Ho Ho Ho: Pt.2

Further to the 'Work-Christmas-Crafts-Palooza' post earlier, I made a few more items..

• A co-worker new to crochet will be making dishcloths for some of her Christmas presents this year.  In an effort to try to encourage her to make fun star-shaped ones (she loves stars), I made her this:

• Another co-worker who is also relatively new to crochet was asked to make snowflakes for her mother-in-law to hang on the Christmas tree this year.  Same deal as above, I made her these:

• Unfortunately, there was one snowflake that I had to frog because it was looking a bit ridiculous.  It is the pattern for a 3D flowering snowflake.  It really should have been made using thread instead of yarn.  I am sure you can probably see why:

RIP Snowflake!

• Late add, but a third co-worker mentioned to me today that her mother loves owls so I suggested the Owl Eye Mask pattern available for free on Ravelry.com and made her one:

Lazy-Eyed Owl-ie!

The In-Between Post

So yet another co-worker is leaving me and I am pretty sad about it because she is incredible and it will not be the same without her!  I started making a shawl/ afghan for her.  It is narrower than I anticipated with the initial cast-ons so I am calling it a shawl!  haha  Here are some pictures:

I am hoping to add some fuzzy white yarn as edging later

 In other news, we made some delicious jelly yesterday:

Chokeberry and Apple/ Crabapple Jelly

Finally, I am babysitting a lovely little hamster and she is the sweetest little lady ever!

Her little spaceship cage

Who's that in the spaceship?

It's the little hamster queen!

Christmas in September! Ho Ho Ho!

There has been some talk at work about the crafty folks creating some Christmas-related items and selling them for profit/ donations.  Here is my haphazard attempt:

Tiny Christmas Stocking [Ornament/ Gift Applique]

Tiny Christmas Wreath [Ornament/ Gift Applique]

Tiny Christmas Sweater [Ornament/ Gift Applique]

Tiny Poinsettia Flower [Ornament/ Gift Applique]

Tiny Winter Hat and Scarf Set

 Also, I nerded out a bit today and laid out all of my crochet hooks (yikes!):

My Crochet Hook Set

Celtic Wedding Afghan

So two dear friends recently got married and for their wedding I made a celtic afghan!  I followed the "Lover's Knot" pattern on Raverly with a few deviations:  For the edging, I made 2 rows of double crochet then finished it off with double knotted fringes.  I found that it looked more wedding-y than the four large tassels that the pattern called for.  Here it is:

 
I will be starting another one veryyyy shortly for a December wedding.  I am thinking of playing with geometrical designs for that one but I am not sure yet!  Definitely love afghans! :)