At the craft fair last weekend I sold a green and grey hat. These are the ones I have left. Thinking about adding them to my collect. I have a feeling it's going to be a cold winter in Minnesota.

I thought I would show what my creations looked liked on display. I had a great time hanging out with friends and my husband Dan. Learned a lot too. :)

So I promised pictures and didn't follow through. It's been a crazy week. I found out the contracting position I was hoping to get some extra months out of will be ending at the end of the month. I really got excited about the position and now need to look for other options. Luckily I have gotten some interest in my baskets and hope to sell quite a few of them through family this weekend. I'm still going to put some pictures of the baskets and some other things I'm starting to get into, since the craft fair is done and gone. I'm think of doing a bubbly baby sack out of the purple Caron yarn. People loved the yarn when I used it with my hats I make. It's really a pretty, soft yarn. I'll try to add more pictures. Stay tuned...

Well, I wouldn't say my first craft fair was a total success, but it was definitely an experience. I got a lot of good ideas and advice from MANY. I sold some of the baskets, hats and baby stuff. I also got to see a lot of family and friends who came out to support me and other friends at the show. The support was amazing and I want to thank everyone who took the time to drive all the way up to Blaine, MN on a precious Saturday morning/afternoon. I hope today to put up some of the items that didn't sell and offer them for sale at a December discount. Pictures to come!

So my mom is totally into knitting and has been making hats for a hospital in Fargo, ND. I told her about the craft fair and she totally went crazy making things for it. Here are her booties and hats, including some dishcloths. 

So I don't know how to catch everyone up on what I have been up to. I guess I have been getting ready for the craft show I'm participating in this weekend. It took be Forever to figure out what to do for the show and how to make my stuff sellable. So here are a few pictures of what I've been doing. I've been making these cool baskets. It takes about 2 and a little extra skeins for the large and 1 and 1/4 skeins for the small ones. Let me know if you want the pattern and I can connect you to the true designer. I've also been making some of the hats that I posted earlier.

I thought I would show you what I have been up to the last couple days. I've been pretty busy with house selling stuff, we just got a new deck, that I haven't had much time to do much crochet. I wanted to make a runner that would look rich and was easy to make, so this is the start. I've put about 3 skeins of yarn into it so far. I think I have at least 2 more to go.

So I need to apologize for the quality of these pictures. I had to take them on my old camera because we have to rent our lenses for the Canon 5D and I didn't have one available for these pictures. I wanted to show you the other baby cacoons that I put together this summer. The one on top is a solid green baby yarn with yellow border. The second one is going to be a baby shower gift for a friend of mine that's due in October. For this one I took the green and yellow and changed the color with each row. I think it looks pretty good!

This is the one I made for myself. It's the same brand of yarn but in Heather Grey. I might have to make one for each day of the week.

I wasn't sure which order to put these pictures in. I made this beanie for my friend, Mary, to see how it would look on another person. This was super easy to make, but I kind of got sick of the puff stiches after a while. I used Caron Simply Soft yarn in the color Cypress.

I guess I should warn you of my obsession with owls. They will be appearing often for sure. This is Jerome Vortex. My husband and I picked him up in Arizona and he's kind of our mascot. I put him in the baby cocoon I crocheted to show you the size of the piece. The main part is grey and white with a dark grey border. The same is used for the beret. What do you think?

So I haven't written since my first blog. Things have been pretty crazy. My parents came in from Phoenix for a week and we had a couple friends over for a weekend, plus we've been doing some work on the house so we can put it on the market in September. I thought I would start by putting up some pictures of the items I've been working on this year. Enjoy!

Dan, Bella & I at a lake cabin up north. First time we let Bella sleep in our bed with us and the last time we slept alone.

Well Hello!

Yes this is another crochet blog. No, I don't think it will be boring. I actually started this blog so that I could put some of my crochet stuff on pinterest for friends and family to see. I got the idea for the name from my husband's uncle Steve, who watched me crochet a cocoon while drinking a Woodchuck cider beer. He tells me that as I kept drinking I kept getting faster and faster with the crochet hook. I'm not sure if it was true, but I did enjoy myself that night.

Right now I'm an unemployed Speech-Language Pathologist who just doesn't want to be a Speech-Language Pathologist anymore. I almost get sick to my stomach when I think of doing speech therapy. Right now I'm technically on summer vacation and didn't plan to have a job, but the summer is getting closer to the end and still nothing really going on in the job department. Anyway, this means I have some free time to crochet some things I have been really interested in.

I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Jenni, I live in Minnesota with my husband Dan and my beagle Bella. I guarantee you will see many pictures of both of them on this blog.

I think that's it for now. I really just want to upload some of my items I've made and see what you think about them.