Boxing Day 2021 (any charity work!)

[babypoohsmom]

Here is my dishcloth stash so far. I am making them in sets of 3. One to donate, one for gift giving and one to sell. All of the stuff I sell on Etsy goes to buy fleece so I can keep making blankets for the rescue. The blue and white one on the bottom right is two strands held together. The blue is from the dollar store. It was a bit too thin to stand alone…at least I thought so.  

Edited July 6, 2021 by babypoohsmom

[greyhoundgrandma]

8 hours ago, babypoohsmom said:

Here is my dishcloth stash so far. I am making them in sets of 3. One to donate, one for gift giving and one to sell. All of the stuff I sell on Etsy goes to buy fleece so I can keep making blankets for the rescue. The blue and white one on the bottom right is two strands held together. The blue is from the dollar store. It was a bit too thin to stand alone…at least I thought so.  

Nice colors!

[babypoohsmom]

Hello! 
I finished another cat mat tonight while watching a rather disappointing hockey game. I use pretty much any kind of yarn for my cat mats. I didn’t have quite enough of the white Homespun left to make this a cute, all-matched-up mat, so I pulled out some scraps. I am not one to waste scraps, yarn, fabric, food…but this yellow yarn is going in the bin along with the other bits I got from another cat mat crocheter. She told me it cut her hands up and I have to say that while the finished piece is soft, it is pure pain to use. 
Now that hockey is over and football hasn’t started yet, I just have to wait for the Olympics because I don’t enjoy baseball or basketball (although the Phx Suns are in the finals for the first time since I was a kid) So here is my scrappy cat mat…

Edited July 8, 2021 by babypoohsmom

[babypoohsmom]

Hi again. I’ve been having a lot of pain again because of the new fracture in my C spine, so I spent most of yesterday watching tv and not doing much else. But I almost got another trio done!

[babypoohsmom]

I finally got my yellow trio done. I spent more time frogging the 3rd one than stitching it! That is what I get for trying to watch Loki and stitch at the same time. Usually not a problem but the new Disney+ episodes are confusing because of time travel. I also made another lovey. I am probably going to make them in pairs. One to donate and one to sell or gift. We had 10 cats adopted today so I need to raise more funds for the take home blankets. One of the adopters offered to buy one of my crocheted mats when she was adopting. The volunteer told her to take it and consider going next door to Goodwill and get me more yarn, which she did. I thought that was funny. Hey, whatever works!  I still have some lovely gifted Homespun to work through. 
 

Edited July 18, 2021 by babypoohsmom

[bgs]

Since these have arrived at their destination they are truly completed. Clothes are mostly a mix and adaptations from Darski's patterns.

Edited August 2, 2021 by bgs

[babypoohsmom]

Wow, you have been busy! I love all of the outfits, but I think the little patriotic outfit is my favorite. I always challenge myself to pick a favorite but you make it hard when they are all so cute. 
The granny’s squares are bright and fantastic, but can you tell me about the other ones? They look like the c2c pattern but from the center out! 
I have been so lonely and then you come along and post so much work! Woo how, what fun. 

[Bailey4]

You did an amazing job!!!

[bgs]

Working on these helps raise my spirits when I hit a low.  I prefer the brights but one of our prayer shawl ladies passed away and left her yarn to the group.  They picked out what they could use for prayer shawls and there was quite a bit of baby weight yarn but not much of any one color.  I took what I thought might work for doll clothes and blankets.

Yes Denise the pattern is called c2c in the round.  When I dont know how far I will get on miscellaneous limited amounts of yarn I find its better to work center out.  

https://youtu.be/soI0xtxDDtg

Oh and W4W received these today. 

 

And I turned in these prayer shawls.

 

 

[greyhoundgrandma]

Brenda, your hooks have been flying! That's a lot of projects finished.

[Bailey4]

Great projects

[babypoohsmom]

Wow, I am pretty darn impressed. I am sorry that one of the ladies in your group passed. I made a promise to my friend (and she promised back) to make sure our yarn goes to good use when that day comes. You have made her proud.
I did look up the c2c in the round. I like the texture of the c2c stitch but I am not good at deciding on sizes when I don’t really know how much yarn I have. I’m going to try that.  
Thanks for posting all of your stuff. Geez, I would have been posting every stocking one at a time for the pure feeling of accomplishment! 
Hope everyone is well! 
 

[babypoohsmom]

I finally finished another cat mat. My Tah dah is a little less impressive after Brenda’s post, but I’ll take it - at least it’s done! I have one strand of my gifted homespun, a plain red and a red/green variegated that has a foil wrap. I’m not so sure I will use that again because if the cats eat bits of that foil, it could be intestine problems if nobody notices it unraveling. Maybe it will stay here with my big cats that are too lazy to pick out some yarn.

 

Edited August 8, 2021 by babypoohsmom

[babypoohsmom]

I found some started granny’s squares in with a skein of yarn at Goodwill. (I always feel like I have to rescue unfinished projects) But in this case the squares were so large and loosely constructed that I just took them apart and wound some balls. 

 

[alp1]

Brenda,  WOW!  You have been busy and everything looks so nice!

[bgs]

Turned in 3 more prayer shawls yesterday.  Looks like I  forgot to to take pictures of two of them.   

 

[babypoohsmom]

So, here is my first football hat of the season. Watched a bit of college ball last weekend. 
It is peach and green Caron SS. I played some serious yarn chicken on this hat. 
 

[bgs]

Turned in a prayer shawl yesterday.

Dh dropped off my hats today that go to a lady collecting them for homeless shelter. 

[pineknott]

Bgs

are the hats knit? they are really nice, is it a public pattern for the shawl? thanks

[bgs]

4 minutes ago, pineknott said:

Bgs

are the hats knit? they are really nice, is it a public pattern for the shawl? thanks

Made the hats on my knifter knitter loom.  No pattern for shawl but its a granny stripe and I just added  post stitches.  Also worked each half from center out cause I get tired of getting almost done and running out of a color.

https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/granny-stripe.html

[bgs]

2 hours ago, babypoohsmom said:

So, here is my first football hat of the season. Watched a bit of college ball last weekend. 
It is peach and green Caron SS. I played some serious yarn chicken on this hat. 
 

Turned out nice.  Know that yarn chicken game all too well!  

[babypoohsmom]

The hats look soft and warm. I was never able to get the tension right on a loom. 
The texture of the shawl is so nice. 
 

[babypoohsmom]

I read on the USPS website that postal rates for packages are going to be increased from Oct 2nd to Dec 24th…so I am sending out the few things I have for the toy drive. 
if you think that the little stuffed animals with the lovies are well received, please let me know because those are very easy. 

[Bailey4]

The lovies are adorable!!!

It's so frustrating postage is rising again but as with all things...

[bgs]

2 hours ago, babypoohsmom said:

I read on the USPS website that postal rates for packages are going to be increased from Oct 2nd to Dec 24th…so I am sending out the few things I have for the toy drive. 
if you think that the little stuffed animals with the lovies are well received, please let me know because those are very easy. 

Your lovies are so cute.  I loved your idea of buying the toy and making the blanket.  I tried to get my stuff mailed off before rate increase in Aug.  The Oct 2 thru Dec 24 is the supposedly the temporary holiday surcharge.