Recycled sweater ornaments

Hey Everyone,
Not very much longer
until Christmas huh? This is a great, and very fast ornament or last minute gift topper you can make for all your friends. I made Stockings, Gloves, Stars & Hearts. I also have Gingerbread Men and Trees ready to make tomorrow.

I have been racking my brain on what kind of ornament to make for an exchange my MIL is having next week. It's also a cookie/candy exchange, but that was the easy part for me.

So today I started searching around the internet and found the coolest idea from DOLLAR STORE CRAFTS.
I decided to make her 10 second ornament project, and the great part about it? I had everything I needed here at home, wooo hooo, no extra money was spent! CLICK HERE to get her instructions on how to make these ornaments.
She has you use lots of different materials to wrap your ornaments with, but I have tons of felted sweaters on hand, I decided to use them instead. I think they really turned out good. Let me know what you think. The more the pattern on the sweater, the neater they turned out.


COZY AT HOME NEWS!!!!!!
I was playing around on Flickr today, and decided to make a cozy at home group for projects that I have featured on my blog. If any of you have made any of the crochet patterns, or other crafts I have had on my blog, please join this group and add pictures. I am so excited to see what you all have been doing. Please follow this link if your interested.... http://www.flickr.com/groups/1285623@N20/

So many projects, so little time!

Well, I have been collecting crochet patterns, craft patterns, and card ideas off the internet lately. I also have bought some new crochet pattern books that I want to make things out of.

I am on my last day of my 6 days off in a row, and I haven't gotten as much done as I wanted to do in the craft department. I've been dealing with a sick kid, and of course the internet has detoured my attention from my every growing crochet project list. I did get this fun felt weave heart basket from work done, you can find the pattern at achildsdream



They were so fun to make, and very quick. I am going to use them for my hubby and son's itunes cards for valentines day.

O.K. On A "YARN STASH" note, I really need a better system to store my stash. I'm tempted to use my new yarn winder and just wind up all the skeins so that they will store better. I need to split them up anyway so that I can make some new hats and such that take two strands held together. I was just at our walmart today, and they had my favorite yarns on sale, vanna's choice and canon eco. They want to get rid of it because of a store remodel, but I did refrain from getting more yarn to add to my stash, which was very hard for me!

Well, I guess I will go and crochet, just hope that it doesn't take me forever to find something on my mile long list to work on!

Wool Felt Dove Ornament

This is the newest project that I made out of the new Living Crafts magazine. This sweet dove was made with Holland 100% wool felt from www.achildsdream.com, in soft white, Ecru & Brown embroidery thread. Go to www.livingcrafts.com for other neat craft ideas.

Tree Stump Trivet!

I had some much fun making this tree stump trivet! If you go to my work website www.achildsdream.com and click on what's new, you will find it there, along with a link to Martha Stewart's website for instructions. When we were mentioned in the November magazine, we were all so excited, and just HAD to make the things that they used our felt for! If you would like to purchase these tree stump trivets please go to my etsy shop.  The next thing I want to make is the felted slippers!