Crocheting Snowflakes

Photo of Light-as-a-feather snowflakes

I was born in Missouri though I grew up in many different states. I can remember my Grandma visiting and sitting in evenings, crocheting my mother Snowflakes for our Christmas tree. At Christmas our tree was and is decorated with all the lovely ornaments and at the end of each branch their graces a freshly starched crocheted snowflake. Some sprinkled with an incandescent fine pearl dust, so the snowflake glistens in the Christmas lights.

Here’s some links to free online snowflake patterns to crochet.

Aunt Lore's Snowflake

Charlie Brown's Tree Ornament

Crochet snowflake

Six point Snowflake

Southern Snowflake:

Snowflake 1

Snowflake Ornament

Light-as-a-feather snowflakes

Irish Rose Snowflake

Northern Snowflake

Pretty Snowflake Ornament

Snowflake #1

Another Snowflake: # 1

Snowflakes

Crochet Lacy Snowflakes

INDEPENDANCE DAYS CHALLENGE, WEEK 10

1. Plant something –
*Enriching garden for the Spring
* Started with harvesting Llama poo and adding to the garden
2. Harvest something –
* Chives
3. Preserve something –
* Chives,
* Green peppers
4. Reduce waste –
* Recycling cans, using cloth napkins and handkerchiefs, using homemade laundry soap, saving old jeans to reupholster a chair with.
5. Preparation and Storage –
* Continuing my water storage.
6. Build Community Food Systems –
* Continuing to shop at a locally owned grocery store instead of the large corporate store and local fruit stand.
7. Eat the Food –
* Spaghetti Sauce
8. Learn something –
* Continuing to take the Preserving food at home online self study course offered thru the National Center for Home Food Preservation and the University of Georgia, Need to get off my butt and finish this.
* Reading about raising Llamas
9. Simple Living –
* DH and I attended an evening of celebrating Grandparent’s Day with DGD at her school. We had such a great time that she was mad the next morning because we couldn’t go to school with her for the whole day ☻
* Celebrated DH’s birthday with a dinner of his favorites.
* Enjoying an ice-cream with DGD
* Reconnecting with family and friends out of town
* Reading
* Taking care of and enjoying our animals.
10. To Do –
* Finish sewing DGD school clothes
* Working on Christmas gifts

INDEPENDANCE DAYS CHALLENGE, WEEK 8 AND 9

1. Plant something – Potted the garden chives and moved them into the kitchen for the cold months.
2. Harvest something –Green Peppers. Tomatoes, Potatoes.
3. Preserve something – 1 case of quart jars filled with spaghetti sauce
4. Reduce waste – Recycling cans, using cloth napkins and handkerchiefs, using homemade laundry soap, saving old jeans to reupholster a chair with.
5. Preparation and Storage – Nothing this time.
6. Build Community Food Systems – Began my water storage.
7. Eat the Food – Spaghetti Sauce
8. Learn something –
* Continuing to take the Preserving food at home online self study course offered thru the National Center for Home Food Preservation and the University of Georgia,
* Reading about raising Llamas
9. Simple Living –
* Spent the day at the Zoo with DD, DGD and DSG. DD packed a lovely lunch and we used the aluminum Pepsi bottles with cork stoppers to carry our drinks from home. We had a lovely day and the only money we spent was for the gas to drive to the Zoo.
* Celebrated DGS’s first birthday and then the next week we celebrated my mother’s birthday with a great dinner and a family game of Monopoly.
* Yesterday and today we tore down the garden for the year.
* Continued making Christmas gifts. Sewing DGD school clothes
* Finished reading The Sword of the Lady by S. M. Stirling, Received 2 more books thru The Paperpack Swap to add to my reading list.
10. To Do –
* Finish sewing DGD school clothes
* freeze remainder of green peppers.

A Funny Crochet Video

Monster Truck Commercial Parody: Crochet Festival - watch more funny videos

Crochet - Were moving up in the world

When I tell someone I crochet, I usually get the "Oh, isn't that quaint" look.

The Dictionary's definition of quaint is:
quaint (kwnt) KEY ADJECTIVE: quaint·er , quaint·est
1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett . . . was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plot less sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).
2. Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See Synonyms at strange.
3. Cleverly made; artful.

Tell the truth now. The average person's definition of crochet equates to charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way. Hey knitting has maintained a healthy respect in the world. Even moved up a couple of notches on the ladder. There are knitting shows on TV and lots and lots of magazines for the knitter to find a great pattern in. The crochet magazines selection seems to have decreased on my stores shelf, usually I'm lucky to find 1 crochet magazine. On the talk show circuit I heard lots of famous people state that they knit, Vanna White is the only famous person that I know of who crochets.

Crochet has been undergoing a great metamorphosis thru the ages. Wikipedia states that "Beginning in the 1800s in Britain, America and France, crochet began to be used as a less costly substitute for other forms of lace. During the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849) , Ursuline nuns taught local women and children to thread crochet. It was shipped all across Europe and America and purchased for its beauty and also for the charitable help it provided for the Irish population. The craft remained primarily a homemaker's art until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the new generation picked up on crochet and popularized granny squares. Although crochet underwent a subsequent decline in popularity, the early 21st century has seen a revival of interest in handcrafts and DIY, as well as great strides in improvement of the quality and varieties of yarn. There are many more new pattern books with modern patterns being printed, and most yarn stores now offer crochet lessons in addition to the traditional knitting lessons."

This brings us up to Crochets most recent metamorphosis, hyperbolic geometry! Did you know that Crochet patterns have an underlying mathematical structure and have been used to illustrate shapes in hyperbolic geometry that are difficult to reproduce using other media or are difficult to understand when viewed two-dimensionally.

Were moving on up to the big time, hehehe. Who would of thunk it, I've been illustrating hyperbolic geometry and I failed pre-algebra. Now I think I'll go crochet a coral reef...

Chili

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Crocheted Sneaker Slippers - A Must For All The Guys On Your Christmas List

This post comes with a Warning - If you crochet these and gift them for a present, be forewarned they will then expect them every year.

The first year my husband and I were married I found a pattern in a crochet magazine for crocheted high top sneaker slippers. Being 9 months pregnant and as big as a house I passed the time crocheting them for his Christmas present. Little did I know I would be crocheting them every year for the rest of my life. Nor did I know the gifting would expand to all the men in my family and their friends. HEHEHE, at least I like to crochet.

But if you dare to commit yourself to crocheting this gift here's some free patterns for them in all sizes.

Sue's CrochetandKnitting.com has an adult size pattern here, http://www.crochetandknitting.com/sneakers.htm

She also has a children's sized pattern here, http://www.crochetandknitting.com/chsnkrs.htm

There is a baby sized Crochet Jogging Sneaker pattern listed here. http://web.archive.org/web/20040707084002/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6910/sneaker.htm

P.S. Please excuse my picture of my husbands slipper. He was sleeping so I had to swaddle my leg so you all couldn't see my hairy leg ☻

How was your Labor Day?

Saturday - DS won 3rd place in the In the C Class at the OXC Ozarks Cross Country ATV Championship. That's him on the left, I wish he would keep those wheels on the ground.

Sunday - I sewed 4 Jumpers for my DGD. And finished sewing 7 cloth shopping bags that my mom ordered from me to give away as presents.

Monday - my DS and I spent the day fencing in a bigger pasture area for the girls, aka the Llamas. I hurt everywhere, even my toenails hurt. But boy were there 2 happy Llama's running around when we let them out into the bigger pasture. Chili was running around kicking up her back heels in the air and both of them were observed rolling around in the grass a couple of times☻ Right now I'm reducing 30 lbs of tomatoes into Spaghetti Sauce so I can get them processed into jars and I still need to bake a cake for DGS's 1st Birthday tomorrow.

INDEPENDANCE DAYS CHALLENGE, WEEK 7

1. Plant something - Nothing this time.
2. Harvest something –Green Peppers. Tomatoes
3. Preserve something – Re-pickled 25 lbs of Pickled Onions, The men of the family had insisted I make them as I had 20 years ago with a Jalapeño pepper cut in half in each jar, well either Jalapeño peppers are hotter now, not, or my men are wimpier, because they were too hot, “Did you do something different?” they asked. So I had to open up each jar remove the peppers tone down the juice a little and reprocess them. Aren’t men sweet.
4. Reduce waste – Recycling cans, using cloth napkins and handkerchiefs, using homemade laundry soap, saving old jeans to reupholster a chair with.
5. Preparation and Storage – Nothing this time.
6. Build Community Food Systems – Nothing this time.
7. Eat the Food –Chicken Broth8. Learn something –
Continuing to take the Preserving food at home online self study course offered thru the National Center for Home Food Preservation and the University of Georgia, Reading about raising Llamas
Learning each day on how to raise my Llamas.
9. Simple Living – Continued making Christmas gifts. Sewing DGD school clothes
10. To Do –* Finish sewing DGD school clothes