This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I've been crocheting a lot since before Christmas. I latch onto a project and make a million of that item for everyone and then I find something else to make and the pattern continues. I guess I am channeling my mom who did knitting and crocheting throughout her life. My most recent addiction has been to crochet diagonal double thick pot holders. I made them for all of my girls for Valentine's Day in different. They are so simple to make, made in a inexpensive cotton yarn, they are simply single crochet that you do in the round around the original chain. Here is a great pattern to follow. As I was making these beauties, I started using two yarns to make stripes and designs and also to use up small bits of yarn, creating new designs. I had a little bit of variegated black and white yarn that I wanted to use up. My girl, Charly, has a lot of marble in her kitchen and I wondered if I could create something that would coordinate with her pallet. She liked it! I had to buy more yarn to try to recreate the look. The yarn wasn't the same as I had used for hers, but I think it still looks good with the marble. I tried to start and stop randomly after a few rows of white, adding the black variegated yarn as I went along. I wanted the affect that marble has with thinner then a few thick places of the veins of dark color. Or, just a simple striped pattern would work fine I think. Just choose a main body color and then add stripes of a thinner accent. Of course, I couldn't stop there. While shopping for yarn, I saw the scrubby yarn in the same black and white pattern. I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to make a matching set of kitchen item?" I had never worked with the scrubby yarn before, so fair warning, it is hard to see your stitches! Use really good lighting! Basic Instructions for Round Scrubby: For this scrubby, you need to crochet 2 sides of the circle. One side will be with the scrubby yarn and one will be with coordinating cotton yarn. The pattern will be the same for each. Chain 3 then connect the ends together with a slip stitch, forming a circle. Chain 3 and then Double crochet 9 times into the circle. Join to the top of the chain 3 with a slip stitch. Chain 3 then double crochet twice in each stitch around. Join with a slip stitch into the chain 3 again. Chain 3 then double crochet in the stitch right next to the chain 3. In the next stitch, * double crochet twice, in the next stitch double crochet once. Continue alternating from the * back to the chain 3. Join with a slip stitch and you are finished! After you have two circles completed, put them wrong sides together and join them either with a single crochet around using the scrubby yarn, or stitch with a needle and the cotton yarn, your choice. There you have it! A cute pot scrubby! *NOTE- You can make your circle a little bigger if you would like a larger scrubby. The nice thing is that these are machine washable. Well I couldn't stop there! I had to make a dishcloth as well! This is simply single crochet like the pot holder. I chained 36 and then crocheted in the back loop only to get the ridge effect. I added the dark yarn in 2 rows after a wider band of white. A wonderful thing about these projects is that they make up so quickly! I love to work on them while watching TV in the evening. I can get an entire set finished in 2 evenings! So many people are getting marble or Quartz countertops today that I thought that this set would make a great little gift for a bridal shower, house warming gift or just because. You could even make a dish towel if you would like, or trim one with a bit of crochet. Let me know if you give any of these patterns a try! Other Needlework Patterns:
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THIS POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. WE WILL BE COMPENSATED FOR PURCHASES MADE THROUGH THOSE LINKS AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU. ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE OUR OWN.Our 6 year old daughter is really into arts and crafts. I can always guarantee the toys she is going to play with everyday are her Legos and her arts and crafts bin. If she has a spare moment she will pull out paper and pen and draw. So when she had a Daddy Daughter Date night they decided to pick out a craft project they could do together. She got really excited about Perler Beads, and so did her creative dad. They spent the night making cute scenes of unicorns and rainbows to decorate her new room with! Then the Perler Beads came out to be used everyday for the whole of the next week. Many MineCraft characters, more unicorns, Godzilla, and even a big Megaman made their appearance. But I was hitting a creative block of what to make to join in on the fun. That’s when my daughter said she was going to make her own bracelet. She designed a very cute simple square bracelet for herself and it reminded me of the fun earrings I used to wear in high school. My freshman year of high school those large chandelier earrings were in vogue and I loved to wear them. (Side note: One of the reasons I loved them was the nostalgia they provided from this picture book we had about getting pierced ears. Lots of fun earring designs in there!) And so I decided to design and make little, funky, colorful earrings. It was so easy and fast. I made three pairs for myself and then used a jewelry making kit my cousin gave me to attach them to hook earrings. Here is a kit I found on Amazon. And here is a kit specifically for jewelry! To make the earrings I used a square base plate and whatever Perler Beads I liked to make cute designs on the plate. If you decide to do this, make sure the beads are adjacent to each other so they will melt together. After you have the design you like, use a hot iron and a piece of parchment or wax paper over your beads. We found it worked best to Let it melt the beads for a few seconds before trying to move the iron around. Otherwise the beads would come loose and your design could be ruined. Once the first side is done flip the base plate over and remove your designs. Put the melted side down on another piece of parchment. Replace the parchment over your design and melt the other side. When that’s finished, set something heavy over your earrings to keep them flat (if that’s the look you’re going for. I accidentally melted the hole away in my peeler beads so I just heated up a needle and melted a new hole in the top bead. You could also attach post earring backs or clip on earring backs with glue or by melting the plastic and pushing the post into it, though I have not tried that method. The earrings came out so cute and fun! My daughter decided to make me more and we’re going to get some clip-on backs to add to some of the earrings for her to wear.To make the earrings I used a square base plate and whatever Perler Beads I liked to make cute designs on the plate. If you decide to do this, make sure the beads are adjacent to each other so they will melt together. This would be a fun activity to do at a birthday party. I love the kind of party favors that will last more than a week and will be something the party goer can use over and over again. Or do it for a Girls Night with your friends! It would be an awesome Galentine’s Day Activity. Or just on your own, the possibilities are endless! We've found other sources of ideas for Perler Earrings, too! Check these out: Maker Mama The Thinking Closet Here are some great Perler Kits to help you with designs:
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! If you recognize those coasters it is because I did a tutorial on how to make them awhile back using some inspirational quoted I had found online. I loved how they turned out and I thought to myself that after our Church's next General Conference, I would design some of the quotes that stood out to me to make more that would be even more personal.
Well, at the beginning of October, it was General Conference time again and as usual, I took copious notes as all of the speakers' talks. As I go back and look over my notes from time to time, there are certain thoughts that were shared that have become more and more meaningful to me. Today I am sharing 6 of my favorites in printable form. I used Canva to design them and you are free to use mine that I am sharing today, or if you have your own favorites, Canva is a great place to design your own.
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A couple of weeks ago our women's group at church had a crafting day and one of the projects we made were tile coasters decoupaged with scrapbook paper. They came out very pretty!
Because I was teaching a different craft, (the bookstacks!), I simply brought home my coaster supplies with me to finish at home. While I was thinking about making them, I was also thinking about our churches' general conference that is coming up in October and wondering how I could best remember some of the messages and incorporate them into my life. Perusing Pinterest, I found a beautiful set of past conference quotes that someone had designed into little square note sized cards. They were created by Aretta who has the blog, My Upside Down Umbrella. They are beautiful illuminations of quotes from conference in 2022. I thought that they would be perfect to add to my coasters! Since she offers them as a free download, it was so easy to do! (She also has April 2023 quotes here!) |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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