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!