I've been crocheting a little lately, when it gets cold, I enjoy working with yarn.  This pattern I found free on the net flower burst handbag you can go to her site and get a free pattern if you like.

 Here is a hat I made for a friend who just had a baby boy. Owl hat she has kindly posted patterns for different size.  I made the eyes with crochet thread instead of buttons, buttons makes me nervous with babies.

here is a hat I made for my friend's teenage son since my almost 8 year old will not wear hats.
go to ravelry.com  sign up for free and you can search for free patterns.  there are lots of free patterns on there!

keep warm!

Mario Crochet

I made Mario! isn't it cute?? not only its cute, I got the crocheting patterns for free here is a link to Make your own Mario

Foxy Scarf

Several months ago, I was surfing the net (do they still call it surfing the net?) I stumbled upon a picture of a crocheted fox scarf.  I just had to have it!!! I don't buy many patterns on line but this was something I just had to have!!! so I ordered the Fox, Raccoon, and Panda scarf pattern and within the hour I received a e-mail with a PDF files for all 3 scarfs!!!  so I ran out the door to Jo-Ann's who I must say has the best selection of yarn at affordable prices.  I know we have a "Yarn" shops here in Indy and they carry beautiful yarn but too expensive for something I'm making for kids and daily use. I quickly started it and  I finished my scarf!! my younger son claimed it so I started making my second one and when I'm done I'm going to make the Raccoon one for my oldest Son's GF.  Here is a link to the etsy site to purchase the pattern if you are interested. click if you want to buy the pattern from her.

Happy Crocheting!!

Totoro

Today, instead of sharing with you basket pattern, (sorry if you where looking for one) but I want to share with you something I've been working on. When it gets cold I like to work with yarn and while the outside temp started to drop, I started looking on line to see what I can work on.  I found a site that a gal came up with pattern to make Totoro Amigurumi.  What is Amigurumi? that's Japanese word for Crocheted stuffed toy.  What is Totoro? I can't be too sure what he is but he is Anime character from my neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki.  He also wrote and directed Anime like Ponyo and Kiki's delivery service. 

anyway I found this free pattern site totoro and made one! so cute! It was very easy to make it!! now I'm making the little white one and I hope to find a pattern for the LARGE gray one and maybe even the catbus!!