Christmas Cactus Square

This is a square I designed for a WIP (work in progress) and is now a UFO (unfinished object). I just haven't quite decided how I want the finished afghan to look. This is as close as I could get for this square to resemble a Christmas Cactus. Maybe this next winter I will get back to this and make the afghan.

Mountain Laurel Tablecloth

This is approximately 70" X 70" made for someone who has a square table, but is shown here on my oval-shaped table. It has 115 motifs, and an edging of two rounds. I crocheted this using size 10 DMC Baroque 100% cotton thread and a size 8 stainless steel hook. It took approximately 120 hours to make it taking up nearly all of my spare time for three or four months!

Messing Around With Clay, the air-dry type:
This is a tiny little head I sculpted out of clay just for fun. It fits on top of a pencil.

Flower Scrub-It

This is a scrub-it with a free-form crocheted flower on the edge. While making this one I realized I could also use recycled netting and cotton yarn to form a unique soap dish for the shower or tub by decreasing the stitches to form sides from 1 1/2" to 2" high. Any water hitting this would just drain right through it and the soap would dry instead of getting soggy on one side. Well, I got started on something else, and I haven't made the soap dish, but I still plan on making a few!

Square Scrub-It

This is a square Scrub-It made out of several layers of recycled netting and one round of sc using 4-ply cotton yarn, and another row of a combination of sc's, hdc's, and dc's making an edging.

These are a great addition to kitchen themed gift baskets. I love making gift baskets!

SCRUB-ITS are so handy!

Waste not, want not is the old saying!

So I use the netting that's around ham, turkey and other things you buy to make what I call 'Scrub-Its'! These are the handiest things to clean pots, pans, the kitchen sink etc. Plus more to clean the shower stall, bathroom sinks, and tubs! I fold the netting all up so there will be several layers making sure the edges are folded in, and then I use 4-ply cotton yarn to single crochet around it increasing at each corner (if I want corners), then I crochet a few more rounds using various types of crochet stitches. Even only two rounds consisting of one round of single crochet stitches and another round of the same, half double crochet stitches, or double crochet stitches will make a nice scrubbie or 'Scrub-It'.

I wanted to use up some colorful scraps of yarn I had leftover from other projects and this Rippling Rose Afghan is what I ended up designing. This is a huge afghan and it was sold, but not before I wrote the instructions for it. So if you would like the pattern, it is available via paypal to anneikenbary@windjammercable.net and upon receiving payment the pattern will be emailed to you for printing out. As always if anyone purchases any of my patterns and have any problems understanding them, I'm just an email away to help if needed.