Cancer Cap - First Beading Attempt

A friend of mine's mom has cancer, so I wanted to make a cancer cap for her. I decided to make this cap a little more "fancy" by stringing beads onto the yarn. You can see the beads really well in the detail picture below.

No update in a while...

So, does that mean I haven't had a crochet hook in my hand every free minute I have available? NO! :)

I'm still working on the project cutting up t-shirts and making them into t-shirt "yarn". Additionally, I'm working on a personal project that I will share when it is complete. That said, it is bigger than the dish cloths, scarves and hats that I've been making lately. Stay tuned!!!

What have I been up to?

Apparently about 30+ dishcloths. Seriously, I have a problem. Well, I should say that I had a problem. I was in LOVE with the self-striping yarn and the other varigated kinds. My goal initially was to use up what I had left and be done with it, but then I went berzerk and bought more yarn. These are the full-size dishcloths:





These little dealiebobbers I made from the leftover yarn from the ones above. I think I'm going to use them as little hot pads. The good news is that this is IT for the yarn colors you see here. I don't have any more! The bad news is that I have to find storage to put them :)




This is another project I'm working on. It is kind of a crochet project. My company has changed our company logo volunteer t-shirts from yellow to white. They weren't able to donate the leftover yellow t-shirts to a charity as is because they had our company logo on them. The logo needed to be destroyed. Someone came up with this great idea of shredding the t-shirts into strips, and then making those strips into a giant ball of t-shirt "yarn". That "yarn" could then be used to crochet pet mats/beds that are then going to be donated to local animal shelters in my area. Here are some of the strips I've been cutting:




Here is the beginning of a t-shirt ball of "yarn":




Our shredding method was found on Laughing Purple Goldfish Designs. She also has a way of joining the fabric strips without sewing. These two little tips have saved us so much time!

Crochet. Pray. Love.

I've completed another group of charity projects. I was contacted by a UCF student to make some "prayer shawls" (or "good vibe shawls", depending on your religious persuasion) for a students' class project. The shawls would then be given to a battered women's shelter in Orlando. I decided this would be the perfect project to use up my Grandma P's yarn that my parents gave to me when they were cleaning out her house. Here are the results!

Shawl #1:




Shawl #2:




Shawl #3:




Shawl #4:




I also received a number of knitted squares in sport weight yarn from a friend at work. She was given the squares by a friend who wanted to have the squares donated to some charity. I took the squares, sewed them together and crocheted a boarder around the edge.

More past work...

This work is a bit more recent than the baby blankets from the last post.

Shawl:




Baby Hats:












Another Baby Blanket:


Soldier Caps:




Hat and Scarf Sets:





...I know that last one has a matching scarf... just can't find it right now.

Scarves: