Last night I just felt like I wanted to make something special for Kristin and Jewell to brighten their day today. I had bought some fuzzy yarn at Hobby Lobby not long ago, and thought I could make them each a cell phone cozy for their cell phones. I just kind of winged the pattern for each of them, but it didn’t take long, and I had finished these cozies. I will probably end up making myself one, too. 
Kristin LOVES lime green, so I made her cell phone cozy with this fuzzy lime green yarn:
Jewell’s favorite color is blue, so I made her cell phone cozy blue:
They were both thrilled with their cell phone cozies this morning. It was worth staying up late to finish both of their crocheted cell phone cozy’s just to brighten their morning. Sometimes the littlest things can make a big impact. Not only was their morning brightened, but mine was brightened because they loved and appreciated them so much!
April 11 2008 | Family and Yarn and crochet | 2 Comments »
I’ve been addicted to the felted wool thing here recently, and Rob loves the felted wool look, so I was experimenting on making him a felted wool hat. Being new to this and all, I’m very unsure of how much bigger than the finished item that a person needs to make things. Here is his hat before felting (He was busy working, so I stuck the hat on him and took a picture — He did at least give me a little smile):
Well, so like I said, this is the first hat that I’ve felted. I wasn’t sure how large I needed to make it. Needless to say, Rob didn’t get a new hat, but Zoe did!! It started out Rob size, and after felting, Zoe has a beautiful felted orange hat. She’s gotten to where lately she poses for the camea and says “CHEESE”.
This hat was crocheted with Lions Brand 100% wool yarn. For felting, I put the hat in a small HOT load in the washer with a couple pairs of jeans and washing powder (Tide with Bleach). I ran a normal cycle, then put everything in the dryer on high. I take my felted items out of the dryer as soon as it finishes so they won’t cool and wrinkle.
April 11 2008 | Hats and Yarn and crochet and felted wool and wool | 4 Comments »
