Estate Sale find

Crocheted flowers
This is in the middle of the tapestry
Well shoot I thought I could flip these photos in this program and there is some bug in my photo program that is preventing me from flipping this. UGH. Sorry. :( Anyway the tapestry shows the four seasons.
Crocheted flowers and an embroidered little cloth.

K and I were garage saleing (which he loves to do) when I came upon these gems. This woman had so many hand crocheted and hand embroidered things that it was hard to chose what to bring home. The sale was coming to an end so they were practically giving everything away. The giant seasonal tapestry is not totally finished which I'm actually excited about. I think it will be fun to add to her work.

Rainbow Swap items

We received a boat, snack bag (which K has been carrying around the house), a bookmark, a crown (modeled above), and a window star.
While we were away we received our rainbow swap items. They are wonderful! K's favorite by far is the crown. I'm really surprized by this as he usually won't put anything on his head, but he keeps bringing it to me to put on him.

Spring Table Swap

Here are my latest spring table swap items. For this swap I sent the root children. I received this beautiful yellow play silk. I'm excited because its a different size then the ones we have at home. We also received this crocheted basket, a little wooden mushroom, a wool fairy, and two little felt ducks. K seems most excited about the basket and the ducks. I think I'm going to have to say that the ducks are my favorite too.

I keep trying to find patters to make more felt animals, but am having little luck. Does anyone have and great resources?

Mushrooms

I think it is time to take a swap break! I've completed 5 mushrooms for spring themed swap in my local natural parenting group. This is their first swap so it will be interesting to see how it goes. I've really been loving the patterns in my crocheted food book (I think I posted the title earlier... if not I'll be back with the title).

Tonight I'm hosting my family's Easter/spring dinner. We're going to have a big potluck picnic and do a spring themed craft. I'll have pictures up soon. Now I have to run off and start cleaning, cooking, and preparing...

Easter Eggs

I made these eggs from a pattern in a book. I finished 7 of them thinking I would send them in a swap. However, when I went to sew the top and bottom together the eggs ended up coming out strangely shaped. I had to do some funky things to the backs to get them to look ok. So I decided I'd keep them for K and use them to hide Easter goodies in and I am sending my homemade crayons for the Easter swap instead. Hopefully I"ll have some great swap pictures up soon.

I'm currently working on a root child gnome that I'm hoping will turn out as great as it looks in my head.

Spring!

K and I traveled to Chicago to celebrate the first day of spring with a friend of mine. We had a full weekend of festivities which included two art projects. When we woke up Sat morning Mother Nature had played a little joke on us and it was 30 degrees and snowing! We bundled up anyway and went out to wake up the flowers and plants. The night before we had sewn bells onto strips of fabric so we could dance in the grass and by the flowers to wake them up. K wasn't much into tying the bells around his feet so he just shook his.

During the day we also painted flower pots. The first pot is K's, then my friend's, then mine. While K napped my friend and I crocheted mushrooms. For dinner we made a big salad with pears and yogurt dressing.

How did you all celebrate your first day of spring?

Michigan Cherries

Here are a few pictures of my finished Cherries. I had so much fun learning to Crochet and I can't wait try some other foods. I think I might make K an apple and a pear next (I already have the red and green yarn). I have 7 sets of cherries, 5 for the swap, 1 for the swap host, and 1 for K for his birthday. For K's birthday Casey is going to make him a play kitchen. We're not sure exactly how yet, we are still in brainstorming mode. I'm going to make him food, apron, and other kitchen items.
My aprons are almost done and then I think I'm going to go back to making some gnomes. I have a few ideas I'm excited to try.

Half Done Projects

Here is some of what I've been up to. Nothing is totally done yet, but coming along. I have 11 of 12 cherries bottoms done (although I might make two more so K can keep a set himself). I have the aprons cut out. I love the print, however, I realized as I was taking this picture that I accidentally cut half of the aprons out upside down. Opps! Luckily I have plenty of material to remake them. Finally K and I water colored in masking tape. I got the idea from Frugal Family Fun Blog. they do some pretty fun art projects. Anyway its not done yet because we have to wait for it to dry to peal the tape back off.
Hopefully I'll be back soon with some pictures of finished projects.