the school front, I'm trying to get a lot of Sans Limites Crocheting done before summer session starts. And, we might as well kick it off with a Mother's Day sale, right? RIGHT. I'll get going on that and share more info with you on here and on facebook tomorrow... for now... I should probably actually work on finishing a few things for my mother.
Hope you all are headed into a positively fantastic weekend filled with some happy stitching!
