Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Plus Knit/Crochet/Paper Craft

Here are some pictures of my grandma's pepper plant.  All these stages were taken on the same day on one plant.  These are some kind of long sweet pepper, they turn red, orange, or yellow.

 Here are her two tomato plants, I can't believe how tall they are.  It is hard to show because there is a evergreen tree behind them.

 Here are some that were just picked this morning, YUM!!!

 Fresh cucumbers from somebody else's garden, made into cucucmber salad by Grandma.

 My Dad and Grandma went Peach Picking--YAY (Peaches are one of my favorite fresh fruits)  This one grew together, makes an interesting picture.

 

Here was one of the Fresh picked peaches cut up, Fresh Picked Blueberries (a gift of two huge zip bags full) Yummy and a necterine (that was not picked fresh--store bought)

Still working on my projects, had to try out something with this wool.

 Crocheted using the above wool

 Here is my knitting project, this is what I learned to knit on.  It is  Lion Brand Shawl of Gratitude pattern.  I have now completed almost 2 skeins of Softee Chunky yarn--it is grey and white twist.

 It is a little over half way done.  This is my carry with me pattern because I don't need to look at the pattern, you do one pattern on the first row and then you do one stitch across the second row and keep repeating.

 Lastly I needed a creative way to present $7.50 as a prize (Bee Theme) So I made two flowers by folding one dollar bills.  Four dollars on the first flower, 3 dollars on the second flower, the two quaters are crocheted into the yellow center of each flower.  Then I put both flowers in a vase.  And to enhance the bee theme I crocheted a yellow and black granny square and sewed it around the neck of the vase.  I wish I took pictures of that but I didn't.

Giant Granny Square and a re-found granny stripe blanket

Here is my progress on my Giant Granny Square Blanket Challenge.  It is 32 rounds, and it measures about 35 inches. It is quite wavy I'll try blocking it when finished.  I'm planning a row of light blue, a dark red and lighter red, and a dark yellow and light yellow, then that will complete 3 groupings of colors that I did.  I think it will be about as wide as my bed when I finish the next 5 rows.  Then I'm thinking about adding something different to my blanket so it can get taller but not too much wider.  Stay tuned for that.

Sorry these pictures do not show the true color, the lighting was not to good in here.

 My crocheted scissor case, I finally matched up the case to the scissors today.  The case is made from a granny square and then folded and sewn together.

 This is the first time since working on this blanket that I stopped before a round was finished, I usually like to finsh a row or round before stopping but I was feeling poorly last night, so I stopped and went to bed.

 Love this picture, I got down on the blankets level to take this pic.

 Folded up

 Close ups of the rows taken in a different room.

 Here is my Lucy Granny Stripe Blanket.  I don't even remember how long ago I started this, but then I set it aside until I found more colors I wanted to use.  I found the colors, then my stripey blanket was mis-placed.  It is now waiting for the next rows which will be blues.

 Close up of the lovely stripey stripes.  The four rows of orange are two different oranges but it is a little hard to tell in the picture.

Here stripey-stripes meets the giant granny challenge.  Must work on that one too, it is looking too puny and sad.

Till Next time

Hugs,

René

A random mosiac of my crafts

I finally am learning a few things.  I learned how to make a mosiac, I am sooooo excited!!!  I love looking at Lucy's mosaics and Alice's mosaics and other mosiacs on blogs I visit.  My goodness I can't believe how easy it is to do.  Did I tell you that I am excited about this???  Oh, I think I did.

This is just a selection of pictures of my crafts from the last year or so.  a fish ami, a crochet ring, a tote bag,

The bird and wreath inspired by Lucy, her patterns are great, a dish cloth, a dish towel, a market bag, a baby blanket, slippers and another dish cloth.



Well, I can't wait to do more with this mosiac maker, the possibilities are endless, however time is not.  I'm off to work on a few more of my July Photo Scavenger Hunt Photos.  I'll probably have to come back and post my progress on my Giant Granny Square Challenge blanket, and another wip blanket re-started, now that I have hunted out some bright colored yarns.

Hope your having a lovely day,

Hugs,
René

Progress on Giant Granny Square and sunset after the storm

 Here is my progress on my giant granny blanket.  It is wonky, but that will be worked out after I am finished.  Excuse my wrinkled sheets, should have put the comforter on, but it has flowers all over it and I wanted a solid background, I really tried to smooth the wrinkles out, not that it looks like it!!

 Closer view, less sheet wrinkles, but you can't see the yellow round to good.

A beautiful sunset after the storm I blogged about the other day.

Hugs,
René

Is Friday here yet??

Well, Here I am again.  I am still trying to learn my way around this blog.  I found a few ways to add pictures, add different fonts, colors, add a button.  I still have a lot of work to make this blog look more attractive, but that will have to wait until another time.  Hoping my mom will have a chance to blog soon, so you see it is mom and daughter, not just daughter : )

 This picture was taken at a church.  One day I saw a pair of geese walking up the hill towards the cross, I sure wish I'd had my camera that day, that was too precious.

 These two pictures I had fun trying to take.  It was extremely hot and the wind would blow, the flags were facing the wrong way, then I would move and the wind would stop blowing, then it would change direction, and then where I was the flags were again flying in the wrong direction.  Took awhile, but finally got these two pictures.

 The above two photos were taken at another church.  I love the way they decorate with the flags for Memorial Day, Veterns Day, and Fourth of July.  They have flags all along all flower beds, entrance, all around the church all spaced this far apart, I wonder how many flags they have out, probably hundreds.

 These next photos are from a stop from todays adventures.  Love the Lily Pads

 Just a little while before these pictures it was pouring rain, now look at the sun shining on this water, almost blinding, (needed sun glasses!!)

 I liked how the water droplets from the rain were sitting on the lily pads, and the little pink bud

Zoom In...Love the close up of the pink flower, and the reflections in the water

 This just looked interesting how the sun was reflecting

 Love this with the relections, and does that white part look like clouds??

 Here is another bud, once I noticed the first flower, I realized there were many buds all over the water

 These were very curious to me, guessing this is after the flower is done

 More dry, turned into seed pods

 maybe just beginning??   Sorry these pictures are out of order

 Cat Tails!!!  Another thing that mezmerizes me.  I like how this picture turned out, with the lily pads in the background.

 While I was safely inside before I took the lily pad flowers crocheting with friends, it poured and thundered.  Took those pictures and drove home, pulled into our drive way and started seeing this on my windshield, Just made it.

 Took a quick few pictures of the sky, then decided to come in before my camera got too wet.  A while later poured again and more thunder and lightening.

 Here's something I made last night.  Inspired by several people.  Soon I will work on links with my posts, but Idea from Bunny Mummy framed flower picture.  I have wanted to try something like that for a time now, I made a card instead of a framed picture.  I used the flower pattern from Love Raymond, the leaf pattern from Easy and the stem idea from Jacquie (except I had to make it longer)  The middle of the flower is made from dark purple mohair and some sparkle(ly) can't get this word to look right.  The petals are from two strands of mohair held together, It is really a bright pinkish color, but in this picture it looks red.  The stem and leaves are made from a thicker mohair in an odd greenish color and red heart lime shimmer.

I punched a hole in the card where the crochet is and tied the pieces on.  Then covered it with this paper,  Unfortunately I had to tape the paper down, didn't have time to glue, and couldn't find the double stick tape, so I had to roll the tape.  I think it turned out good, for a first attempt at adding crochet to a card.

More crochet pictures to add next time, I thought I was adding them today, until I realized I hadn't taken the pictures yet, OOOPPss.

Already having fun with the photo scavenger hunt for this month, (Need to add that button)

Hugs,
René