#05 Twilight Afghan for Jeff

I didn't have time to post and actually finished my last afghan at 12:30PM on Christmas Eve, so now I am playing catch-up with my posting.

#05 Twilight from the Big Book of Quick Knit Afghans was a fun pattern. I made this from Hobby Lobby's I Love This Yarn. The Color is a soft coffee, #160 Brown, and using Size 17 circular needles. It turned out so soft. I made it extra long.

Round Ripples For The Twins

My twin grandson's room is done in Western decor. I wanted to keep them similar, but also needed some way to tell the afghans apart. The two round Ripple's had each center just changed, one red and one black.

Both were made from Hobby Lobby's I Love This Yarn. # 40 Red, White and # 30 Black using a G hook.

I used: http://project-angel-kisses.150m.com/roundripple.html

#02 Traditional Knitted Afghan

For my handsome big brother Chuck, for Christmas. From, Big Book of Quick Afghans, I knitted #02 Traditional with size 17 circular needle. Using I Love This Yarn ! in #130 Dark Olive. Very Soft, very warm and comfy. I love the way this color turned out. It's 71 inches long.

Here's a better shot of the stitch pattern.

Loom Hats in Blue

I whipped out 2 Simple Loom Hats to Match my Brother's and Nephews Afghans. Both are made out of I Love This Yarn ! 100% acrylic in #250 Dark Country Blue.

Joey's Round Ripple is Finished

My Tennessee, nephew's Round Ripple for Christmas. Joey is a big Detroit Lion's football fan, As of today, what 11 losses in a row? Doesn't matter though Joey still loves them. This tri-color Round Ripple is crocheted with a G Hook, from I Love This Yarn! in #90 Navy, #190 Light Gray and #250 Dark Country Blue to match his dad's afghan. This afghan ended up being 72 inches from point to point.

This is my very handsome nephew, Joey. Joey has Downs. His favorite past-time is reading books, and giving the best hugs in Tennessee.

I am looming both Joey and his Dad hats to match their afghans, that way they will be snuggy from head to toe. Now I just have to get these wrapped and sent out.

On another note, my husband ordered me a new Annie's Attic book today, Special Techniques & Stitches Afghans. He fell in love with a spiral-ghan pattern. Perhaps I can make a switch after Christmas to some spirals.

I sure hope you will all have a wonderful, Blessed Thanksgiving.

Yellow and Black Scarf

This was the scarf I was trying to make to match the hat I had made earlier. Well as you can see from the first pic I didn't have enough black yarn to make a long enough scarf. It ended
up being only 51 inches. My weekend trip to Hobby Lobby I grabbed a couple more skeins of both the
black and yellow. Not sure what's going on, but there are two prices on all the I Love This Yarn!, some are
$2.79 and other were $2.49.
Back to the scarf problem, I had to change dye lots, so I am going to use a yellow stripe to break between
dye lots.
This isn't a pattern just a hdc stitch.

Materials:
Worsted Weight yarn MC BlackWorsted Weight yarn CC Yellow
Crochet Hook Size H
PATTERN:
ch 23, Row 1: hdc in third ch from the hook and in each ch across. ch 2 (counts as first hdc), and turnRow 2: hdc in each hdc across.
TIP: Always count your stitches when doing a scarf, it's very noticeable when you are short one or add an
extra stitch. I also end a color and then tie on the new color at the beginning of a row.
Repeat Row 2 until your scarf measures approx 51 inches, that's where I ran out of yarn. Attach CC (yellow
on the example)
I marked my right side of the scarf and added (1 row of yellow, and 3 rows of black) 5 times. Repeat at the
other end of the scarf. Finish off

Making the Perfect Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Wedding Towel Cake

Materials Needed:

2 Thick Bath Towels2 Thick Hand Towels2 or 3 Thick Washcloths ( I bought these at Walmarts, if you buy the thinner ones add to the number called for)

Bottle of Champagne, or Sparkling Grape Juice or Bubble Bath in bottle that looks like Champagne

Plate Liner - approx 12 inches in diameter ( I bought this at Hobby Lobby $1.87)

3 Large Rubber BandsRibbon Jumbo Roll (10yards) 1 1/2 inchRibbon 5/5 inch
6 miniature Champagne Glasses ( Dollar Tree 6 for $1.00)

Cake Topper of your choice (I chose an oversized Fake diamond Ring from Hobby Lobby $9.99 at 50% off) . You can just use flowers if you prefer.
1 Bunch of Fall Leaves1 Bunch of Fall Mums

Chenille Stems ( I had to use an olive green, I couldn't find the burgundy)

Shrink Wrap Bag in the 30" x 30" Size

Tools Needed:

Wire Cutters

Hot Glue

Making the Perfect Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Wedding Towel Cake

Materials Needed:

2 Thick Bath Towels2 Thick Hand Towels2 or 3 Thick Washcloths ( I bought these at Walmarts, if you buy the thinner ones add to the number called for)

Bottle of Champagne, or Sparkling Grape Juice or Bubble Bath in bottle that looks like Champagne

Plate Liner - approx 12 inches in diameter ( I bought this at Hobby Lobby $1.87)

3 Large Rubber BandsRibbon Jumbo Roll (10yards) 1 1/2 inchRibbon 5/5 inch
6 miniature Champagne Glasses ( Dollar Tree 6 for $1.00)

Cake Topper of your choice (I chose an oversized Fake diamond Ring from Hobby Lobby $9.99 at 50% off) . You can just use flowers if you prefer.
1 Bunch of Fall Leaves1 Bunch of Fall Mums

Chenille Stems ( I had to use an olive green, I couldn't find the burgundy)

Shrink Wrap Bag in the 30" x 30" Size

Tools Needed:

Wire Cutters

Hot Glue

Step 1-4: Wedding Cake Towel Tutorial

Step 1: Gather your supplies

Step 2: This is the plate liner, I know there is another name for these but for the life of me I can't think of it.

Step 3: Start Heating your glue gun. Cut leaves from stems. Cut your flowers, leaving 2/3 on stems on the
rest flat.

Step 4: Here I have one bath towel and one bath sheet.

Step 1-4: Wedding Cake Towel Tutorial

Step 1: Gather your supplies

Step 2: This is the plate liner, I know there is another name for these but for the life of me I can't think of it.

Step 3: Start Heating your glue gun. Cut leaves from stems. Cut your flowers, leaving 2/3 on stems on the
rest flat.

Step 4: Here I have one bath towel and one bath sheet.

Step 5-8: Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Step 5: Fold your Bath Towels into fourths.

Step 6: Start rolling the first bath towel up, not to tightly, overlap your second one and keep rolling, keeping
the folded side as even as you can. Put a rubber band around the center. This will be covered with ribbon
later.

Step 7: Turn your champagne bottle upside down and push the narrow end into the center of your bath-towel-roll.

Step 8: Fold your hand towels into thirds, and roll them around the bottle.

Fasten with another rubber band around the middle.

Step 5-8: Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Step 5: Fold your Bath Towels into fourths.

Step 6: Start rolling the first bath towel up, not to tightly, overlap your second one and keep rolling, keeping
the folded side as even as you can. Put a rubber band around the center. This will be covered with ribbon
later.

Step 7: Turn your champagne bottle upside down and push the narrow end into the center of your bath-towel-roll.

Step 8: Fold your hand towels into thirds, and roll them around the bottle.

Fasten with another rubber band around the middle.

Step 9: Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Step 9: Finally roll the washcloths so they will cover the rest of the bottle and past the top about 1 inch. Here you can see I propbably should have used 3 washcloths.

Step 9b: Finally roll the washcloths so they will cover the rest of the bottle and past the top about 1 inch.

See the ends of the towels. These will be covered with your flowers and leaves. You will use some saftey pins to hold the ends into the roll.

Step 9: Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Step 9: Finally roll the washcloths so they will cover the rest of the bottle and past the top about 1 inch. Here you can see I propbably should have used 3 washcloths.

Step 9b: Finally roll the washcloths so they will cover the rest of the bottle and past the top about 1 inch.

See the ends of the towels. These will be covered with your flowers and leaves. You will use some saftey pins to hold the ends into the roll.

Step 10: Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Step 10: Cut the 1 1/2inch ribbon to cover the rubber bands, make sure to overlap about 1"-2".

Overlap
them at the same spot where you pinned the towels. Make sure you glue ribbon to ribbon, with no glue on
any of the towels.

Next pin towl ends down to cake as in picture tomake them lay flat.

Step 10: Wedding Towel Cake Tutorial

Step 10: Cut the 1 1/2inch ribbon to cover the rubber bands, make sure to overlap about 1"-2".

Overlap
them at the same spot where you pinned the towels. Make sure you glue ribbon to ribbon, with no glue on
any of the towels.

Next pin towl ends down to cake as in picture tomake them lay flat.

Step 11 & 12: Wedding Cake Tutorial

Step 12: Every thing gets glued to ribbon ONLY. Start with your darkest leaves and flowers, glue the leaves
on and stick some of the flowers into the towel laps, or under the ribbon. Work your way up to the lightest of
the leaves or flowers. Cover the area where the towels meet.

Take your 1 1/2" ribbon and glue the end to the bottle with just a touch of glue.

I just tuck the ends under the bath towel.

Step 11: Take your 1 1/2" ribbon and glue the end to the bottle with just a touch of glue. Run this ribbon
down the side of your towel cake and glue where ribbon crosses ribbon to the base.