Happy Mother's Day!  I hope everyone had a great day! 

My mom is 81 years young!  She has problems with her vision so I crocheted her some large, colorful tulips which will never need watering.  She was a crocheter herself so she enjoys the homemade items.

My nephew is a rock climber and he wanted a lighter hat for the warmer months.  

And this bag is to keep his rock climbing chalk in!

 

And my lovely niece modeling a hat that I made.  I tested the teen size pattern for

 

and it was an easy and fun pattern to follow.

Breast Cancer will not win!!

Recently a niece of mine was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.  She has the greatest attitude about beating this damn monster that I have no doubt she will win out.  She says that she knows she has a bumpy road ahead for the next year but she can and will win!

These are some awareness ribbons that I made for her and her family.

This is a chemo cap 

I made for her.

I used Premier Yarns Deborah Norville Serenity Garden Yarn for this chemo cap.  Color is Mountain Heather.  Machine washable and dryable one skein.  I started with Red Heart's pattern, Chemo Cap LW2253 but as is my habit decided to change it as I went.  The purple circle in top of hat is from original pattern but then I started using the exsc that I had just learned how to do.  This stitch is a thinner stitch than a regular sc.   And I did not do the band and flower.  I used a D hook but I tend to crochet loosely so if you use this yarn you may want to use a larger hook.  

For the brim that rolls up I used a 0(zero) hook.

Love you Devon Irene!!

Been awhile!  Time just flies!

And talk about flying here is a pic of a recently fledged baby purple finch that was at my window feeder this morning.  He definitely needs practice with flying but made it to the feeder twice today.

I put my first humming bird feeder up yesterday.  The Ruby breasted hummers should be back in Michigan soon.  That is the only breed of hummers that travel to Michigan.

I saw these on the internet but can't remember where.  There wasn't a pattern for them.  Anyone know where I can find a crochet pattern or something real similar?

A little baseball cap that got sent to a little boy in New York!  I have made several but have never wrote the pattern down.  I need to do that because I haven't found a pattern in all my searches, just pictures.

And this is a baby afghan, yup baby!  His dad is a U of M fan so I chose those colors and this pattern (looks like Ms in it.  It is 42' square so I figured when baby Aiden is done with it they could use it as a throw for the couch to cover up with while watching the Michigan games!  The pattern is Calypso Wave Afghan.  Easy to work and fun to do!  I plan to replace my plain ripple pattern from now on with this one!  fast and easy!

I made this tulip and plan to write up the pattern.  I have a couple things I need to re-write the patterns to share.

And this is a Red Heart free pattern that others were having problems with so I tested it and it worked out ok but was slightly tricky.