Extra Credit June 10, 2009

so i finally figured out how to look up activity on my ravelry page and i am super excited to show off these projects by other ravelry users!! oh, and if you’ve made one of my patterns and haven’t seen it posted anywhere on this site, just paste a link in the comments and i’ll get it!

 afternoon delight turtle (http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/afternoon-delight/)

   by Christi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kiwi bird ( pdf here: My_Crochet_Kiwi )

 

by kikaa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by plentimawfish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

evil minions/hostile bunni  (pdfs: evil_minions  hostile_bunni )

 

by babyfirelizard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by princessdelerium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

silly blue whale  (pdf: silly-blue-whale )

 

by safia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by widneywoman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NERDY BIRD!!!!!! (http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/nerdy-bird/)

 

by pinktoque

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

overboard (overboard)

 

by littlelora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

flower scarf (pretty-pretty-flower-scarf)

 

by tingletangle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by cbagary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by frabuleuse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by hariotmagee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by knitnut

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by pania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by suzyteacup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you guys very much!

nathalie

my flower scarf rocks… June 8, 2009

…..and so do the people that made it!!    (link to the pattern: http://gnathalie2.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/pretty-pretty-flower-scarf/)

Here is my flower scarf made by fishbonette over at ravelry:

  LOVE the yarn!! 

 

And here is one by Circe (? french blog so i’m not sure of the name!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!!

Thanks again to everyone who makes or even thinks about making one of my patterns!!!

 

EDIT:  just found tingletangle’s scarf on ravelry ~ AND IT ROCKS!!!

Squiddly Cat Toy! June 8, 2009

Here is the new pattern for the cat toy i designed, semi-pic on the next post but i’ll post a good pic soon.  It takes like half an hour or less to make and the cats and kitties have gone insane over them!!!

Good pic of the toy!!:

Click here for pdf:

squiddly cat toy

 

Here is Chewy playing with the toy:

 

and this is Tasha tempting the cat with the toy:

 

And the whole time i’m typing the pattern this is in my lap:

  He still doesn’t have a name yet, so any suggestions are welcome!!!

 

have fun!

Nathalie

chooooooocwat caaaaaaaaaaake! March 25, 2009

Maddie loves baking stuff without a recipie, and my god she worked wonders this time!!!   We were out of baking soda and baking powder, but that didn’t stop her~ she made a delicious heart shaped shortbread thing with chocolate drizzled fruit on it!!

 

 

Mommy came over to pick up Tasha last weekend and brought me 2 bars of dark chocolate~ which Maddie used for the cake.  All of it.  And then true to form, her and Adrian decided to splash spoonfuls of melted chocolate at each other leaving me a giant mess on the floor.  Without a mop.  But you know what?  I ate more than half of the cake~ that girl can mess up the kitchen all she wants if it means i get dessert!!!!!

 

I also finally got to start and finish a crochet project without getting drinks spilled on it by the cats~ i used this pattern

(http://www.suncatchereyes.net/rolypolybunnies.html)  Super easy and fun to make, but the next one i make i’ll use actual google eyes instead of a sharpie!!

 

Adrian got a good picture of Twinkletoes sleeping:

  (the stain on the floor is fingerpaints!)

 

Here is our beauty queen, Milkshake:

 

Here is what was under the pillow:

 

And here is sleepy Worry Wart:

 

Later!

Nathalie

i like pipe cleaners January 6, 2009

yup.  i bought some pipe cleaners at walmart last week for the kids to mess around with.  Tasha made a pile of pencil grippers while i printed up some pages of a McCalls craft book.

Patsy spent the night with Tasha while Madaleine spent the night up the street and we had so much fun sitting on the couch trying to figure out the instructions!!  Cute book, but i swear there has got to be an easier way to make the dumb critters!!  I think most of the glue ended up on the blankets!

Me and Patsy both made trees (without a pattern) and then i made a camel.  What did Tasha have to say about it?  “Mama the camel has 2 humps”!!  (sung to the tune of  ’sally the camel’ from Barney)  What cracked me up was when she started singing ‘Tasha the camel has no humps’!

So, here is a group photo of our pipe cleaner creations:

Her stuff is on the right, mine on the left, with James’s flower tree in the middle.

 

What else have i made recently?  Not much!!  With the kids home and bored all i really get to do is referee fights and play ‘volunteer maid’!  But i did make this adorable puppet~

the cats are getting used to it!

puppet extra loves Twinkletoes!

 

The kittens still prefer my lap over any other spot in the house:

 

Oh, wait, nevermind!  They LOVE piling up next to the couch (don’t worry- if you step on one we’ve got 15 more!)

 

I also made a car for the cats, i used the free pattern from crochetville :

http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=91065

 

and this here is my favorite kitty pic of the week, it’s Hamster and Chicken Nugget sleeping:

 i know it’s blurry, i had to zoom in from across the room!

 

 

later!

Nathalie

I got them out!!!!!! November 22, 2008

Yay me!!!  So Sandy went and had babies two days before her ‘getting fixed’ appointment and they were in the attic and it’s been freezing at nights!  I tried, i had the kids try, i even had the teenage neighbor crawl around up there and try but she had them way over on the side where the roof slopes down and it’s impossible to reach!  But i went up there today and found them all over on the other side and got them all down!!!!!!!  One white, three orange and one of the orange ones is a girl.  I put them in Madaleines closet and of course right away she’s trying to move them again~ but ha ha ha ha!!  I closed the closet door so she can’t get in the attic again!!!  Here are the little furry surprises:

 

And Snowball’s kitties and the other cats get along so well!!  Here they are all comfy and asleep on the arm of the couch:

 

This is my favorite sleepy pic of Baby Buster:

 

One of my favorite things to see is when i pour the cat food and all the cats come running~ here is a cat tail pic:

 

I swear, i have the sweetest, happiest cats in the world here!!!!

 

And for a ’show and tell’, i found this kiwi on craftster~ it’s from a member of the crochet cafe group on yahoo:

  Awesome kiwi, Tina!!!

 

And what am i working on right now?  I’m making a monkey from a free pattern over on craftster:

 

  http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=278195.0

 

 

Later!

Nathalie

Candy Fish! November 1, 2008

I know that recycling and going green is all the rage nowadays, so i thought i’d jump on the bandwagon~ with Halloween candy!!!  Tasha and Madaleine went trick-or-treating with neighbors last night while i stayed home with a very asleep Adrian.  Before they left, Tasha gave me a handful of whoppers (yummy!)

So, i’m eating the whoppers and thinking how trashed the living room is gonna get when they come home and the whole time i’ve got the cats fighting over the candy wrappers……….and then it hit me (aka lightbulb!)

I can use the candy wrappers as stuffing for the cat toys!!!!!  Super crafty me!!!

Good wrappers to use?  Whoppers, most gummy type candies, smarties, and any ‘crunchy’ sounding ones

 

Bad wrappers?   Chocolates like twix or snickers, paper ones like now and laters, tootsie rolls, and Vanilla Ice

And now for the pattern!!!  This is my candy-fish :

 

 

And i used about 6 whoppers wrappers to stuff it:

Materials:

size G hook

ww yarn (i used Lion Brand Cotton Ease)

candy wrappers

 

Pattern:

with main color, 5sc in a ring

rd1:  2sc in each sc around (10)

rd2:  2sc in first sc, sc in next sc around (15)

rd3:  2sc in first sc, sc in next 2 sc around (20)

rd4-7:  sc in each sc around (20)

rd8:  sc2tog, sc in next 2 sc around (15)

rd9:  sc2tog, sc in next sc around (10)

stuff fish here

rd10:  sc2tog around (5)

rd11:  sl st to close hole, chain 20

r12:  sl st into rd11 sl st (bottom of fish) and chain 15

r13:  sl st into r12 sl st and chain 10

r14:  sl st into r13 sl st, fasten off

For the ‘fishing line’, attach any color yarn with sl st to the top of the fish and chain like 50 or so.  I made a loop at the end by just tying a knot, and i used black yarn to sew an ‘X’ for the eyes.

 

The cats LOVE their ‘crunchy’ candy fish!!

 (Twinkletoes and Dandelion)

 

Now with that out of the way, what else could i do with the candy?  I’ll tell you one thing:  We hate tootsie rolls here!!  We call them ‘Tootsie Roll Poops’ cause they’re nasty and they suck.  And it looks like poop.  Don’t believe me?!  I had the great idea to plant ‘tootsie poops’ around the house and pretend like the cats did it:

We found poop under Madaleines bed:

 

And on my bed:

 

And on Adrians pillow:

 

And on the girls’ desk:

 

And right outside of the litter box:

Gross, huh?!!!!!

 

And finally here are some baby kitty pics that me and Tasha took:

 

This one is my favorite one that Madaleine took last week:

  Awwwwwww!!

 

Oh, i almost forgot!!  I made Madaleine a hat a few days ago:

 

And i made a Jack Skellington ball!:

 

Later!

Nathalie

My internet works? October 13, 2008

I have tried to write so many posts in the last couple weeks, but my internet keeps cutting off!!!  3 cable guys later, lets hope it stays on this time!!

First off, this is what happens when Luis pays a bill instead of getting Snowball fixed:

Luis’s prize?  A big, fat ‘I told you so’!!  From me!!

The first one she had (all white) was stillborn, and then this afternoon we had to buy the orange one in the middle.  Maybe it wasn’t born ‘right’?  Don’t know, but Snowball is a good mommy so it was nothing she did wrong.  Maddie found him in the corner of the closet, and they usually stay right in the middle.  (sad face)

 

Second, here are some show and tell projects!!

  This is from SueZann, using my octopus pattern

 

And here is a fancy feast fish from Shini:

And some evilness from soxknitter!!:

 

And who in the world can forget Hostile Bunni!!  Well, he’s up to his old tricks again (illusions, Michael!) and he’s got some help from PrincessDelirious~~~ Evil Ninja Minions!!!!!

free pattern here: http://deliriousnanite.livejournal.com/12967.html

It seems as though he’s hired help to do his evil bidding, and what is more evil than evil ninjas?!! 

I found a few watching me sleep, and stalking the cats:

 

They like to hang out and ‘observe’ in the spooky Halloween tree:

 

(they have had to put their evil plans on hold due to the deaths of the babies, even they’re not that evil!)

 

I also found this adorable free pattern by Owly: http://owlishly.typepad.com/owlishly/2008/10/free-pattern–sleepy-sarah-amigurumi-pattern.html

I decided to make it into a ghost cause of the shape of the head:

I made the head and body all in one piece, and i left out one of the 30sc rounds so it would give it a more ghostly shape~ the kids love it!

 

Free pattern online?  tons of them, but here are the 2 or three that  i haven’t seen other places:

Shaun the sheep: http://www.purplelindacrafts.co.uk/free-pattern-shaun-the-sheep-crochet-pattern-1115-p.asp#

It’s a cool pattern, but i still haven’t found a way to print it all out!

 

Wakko Warner:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=268385.0

 

And Strongbad from Homestar Runner:  (pdf)

http://www.the-contact-network.com/otheregg/aerie/knit/strongbad.pdf

 

And here are some more of my kitties!!

 Hamster

 Super Cheeto Friend

 Scaredy Cat (with laser vision!)

 and Momo~ complete with a Hamster!

 

Later!

Nathalie

Hostile Bunni hires help! September 30, 2008

I’m minding my own business, as are the cats, and something yellow catches my eye:

 

Seems as though Hostile Bunni hired some ninja minions to do his evil bidding!  And true to form, quick as a flash the yellow guy ninja-ed his way over for a better view (i think he wants to scope out the area before ‘attacking’)

 

The ninja minion pattern is free and written by Charlotte (princessDelirium on ravelry)

http://deliriousnanite.livejournal.com/12967.html

 

I LOVE THESE NINJAS!!!  AWESOME PATTERN!!!!

 

Nathalie

Arrested Develop-monkey! September 10, 2008

My alltime favorite free online pattern is the monkey (http://quesera.ojaru.jp/osaru-pattern.html) and i’ve made 3 of them this week!  Just haven’t assembled them all yet.  Why 3 monkeys?  Well, i LOVE Arrested Development so my big plan is to make each character into a monkey!!  I’ve got Tobias Funke done so far, here he is with his cutoffs:

  Still have to make his glasses, and i’m in the middle of putting in his hair plugs! 

Pretty soon i’ll have them all re-creating my favorite scenes from the show~ stay tuned!!

Nathalie