Climbing the Diamond Ladder [Very Slowly]

     This project was designed for the purpose of holding ALL of my earrings (I have every pair I own -besides the pair in my ears ;P- in the picture below). Previously, I had kept them in the Claire's bag that they came in, which wasn't very pretty.

     The funny thing is, I had actually designed a chart for this pattern over a month ago. The frame has been sitting on my desk with the yarn that I intended to use with it ever since then. 

     Wow! I am really good at procrastinating! *high fives self*

     If you would like to make this pattern, you can get it for free at: Diamond Ladder Earring Holder pattern by Katherine Westerman

10 Broomsticks

     This cowl pattern I'm about to share with you was quite the adventure! You see, I have a lot of partial skeins in my stash (almost all of them were loving donations from my sisters ;) ).

     My new year's resolution (I ACTUALLY HAD ONE THIS YEAR! Be impressed! Lol) was that I would try to get rid of ALL of my acrylic stash yarn before I started buying new yarn. This resolution was a serious mistake. Anyway, I'm still going at it, and I WILL BEAT THIS!

     I'm not sure what brand this yarn is (probably some Red Heart), but this is what I used to crochet up the cowl.

     I'll admit it, I am not a fan of the colors. But, I think it turned out about as well as I could reasonably expect.

     It ended up not being quite as large as I had intended it, because I ran out of yarn *hyperventilating*, so I used some black yarn and joined both ends together, mimicking a granny square join I saw on Pinterest.

     This is my adoptive sister Victoria. I made this cowl for her birthday and she has no idea. She just thinks that I'm having her model another one of my designs! :)

     If you would like to make this pattern, you can get it for free at: 10 Broomsticks pattern by Katherine Westerman

I Have Fish Hair

     I have made a second fish hat! This is probably a bit of a surprise, because, normally, I make a pattern once and then I move on to something else. I knitted up this second one for a woman who saw Zachary's hat (the blue and green one) and loved it!

     I was at Padre Island for a few days last week, so I had to wash all of the sand out of the hat before I put it in the bag to give to her (I would've washed it anyway, but the sand made it more necessary).

     I still find these hats hilarious! ;)

     If you would like to make this project, you can get the pattern for free at: Fish Hat [Dead or Alive?] pattern by Thelma Egberts